The Gentle Suffragettes.
By Editor
We do not know how the suffragettes of England can hope for sympathy when they stoop to such measures as some of their members do, and whom others defend. At a recent election in London at one point one woman poured an acid discoloring fluid into the ballot-boxes, which resulted in making almost illegible a hundred or so ballots; seriously injured one eye of a polling clerk, so that he had to be taken to the hospital; and burned the hands of others. At another polling-booth another suffragette attempted the same thing, but she only managed to burn the fingers of the election officials. In defense of this the other members of the party contend that the government is responsible. No government on the face of the earth, whether it grants women the privilege of the ballot or not, is responsible for any immoral conduct on the part of the women. It seems to us that such methods would weaken the very cause they favor.