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comj)limcnts to the courtesy and considera- 

 tion of the governor of the gaol. The trio 

 convicted of conspiracy for promoting wilful 

 damage on a large scale by breaking the 

 windows of unoffending tradesmen are no 

 sooner sent to gaol than they make it appear 

 that they don't like it, and, most obligingly, 

 they are granted the privilege of a first-class 

 misdemeanant. Then as a protest against 

 this differential treatment they went on 

 hunger strike. Finally, after serving only 

 a few weeks of their sentence, they are 

 liberated. Other imprisoned suffragettes 

 go on hunger strike, are artificially fed, and 

 so impair their health that they, too, are 

 discharged. The obliging Mr. McKenna 

 has been holding something like a general 

 gaol delivery of unwilling prisoners. 

 And yet he has been denounced as if 

 he were the embodiment of Neronic 

 tyranny and cruelty. He was finely 

 vindicated by the House of Commons 

 with the huge majority of 144 votes, and 

 still more by his almost unprecedented 

 considerateness for the convicted criminals 

 under his care. He has, in fact, set very 

 awkward precedents. He has made it 

 evident that any woman who wants to get 

 out of gaol before lier time only needs to 

 refuse her food, to resist forcible feeding 

 to the i)oint of injuring her health, and hey 

 presto I the prison doors may open and she 

 go free. And in these days of growing 

 equality between the sexes, the privilege 

 given to women can hardly be refused to 

 men. Are we to end with voluntary incar- 

 ceration or none? Perhaps Mr. Lloyd 

 George and Mr. McKenna might consider 

 together how far the New Anarchy has been 

 promoted by the too easy unlocking of 

 prison doors. Whatever difference of 

 opinion there may be about releasing 

 prisoners at home, tiie action of the Tsar 



in liberating Miss Malecka from gaol and 



Russia has met with universal applause. 



, . The resumption of window- 



Logic, ' 



Feminine— breaking by suffragettes 



and reveals a state of mental 



Masculine. 1 , 1 - 1 1 



pathology which the 



ordinary man and, in all justice, be it added, 

 the ordinary woman fail utterly to under- 

 stand. It has aroused angry protests from 

 the leader of the Labour Party; — the one 

 party in Parliament which has been stead- 

 fastly loyal to the cause of woman's suffrage. 

 What possible connection there can be in 

 any normal mind between wanting to 

 get the vote and promiscuous window- 

 smashing is a puzzle to most brains. Is 

 the idea, as we have been told it is, 

 to make all government impossible 

 until the vote is granted? Bui can any 

 sane intellect suppose that the Government 

 of the United Kingdom will 'oe paralysed 

 because a few windows more or less are 

 broken ? The disproportion between 

 means and ends suggests infantile fancy at 



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Mrs. .\sguiTH (discussing the I.ansbury incident) : " I never 

 'eard sich lanywidgc in all my life. I never was called sich 

 names — not in all my born days, I wasn't. Even Mr. Redmond, 

 'e doesn't call nic Sich names." 



