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Show : phcTfobejoT ; on. SllfS PLEA j Great Feminist Leader's j Last Appeal Is for the League of Nations. j Calls Upon Women for Ef-j forts to Insure Ratifica- j tion of Covenant. j i J r.W .luh Dr. Anna Hw- J ;; Slmw's lad mi'S'i! lo 1 i: women ( country v. ;i an a.-al i'orthc lea in- of mi t ion m. The man use rip' . in ;ie li rjf if in Dr. Sim w 'm own hum I writing, wfiM reeehrd hero last. Tuc.-ulaY at I In: mil in rial lieadrjuart ers of tli'1 League to Knfon-o I'eneo, and is now iii the priatcr'n liinitLs for puhlieat io n. Dr. Slum" v, as a mem her of I Ip' n a 1 ion a 1 e :uiiil i r. coin mi 1 1 re ot' I lit' le:, 'in- ;i n .I one of Uiu (ir.nl women rlci.'d to oT'o-e in Unit (i a i. '.a (ion. ' ,-?he toolc ;ui artive parr in the ea m pai;,f a I o i' ra ti lu-a' ion of the J'a ris e(t)-nanl, ami Itrr l'riend.s iichcve that her cut Imsia.-ini for thfi league causo l'd i her lo oerlax tier ulrouIli during thc l trip nu: mad", laL May with cx-I'riisi-i dent Taft and other loading HupporUirH of the covenant, traveling every iiixht i and speaking every day at a scries ot haue c(mvfHitiniis. She was stricken with meuinonia tit .Springfield, 111., lvlieii tho trip was half oer, Makes Impassioned Plea. ' in tho inaiuiMeript received hero JJr. Shaur .says: 1 ' K veryhody must die ho mo t i me ; and St, does not make, as much difference, differ-ence, perhaps, as to tho numher of days we live ;im it iloes to tho manner in which iv o live the davs wc do live." 1 ir. Shaw 's s( a tern out , which prob-i prob-i ahly represents her last work before lip! relapse which cruised her death on Wednesday, ifj entitled " Whnt. the War I Meant to' Women. '' Tn it slie makes 1 iin inipnssioned plea for the establish-' establish-' men t of a h'ie;uo of nations for per- I ',;ariejit p -ie.-. n:,d -'alls '.pon ! .:. uom- n j m tio- 1'iiih-d :-J.- : to ; i I U'.'-'M' in flu, i;.-.- ro hri'i ab-njt t:".' ra itieatiori of i-aij.. eo-.oi;..':'. K t lo .v a - are o'ne of it, S;i:r. ' mo-l tr:.-.;Ji .'-a-t. ri'-e-: kt'.ovv that ni.-n are ready to die in v. ar ; to it th are a r'-a t n.any thil.s i ; 1 1" 1 1 r lhaa to die. There arcj hoim: tin nH that n re worth a jireat deal nioru than life, and one tiling v.)ii'-!i e.as or'di more ihan life to the :ii-n vh'j v...-at out and laid down their ii . "m lor ! he i r eo1 ni tri'-s, wa. not lo leave a di-hoNon-d nation, a nation un-worfliv un-worfliv (.f th'- ci 1 1 1 T i o ji of our time, a nation whieh had no heart to feci and no u ud er.nf :i iidir' to realize the eondit ioii?i of in' una I e a.-i.or iat iou le-tween le-tween nation and uatioji, and tne obligation obli-gation which one na'ioii has to care f o r and sy in pat hi.e v; :t h auo '.her. Want Lasting Peace. " V.'hile -Mr. ' Wilson .said v, e want nothing out of the war, 1 said in my o.vn heart --' It may be that we want not j i i u m a t rial out of tne war: hut . oh. v e want the hicst ihin out ol this war that lias ever come ' o I he-world. he-world. We waul peace now and peace i forewr. ' "ff we caiwint pt- that peace our of tliis war, what Iwpe is litcie tliat it will ever come to humaiiitv? Was th-re t:ver hueh a clianco offered to the world before "Was there ever a time when the peoples uf all nations looked toward to-ward America as they are looking today, to-day, because of our unselfishness in our ib-alins with them durini: the war ''The treaty of peace which has been pubmitted to the Dennans J think is the most marvelous document in t hi world, and 1 have been wondering how' many hundred men it took lo think up all the demands ihev put into that peace : pact. Must Face Facts. ''We. must look facts in the J'aee. All humanity is one. The world is one. And no nation can NuITer unless all nations suffer. No nation can prosper without all nations prosporin. We , have pot to tako facta as thev are, and ; we have got to find out tho best thing j we can have. The best thing that has heen given uh and the only thing wo j have before us is this league of 'fruitions, j We have no other league, of nations. We have only this one. Wo must take this one or no one can tell what will come. We have no midway point. We have no purgatory. We have to choose cither heaven or hell. Wo jnust tako it or we must, reject it. "Oh, men, we women, tho mothers of the race, have, given everything, have suffered everything, have sacrificed everything, and we come to you now and say: 'Tho time has come when we will no longer sit quietly by and bear and tear sons to die at the will of a few men. We will not endure it! We will not endure it! We demand that eitlmr you shah !o fi-in.--1 ;i : n n rn pre- vent war or lhat we ?hall l.e erminoJ 'to try to do something ourselves." Iook to Men. '.M ould there be any cowardice, could t lie re he any injustice, con hi ! here be any wron reat er t han to re l' use 1 o hear the voire ot' a woman express tn the will of women at the peace table of the world, ami then for men not to provide a way by which the yomeii of the future shall not be robbed of their sons ua the women of the past have been? ' ' To you men we loI; for support . We look for your support hack of your senators, and" from this day until the day when the league of nations is accepted ac-cepted and ratified hy the senate of the United States, it should be the duty of every man and every woman to see to it that the senators from their state know the will of the people; that they know that, the people wills that something some-thing shall be done, even though not perfect;- that there shall be a beginning, begin-ning, from which we shall construct Hometliing more perfect by and by; that the will of the people is that this league shall be accepted: and that if, in the senate of the United States, there arc men so blinded by partisan desire for present advantage, ao blinded by personal per-sonal pique and narrowness of vision that they cannot see the large problems prob-lems which involve the nations of t lie world; then the people of the states must see to it that other men sit iu the scats of the highest.''' |