By Jane Marcus
First released in 1987. This assortment brings jointly very important articles written through Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters through the Suffragette crusade, 1903-14. features a transcript of the 1908 trial of the suffragette leaders, their speeches, and significant pamphlets of the Women's Social and Political Union.
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It seems to me that it is impossibly late, except that one knows it is better late than never. Certainly nobody, even the most inaccurate person, can claim that we are claiming the enactment of the Women's Enfranchisement Bill too early. When this Government first came into office, the Liberals' cry was, 'We cannot commit political suicide; we have only just come into power, and now you want us to go out again. ' How tender their conscience becomes when they are dealing with voters! They do not mind legislating without asking our opinion when we are outside the franchise, but they insist that when we have got the vote they must lose not a moment in giving us an opportunity of expressing our views at the ballot box.
His action was discussed in the House of Commons, and even there they held him innocent. They refused to pass a vote of censure upon him, and yet we, who have spoken far less violently, we stood in the dock yesterday- I do not know where we shall be this time next week. Let me quote what Mr Gladstone said on the subject of political revolt. I think these words should be written on the mind and heart of every member of the House of Commons, and, above all, every member of the Liberal Government.
Some forty years ago there were Fenian outrages in Manchester, and the blowing up of Clerkenwell Gaol. What did those two terrible events prompt Mr Gladstone to say? He said that they had drawn the attention of England to the fact that there were grievances in Ireland. What did those two events prompt him to do? He disestablished the Irish Church! How anybody after that can say that militant methods are not effectual, I do not know. Remember, what did Mr Chamberlain say just before the passing of the County Franchise Bill in r884?