Show it soi so I 1 implore you not to join with the women pacifists Paci fists who are ny by ADMIRAL II 11 A FISKE address to new england women virtually every normal nun nian and woman abhors the very idea of war but merely because we war is no reason why we should not wish to be prepare prepared in aise caiso war should conic come during the last fifty years cars find and especially during the last five years a large number of people mostly women have united themselves selves in peace societies of various kinds their avowed object is to promote the cause of peace this object of course is laudable but the means by which they aro endeavoring to promote peace are arc far from froin practical because they start from the falso false promise that preparing for war tends to cause war their main effect is is to obstruct all efforts cuorts toward preparedness therefore their main effort is to imperil tile the national security nevertheless tile the cause of preparedness lins lias a very cry large popular sup port mainly froni from men inen with healthy nerves who liae have read history carefully and are familiar with tile livain ivain facts faals of human iia nature ture these men realize that wars always have existed and that its as civilization lias has devel dc eloped tile alternations of war wid mid peace have followed each other with about the same degree of frequency from froin age to age they lia ha e also realized alint aliat of all tile tho ill effects of war the worst effects have conic come to those who were unprepared for the war for this reason they say that if wars are bound io to come it is better to be prepared th iliin iii unprepared |