The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-14

- ed in franchise riots, and her fa- ther who was a radical. As Elm. incline Goulden she was born in Manchester. Eng, on day which she has described as the ami yersary of the storming of the Bastile," but the year is not giv. cn.
 Her education in Paris as a girl brought her under further radical influences, and she be. came a companion of the daugh- ter of Henri Rochefort, and an ar. dent republican.
 Married in 1879
 In 1879 she married Dr. Plank hurst, who was a member of the first Woman Suffrage Society or, ganized in England. She shared her husbands interest in the ad. vancement of women. He was a prominent member of the English bar and was author of the Maj ried Woman's Property Act which became English law in the early eighties.
 Upon her husbands death in 1889. Mrs. Pankhurst was left with four children, Sylvia, AdeIa Christabel and son Harry The latter died in 1910: Adela has been living quietly in the conn try while the other two girls be came their mothers aides in the suffragette warfare The battles began in small way when Mrs Pankhurst set out to earn live lihood for her family in Manches ter. She served as registrar of births and deaths and as a member of the school board, but she alleged that her advancement was blocked by her sex, and fin 1903 she plunged Into the work of the Woman's Social and Political Union, organized largely through her efforts. The union was al first but mildly militant In It's methods.
 Cue Given Women
 It's object was to get the gov. ernmeht to introduce a govern. ment measure for woman suf, frage. Many private bills had been brought up, but without gov ernment backing there was little hope of success. The govern ment was not enthusiastic. Tho former Unionist Premier Balfour advised the women to kick up a row; invent one method after an, other" The women took the cue. The Pankhursts, the Pethick Law rences, and Annie Kenny were all among the early leaders, but Mrs, Pankhurst soon became the dom inant figure.
 The campaign she opened in 1904 in an office of one room had become so widespread ten years later--in 1914-that she had more than the business of directing the Suffragette army, Funds ranged from $1O.oO0 to $300,0OO a year. The campaign was carried into bye-elections where time after time the wo- men succeeded in cutting down if not eliminating the government majority. Practical politics was played at the same time the cain paign of violence was carried on in Parliament Square or Downing Street. The demonstration in Hyde Park, mustered by Mrs. tGeneral) Drummond. one of Mrs. Pankhurst's aides. attracted up- wards of 100000 persons.
 Two Trips to U. s.
 Mrs. Pankhurst, while recupcr- atIng from fhe excitement of riot and arrest in London made two trips to America. once in 1911 and again in 1913. On thei i"'e'i 'iSit Siit was oIucIeu uc- ported by the immigration off cials at New York, but the gov ornment at Washington over ruled the decision and allowed her to enter the country with the understanding that she would keep the peace and return to England upon completion of her lecture tour. Many of the Or ganized suffragist bodies In Amer, ica received her but coldly. l
 In her own country she by no, means had the support of all wo1 men st1ffragists. Estimates of her ranged from that of women poli- ties who declared she was crifn- inal mentally deranged,' to that Of her followers who asserted