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Declares Right to Hold ItThis meeting is not suspended, she i cried; it is a legal meeting, legally announc’d. We have a right to hold it under the Constitution. Police interference here is disgraceful. We will stand on our rights as citizens under tho Constitution. Let them club us if they want to.Turning to Mr. Cox. who was standing at the speaker's table with a manuscript in his hand, about to begin i speaking. Mrs. Sanger said she hoped he would proceed with his address. The | Rrltish man of letters appeared in doubt, lie began to explain his position to the audience, but he was ordered brusquely to cut it if you want to keep out of trouble/'Mrs. Sanger again pleaded with the audience to remain, insisting that the meeting would be held, but already squads of the reserve force numbering ninety-six men were hustling the an-! dience toward half a dozen doors. While Patrolman Thomas Caines was struggling with .Mrs. Sanger in an effort to prevent her speaking. Mrs. William De Grave, of Detroit, Jumped to the front! of the platform, shaking her fists.Tammany! ” sho screamed. This is Tammany! Do we stand for it?”Calls on Men to ResistJust then Miss Mary Shaw, a friend of -Mrs. Sanger, also appeared down stage. She extended her hands appealingly, shouting:Aren t tnerc any men? How many men will come and help us put out these policemen—let’s throw them out; they’ve no business here.”Mrs. Sanger was led away under arrest'and the arrest of Miss Windsor; followed.Mrs. Sanger, whose home is at 104 Fifth Avenue, has been in frequent, trouble with both Federal and local authorities in the several years jast because of her birth control advocacy. In 1017, Mrs. Sanger1 and her sister. Mrs. Ethel Byrne, were both sentenced to thirty dn^ terms in the Queens j County penitentiary. Mrs. Byrne, | after a hunger strike, which she pursued the point of death from starva-; tion. was pardoned by Governor Whitman,
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New York Tribune
New York, New York, US
Mon, Nov 14, 1921
Page 33
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John B.
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