only had the strength of mind left to find out which was the king's
horse in the races and to stop him at the risk of her life. She did it
to prove this one thing—that in England property is cared for better
than human life and human interests. That her life as first martyr .
1 would make a change in sentiment is true. There were many other
i women unbalanced by their suffering. They put back the passage of
; any 'law granting suffrage to women so that no one can now tell
i when such action will be taken. In the militant movement there are
some 15,000 women, in three societies. Less than 100 have been guilty
of breaking the laws, but over and over, under different names, they
have done it. The women who felt it was putting back our cause
tried to stop it.
' “I was in England at the time of the great pilgrimage. The women
who had little babies said, ‘We can only march this afternoon.’ One
old woman wrote, ‘I am eighty and I am afraid I will not have another ,
chance for a pilgrimage. Would you mind if I supplied a cart to ride?’
In every town they would have a meeting, distributing literature say-
ing, ‘We do not believe in militant methods.’ Six hundred women
. going out of Manchester were preceded by one lone santlwich man
who carried a sign, ‘Women do not want the suffrage.’ Everybody
they met was handed out a little slip which said, ‘That is just what '
, we are working for.’ July 25 they gathered in London and all over ‘
the city were meetings. They did not know whether or not Mrs.
i Snowden would be mobbed. After they got to the meeting 100 pil-
‘ grims came in, footsore and singing and bearing their banners. One ‘
l labor man, who marched with them, spoke; one elegant gentleman
! who worked in that district spoke with them. Then they had their l
, own Mrs. Snowden, who claims to be in heart half American. "
3 “I wore an American flag for protection. There was some drunk—
enness but we were not molested. The next day thousands of peo—
‘ ple gathered in Trafalgar Square to watch the parade and hear the .
5 speeches. There were about 3,000 marchers. An American man
, came up and said to me, ‘I wish I could march with you, but the
i police won’t let me, and I will walk in the gutter.’ He kept his word
‘1 and walked all the way.
i “I saw nothing that was not respectful and interesting. One hun-
j dred thousand people listened to the speeches from nineteen plat- ,
i forms. Mrs. Catt made a magnificent speech, and when you heard
1 the cheering for the American lady you would have been thankful
i in heart that her message of peace and quiet and good will, and her ,
i persistence in what she believed andwhat she stood for, would help ‘
f every man and woman in that English nation. It was a wonderful ,
E sight. I did not think anything about the two mile march. Who
é cares whether you are conspicuous so that you are a part of history? &
‘v We in America are too modest to do things to attract attention. :
3 Remember that a color stands for more than words.” (Here she
‘ showed the colors of the non-militants of England, the cockade she
1 wore in the parade and last of all a long yellow “Votes for Women”
1 streamer.) :
1‘ “When we consider what that has meant to England, we are glad
i to know that our great body of American women, the Geneial Fed-
: eration of Women’s Clubs, has for the first time this last year passed
i a resolution endorsing equal franchise for men and women. That 1,
i thrills you, and every woman who was not there I am sorry for, be-
cause I think that day was the greatest triumph of womanhood I f,
‘ have ever seen on any question anywhere. The self—control of the j:
.; women themselves—‘We want to give no offense—we want to take ‘
1 with us those that we can win.’ If you had heard the president of a g
i Southern federation say, ‘We met the day before and discussed it— i
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