Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-10-05
INDIGNANT AT PICK
ETS INCARCERATION
Mrs. Helen Vaughan. South Carolina
Chairman, National NOman's Party and
Miss Psyche Webster, Express Their
Views
Both Formerly Lived IN Putnam


ceived from Mrs. Helen Vaughn,
chairman OF the National Woman's
Party for South Carolina and Miss
Psyche Webster, formerly Of the Day
kimoan hospital, now in New York,
expressing their views on the arrest
and imprisonment of Suttragists for
picketing IN Washington, ID. G. As
both of these ladies are we'll known
in Putnam their views will doubtless
be read with interest,
To the Editor of the Patriot:
Dear Sir: | was greatly impress
sed by the splendid letter of Miss Anna
Levitt. which appeared recently in
your paper protesting against the ar
Bartlett in Washington,
want to say through your columns
rest and sentence passed on Mrs. Dor
othy how heartily | endorse her every
word
Asa Connecticut woman | am glad
| TO send vigorous protest to Congress
| man Freeman in behalf of a Putnam
tFtenu anu tcltON suuIHktst.
| well know that your Congressman
is besieged with letters and protests
| from the home town where Mrs. Bart
lett has given herself so unsparingly
| TO the Cause of Woman Suffrage. For
though some perhaps question the
| policy lof .picketing, loyal American
| women cannot do less than resent and
express their resentment at such n
| punishment-60 days in the work.
house-or indeed any punishment in
fiicted upon another woman asking
for political libery'for all women. IL
seems to me wholly ignoble TO "de.
ploren unless we depiore the intoler'
able condition of iafiairs at Washing
ton which makes the arrest OF peace.
able women asking for justice possible
in this country of boosted democratic
ideals.
South Carolina sufiragists ! find in.
dignant at the arrest OF picketers and
so ready to protest To President Will
son and to,Congressmen even though
the prisoners are unknown TO them.
| | rejoice at the loyal support which
Mrs. Hepburn, Mrs. Bennett, Miss
Pierson and Miss Anna Levitt are CIV
ing 10 the National Woman's Party.
These Connecticut women reflect the
spirit of their liberty loving ancestors.
All who know of Mrs. Bartlett's tire
less work for suffrage must honor the
fearless earnestness which led her TO
carry her banner of petition to the
gates of the White House--nn nc.
wholly within the law OF the District
of Columbia She makes no small
sacrifice spending Two months in a
work house.
In May, when picketing AS 1t hap
pened was deemed lawful and the adj
minislration had not grown so sensi.
tive that women were trsiied by the
police, had the pleasure aud privil.
eye of working with many OF these re-
mark able women who are now serving
time at Occoqunn. / picketed often
with little Mrs. Arniel, who was ar.
rested with Mrs. Bartlett. There lis a
genuine humor in the thought of the
technical charge of constructing trnf-
fic" which sent these yalient little
women to the workhouse.
No one who has known the women
of the National Woman's Party can
ever doubt their earnestness, their self
Iessness and their effectiveness We
can safely trust their unerring jndg-
ment in this political struggle.
Holding a banner in a great cause
one becomes wholly impersoDal-That
is after the first shock Of indignation
that our American Government should
be so slow TO grant political liberty To
women that they must needs stand
and petition their President with ban
ners-the only approach permitted
them For many years we have been
taught that Governments derive their
first powers from the consent OF the
governed. The governed are inn
patient and rightly so. There is only
one righteous answer TO the demand
women are making for their place In
the government and IL IS not criticism
OF methods, it is,not repression, IL is
not Imprisonment: it is the speedy
passage OF the susan b. Anthony
Amendment.
| Thanking you for the courtesy Of
your column,
Helen f.. Vaughan,
:. {. Chairman National Woman
Party.
Ureenville, ;. Q.
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