THE LAW OF THE CLAW

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1913, Page 6

THE LAW OF THE CLAW

No doubb the Psychic Heaenrch Society will spare a little time for a Jipcus&ion of the "militant Suffragette, "' lighting for the primeval Law of tha Claw. Tho demonstrations range from mere "mon-key-tricks"—«ueh as the insertion of small shot in latch key-holett-— to each outrages ac the Borrnot motor bandits perpetrated in Paris. The Suffragettes have practically challe»ged the Public. The \vild women's crimes amount lo thie declaration to the people of Britain : - "We can harm you moro than your con» sideration for our box will po/mit you +0 injure us. If we are allowed to beat you more than you beat lus, then wo must win." London has all the "amenities of civilisation/ but V.m conduct of tho feminine- nnarchiste FupcnmpofpG scenes of primordial society, with the roles reversed, instead of a club-armed man, clad in tho pelt of an ftaimal, Loudon bohoidß a womaa, drcAee-d in the best of Bond-fctrcet, with a clav/'hammer oc a tube of Greek fire ac a "moral persuader." The principle is tho earn*! tho difference of drees and «sx k immaterial. It is the old business of "might is right," and the Law of tho Claw. To yield to the crazy persons who act in the belief that they can prevail by force— by burning tho people's letters, destroying public gardens, and smashing windowswould be a reversion to the Stone Age regime. As Mr. Herbert Samuel lias said, a surrender to the reckless wreckers would be "puttihg a premium on disturbances, and inviting crime." If a section of women gains a request by brick-bate, bombs, corrosive acids, and j red pepper, .why should not the advocates of industrial, land, or any other reform succeed by similar lunacy? Sir Robert Anderson, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department, has suggested that women whose conduct lias been tttaniaoal should be sent to asylums. This statement opens up a wide field of thought. The baeis of modern civilisation is an assumption that tho average man and woman will be fairly normal. Immense trust is placed in that belief for the smooth working of the various services which make for convenience and comfort an this compound age. The Suffragette* are painfully abnormal, and as they are numerous and have method in their madness, it is «aey for them to make themselves an exasperating nuisance ,to society. Such persistent, widespread abnormality demands a hug© multiplication of police, or th© aid of vigilance committees of citizens, to hunt down and seize the "revolutionaries" for adequate punishment. The time has evidently come for the British Government, and all friends of decent order, to take an impressive part in this drama of the Law of the Claw. We etill believe that much might be accomplished by salutary sentences to re«i imprisonment— temporary release for "hunger strikers" when emaciated, and re-gaoling, when their weight wm up to standard, till every day of the term was served. Kid-glove methods will not subdue the Pankhursts.