p. 12 | Mrs. Pankhurst and Militant Suffrage by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

Mrs. Pankhurst and Militant Suffrage

By Editor

Mrs. Pankhurst, the militant suffragist of London, was tried in the Old Bailey May 21, and sentenced to several months' imprisonment. She endeavored to secure from the court recognition as a political offender, and not a criminal one. When sentenced, she posed as a martyr, and declared that she was suffering in a just cause. But however just the cause, it certainly did not employ just or legal methods in destruction of property and violence to persons. Every manifestation of mob law, nearly, is claimed to be, by the mob, just, but its methods are grossly criminal, and so with Mrs. Pankhurst's.