PEACEFUL SUFFRAGETTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 10

PEACEFUL SUFFRAGETTES.

AMERICAN WOMEN'S EXAMPLE THE W A SIIIN G-M A C 111 N E AUGU- , MKN'f. The peaceful propaganda of tho American Suffragists is winning over public opinion to ulio cause, and is proceeding actively without in the slightest degrco being intluonced by tho disorderly conduct of their English 6iskrs. For example, tho correspondent of tho London "Observer" quotes tho ca-o of n group of New York women who have opened & suffragist pure food shop, wliero fresh eggs and other edibles arc labelled "Votes for women" and sold much cheaper than elsewhere. As one fair attendant put it, "\Vo are iiot making a profit, but wo aro making converts. After all, tho way to tho voter's heart, we aii know, is tho 6tomach."

Another means of obtaining tho ear of unsympathetic householders is for suffragists to go.out cashing, Ono loader of tho eausc—Kli/.abeth .Morton—seized upon a pate.it washing machino which attracted Tier both a.s a, houso requisite and as a means of facilitating a house-to-houso canvass for votes. Under tho guiso of acting as agents for, tho device, sho and her assistants obtain tho entree to kitchens and wash clothes for housewives by means of tho machine, and while tho operations aro proceeding they introduce tho Suffrage question. Tho spread of niccly washed clothes invariably wins over a new adherent.

Sirs. Morton says: "It is such a nice womanly way of working, too, just like a good, housekeoperly Suffragist." These prosaic and linpicturesquc methods of pushing.the crusade are not without effect, and their sharp contrast with English militancy is impressing the American press and the public alike. In fact, opinion hero seems hard put to express the depth of sardonic and caustic sentiments at tho exploits of tho PankhuTstites. Ono grave suggestion is that the British Government should promptly deport Mrs. Pankhurst as an undesirable citizen. "How lonj will British courtesy to women, official stupidity, or public senpe of humour, which must be pretty woll exhausted by this time, put up with tho Pankhurst nuisance?" asks tho "Sun." "What would have l>ecomo of the antislavery cause, tho greatest 'moral agitation this country has known, had its leaders adopted thj Pankhurst policy?" is the "Evening Post's" question. 'The suffragettes should bo attended to ill asylums and hospitals," says tho "Times," while the "Herald" is hopeful that the British lion, onco aroused, can again be a formidable beast.