Official WSPU song sheet 'On to Victory' c1908-1912

WOMEN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION. On to Victory. [Caption title:] Votes for Women. To the tune of “Scots wha hae.” London and Bradford: Women’s Social and Political Union, [c. 1908–12].
 
Single printed leaf, 165 × 105 mm. Unbound, as issued. Near fine. A clean copy with light handling marks and minor age-toning; a small contemporary ink correction to one word in the third stanza (“bower” amended to “lower”); faint spotting to lower margin.
 
A scarce WSPU song leaflet, printed for circulation during the height of the militant suffrage campaign. The text, “On to Victory,” is set to the tune of Robert Burns’s “Scots wha hae,”. Its rhetoric is explicitly combative: references to imprisonment (“Prison floors as exiles tread, / Robbed of Liberty”) and the denunciation of those who “fail now in that Fight” reflect the period of escalating confrontation between the Women’s Social and Political Union and the authorities, particularly following the arrests and hunger strikes of 1908–12.
 
Such song sheets were intended for meetings, marches, and demonstrations, reinforcing solidarity through collective singing. Ephemeral by nature and seldom preserved in nice condition.