The Story of the Woman's Party

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

We listen at the windows. (Oh, those cries from punishment cells!) A voice calls one of us by name. “Miss Burns! Miss Burns! Will you see that I have a drink of water?” Lucy Burns arises; slips on the coarse blue prison gown. Over it her swinging hair, red-gold, throws a regal mantle.

She begs the night-watch to give the girl water. One of the matrons leaves her war-bandages; we see her hasten to the cell. The light in it goes out. The voice despairing cries: “She has taken away the cup and she will not bring me water.” Rain pours on the roof. The Suffragists lie awake. The matrons work busily for the Red Cross. Katherine Rolston Fisher, The Suffragist, October 17, 1917.

WOMAN’S PARTY SONG

Composed in Prison by the Suffrage Pickets

SHOUT THE REVOLUTION OF WOMEN

Tune (Scotch):

“Charlie Is My Darling.”

Shout the Revolution

Of Women, of Women,

Shout the Revolution