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aHOT VERY FEROCIOUS! MISS BARBARA WYLIE IS REALLY A CHARMINQ WOMAN.English Militant Suffragette Who Has Been Visiting In Canada on a Mission Connected With the Suffrage Agitation Likes Canada, But Suggests That We Have Much to Learn.Mias Wylie, the English militant suffragette, who has been touring Canada addressing suffragette meetings and endeavoring to place the cause before the women of this country, is a very able and eloquent speaker. She has visited Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and the principal cities ofthe east before returning to England.Miss Wylie is a handsome type of an intellectual woman, keen and bright and good-looking and quite stylish-in appearance. She is the-very opposite from the Amazonian individual that one would naturally expect to see when her reoord is taken into account. 8he has served two terms in English prisons and has several times becq foremost in riotou* attacks on English Cabinet Ministers and vigorously defends the methods of the militant suffragettes of England. Few reople in this country felt disposed to sympathize with those women in their aggressive methods but after listening to the explanations of Miss Wylie and her eloquent defence of them almost every reasonable person row admit that there is certainly much to be said in favor of the militant methods.Miss Wylie's style of speaking is most winning. She possesses a beau-ti.ul. well modulated voice, a fluent delivery and is evidently deeply readand thorough conversant with publicmatters in English political life. Her delivery is of the pleasing, natural extempore style and no heckling c.r rr -questionin» has the least effect i:i disturbing her. To every commentMIFB VTYLTK.or question she at once has a sharp, pointed reply that almost invariably wins the sympathy and applause of her audience and even her most b.tter opponents can not fail to admire the skill and ability with which she argues the suffragette cause. She wear.-as ornaments two silver decorations which indicate her suffering for the militant cause. One is a gate of prison bars with chains symbolic of imprisonment and martyrdom a.id the other is a small brass tag with the word Holloway.” the English jail in which she was twice imprisoned, and on these tags are the numbers of the cells she occupied while in prison.Mis* Wylie has expressed herself as well pleased on the whole with her reception in Canada and has found considerable int:re*t taken in the English suffragette crusade, but she considers that there is yet much educative work to be done in this country. In England she says women see on every hand conditions that should be remedied and feel that they are helpless to improve conditions without votes as there are laws standing in the way of reform and these have to he removed or new laws are required where none- exists nt present. The militant suffragette movement has made decided progress she claims in the last five years and many o! the English Cabinet Ministers are favorable to the change, but Premier Asquith stands, she says, as a harrier in the way as he is stubbornly opposed to the iiln. Miss Wylie contend- that the object of the English suffragette* is ml to ftglit nn*n but in eo-opernte with them in bringing ob ut go d r.ro'rr^ssivo le i si a lion, particularly iliat sort in which wom^n urn especially inkrcstol as affecting them ns n class. She contends they nr* better able to judce of good laws fr.r women than the men and would h* most helpful In framing such useful legislation.
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New Westminster News
New Westminster, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Feb 06, 1913
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