"MILITANTS" SNUBBED

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1784, 24 June 1913, Page 5

"MILITANTS" SNUBBED

BY THE "NON-MILITANTS." THE WOMEN'S CONGRESS. "A BREACH OF HOSPITALITY.'! By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Budapest, Juno 22. Mrs. Despard (president of the Women's Freedom League), Mrs. Cobdcn, and Dr. Garrett Anderson were permitted to Address tlio Women's Congress. They complained of tho exclusion of thoir party, and commented on the narrowness of the National Union. Mrs. Henry Fawcott (presidont of tlio National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies) reported that tlio union was not responsible for their exclusion. Tlia president declined to permit discussion of national conflicts. At this tlio non-militants cheered, resenting tho militant spcechos as a breach of hospitality. The National Union of Women's Suffrage _ Societies is a strictly non-party organisation, and has always carried on its work by orderly aad constitutional methods. LILIAN LENTON ESCAPES. £5? BAFFLES THE DETECTIVES. '■ London, Juno 22. Miss Laura Lennox, who was recently sentenced to six months' imprisonment for being concerned in tho Suffragist conspiracy to damage property, has been released, having "hunger struck."

The police havo been vainly searching for Miss Lilian Lenton, who, after being sentenced to a term of imprisonment for being concerned in tho Kcw Gardens outrages, was released after a "hungor-strike," and who subsequently confessed to being concerned in another outrage for perpetrating which two other persons were arrested. It is believed she oscapcd disguised as a van boy, though soveral detectives had been watching her house day and night. Thirty cartridges, oiled iag9, and a burning taper were discovered in St. John's Church, Southend. They were extinguished. suffragettes mobbed. ESCAPE IN DISGUISE. London, June 23. A crowd of several thousands at Camtorno (Cornwall) mobbed Suffragettes who were marching from Land's End to London, and pelted eggs. Tho Suffragettes took refuge in an hotel, and escaped, disguised, by ft back door. A largo crowd at Blyth, Northumberland, mobbed two Suffragette speakers. The police rescued tho women with difficulty. THE FIRE-RAISERS. VALUABLE LABORATORY BURNT, London, June 22. Suffragettes burnt tho east wing of tho Gatty Marino Laboratory at St. Andrew's University. Tho damngo is estimated at .£SOOO. Many valuablo scientific drawings were destroyed. A window pano had been oovored with soft soap. A dozen tins of petroleum wero discovered.

HUNGER STRIKERS RELEASED. PROTEST BY THE PRESS. (Rec. June 21, 0.45 a.m.) London, Juno 23. Tho Suffragettes, Kenney, Barrett, and Lake haro been released on account of "hunger striking." Tho "Daily Express" protests against this leniency in view of Mr. Justice Phillimore's recent warning from the Bench. SEX CONFUSION. SOURCE OP SUFFRAGETTE 1 ' MOVEMENT. Tho New York correspondent of tlio London "Daily Mail," writing of tho proceedings in connection with tho oelobrations of "Mothers' Day" in New York, remarked upon tho unanimity with which tho militancy of tho women's Suffrage movement was denounced as marking a decided lowering of womon's ideals tho world over.

In a manifesto issued by tho National Association Opposed to "Woman Suffrage, Mrs. Arthur S. Dodge, the president, emphatically proclaimed her conviction- that ' sex confusion is the source from which has sprung the cry for woman suffrago." The keynote of tho manifesto wns sounded in tho following passage:— "There is moro immodesty in dress, more looseness in conversation, and moro impropriety in dancing than has ever been knomi to American people cither in so-callcd Society or among tboscj, who aro in other conditions. Behind these revelations of tho lowering of women's ideals and conduct thero is the samo reason that actuates suffrage disturbance." Mrs. Dodge especially denounced tho costumes worn by Suffragettes at recent parades with tho deliberate design of making their sex the basis of an appeal to men to grant, them tho suffrago. After declaring that tho "suffrago disturbance is in plain words a sex disturbance," Mrs. Dodgo proceeded: "One morning in New York I heard a young woman discoursing with great eloquence on how she and her sisters could improvo tho' manners and morals of men if they wcro given tho ballot. That evening this some girl wns at a fashionable dance. She was gowned in an extremely decollote fashion, and tho way she danced and boro herself was suggestive, to soy tho least. I do not l>olieve that this girl ever realised that, while her vote would be powerless in an election, the cut of her gown, tho manner of her dancing, and tho words of her conversation could havo a tremendous influence for good among her friends, both men and women, and thus throughout tho whole community. Recent paraders offered the spectacle of women demanding the ballot in order to put down the social evil and vice of all kinds appearing in support of their demand in costumes that aroused natural resentment among any set of ladies and gentlemen."

Mrs. Dodge argucil that the libertyyoung girls had succeoded in securing from the watcliful eye of chaperons has been turned by their conduct into something perilously akin to licence. She concluded: "It is ft pathological fact that women as a sex must respect and revere the divine mission of thoir sex, which is motherhood. Tho moment thoy outrage, distort, and deny the purpose for which they are born thoy become shirkers and drones. Misdirected government is a bad thing, but misdirected rax is a. national tragedy which, if it bo not checked, will degenerate tho race."