THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 30 December 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

“VOTES AEE THE ONLY REMEDY.”

/'Ey Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press (Association.) London, December 28, A male suffragist has been arrested for smashing Mr. Asquith’s windows at Downing Street. The suffragettes tied’the railway signals at Potter’s Bar to prevent them working. They attached a note stating “Votes are the only remedy.”

PILGRIMAGE OF 200 MILES

. (Received 8.0 a.m.) New York, December 29

Carrying a message demanding suffrage from Governor Sulzer, a little band of suffragettes arrived at Albany after walking 200 miles. New York ■suffragettes termed the march a.pilgrimage, the object of which was to arouse public attention to the movement.

Mrs Helen Watson, the well-known Australian authoress, who, by the way, is on the staff of the Gonservatonum, takes a very keen interest in all doings that have for their purpose the betterment of the state of women. Although taking no active part in the suffragette movement in England; Mrs Weston says that “when the existing grinding poverty is realised it has to be admitted that a woman’s vote is the surest way of helping, in a practical manner towards lasting relief. She heard Miss Pankhurst speak, and others of the militant fraternity, and although regretting the necessity for such tactics, she confesses an inability to suggest any other methods of keeping the movement alive and progressive. They must win, she says, and in the Ok Country one’s sympathy goes out tc them in spite of oneself.”