No Vote! No Tax!
Persecution of Miss Evelyn Sharp.
Miss Evelyn Sharp again appeared before the Registrar at Bankruptcy Buildings
last morning, and her case was
once more adjourned, this time until , in spite of the fact that she told the Registrar that she needed
no further time for reflection, and was prepared to take the consequences of
her refusal to make a statement of her affairs, on the ground that she was a
voteless woman, and considered that taxation without representation was
tyranny.
We cannot condemn too strongly the petty persecution of Miss Sharp by the
authorities. They have taken away her furniture and have refused to sell it,
although the Official Receiver declared in court that its sale would cover
the amount of the tax and the cost of the proceedings; they intercept all
her correspondence, which they open, and read, and return to her at their
leisure, and keep her in the position of an undischarged bankrupt, unable to
transact business of any kind. We understood that the Government had declared
a truce with suffragists, but while it is dilly-dallying with women’s chances
of enfranchisement in the Representation of the People Bill, it is apparently
as eager as ever to persecute suffragists for their principles whenever an
opportunity occurs.
All suffragists should be at the Court at
.