THE SUFFRAGETTES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 41, 9 July 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

WILL WEAR DOWN OPPOSING STATESMEN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, July 8. Miss Adela Pankhurst has arrived. Interviewed, she said that militancy was not ruining the cause. It was of no use converting people by oth,er means. The whole ,Cabinet favored the vote with the exception of Messrs Asquith and Harcourt, who were opposed to it simply for party reasons. They feared women would constitute an unreckoned force at elections. This kept them from giving women the vote. There was nothing for women to do but to continue the present means until they get tired of seeing law and order upset and give women the vote.

| A RIFT IN THE LUTE. Received 8, 10.45 p.m. London, July 8. Addressing a meeting of the United Suffragists, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence explained that she had left the Women's Political Union because Mrs. Pankhurst could not brook a rival. The Women's Union had completely altered its pl.v.s during Mrs. Lawrence's absence in Amcrical, and she had found it necessary, in view of the militancy, to invest the control and finances in the hands of a sole leader, directing the movement from Paris.