UNDOUBTED PLUCK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 167, 8 April 1908, Page 3

UNDOUBTED PLUCK.

"Whatever tlieir opinions of the Suffragette Campaign may lie," writes a-Homo paper, "few people ivill deny that the leaders , of the cause Inyo as much pluck as the most courageous of men. Mrs: Pankhurst, after having been thrown in the mud, kicked, and stunned hy a gang of political hooligans, turned up at headquarters almost the samo dayj still lame, still badly bruised, but as pame'as ever. Mrs. 'Pankhurst, as President of the Women's Labour a'nd Social Union, is the Commander-in-Chief of the. Suffragettes, and it was sho who planned and herself directed the great raid oil the' House of Commons a year ago for which fifty ■women were sent to.gaol. _ "Even at ordinary times N the. amount of travelling and public speaking that sho gets through would be enough .to cause any ordinary political candidate to collapse. Rut Mrs. Pankhurst's husband, the late Dr. Pankhurst, was a loading light in the advanced labour movement, and sho has boon used to public life for many years. At one time she had a sr>at on a Manchester Board of Guardians. Whilst a member of a subcommittee on the food of. the Workhouse, r-lio discovered that each inmate was allowed a largo piece of bread at each meal, served in one, piece, causing an immenso waste, for half of it was never eaten. So she induced the guardians to adopt a system of sowing it in small pieccs, and allowing each of the paupers to tako what tliey liked, which resulted. in quitp a large saving of public money." '