The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-05
SUSAN B. ANTHONY EXPLOITED
 MILITANT SUFFRAGE IDEAS

her actions. She knows that she is courting arrest when she burns. the Presidents speeches, and she makes policy of the Suffra gists of the Ma tional Woman's Party. If it is wrong to imprison' Mrs Nolan to put her in the vile surroundings of the Distict Jail-it is. also wrong to put the younger women in these surround ings. If 1t Is useless to sentence Mrs. Nolan to terms of Imprisonment, be-
 cause such punishment will certain ly not reform her as regards her mill liant advocacy of woman suffrage, it is also useless to imprison any of the other women on the same ground.
 Mrs. Nolan had to appear for trial yesterday morning along with two
 other suffrage pickets. The other
 two had been kept in jail awaiting
 their trial from Friday. The trial
 ought to have been on Saturday; but
 the District Attorney failed to get
 hold of the witness he needed for
 tkeir conviction, and so asked the judge to postpone the trial. Mrs ! Nolan was sent home to await trial
 the others were locked up. The two who were kept in jail over Sunday for the convenience of the district at torney were Miss Mary Ingham of Philadelphia. and Miss Annie ArneiI of Wilmington, and these two were i certainly no more guilty and no more
 troublesome to the authorities than
 Mrs. Mary Nolan.
 The militancy of Mss Susan B. | AnInnnN- nd l Stanton did not show itself in exactly 1 the same form as the militancy of 1 the National Woman's Party. But
 anyone who doubts their militant | spirit should read their sayings and
 watch their careers through all their
 Vlclssltudes. Mrs. Lucy Stone was an- | other of the early pioneers who re-
 sorted tc Eilitancy to get her demand
 before the country. Mrs Stones
 militancy took the form of tax re-
 sistance-a form of militancy also
 favored by Mrs. Despard, the sister Of General Lord French, and one of
 the recent woman candidates for the House of Commons. This form of
 E'lLtancy was also met with in Con necdcut when the Smith sisters of
 Glastonbury saw their COWS taken
 and sold one after another rather
 than pay the taxes which they con-
 sIdered were unjustly levied upon them. In England tax resistance even led to imprisonment when there
 was no visible property to levy upon and Tn one historic case a man was imprisoned because his wife refused , to pay her income tax and the law made him liable for it although he professed he did not know what her , income was and also that he wa, unable to pay her tax for her. t Susan B. Anthony's most open cas U es of militancy occurred in connection l with her practical protests agains the law which made the husband tn
 sole guardian of his children, whel
 she hid despairing mother who hat | fled with her little daughter; and il
 connection with her attempt to vot
 i'll New York state. This attempt [, l vote was on a right which she claim I ed belonged to her as a United State ! citizen under The Fourteenth Amend ment. In this case, had the law beer l strictly carried out, she should hay, e been imprisoned for her refusal tt r pay the fine of $100 levied on her e But the judge in her case, as in Mrs ] Nolan's, found himself in a Quandar, ' when he had to administer the law n against a woman of high character e and evident sincerity, and the fine re. l naained deiantIy unpaid to the end ot Miss Anthony's life