The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

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 Israel zangwill, in the London Chronicle.
 There was once social state com posed of families, each unit circl1ng
 round and represented by the male bread
 winner. He went out into the hurly burly: the woman remained the delicate | flower of the home. It was concep- tion not without its beauty. For this | it is now sought to substitute families with a dual center, and equal rights in the hurly burly for both sexes. It is a conception not without it's ugliness. But the striving for it is not mere play oi the brain The female flowers have been already flung out of the home; millions of Englishwomen, even before the war; had been driven into factories, shops and offices. The anti-suffragists did not
 attempt to drive back this labor into the security and sanctty of the home and the attempt to secure for 1t the same political status as male labor they combated. Placed between two worlds, they made the worst of both.
 Their arch antagonist Miss Christabel Pankhurst, as soon as war broke out, abandoned her place of exile in France to tour in the States as champion Of
 England. and rendered valuable service in that hotbed of pro-Germanism by her oratorical and dialectical powers her repartee sharpened by years of practice against the Briton. galling now the Ger American. Possibly there was in this campaign of hers some of the re- morse and zeal or the convert Possibly she felt she owed reparation to Eng land for being one of the factors that had inclined the Kaiser to war
 At any rate the tyranny and trucu- fence of which she had for years ac- cused the British government became
 TOW the peculiar property of Prussia, while England loomed as liberty's one homestead and safeguard. On her re- turn from this penitential pilgrimage she abounded even more in this sense. The suffragette was revived. But the reborn offspring was no longer the legitimate organ of the movement. It should rather have been called the war baby, so unmistakably was it a child of mill itary passion. ct is significant that the care of the war babies is precisely the ia six selected by the Pankhursts from all the philanthropic possibilities).
 Not one of the press demagogues who daily or weekly whip up the beast in
 man, not one of the militarists who are
 out to crush militarism, could vie with Christabel Pankhurst in her impassioned
 torrents of jingoese. The worst eXtrava
 gances of our junker journalists were
 cutdone I know no male fire-eater who
 has set forth so drastic programme
 as this female of the species"
 Institute compulsory national service,
 military and industrial. Tighten the
 blockade so that Germany shall not re-
 ceive a single thing helpful to them in
 the prosecution of the war. Purify the
 official organization of the country of
 naturalized Germans and of Germans
 born in England but of German blood.
 Purify it, too, of any of British blood
 who may be pro-German or half hearted
 in the prosecution of the war"
 Even true born Englishmen,' you see,
 less bellicose than the majority. are to
 be kicked out of England! And it is
 only the other day that the papers were
 discussing what island could serve as
 the St Helena of the suffra gettes