Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-28

nation must be. Mothers are the real rulers
OF the home, hence they are the real pro-
meters Of social peace
4 war is often caused by so insignificant
matter as a home quarrel. Had the moth
ers OF the past taught their children to
arbitrate all their little disputes social
peace would be much more prevalent than
II is. Had cur senators heard more in their
homes about arbitration. they would not
have refused to ratify the Anglo American
treaty.
There rests upon mothers great RESPONSE
bility in regard to the toys they choose for
their children and the plays they permit
them to engage in. Toy pistols. swords and
battleships should give place to playthings
which would interest the little ones in civil
life. The market was never so full of mill
tary toys as it is al the present When par
ents cease to purchase these they will be no
4 longer manufactured.
The educational effect of literature OF a
pacific nature and the power of the inhu-
ence of authoresses in works of fiction pro-
motive of peace was dwet upon; likewise
the influence of lecturers such as the peace
department of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance union has in the field. The paper
also referred to education in which connec-
/ tion II said:
II schools would take as great pains to
teach arbitration as miltarism uatiDns would
l.ng since have "beaten their swords njo
plOwshareS and their spears into pruning
hooks" Arbitration will never BE- generally
resorted to as long as the military drill is
retained in the public schools and collects.
Women teachers should soc o IL ;ha. IN the
text books war is given It's proper place and
not glorihed
Two Views of Patriotism.
The final question of what constitutes
patriotism and how it should be inculcated
| brought out Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster and Susan
| b. Anthony in an expression of their rad-
| cally different points of view. Mrs. Foster
had word OF defense for the adminstra-
tion and Surgeon General Sternberg and
| Miss Anthony was quite caustic respecting
| the manner in which the war with Spain had
been conducted. However Miss Anthony at
tributed this to the inability of man to do
what she called woman's work in the quar-.
termaster, commissary and hospital depart.
| ments rather than to any particular fault
on the part of the government In sub
stance, Mrs. Foster said:
You must have righteousness before vol
can have peace; YOU rust have right sous
ness II YOU have to fight for it, Sometimes
| you must have Righteousness; through the
! CORY trenches of war and then vou have
peace. Nobody wanted to 20 into the last
war. Patriotism leads to sometime, stronger
ana erander. that is huna litarianism We
! mad TO go to war to free our slaves II wos
necessary to go to war to qneIOratn the con.
| dition OF Cuba. 1t was humanitarianism for
| us TO send our food and clothing 20 the suf
ierlng CubanS and when Spnin woiId mt
| let them get 1t the condition in t::a words of
our honest president. became intolcrabla ana
we mad to fight Jesus Himself once sconrgeI
the buyers and sellers out os the temple
Mrs. Foster explained the relations he
| tween the Red Cross society and the gov
ernment and the peculiar circumstances of
! the war which made it undesirable to allow
women TO go to the front. Then she de-
| Tended Surgeon General Sternberg and
! praised the moral status of the American
! soldier She did not forget to explain that
| General Sternberg is a regular army officer
| and not politician. Patriotism, in her
| opinion, is to speak well OF ones country
| and government.
| In her handling OF the subject Miss
| Anthony observed, on the point of her criti,
| cism OF the equipment of the soldiers when
| sent 10 Cuba and their care at Chicka-
mauga and Montauk Point that she was
not criticising Sternberg-he knows lots
! about bugs, bacteria and all that but
| doesn't know a thing about human beings -
so far as the president and his administra-
tlon were concerned, she excused them be-
cause Ito have given positions to women
in the subsistence and hospital departments
would nave disrupted his party" Her con
| clusion of the whole matter was that so
long as women are held in subiection by
being deprived of the ballot mothers will
breathe the spirit of war into their children
| by being in constant rebellion