DEPLORABLE TACTICS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13596, 3 December 1909, Page 6

DEPLORABLE TACTICS.

It is understood that there remain. among the older guild of champions of -t women's suffrage some who refrain from open condemnation of the female * - hooligans who further tho cause by d»- } \ turbing the right of freedom of speech . in public halls, schemes to drop bricks ' -'? on the heads of hapless audiences, _uf» * -" fet Ministers of the Crown in public /- places, fling stones through the dra*« ing-room windows of their private,^- -j, houses, and, favoured by darkness, evade pursuit by _linkin.7 -' through the shrubbery (writes ifir;? > , Henry Lucy in the "Sydney • ' ,Z A Herald"). Even these tolerant jnim of personal conduct and its probata ~ .- influence upon a political campaign j bf» inclined to resent the latest velopment of energy on the part of tb».."- *} sisterhood. For many months -he"..* * Premier, the Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer—-eari* the wav, advocate of women's —have been in daily receipt of and threatening letters, a stream obloquy dexterously directed waste paper baskets by tho JisgaSuOf faithful I 1 a private authoritative soureft that at-, i tention has now been turned penowrr.... j upon the wife of the Prime Minuter. '. fi Mrs Asquith is a plucky woman, Wf_ *-*3 might be .expected as far as she _M-"_s| self is concerned, to receive fhcse tentions with indifference. It ia other matter when threat*-not lv framed are uttered aeainat th*.i£ 4 safety and welfare, of her mfaittV*'? child. ' ' 7 ♦ .<;: