The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-06-20

the the dn 'ss
SakSe Revolution that appeation with which tc
christen the frenzy of miitancy. come
to life that day She added that the mtancy of the
past would be the merest pin prcks compared to what
will happen all the country
On the day, in London, officers of the Women
Social and Political union turned to the Boer for a
phrase and declared that what to be done would
stagger humanity" Yet another leader that
human life, We have resolved, will be respected no
longer
Throughout the army the militants. short. there
famed fresh fury that day
The that Mrs Pankhurst then
fenced penal servitude three years melting
the destruction of the country house of Chancellor
the Exchequer Lloyd George. The suragetes roted in
Old Bailey after Justice Sir Charles Lush pronounced
sentence and then went from the court to begin their
reign of terror
The initial act the militants defacing that
afternoon in the Manchester gallery of five paintings
by Leighton and other famous artists The initial act OF
the authorities in preparation for the reign. the
issuance of general warning by Scotland Yard to
and of property the taking Of unusual
precautions by the police throughout the United King
dom
Since them according to the published records not
day. and for days in sequence scarcely hour, has
passed without militant damage being done to person
to property. without danger fear Inconvenience
being caused to some of the public.
The activities of the militants have ranged from throw
ing pepper Premier Asquith and dead cat at Angus
tine Brel chief secretary for Ireland burning the
Midland railway sheds at Bradford with loss of $780,
00O and attempting to blow up part of the Bank OF
England They have endangered hundreds lives; they
have done direct property damage and caused indirect
losses to the extent of millions of dollars
The militants In their campaigns have used fire,
bombs, mines. hatches, hammers. revolvers, pokers,
Knives budgeons stones tar, paint riding switches,
horse whips dog whips umbrellas foul smelling chem
cals corrosive chemicals, barbed wire entangements
for police besides using their fists, nails
teeth and feet
The mlitants have burned wholly or partly country
mansions In charge of servants who escaped only by
being awakened by the flames; castles including Bal
kinrain Aberuchile and Lisburn; unoccupied country
houses, some owned by peers and members of paria
ment:- railway stations railway sheds, railway cars
churches factories. timber yards hayricks exhibition
buildings track grandstands cricket
grandstands football grandstands. furniture, organs
tapestries paintings houses racing shells Car
nege library town corporation structures college and
school buildings Including Cambridge laboratory and
empty hospital
They have attempted to burn the Royal academy
buildings Harrow school, aeroplane sheds of the army
flying and historic church They plotted
according to the Daily Mirror to burn London by stimuli
aneousy firing all the big timber yards cutting the
telephone and telegraph wires surrounding
They have with bombs destroyed damaged shops
railway stations railway churches country houses
Conservatives the Royal observatory at Edinburgh the
Liverpool cotton exchange and the Trade hall at Man.
chester. They have destroyed with a bomb an empty
car attached to an express train endangeng
in other cars and they charged with having tried to
wreck express by obstructing the track
They have placed bombs which failed to work or were
found before exploding in Streets Shops tube stations
castles, public library tennis club. a theater St
Pauls cathedral and the football pavilion at Cambridge
They have sent bombs through the mails addressed to
Reginald McKenna home secretary, other prominent
men, or the bombs badly inuring the hand OF mail
sorter they have exploded mines in attempts up
Holloway prison. and to breach a cause flood:
they have plotted blow up houses members OF par
liament they have scattered dummy bombs broadcast
both to advertise their movement terrorize At
one time the London declared that every day
brings its bomb and instructions OF handling
unexploded bombs safely printed daily
They have pummeled Premier Asquth, dogwhipped
Lord WeaTdale. horsewhipped Holloway prison physi
clans hurled apples in court Justice Lord Salvesen
thrown hammers At Judge in Old Bailey, scattered