The Washington herald., 1914-08-23
Predicts Doom Of European
Monarchy and a Desire
for Suffrage.
SEES NEW ERA ON EARTH
Present War, She Declares, viii Bring
World to Its Sober Senses
and to Goodness.
By MILDRED DILLON.

| lockwood, lawyer and suffra gist-peace
advocator, yesterday when discussing the
titanic European war in its relation to
woman suffrage.
In the great woman suffrage conven-
ton which met in Budapest in June, 1919,
were both Servian and Hungarian dele
gates. and from the former country ten
| peasant women delegates too poor TO pay
the car fare for fifty miles between their
homes and Budapest. undertook to walk
the distance.
They had proceeded about ten miles
on foot when a kind-hearted old gentle
man saw them and paid the balance OF
| their fare TO the convention. which was
presided over by an American woman,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. These women
took their seats as delegates TO the con-
vention and listened to the proceedings
with great interest. The convention was
carried on in three languages.
Il saw these ten women daily at the
convention and talked with them and
| found them fully conscious Of what this
great convention representing the women
of the world meant and their relation
to it.
War develops a desire for woman suf-
! frage. continued the pioneer suffragist.
| War beEsts strength. and some of the
| feelings and ideas Of the woman poet
who said. Let those who make the bat
ties be the ones who fight
This great European war, fighting
! APPARENTLY for the determination OF races.
I and without race hatred or race aggres-
sion. is war Of conquest for the
qualification Of the ambition Of the
crowned heads to enlarge their SUI
; premacy and their territory and TO wipe
| out the weaker powers.
Equally at sea are those who are
| saying to each other and publishing IN
! the public press. ~ what good. man
are your peace societies.. and your peace
| conventions. your peace foundations and
I your arbitration courts?'
True. it does look a a casual glance
at the great war upheaval in the old
world. and the slaughter OF tens "
thousands OF human beings by Their
! brothers. as though civilization had sud
denly turned backward loo years ard
reverted TO their Old-time sav1gcrN and
heatherdon. but the women Of The
Countrywide mothers OF men-a-e vt 10
be heard from. The schools. the colleges.
and universities the churches the labor
ing man. the manufacture Upon whom
the burden Of war falls. will soon rls7
up as with one voice. and emdUd that
this power 10 plunge nation into wa
by one man and his cabinet shall b"
wrested from him and the scept.rri
monarch he laid in the dust. o. ban
ished to St Helena" said Mrs. Lock
wood with righteous vehemence-
What DO You Relieve:
IT ask the readers Of The Herald il
they believe that either woman suffrage
or peace Is dead" she said.
This great COnflagration for the su-
premacy OF few Is TO bring III" world
to reason. 10 sober common sense. u
Goodness and 10 Christianity Christ
came TO save the world and the end IS
nil
come to these crowned heads Who are
issuing them so Gliblv-
The years Of the monarchy are
counted predicts Mrs. Lockwood.
The millions OF dollars OF the people
money spent each year for warShiTs.
for gattling guns. for machine guns and
aeropIaues. will be spent to improve our
merchant marine TO carry our increased
commerce with an increased navy
through the Panama Canal. in which tn@
twenty-five American States and the
neutral States of Europe who are struE-
Cling to maintain their neutrality, Will
cooperate.
The United States Is today. with its
offer Of mediation TO the belhSerants. a
grand example to the people OF the
world
The freedom and culture Of her
women. their position in the professions.
in music. in literature and art. their
ability in oratory, in journalism. in in
vention, and as wives and mothers makes
for our country an advanced civilization
OF its own, that gives her power be-
yond her ability to make Conquests-a
moral power that permeates our citizen
ship and elevates us above the brutal in
stinct Of warfare.
A little more than year ago" she
continued. with seventeen women COM
panions of the Womens Republic.
visited twenty Of the great cities OF the
world, to carry peace message for It's
women. including Budapest. where the
great women's convention that / have
mentioned was being held. Finding the
conveItion largely occupied with press
ing business I accepted a pressing invita-
ton from a meGaphone firm to talk the
substance of our message into their mag
aphoneZ
The following" Mrs lockwood said.
lis the substance of il. which. perhaps.
is as good today as then:
We come from the Woman's Republic
to bring a message Of peace TO the
women of the world and to send II O"t
from this great capital at Budapest.
where the educated and cultivated women
Of the capitals OF all countries have
gathered for consultation.
We believe that war settles nothing
except the question OF nights a test
OF brute force-of Drawn and not brain
of might not right. and leaves the
real question at issue. to be settled later
by a commission Of arbitration and med
iation War is a relic OF the barbarism
of past ages which should no longer be
entered into by any so-called civilized
or Christian nation.
War Is rapidly disseminating and d.
generating the people Of the earth. We
are groaning under the burden Of wars.
past. present and the dread Of wars to
come, the burden of which falls directly
upon the women. and which has Ions
been termed in Europe, The Armed
Peace"
ITO dissipate this is one Of the great
objects OF the Women's Republic Of
America. with its great peace army.
Men have failed in their efforts 10
settle difficulties between nations by ar
bitration. and their efforts at the reduc-
ton Of ornaments also have failed: and
while the women of the country must
largely bear its burdens and are the prin-
ciple sufferers. they have never been con-
suited by, any nation with reference to Q
declaration Of war
Governments deal with governments
only. Il is, therefore, left to women TO
form such a worldwide government Of
their own opposed to war and so strong
and influential that the governments Of
men shall respect il and abide by its dc
tum.
" For the braIest battle that ever Was fought
! will tell yUu Whtrc and when:
In bOo<s Of battles you'll ind it not