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Maud Malone, First
American Militant
Suffragette to Test the
Law in New York, and
What the Supreme Court
lias just Decided About
“Wild Women”
lirsl. The reeonls show thai stubborn
subjects who refuse the rogulnr food
si Hitt tire of existing 011 Injections.
Through sheer monotony and the
weakening elft'cts of unrewarded re
belllon against nature, they submit
eventually in practically all cases."
The decision of the Appellate Di
vision of the Supreme Court dealing
with Maud Malone and her exploit
was written by Presiding Justice
Jenks and unanimously concurred iti
by the full bench. Among other
things it says:
“I think that the disturbance by
the defendant was wilful. For that
qualification as used in the statute
means that the disturbance was.not
due to accident or mistake, but was
intentional and designed. (Common
wealth v. Porter, supra; Harrison v.
State, 117 Ala. 154-1116; Williams v.
State, 811 Ala. 68.) The defendant is
apparently an intelligent woman of
excellent antecedents and of good
social position.
“After she had testified as to her
familiarity with political meetings
and as to her frequent utterance at
them, she was asked the following
questions:
“ ‘Q. Did you uot see that Governor
Wilson had refused and that by per-
sistiug and remaining standing you
T HE question is often asked,
“What would he done to the
militant suffragettes if they
started in on -a campaign of lawless-
tness in America as they have in
JSngiand ?’
. And tills question can now be an
swered, at least for New York, be
cause the Appeiiate Division of the
New York Supreme Court has settled
•the matter in no uncertain terms.
The court has no fault to llnd
with the worthy movement in favor
of woman s.uffrage. In fact, the
judges take pains to point out dis
tinctly that "thoughtful men and
.women recognize that the principle
.of woman suffrage is supported by
cogent arguments.” liut wanton
’lawlessness cannot lie excused be
■cause of the plea that it is in behalf
i.of a meritorious cause.
A young woman in Brooklyn, Maud
Malone, took it upon herself to in-
'’terrupt. a political meeting last Fall,
when President Wilson was speak
sing. Dike her misguided English
.friends, this American militant suf
fragette had a notion that she would
get Iter name into the papers and
probably escape any serious conse
quences for a disorderly act. She
was promptly arrested, dragged out
of the meeting, taken to court and
fined for disorderly conduct.
This was quite a shock to Maud
a Malone, and she and her friends ap
pealed the ease. The Appellate Di
vision ha Juki handed down a pretty
severe rebuke to Maud Malone, con
firming her conviction and warning
other lawlc:- uiftragettes that the
lav.' will mnk. no exceptions because
• tigl • T - for “Voles for
Women
'lots ii is pretty well settled that
mi of disturbances which are
v ina the true . regret.b of woman
in England would be pronipt-
i with by the courts If at
ted in America. Hut the ques
'■ till remains as to what the au-
uitiis would do if the American
; Itould become lilled with law
i s ?; ilfragettes who went on a
bun i r strike. On this matter
M 1 ' it. Harhurger said to a. reporter
of this newspaper:
" I'liere Is little fear Ilia! militant
suffragettes, if there he any such
female outlaws iu these I tilted
Stales, would dure to commit the
atrocities they arc undertaking in
Knglaml. If any stlch uprisings did
"occur here, however, we would lose
little time in jailing the Tml
•piml subjecting them to the * p-s.
discipline.
"Regarding the liealuient of mill
‘to lit is behind the burs, there are just
three courses: (1) Permit them to
starve themselves to death (and good
, riddance it would be); (2) feed them
forebily: (ill release them after self-
starvation had reached the danger
IHlIllt.
“it is eminently inhuman to allow
these women to starve themselves,
1 and we would never permit such a
‘procedure in this country. On the
ojher hand, il does absolutely no
.good to release a woman, for she
would take her release as a prece
dent aud defy the law all her life.
"Forcible feeding is the only al-
" tonuitivo we should resort to.
“But I want to put myself on rec
ord us being in favor of giving
’women the vote. What 1 take ex
ception lo is misbehavior and rioting
by perverted females. Then they
'should he treated the same as men
ami lie made to suffer.”
‘ John .1 Fallon. Warden of the
Tombs, look the same viewpoint as
Sheriff Harhurger. He said:
“Any militant suffragettes that
were jailed ami placed under my
charge 1 would feed forcibly. But i
would lirsi have them all examined
by ox pert alienists to decido whether
■tb should servo their term in prison
or be sent to the insane asylum.”
iT'h-r * conditions would we re-
b o-;., a woman who refused to eat.
• would only laugh at us after
I cy go; out. and the first thing wo
i, -w everyliod, iu the jail would
Die same game in an attempt to
, .i I women offer stubborn re-
manhandling, we can give
! ' iu u •iirislimeui by injections. But
* ' • ‘O tire of tids. and the first
Dmu- c know wo find them eating
food iu spite of themselves.
' .aIn. a woman can generally be
nought lo terms by refusing to give
•i w a or except on the condition
Jr; • he eat the food we put before
V' si; in J. Wrigid. Commissioner
j" 1 the Department of Correction of
, New York, under whose care convict
so suffragettes would come, had this
i.lo spy:
“ “1 ndei no conditions do I believe
-ilia refusal to take food should bo
1 an c\. use for the liberation of ob-
■ st i eporoii.- militants. Such a pro
"cciittiv would never remedy matters.
.Neither woilM I sanction the barbar
ous method* of allowing the fanatics
To. starve themselves. Of the two
, means of forcible feeding 1 would
latdly advocate cramming nourish
ment down a woman's throat, but
won id be inclined to try injections at
Forcible Feeding of a Suffragette
in Holloway Jail, England.
This Same Method of Giving
Food Through the Nose
Would Be Followed in This
Country.
Some Article* Used by the “Wild Women"—the Militant Suffragettes of England-—in Their Outrage* Against
Property. On the Left a Pile of Oil-Soaked Kindling for Burning Down Houses; Saws, Drills, a Jack
and “Jimmies" for Breaking Into Places to Be Destroyed.
were disturbing the meeting and pre
venting its continuance, in face of
the fact that the speaker had refused
to discuss it any further with you?
Did you not see that?'
“ ‘A. If 1 might explain 1 asked the
question to get an answer either one
way or the other, and just refusing
to discuss the question is not an
answer.'
“ 'Q. Did you 1eel that y ou had a
right, notwithstanding the refusal of
the speaker to answer your question
directly, to remain there, and, not
withstanding the protest of the chair
man of the meeting, to continue to
stand in your position insisting upon
it being answered?'
“ ‘A. There were a great many peo
pie in tlie meeting that wanted me
to stand and get an answer, and I
wanted an answer either way.’
“ ‘Q. And it was your gietermina
tion to stay there until you got one,
whether he liked it or not, is that it?'
“ ‘A. Well, I asked the Governhr
then why he declined to answer, and
then i was immediately dragged out
“The defendant avoided direct an
swers. But I find, not in the avoid
ance alone, but in the answers as
given, indication that the intent of
the defendant was to set the chair
man and the speaker at defiance un
til she was satisfied.
“She would explain or would ex
tenuate tier conduct by the statement
that after she asked the Governor
why he declined to answer she was
immediately ‘dragged out.' But, even
so, she was out of order and a dis
turber as soon as the speaker had
refused to discuss the question any
further and the chairman had re
quested her to cease and to sit down.
She testifies that she did hear the
chairman tell her to resume her seat
"Even if the trial court believed
Iter, that circumstance would not ac
quit her. for she testifies that the
speaker, after his answer to her first
question, answered her second ques
tion by a declination to discuss the
subject: she admits that she per
sisted to question him further upon
the same subject and that she there
tofore had heard the chairman say
that he would not have the meeting
interrupted and that he would have
the meeting come to order.
“We have no concern with the wis
dom of the proceedings which led to
the defendant’s arrest, arraignment
and trial. We are- told in eloquent
periods that the conduct of the de
fendant was in furtherance of a cause
in which she believes. 1 do not doubt
her belief. Neither do I doubt that
the most militant suffragists, who
are producing a reign of domestic
terror in England, some of whose ac
tions almost rival those of the petro-
Ieuses of the Parisian Commune of
1871, may say the same in all con
science.
“Thoughtful men and women'rec
ognize that the principle of woman
suffrage is supported by cogent argu
ments. The arguments should re
ceive due consideration, and the ag
itation of the subject should not be
stilled by any oppression. But there
is no argument in violations of law,
and agitation in forms that fall foul
of the penal law must be suppressed
If the courts overlook violations oi
such law for the sake of such propa
gandise! of any cause as is in dis
obedience of such law, the courts fall
into contempt and the lawless take
heart.
“What this defendant did is but a
little thing in itself, hut it is not par
donable in the eye of the law. If the
law should blink at little things
which are unlawful, irresponsible en
thusiasts may he encouraged to com
mit grave offenses. In the oft-quoted
maxim, ‘This is a government of
laws, not men,' 'men' includes women.
There is no question of free speech
or of oppression involved in this
case, and It does not hulk large with
incidental questions of liberty. There
is but the simple question whether
the defendant—a person—wilfully
disturbed a meeting in violation of
the statute. The judgment and con
viction must be affirmed.”
Maud Malone, the Militant American Suffragette, Whose Fine for Disorderly
Conduct in “Heckling” President Wilson Has Been Sustained by the
Appellate Division, Supreme Court, State of New York.
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