The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-07
PEACE PLEA BY
BELVAL0CKWOOD
Delivers address on Subject
at Suffrage Congress
at Budapest.
RESOLUTION Is OFFERED
Attends Big international Meeting -
Attorney General Of the Aneri-
can Wemaa's Republic.

Mrs. Belva Lockwood. Of Washington,
attorney general of the American Wom-
ans Republic, who has been attending the
International Suffrage Congress at Buda-
pest, submitted to that congress the fol-
lowing address. signed by Mrs. Lock-
wood and the other Ambassadors" from
the -epublic:
Madame President, Ladies and Gentle
men: Pr
I'VE are twenty ambassadors Of the
American Woman's Republic, elected by
popular vote Of that body-headquarters
at University City, st. Louis, United
States of America. and representing every
State in the Union-who have come bear
ing you a message Of peace to your great
struggle for political equality.
I'VE wish to accentuate our interest in
and to advance your cause-which Is
woman's cause-by inviting you to CO.
operate with the Woman's Republic in
a worldwide crusade against war and
the increase of ornaments. We extend
you the hearty invitation regardless of
nationality, religion, political afiiliation
of clubs to which you may belong.
I'VE believe that war settles nothing
except the question Of who Is the
stronger. leaving the difficulties which
brought on the war to be settled later
by intervention. arbitration. and conces-
sion.
Matter Of Drawn.
war is a matter of Drawn, not brain:
of might, not right; and an attempt to
settle questions which should be settled
judicially by arbitrament of the sword.
"War is a relic of barbarism that should
no longer he entered into by any Chris
ton or civilized nation.
Women in the past have not been
by any nation with reference
to a declaration Of war by their coun-
try with other nations, yet they have
burdens. the horrors, the sacrifices of
war fall most heavily upon them. for
they furnish the real sinews Of war in
their own flesh and blood. 1t is for the
purpose of changing these conditions and
doing away with war that We have
come to this Hungarian capital, whose
wise ruler has refrained from plunging
his country into war-to this great inter-
national congress Of women which has
the attention of the world-to
ask your cooperation in extending our
the earth, thereby forming one great
republic of women. whose
votes, influence, and power shall make
war forever impossible.
ut seems today that the abolition Of
war and the reduction of armament
the steady increase of which is eating
up the funds OF the great world pow
ers and bankrupting the smaller ma
come through the fnfiu-
ence and power of the educated. cult
waited. and ema ncipated women OF the
world, such women as compose this
great International congress.
- CaIIs War DeeeuerasfnG.
WAR is decimating, degenerating,
and impoverishing the nations of the
earth. We are groaning under the
burden of wars past and present and
the dread of wars to come, the burden
Of which falls directly on the women.
and which has been termed on the con-
tinent the armed peace!
No higher purpose or mission could
be conceived by woman today as she
enters into her new and greater activi-
lies of life-a full partner In the politi- |
al world with mcmillan to relegate
war to the past along with other bar
Darisms.
This. one of the great objects. ac-
the Woman's Republic of
he World will have achieved its high |
EST mission and performed the greatest |
service in the history of the human |
ace.
Governments deal with governments /
ilone. 1t is left. therefore, for women |
o form a worldwide government Of their |
,wn, that the governments of men shall /
,e made to respect and abide by the die
UNI of women that war shall cease. Only |
W such methods does it seem that war
will ever be abolished. The peace mis-
ions Of men have failed. We have I'M
ertaken this as a dernier resort, the
upreme task and principal purpose OF
he Woman's Republic for
The greatest hattie that ever fought
We will tell You where and when:
In the books of battle you'll find it not,
Twas fought by the mothers OF men.
"We. therefore, beg leave of this Inter-
ational Congress of Women to offer the
resolution:
Resolved, by this International body.
hat the sense of its members is opposed
O war as against the interest Of human
ty, and that the increase of military and
laval ornaments is a useless expendi-
ure, opposed to the public good. and
hat we, as a body, recommend that all
difficulties hereafter between nations
hall be settled by reference to The
Ia que Court or by arbitration"
S4,095 FOR TWELVE CHAIRS.