Letter from M L Steward on force feeding

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Graham House
Ipswich
April 16. 1912

To the Right Honble [sic] Reginald McKenna, M.P.

Sir,

May I ask that you will give expression to the strong feeling that exists all over the country against the forcible feeding of women in prison & order its immediate cessation.

The need for it arises because of the denial of the few privileges granted by your predecessors & which are accorded in every civilized country in the world to political prisoners whatever they have done.

Unless these women are treated as political prisoners their terrible mea[l?] protest must go on, & lives will be lost to the everlasting disgrace of the Government of England. It is torture that is being inflicted & I call upon [you] in the name of humanity & common justice to set the matter right immediately.

Yours faithfully

M. L. Steward