THE SUFFRAGETTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 4

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

What to do with the militant suffragette, so much in evidence of late and so very difficult to control, is a hig and bothersome problem -for. the British Government. It is certain, however, that the violence of these misguided sisters has done much harm to their cause and alienated many hitherto sympathisers. This is quite noticeable from the tone of the l press. "False sentiment must be brushed aside," remarked the London Daily Express after the discovery of a suffragette bomb in St. Paul's Cathedral. "The orgy of madness must be stopped effectually and the j only way open to the authorities to

| obtain this end is an immediate cesi sation of their kid-glove of leniency." The Daily Express holds that for all further acts of militancy deportation should be the punishment. "What was good enough for Napoleon ought to be good enough for Mrs Pankhurst and her crazy followers," said this newspaper. "This is no idle suggestion. It is feasible and sound. St Helena is a long way off. There is plenty of room and few ships call there. The women could be made to work there, and as the means of escape are almost nil the wholesome example of deportation would soon put an end to the women for whom notoriety is as the breath of their nostrils." There is probably much truth in this, but so far there is no indication that the idea will lie acted upon. ,