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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920
STUDY IN HUMAN NATURE
Political picketing, often of the
peaceful sort, and more often with
militant accompaniments, is running
epidemic in Washington again and
the thousands of tourists who make
the capital their Mecca all year
slowly parading about the streets
hearing banners with a wide variety
of inscriptions.
Seemingly, every cause which wish
es to impress its demands, argu
ments or protests on “the powers that
he” ultimately adopts the picketing
system which was first introduced in
the capital by a branch of the woman
suffragists about ten years ago. The
latest to adopt the method are women
espousing the cause of Irish freedom
and they have directed their protests
against the British embassy. Then
campaign has caused somewhat of a
flurry because it is not without its
international aspects.
The British embassy for instance,
is foreign territory. Whether the side
walk in front of it is American terri
tory, no one has essayed to decide.
Moreover, there is a federal law which
penalizes any person who “assaults”
a diplomatic representative of a
friendly power. Whether the picket
ing of the embassy is u.n annoyance
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to the British diplomats,..and whether
an annoyance is an assualt within
the technical meaning of the law is
an additional question.
Then there is involved the question
of preserving the public peace, for
disturbances often grow out of the
picketing. Often, some woman pass
erby, expresses her disagreement with
the banners the pickets bear by ripp
ing them to bits and pedestrian and
them to bits and the pedestrian and
the picket have a scrimmage, with
sometimes regular old fashioned hair
pulling. The police patrol clangs up,
both parties to the quarrel are hur
ried off to the station house. Relief
pickets immediately arrive. The po
lice court gets another case.
lilt; pci own lit; i wi lhc
forces furnishes an interesting study
in human nature. They are women
apparently from all walks of life.
Many bear evidences of breeding, ed
ucation and social position. Others
are women who appear to be of the
opposite types. Every picketing cam
paign brings out new charges that
many pickets are “hired” for the work
by others who are willing to provide
substitutes and do not wish to picket
in the streets in all sorts of weather.
The suffrage pickets who made a
record getting arrested, jamming the
police court docket and finally having
a hunger strike, patterned after their
British sisters, were composed appar
ently of women of all classes. Many
whose names are nationally known
did picket duty, spent nights in a
police station cell and finally d,id
time in the work house. Some of
them, if thp truth were known, were
freed by husbands who disapproved
©f their actions. There was more
than one case of a husband promis
ing the authorities he would under
take the responsibility of making his
wife “be good,” and more cases of
stormy scenes at the workhouse when
the husband arrived to take the wife
home over her protests.
With the adoption by Congress of
the resolution for the woman suffrage
amendment to the constitution, the'
suffragist laid off, but they had fired
an example in a local association of
negroes who were demanding the dis
missal of a man of their race from
the local school administration. So the
negro women in emulation picketed
the streets surrounding the school ad
ministration building bearing banners.
Their picketing, however, was inter
mittent, and the negro educator to
whom they objected still holds his
job.
British humor all but broke up the
picketing of the British embassy, with
its possibilities of disagreeable inci
dents of an international flavor, when
on the first day, the embassy offi
cials sent out and invited the pickets
• in to afternoon tea. It probably was
1 a temptation, for a cold raw wind was
1 sweeping the city, but the leaders
pulled stern faces and declined the
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invitation.
The first arrests of the Irish pick
eted w’ere not unaccompanied by ele
ments of humor. The police who took
them in wras Robert Emmett Doyle,
rosy-cheeked and blue-eyed, wrho
coundn't possibly deny he was a son
of Erin. All the policemen on the
lob were O’Connell’s and Regans and
’r l.-ihertys or bore names unmistak
ably neither Greek nor Yiddish. Their
comments on the proceeding were
neutral and humorous.
'i lie whole proceeding wras conduct
ed in the height of courtesy and pol
ite formality. There w^as no “come
along, you’re pinched.” Instead, Cap
tain Doyle raised his cap, and with
an engaging smile said: “Ladies,
these are policewomen who will place
you under arrest.’” Then the men
stepped back and the women did the
job.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Cordova
Precinct, at Cordova.—In the matter
of the Estate of Grant G. Caughey,
deceased. No. 137.
Notice is hereby given by the un
| dersigned, as administrator of the
estate of Grant G. Caughey, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against said decedent,
to present them, with the proper
vouchers, within six months from the
date of this notice, to the undersigned,
at the office1 of his attorney, Edward
F. Medley, in Cordova, Alaska.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, May 7,
1920. W. E. BROWN,
Administrator.
First publication May 7, 1920.
Last publication June 4, 1920.
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