The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-01
is THIS TREASON?

The Department of Justice is making
some Investigations as to the extent of
which the pacihists are financing the White
House picket campaign, according to dis
patches from Washington. One letter
which has aroused suspicion and which
was written by Lucy Burns, one of the
foremost of the militant leaders, to Mrs
Johns, said in part: "The Womans Party
will see that everyone is fed and rested
after you get out, till you are perfectly
strong. Hundreds of people, not alone IN
the Woman's Party, but in the whole labor
movement, and in the progressive and
pacihists groups, will look after you, for
you are fighting for all of them" And from
her mother Mrs. Johns is said to have re-
eived letter in which the following clause
appears: Your father says he hopes you
are getting big salary and probably it is
paid by the Germans"
While the Woman's Party is in way
allied with the American Woman Suffrage
Association which is headed by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, and other splendid women who are
giving themselves to the service of their
country, the odium which attaches to their
reasonable actions casts reflection upon
every suffragist, who must suffer to a GER
tain extent in the light of their undesirable
publicity.
The Congressional Union, of which the
Womans Party is the outgrowth, has
again been publicly denounced by DR.. Anna
Shaw and other suffrage leaders, and again
and again resolutions have been sent to the
president of the United States by the
leaders ofe.the American Association, de-
ploring the heckling of Mr. Wilson, and
DR.. Shaw and Mrs. Gait, Mrs. Whithouse,
and others, have personally visited the
president, placing the great army of suf-
fragists of this country in the proper light,
thus helping to offset the reprehensible
methods of the militants, which would be
inexcusable in time of peace, but are treas
enable in time of war.
Whether German money really is fnan-
cling this band of unpatriotic women has
not yet been proven, but the attitude which
they have assumed towards the government
has been such as to place them under sus-
p1cion, and so opposed was the American
Suffrage Association to. the tactics which
they employed that when the great army
Of women marched down Fifth avenue,
aking their silent appeal with thousands
of placards petitioning the vote, the police
of New York CITY were notified by the stuff
f~age leaders that any seditious utterances
or reasonable banners which were seen on
the streets were to be seized and their
bearers arrested. This in order that the
1nilitants might not, unknown to the
leaders of the patriotic women who
marched in the parade, thrust themselves
upon public notice, and make it appear,
as again and again they have endeayored
to do, that their tactics were countenanced
by the national association.
From the time of the declaration of war
UP to the present, the national suffrage as
ISOLATION has given itself whole-heartedly
to aiding the government in every possible
way, through war relief work. This asso-
citation raised millions of dollars for the
Liberty loan and have aided in Red eros:
work. home defence work and all mannel
of patriotic movements.
1t is this attitude which won the New
York women the vote Not the reprehen
s:ble militancy, back of which lie motive
dangerous to the country and bordering
rp> >~asQn.