nent in literature, science, the arts, law, public
offices, churches, education, commerce, etc.; of its great procession
and the demonstration in Albert Hall. She said of the other
organization, which was yet in its early stages of aggressiveness:
"Opinions greatly differ in suffrage circles as to the effect produced
on the cause by what are known as 'militant' tactics. It is difficult
for one who is completely identified with constitutional methods to
judge aright the total result of unconstitutional forms of agitation.
That the 'militants' have been courageous and self-sacraficing no one
denies. That they have provoked discussion and aroused attention is
equally obvious and from these our cause always stands to gain. On the
other hand many of us feel a profound conviction, which experience
only strengthens, that women are adopting a mistaken course in
appealing to violence. Our business as women asking for justice is not
to rely upon physical force but in the eternal principles of right and
justice. Law abiding methods alienate no one while methods of violence
and disorder create anti-suffragists by the hundreds."
To this convention, as to the one of the preceding year in Amsterdam,
Mrs. Pankhurst refused to send any representatives of the Women's
Social and Political Union. A mass meeting under its auspices was held
in Albert Hall one evening and many of the delegates accepted an
official invitation to attend.
At an afternoon session ten minute addresses were made by Mrs. Betsy
Kjelsberg of Norway on Six Years' Experience in Municipal Work; by
Mrs. Madge Donohoe for Australia, The Latest Victory; by Dr. phil.
Gulli Petrini of Sweden, Suffrage Work on Both Sides of the Polar
Circle; by Mrs. Rutgers-Hoitsema, A Curious Football Game in Holland;
others by Mrs. Zeneide Mirovitch, Russia; Miss Theo. Daugaard,
Denmark; Mlle. Daugotte, Belgium; Mme. Auberlet, France; Mrs. Saul
Solomon, South Africa. The Dutch Men's League for Women Suffrage
was represented by E. J. van Straaten, LL.D. and F. F. W.
Kehrer-Gorinchens; the British by Herbert Jacobs and Dr. C. W.
Drysdale. Mrs. Anna M. Haslam, fraternal delegate from the Irish
Women's Suffrage Association, and her husband, Thomas J., the oldest
delegates, were most cordially received. The Bohemian delegate, Marie
Tumova, could not be present because making a campaign for election to
the Diet.
The delegates had a strenuous time trying to attend the business
meetings, list
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