Woman Suffrage

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 17, 1913

The leader of the woman suffrage movement in England is now in prison, beginning to serve out her term of three years' imprisonment for her connection with the destruction of buildings by fire and dynamite. Feeling on the part of both the suffragettes and those opposed to their movement is becoming very bitter. On a number of occasions during the week the police have had to protect women speakers against mob violence. There has been further destruction of property by those interested in the woman suffrage movement, both in the hope of aiding the movement and as a protest against the imprisonment of the leader, Mrs. Pankhurst. Threats have been made that the situation now is one of open war, and that life as well as property will be destroyed in order to attain their object. All the principal public officials are being closely guarded by the police to protect them from the violence of the friends of the woman suffrage campaign. In Washington, D. C., on April 7, suffragists from all the States marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol under police escort and entered the Capitol building to present petitions personally to their representatives, and otherwise to further the interests of their cause. In Michigan on April 7 the question of woman suffrage was voted on, and was lost by a rather close vote.