Arizona republican., 1917-11-23

embarrassment by passing the amend ment. This would take but one hour of the time of congress, which would act immediately if the president urged 1t in his coming message to congress"
 Asked if she did not consider her action iii urging the amendment in war time as unpatri0tic, the speaker said:
 You forget this is a war for democ- racy. Russia, Canada and England have enfranchised their women in war time, as war and administration meas ures. We ask the president of the United States to do the same in this greatest republic, at a time we are waging q war to make the world safe for democracy.
 We base our demand at this time on President Wilson's words in his war message: We shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those, who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government
 Miss Martin was one of the sixteen pickets arrested on July IA and given a sentence of 50 days at Occoquan Workhouse near Washington. After serving three days they were pardoned by the president. Miss Martin said of the prison conditions and the hunger strike:
 More than 100 women have now been sent to OccOquan workhouse, some for seven months. by a police judge appointed by the president, and without trial by jury. Their offense has been carrying simple ri-colored banners or banners inscribed, MT. suffrage" They were exercising their ri i~lot tion in doing so," said Miss Martin.
 Tn prison, they are compelled to sleep in the same oormitory with negro and white prostitutes, thieves and drunkards, poor Wrecks of Wash ington, in bedding and sheets used by former occupants, which the matrons are under orders to handle with rubber gloves, as many women are diseased. They are not sentenced to sixty days or seven months detention but to that period of starvation, as the food is full of worms and uneatable. Mrs. Kendall. writer from Buffalo, just released, was sent to solitary confinement in the punishment cell for asking lighter work than scrubbing out the negro Women's lavatOries. Mrs. Kendall said upon her release, to her friend Mrs. Thompson, Champ Clark's daughter: am glad to have done this for women, But 1 wonder with what enthusiasm my two sons, now with the army in France, can fight in this war for de- mocracy abroad. when they know the way their mother has been treated for merely asking for democracy at home?
 The suffragist prisoners are now being sent to the District prison on the edge of Washington. Miss Alice Paul, ahoi given seven months imprisonment here for carrying a banner inscribed, MT. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?' For asking for bet ter air she and her companions were given solitary confinement, and denied the rights given to murderers and criminals in the jail of buying their own food, seeing their friends and hay ing books and newspapers. In Russia and England, in all other civilized countries, political prisoners are al lowed these rights, including that of wearing their own clothes. As her only solitary weapon in solitary con- finement Miss Paul used the hunger strike to win these privileges for the suffragist prisoners.
 She is being forcibly fed, pro- ceeding condemned by reputable physi- clans as cruel mentally and phys lcally, as injuring and not improving the physical condition. it endangers her health, if not her life.
 This federal prison, like Occoouan. is under the control of the president, as he appoints the commissioners who manage it."
 Resolutions condenning the treat ment of the pickets in prison who are political prisoners were adopted These resolutions also called upon President Wilson to end this treatment and this agitation by recommending the imme- diate passage of the amendment to congress
 Miss Martin and Miss Ross will leave this morning for Tucson on their way to Bisbee and New Mexico where a series of meetings has been arranged Miss Martin will then return to Wash ington for the opening of congress.