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Show SLOAN TALKS TOJIOTHERS It is a rare privilege to be requested re-quested to speak to such a dlstin-guished dlstin-guished organization as that of the War Mothers. The name, War Mothers, is sufficient suffi-cient guarantee to give it world wide recognition and influence. Your jaims and desires are naturally pat-hnd pat-hnd desires are cmfywmfy whrdlbmf Wotic and self-sacrificing. The War Mother is synomous with all that is good in life the organized expres-'sion expres-'sion of the ' Mother-Love. In religion, reli-gion, politics, education, social and moral uplift, the Mothers influence is unlimited. Tell me the style, of your Mother's religion, I will gamble gam-ble the son and daughter are of like Tfaith. The old-fashioned Mother bless her and they are all old fashioned at heart, have instilled a brand of politics into the son that rhetoric reason or sicience will not change. ,'She is the cleansing and purifying influence in politics whether she goes to congress or not. The average mother does not clammer for sufferage because she has her son and knows he will represent re-present her at the polls as he represents rep-resents her at the battle-front. With this she is content. For this reason rea-son the ballot is safe in her hands. Her greatest influence, if I may so term it, is in education and moral uplift. No matter how depraved or how wicked that Mother becomes, she is an unnatural human pervert per-vert if she does not fight tenaciously tenacious-ly to keep her son and daughter pure. This fact alone proves the salvation -and ultimate uplift of the human race. Leave it to the War Mothers whether the world is growing grow-ing better or worse. Writers painters and poets have vied with each other trying to por-'tray por-'tray that greatest of human love and sympath that of Mother, our very best friend. Words are counter fit trying to describe that indescrib-'able indescrib-'able constant, watchful, patient forgiving for-giving mother. No matter where you go or what you do, the most hardened sinner mother does not forsake. for-sake. From the curly headed tot on mothers knee, to the gray haired reprobate, Mother loves her child, rejoices in his prosperity and pleasures, pleas-ures, grieves in his sorrows and adversities. ad-versities. Were I to name the most hallowed hal-lowed word known in all language, that word would be Mother. Not a son that braves the fifing line can have greater anxiety or courage than that dear old Mother whose heart bleeds at every cannon's roar, and whose joys are unbounded at their success whether in war or in peace. Mother's pride is the moving influence in-fluence to the greatest effort and 'success. Who does not remember Mother's slipper and her tears, they 'were shed with ours after the act. Not all the heros of the battle front, is no unusual paper headline. An instance was the Mother a few days ago, who pitiously begged the surgeons to remove her two good" :eyes and transplant them in her blind soldier son, that he might be be able to again see. , To come to the practical end of War Mothers' influence, you have tor solution the greatest question to ibe settled at this time, that has ever ev-er faced tha civilized world, to say nothing of the American nation. We have the argument of great and small Americans for and against the ipea'ce covenant of nations." Were It left to the War Mothers, they would with a single voice support the policy pol-icy of that great and fearless American, Amer-ican, Woodrow Wilson, I thank you. i A . |