Posted on 03/10/2024 5:00:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I got it.
WIKI
The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia.
The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. Emmeline Pankhurst described them as engaging in a “reign of terror”. Group members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to or introduced chemicals into postboxes thus injuring several postal workers, and committed a series of arsons that killed at least five people and injured at least 24. When imprisoned, the group’s members engaged in hunger strikes and were subject to force-feeding. Emmeline Pankhurst said the group’s goal was “to make England and every department of English life insecure and unsafe”.
On 13 October 1908, Emmeline Pankhurst together with Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond organised a rush on the House of Commons. 60,000 people gathered in Parliament Square and attempts were made by suffragettes to break through the 5000 strong police cordon. Thirty-seven arrests were made, ten people were taken to hospital. On 29 June 1909, WSPU activists Ada Wright and Sarah Carwin were arrested for breaking government windows. They were sentenced to a month in prison. After breaking every window in their cells, in a protest they went on a hunger strike, following the pioneering strike of Marion Wallace Dunlop. They were released after six days.
The WSPU responded by organising a new and broader campaign of direct action. Once this got underway with the wholesale smashing of shop windows, the government ordered arrests of the leadership. Although they had disagreed with strategy, Frederick and Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence, were sentenced to nine months imprisonment for conspiracy and successfully sued for the cost of the property damage.
Some WSPU militants, however, were prepared to go beyond outrages against property. On 18 July 1912, in Dublin Mary Leigh threw a hatchet that narrowly missed the head of the visiting prime minister H. H. Asquith. On 29 January 1913, several letter bombs were sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and the prime minister Asquith, but they all exploded in post offices, post boxes or in mailbags while in transit across the country. Between February and March 1913, railway signal wires were purposely cut on lines across the country endangering train journeys.
On 19 February 1913, as part of a wider suffragette bombing and arson campaign, a bomb was set off in Pinfold Manor, the country home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George, which brought down ceilings and cracked walls. On the evening of the incident Emmeline Pankhurst claimed responsibility, announcing at a public meeting in Cardiff, we have “blown up the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s house”. Pankhurst was willing to be arrested for the incident saying “I have advised, I have incited, I have conspired”; and that if she was arrested for the incident she would prove that the “punishment unjustly imposed upon women who have no voice in making the laws cannot be carried out”. On 3 April Pankhurst was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for procuring and inciting women to commit “malicious injuries to property”. The Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Bill was rushed through Parliament to ensure that Pankhurst, who had immediately gone on hunger strike, did not die in prison.
In response to the bomb Lloyd George wrote an article in Nash’s Magazine, entitled “Votes for Women and Organised Lunacy” where he argued that the “main obstacle to women getting the vote is militancy”. It had alienated those who would have supported them. The only way for women to get the vote is a new movement “absolutely divorced from stones and bombs and torches”.
On the evening of 9 March 1914 in Glasgow, about 40 militant suffragettes, including members of the Bodyguard team, brawled with several squads of police constables who were attempting to re-arrest Emmeline Pankhurst during a pro-suffrage rally at St. Andrew’s Hall. The following day, suffragette Mary Richardson (known as one of the most militant activists, also called “Slasher” Richardson) walked into the National Gallery in London and attacked Diego Velázquez’s painting, Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. Her action stimulated a wave of attacks on artworks that would continue for five months. In June, militants had placed a bomb beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union
The fact that the "Coolidge Effect" is named after him is enough endorsement for me!
President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
Regards,
Cool history! Thank you for sharing this! Sounds like he was just “real” with no nonsense or flare. :)
I like that story but I assume it’s made up. Coolidge is a very underrated president and the last one to actually shrink the size of the federal government.
Hahahahaha! How did I ever miss THAT one?
In my opinion, the best of the Coolidge biographies is “Coolidge” by Amity Shlaes.
I named my cat Calvin, after President Coolidge. Calvin is a Siamese mix with blue eyes, like the president.
Yes! I read that and greatly enjoyed it-I agree!
LOL, being a siamese, mix, I’ll bet he isn’t as silent as Cal!
Actually, he’s probably more silent. He only meows when he’s hungry or is eager for attention.
The article is as serious as a heart attack. The Coolidge and Mellon team was the last to attack a recession correctly, cutting spending and cutting taxes, making it short and shallow, leading into the boom of the 1920s.
FWIW Hoover, who was trained as an engineer, approached the 1929 downturn with a severe program of adminomania, turning a recession into a depression. FDR, who was an economic idiot, doubled down on the adminomasia theme, and made it into the Great Depression. We have never recovered, partly thanks John Maynard Keynes, who enshrined adminomania as a permanent policy in 1936.
Amity Schlaes wrote what has to be the definitive biography of Coolidge, published about ten years ago.
If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights,that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
rand paul
For that to work, we’d need to have a country like Coolidge’s.
We don’t have that and we aren’t going to get it back.
That is how ya get ya butt full of rice
LOLOLOLOL
Calvin would vomit if he saw what happened to his beloved Vermont.
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