The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, June 14th., 1913. THE SUFFRAGETTE CAMPAIGN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1109, 14 June 1913, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, June 14th., 1913. THE SUFFRAGETTE CAMPAIGN.

A doctor who is described as a highly-considered expert on psychical writes in the Frankfurter Zeitung concerning the suffragette campaign in England : —‘‘There is nothing new as regards the history of culture tot a physical epidemic to carry away a large number of nervous systems by mere force. The Flagellants, the Children Crusaders, the movements for the extermination of witches in the Middle Ages, and other agitations, are all variations of the same theme —the infection of b a ; n after brain by the suggestive effect of ideas coloured by the feelings of those who are prepared 10 receive it. There is a strong vein of hysteria in the movement of the suffragettes in Engl nd.” The writer expresses surprise that the authorities have not g appled more firmly with the movement, and says confidently that in Germany it would soon lie overcome. “The hunger-strikers,” be says. “would be medically inspected, and. if necessary, sent to hospital, or to an asylum, or would be lo'cibly fed without any illeffects.”