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The Revlei* of Reviews: 



August I, 1906. 



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At th« Trafalgar Square Demonetrption. 

 Miss Kenney and Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy, who ie 



8«veuty-four. and the oldest of the advocates of 



Womaji'9 Suffrage in England. 



ill-treatment, and prison itself, rather than tolerate 

 any longer the endless shuffling of prevaricating 

 politicians who, while professing devotion to the 



principle, refuse even to secure a division on the 

 subject in the House of Commons. With 407 mem- 

 bers pledged to woman's suffrage, it ought not to be 

 so very difficult to find a night in which their votes 

 could be counted in the division lobby. 



So far from the cause being put back by the 

 scene, it was followed by an emphatic declaration 

 of the Prime Minister in favour of the mo\ement, 

 by almost as emphatic a declaration by the leader 

 of the Opposition, and by demonstrations in Tra- 

 falgar Square and Exeter Hall in favour of an ac- 

 tive policy. At the demonstration in Trafalgar 

 Square Miss Kenney first gave London an oppor- 

 tunity of hearing what manner of a speaker she is. 

 One who was present in the Square that Saturday 

 afternoon wrote me about it as follows: — 



Miss Kenney was by far the most effective speaker of 

 the afternoon. Her appearance, her words, and, above 

 all. her consunaing enthnsiasm for the catise she was 

 championing, made a deep impression upon the crowd 

 gathered at the foot of the monument. The majority of 

 the audience were men, who had listened attentively but 

 somewhat stolidly to the preceding speakers. Miss Kenney 

 swayed the gathering as only a bom orator can. Slie did 

 more; she communicated to it something of her own 

 earnestness of purpose. Indifference gave way to enthusiasm 

 as she drove home her appeal for justice to women in a 

 clear and penetrating voice that rose above the murmur 

 of the traffic. II was her personality rather than her 

 words that e^ve force to her appeal. Other speakers had 

 theorised and argued and endeavoured to convince the 

 intellects of their hearers. Here was a speaker of another 

 stamp— a woman in deadly earnest, who spoke straight to 

 tlie heart, carrying not only conviction, but compelling 

 her listeners to recognise that there was a living and 

 burning question that would not be ignored. In Miss 

 Kenney the cause has found a recruit of the greatest value 

 especially at a moment when pious opinions must be 

 transformed into active support. 



That witness is true Miss Kenney is a power of 

 strength for the cause, and the best .service anyone 

 can do who loves the cause is to supply the indis- 

 pensable ways and means for keeping Miss Kenney 

 on the warpath. — W. T. Stead. 



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