Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-17

%softened, tbe pol CIV of Chill soe-
tened. She did not coveC wa. with
us. Sne Knew that eA.erminafio ION
would be her fate, but there is a
spirit IN nations. as IN individuals,
to meet antagonists in the same
spriCin which they ara met.
The old law of Moses, .'AN eye
for an eye,' is not We, overcome,
though Christ SAID almost 1905
years ago tha; He had come to do
away With that law, is sill rife n
human hear,s But The new Jaw
which Christ brought 20 as is grad
ually gaining supremacy. "a new
law | give un.o you. love II ano
tie." This was MS mission on
eartn. 0, he beai:y and glory OF
thai aev law wnen applied, rs il
NAV be, 20 al classes OF people and
al governments. IL S the new law
N women natu e that adants her
to become the peace maker.
Mr.. Blaine ms recently written:
'.Su3ely the banding up OF The
wounds OF Il past wal, ; more mer-
cirul and honorable ,han preparing
the counSry 'ora pew one Women
have bound up the wounds OF war,
ard now hev Will avefC ne woands
of wa ia ough their various organ
izations, tuspi Ell by that new law
/ which, pgav cd, may multiply un
ceasin2ly. ne dtsC womau's or
%ganizaIion ever formed in America
was created 10 bind up tae wounds
of war. it WAS ,he Sanitary Com
mission, which had headquarters in
Chicago, during the war of the Re
bellion, and 20 wuscn all o. he oil
der members in the Relief Corps,
sent lint: bandages, BOOKS, clothing,
%jellies, drie,i fruits, and other del
cacies for the boys in Blue at
the irons, under the awful blare of
canaons auG whirr of bullets, o
Ianguis1ing in comfortless hosp
tails with ghastiy wounds or cou.
sumed with relentless southern
fever. 1t was all that we women
could do, who had little children to
care for, except to suffer and to
pray.
The fate of one woman who ''look
ed backward" is a caution to us not
to invoke a similar fate, yet if We
we're to look. back, we might see
that had the women of this rennb~
lie been awakened TO the dover OF
influence which they now WELD,
history would never bsye recorded
the horrors of our civil war.
Had there been national organ
iZations OF women, Al now, with
auxilliarles IN every state IN the
union; had there been scores o.
womens' societies which included
male members, pledged and work
ing for the settlement of publjcdrf-
~ferenres by the more humane and
human code of arbitration, had
women with their acute caution
cowardliness, if you VIII, brought
their influence to bear upon the
law makers of the land, had all
these things which now are, been
abundant then. as now, there would
have geen no Rebellion.
Eut men are not SO cautious US
women. Northern men did not be.
liese the south were prepared to
fight or wanted to fight. Southern
men did not believe the northern
men cared enough for the negro to
risk theft lives for him, thus the
two factions doubted the facts, till
Fort Sumpter was fred upon, then
they went on doubling the facts,
and called for three months voIun.
teers, believing that to be the limit
of the war. AIpsi FIVE years trailed
by theirbioody months, and 300,-
900 of our noblest men we're sacri.
feed before it's close.
] do not say that women could
have fprseen so much further or
clearer, a0d tnUs prevented the
carnage, bat that their ever alert
caution wou'd have scentel danger
from afsr add would have urged
p~reyentati We and protective meas
ures, safeguards which would have
averted the war. Man you'd have
done the same had they believed in
their danger, but they would not,
and did not.
One thought give you while
closing this response, that while
binding up the wounds Of u yete-
rams, smoothing their pathway,
Frightening The dark places with
sistefly appreciation of what their
b~lttles have cost them, of health,
comforts and ea,tbiy success, lee
the Womans' Relief Cops add to
It's already magnificent st OF COOL
endeavois, a peace and arbitration
department, thus to advance the
certainty that the war Of tae I;eoeI-
lion, sbaii be forever OUR LAST
WAR.
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