[German Cartoon]

[Illustration: Opening of the Bathing Season--Feb. 18

_--From Kladderadatsch, Berlin._

The German stickle-backs worry the "Ruler of the Seas."]




What Is Our Duty?

By Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst


The position of the British suffragettes, who suspended their
militant program and are zealously supporting the cause of the
Allies, is stated in this speech by Mrs. Pankhurst, delivered
in the Sun Hall, Liverpool, and reported in The Suffragette of
April 23, 1915.

I think that throughout our agitation for the franchise for political
emancipation, on platforms and on other places--even in prisons--we have
talked about rights, and fought for rights; at the same time we have
always coupled with the claim for rights clear statements as to duty. We
have never lost sight of the fact that to possess rights puts upon human
beings grave responsibilities and serious duties. We have fought for
rights because, in order to perform your duty and fulfill your
responsibilities properly, in time of peace, you must have certain