Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-01-30

NA'fhnI W. iHe tothl IL eDOuL tfoV,OVV.
The Times is fair enough to say, how
ever, that the evidence is not strong
In all the cases reported.
Butlwhy militant suffragists, who
seem 70 be peculiar TO Great Britain?
TO attract attention. says one; to force
the government TO consider our de-
mands, says another; to gain money
and notoriety for few leaders, says
third. 1T seems to be law Of po-
litical, evolution" quoted militant suf
fragisf In her own behalf, that no
great advance in human freedom can
be gained except after the display OF
some kind of violence. We are only
adopting the methods OF men to &C.
complish our ends"
Helped by Brutal Treatment.
Militancy has been met, in many In
stances, by brutality. The Cat-and
Mouse Act, which releases for a time
from prison offenders who are Ill OF
go on hunger strike and then per
mits their rearrest, has been substi
tuted for the barbarity with which
forcible feeding was carried on. The
unnecessary severity with which some
policemen dealt with some Jealous OF
fanatical women caused public opin
ion, which had been almost unanimous
In condemning militancy-the revolu
tionary rather than the constitutional
method of propaganda-to change for
a time, II not to actual approval, to q
kind Of tacit Endorsement or indiffer
ence. This brutal severity, shown in
a number of cases, by the police au
thorities has also tended to unite the
discordant elements that favor WON
ans suffrage into one somewhat har
monious whole. On the platform of
large hall In the West end OF London
the other evening were In vocal har
mony speakers representing all phaset
of the movement, from the militant
who threw rocks, to the lady who only
wrote letters to the newspapers-and
for reasons of domestic tranquility
wrote them anonymously. Severity
had the usual effect or creating sym
pathy for the person punished and Less
opposition to the cause. Recently the
severity has been lessened and tbs
punishment has been made more near
ly to at the offense. Narrating what
was done only few months ago, an ar
dent suffragist said that minor breach.
es of law, such as waving flags and
making speeches In the Hobbies of the
houses Of parliament, we're treated
more severely than serious crime or
the part OF men had often been. A sen
tence Of three months imprisonment
as an ordinary offender was passed In
one case against young girl who haf
done nothing except to decline to be
bound over to keep the peace, which
she was prepared to swear she hac
not broken. The turning of the hose
upon a suffrage prisoner in her cer-
a midwinter night Is another example
SIhSs Hes been, fortunately for all con
ferned, changed for the betAer by the
mpre recent administrator OF the
m4ch-reviled Catand-M use Act.
MiIitants Small n Number.
The militant suffr FISTS, first organ
lied into q societ ten years ago, are
NOW divided int <Stwo or more inharmo
ni$us groups HTheir work is largely
associated an the public mind with the
names sof the Pankhursts, mother ant
da5 lighter. The militant suffragists
co hstitute but handful of the advo
ca les of the franchise for women
ny icy get 80 per cent. of the public at
te htion but they are In number and
I'M portance scarcely one per cent. The
National union, which advocates con
81 itutional methods, includes or rep
sents the greater part of the suf
fraeS lists. There are, scores of Other
won en's organizations formed with
the ksame general purpose. The Ma
ton hl British Woman's Temperance
unto IN, the National Union Of Womer
WorI kers (the largest women's union)
the Association of University Women
Tead hers, the Society of Registered
NurS es, the Women's Cooperative
gull (the only organized body repre-
sent Ing the married working women)
are some OF the numerous societies
that favor woman's suffrage. The
town councils Of Liverpool, Manches
ter, Shefield. Birmingham, Leeds
Brad ford. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin
and cork are among the 200 towr
counG lis which have petitioned paraia
men to pass q womans suffrage bill
ireland for Woman's Suffrage.
Ir Gland. with characteristic tempera
meE I, next to home rule, has giver
larg psf time to discussion of woman,
suff Fage. The Irish Nationalists gen
eral y favor 1t and the Ulster Orange
mem have included in their so-oallet
prov sional government scheme tn,
rand Fhise for women on the basis o.
'egis ter for local government pur
1oses On the contrary. 1t was an Irish
'reac her who, having described Jeze.
,el Is a type Of the modern woman
uffr hgist, said that she painted her
ace, tied her head and looked out OF
he V indow at Jehu, "and. would you
ellie o 1t, the hussy was nigh on six.
y ye rs old"
The Fight In Parliament.
Tho opposition OF Mr.. Asquith, the
iber hl prime minister, despite a ten.
ltlvd promise given before he went
Ito flee has preyented practicaI CON