The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia)
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The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia)
Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain
After the great meeting was over, its organisers returned to Clement's
Inn and Christabel Pankhurst immediately wrote to the Prime Minister
forwarding the Resolution: "That this meeting calls upon the Government
to grant votes to women without delay," which had just been carried
by that great gathering. At the same time she asked "what action the
Government would take in response to the demand."
Mr. Asquith replied that he had nothing to add to the statement--the
so-called promise of a Reform Bill, which he had made to the deputation
of Members of Parliament on May 20th.
The wonderful Hyde Park Demonstration, the greatest meeting that had
ever been held, and the impressive procession of the Women's Societies
both of which had been held within a few days' space had therefore, it
seemed, made no impression upon the Government. Seeing, therefore, that
to argue further would be mere waste of time, the Women's Social and
Political Union immediately decided to take action. Hitherto, through
all the hard battles which the Suffragettes had fought outside the
House of Commons, they had never asked the general public to come to
their aid, but, now that the great peoples' demonstration in Hyde Park
had been thus contemptuously ignored, it was decided to call upon both
men and women to attend another monster meeting on June 30th, to be
held this time in Parliament Square, in order that the Government could
not fail to see.
The Commissioner of Police replied by issuing a warning to the public
not to meet in Parliament Square, on the ground that danger would
necessarily arise from the assembling of a large number of persons in
that restricted area, through which the way must be kept for Members of
Parliament.
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