THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8179, 11 July 1906, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

The women's suffrage movement ties certainly entered ou a strenuous phase in the Old Country. At the -end Of May the leaders of the movement declared war on fhe uonstitut«d representatives of the laws that women could not help to frame, and threatened even to resort to physical Mr Asquith was the first victim, and not even the sweot seclusion of Oavendisb Square , WOULD HAVE SAVED HIM -and his windows if the police had not rudely intervened. The lady who waa to have thrown the first briok, however, was a prisoner in her own home. She was defying the bailiffs, who wished to distrain upon her poods and chattels for non--payment of inoome tax. Mrs Monteflore, it appears REFUSED. TO PAY 'her income tax because aho had no vote. gates of her bo'tise at Hammersmith wore looked, and she remained indoors withstand. .Jng a Ou:sid<j ware two baiiliffa massed in battle array, wliile from the scoond floor window Mrs Montiflore herangued the populace, The black and white flags of the Suffragettes waved defiantly over the tgard?u wall, and the front door bore in letters of flaming red this legend, "We demand the vote this ■session." Within the grounds she hoisted the KED BANNER OF REVOLT, -with the inscription "Women should 'Vote for the Laws they obey and the {Tax they ray."- To complete the fortifications handbills with "Votes •Jtojc ?Women," in oold lettering were pwted np oatside of the waljs. This 'entrenched, Mrs Monteflore hurled defiance to the law, while |?er supporters crowded the narrow lane buttflide to cheer heron. Eluding the VIGILANOtS OP THE BESEIGERS i the the friends of tbe garrison had provisioued the fortress for three •days. Ultimately some friend of Mrs 1 Munteflore paid the tax,' Then a day ■or later, Miss Annie Kenny, the/ Lancashire factory girl,' marched I. down to Hammersmith ait midday at timhead of a faithful band of Suffragettes. Mrs Montiflore, a friend and a dcg surveyed the inspiriting scene from, the second storey window, •and presently Mrs Monteflore broke out into a fiery speech. Then Miss .Kenny and Miss Biilington in tnrq mounted on a chair and harangued the crowd: "We are prepared to •go to priaon also," they shouted. "We shall have twenty-two women in prison before .another month is ■out if something is not done for the women of this country," |diss JBilliugton, at least, ohtained the desire of her heart She went to prison for a constable. ■ !