BOMBS FOR BRICKS.
SUFFRAGETTES' NEW MISSILE. A EEMAE2ABLE THREAT. CHICAGO, March in. Addressing a meeting of the Chicago Women.* Party on Saturday, Dr. Jessie Murray, of London, mode a startling ennfregion regarding the means by which the Suffragettes hope to achieve their objects.
"You in America," said the lady doctor, "do not rcaliKc the economic straits to which the women in Kngland have been reduced in fiiliting for life and honour.
"Men arc takeinjf from us the meann of livelihood by legislation, and arr robbing the working women of the privilege to work when they aTp eager to support thDin«elvts. The men are crying for our plare*.
"We lv s<\ in fact, reached a stage of civil war. People as!.- us why we do not substitute bombs for brick*. If onr demands are not acceded to soon I can assure you that fconvbs trill be used."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 73, 25 March 1912, Page 7
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146BOMBS FOR BRICKS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 73, 25 March 1912, Page 7
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