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Show I WOMEN DEMAND WARS SHALL END Peace League Means Moro to Them Than It Can Mean DR. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA. H (By the Late Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.) Seven million ono hundred thousand H men wlio 1 1 ii 1 1 htlil dojn their lives In H tho (.'rent wnr. Think of It I Suvon H million, ono hundred thousand young H men hud died on tho Held of hnttlel What does that menu to tho women H of tho world? It menus that seven H million nno hundred thousand women B walked tiny hy dny with their faces J toward an open grnvo thut they might H elvo llfo to n son. It means thut B Hovcn million ono hundred thousand J llttlo children Iny In tho arms ot a H mother whoso lovo Imd mndo them H fnco oven tho terrors or death thut H they might hocomo tho mothers of H It means that' year after year tlieso H women had put up their lives Into tho H lives of their sons until thoy had rear- H od them to bo men. For what? In H tho hopo thut theso sons of theirs could H Klvo to tho world tho things for which H women dream, tho things for which H women hopo nud pray nnd long. Theso H wero the things that tho women had H In their hearts when thoy gavo birth H tholr H Hut who can estlmato tho value of H seven million ono hundred thousand H dead sons ot tlio women ot tho world? H Who cau estlmato tho prlco which tho H , women bovo puhf for this war; what' B- It lias cost them, not only In tho death H of tliulr sons, hecnuso that Is a phaso H of our war to which wo look. H The Courage of Women. H Wo hear our orators tell us of the B courage of our men. How they wont B . across tho sen. Very fow of thom'ro- H memher to toll us of tho courage of B our women, who also went across tho B .sea; of tho women who died nursing BBBJ tho sick nnd wounded; the women B who died In tho hospitals, where tho B terrlblo bombs came and drovo thorn BB almost to madness. Thoy tell us 1 nothing of tho forty thousund ICngllsh BBBJ women who went to work back of the BBBJ trenches In Franco. BHH They tell us nothing of the thou- BB sands upon thousands upon thousand BBS of women who not only tolled and BBV worked and slaved In order that tho BB war might bo successful, but wo do BBQ not hear oi tho thousands of womou, BBI not ulono In Armenia, not nlouo In BBV Montenegro, not alono In Serbia, but BBV In Flanders, In Uolglum, In Itumanla, BBV In Itussla the thousands of womon BBV who Ho In graves today,, murdered, BBV so horribly murdered that men daro J not speak of It B And yet we women nro asked what wo know about tho Lenguo of Nn-tlons; Nn-tlons; ntked what wo can understand H about a I.enguo of Nations. Oh men I J tho horrlhlo deaths; tho horrible lives B of thousands upon thousauds of wo- P men toduy In all theso nations, who must live, and who must look In the J faces ot children unwclcomed, undo. sired of llttlo children und know thut theso uro tho result of war. And then ask women why thoy should bo Interested In a league ol Women Suffer Most From War, If thero Is any body of citizens In tho world who ought to bo Interested ' In n league to ultimately bring to th world peaco It Is the mothers of men, v nud tho women who suffered as only women can suffer lu tho war and In devastated countries. And we call upon them, wo women . of the world call upon tho men who lmvo been fighting all theso buttles of tho years, tho men wlio hnvo led " armies, and lod armies closo to their i Wo aro now calling upon tho men of tho world to In some way or an-BBb an-BBb j other find a passago out of the sea of B 1 death. We are asking them to form BBv I a leaguo which will bring hopo to th B j women- of tho future. If women aro BBa ; to bear sons only that they may dlo, B , If women may not havo hope B and aspirations tor their chlldreu, B If women may not dream tho dreamt that havo In them tho hope of tin t highest civilizations, tho highest moral B n . ,T r, ,nnd,. tjijlrltiinl llfe of .tho peoplo-lf wo- B men may not havo theso In thelt hearts ns tho mothers of men, then women will cease to deslro to bo the mothers of inuu. And why should Uiey not? Why should they not? c B- H ! |
