Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-12-25

that relieves the gloom.
A cry of horror and despair rings
around the world. War. war, war is
the hash, discodant shiek that pene-
trates every nook and corner of the
earth Distinguishing all other inter
ests, banishing all other thoughts).
Peaceful production has given way to
wanton destruction: the preservation
of life to it's whole sale extinction. HUI
man love is crushed by human hatred.
Civilization is obliterated by primor-
dial barbarism The foremost nations
of the old world nations whose indus
try. commerce. art. science and social
endeavors have been an example to
the rest of the world are turned
against each other like raging demons.
With the fiendishly perfect nipple
ments of modern warfare, with all the
accumulated knowledge of the ages
bent upon the saving task OF killing
and destroying, thousands upon thou
sands of men are slaughtering one an
and weeks, wiping out the products of
centuries of toll. No cataclysm of
nature, no flood or fire. no earthquake
For volcanic eruption. could equal in
ma gnitude and tC: y" - hell broken
&loose, this unspeakable hell Of mans
own making
TIA % my sisters of all nations, let us
Cry out with a voice that must be
heard against this universal calamity
3@fhat has been brought upon us! We
ssare not compelled to kill and be kill
led. we are not made to aim rifles
r. upon each others breasts. to thrust
8 bayonets into each Others tender.
= quiyering. human flesh. For all the
+ wrongs and injustice to which we have
: been subjected on account of our sex,
this has been the one recompense. that
women are spared from going to war.
With the exception of some isolated
cases, organized. localized murder is
the one, human activity in which wa
men never had and never wish to
have a. share. Even in the gray dawn
of existence. when human beings lv-
ed upon the earth as roaming say
:ages;>wCman already was the conserv-
ing, producing, peaceful element CT the
human species. tIn that age man de-
! spised all productive work To hunt
and to fight were his only occupations.
But woman built the hut. weaEcd the
basket moulded the pottery, made
crude garments from animal skins
and guarded and protected her little
enesi Throu. hout the ages CT human
development wOn2ans mission has
been one CT ronrffp1 rr0'-cticn rr4
loving minstrel n In the middle
ages when rracticr7'v all the Furo-
pean peoples were enga ged in a state
of almost cent nuCnS warfare. women
rescued the little. thin current Of civ
iiZation by maintaining the indus
tries thing the fields. grarding the
homes and roaring the children Now
again. when NE are exchanging the
plnughshare for the sword. the gov
ernments Of warning nations are call
ing upon women to do double duty. On
the bloody battle fields of all ages
woman has appeared as the angel OF
mercy to soothe and heal where man
has created pain and suffering. to ban
4" dage the wounds that man had in
flicted. to weep over the dead and dy
: ing that man had slaughtered. In the
terrible wars of modern times the one
and only humane element, the Red
, Gross. is mainly the work of women
3Womans share in modern warfare is
Z expressed in those two noble names
$# Florence Nightingale and Clara Bar
u ton, names that will be mentioned
s with love and reverence in a more en-
n lightened age, when the great wa,
%SS:Ir r9s of the world will be viewed ir
Il their true light. not as heroes, but as
"a curse of humanity.
$ But although women are not com
s&f PEELED to kill and be killed, although
S@ they do not take part in the actua
ghting, are they any less the suffeffr
ers than men? Have war and it's con
sequences not always smitten womer
and their little, helpless children as
M ruthlessly as the fighting males? Have
women not been the victims of arson
5SSpillage and rape? Were they not sub
jected to unspeakable indignities ant
ss carried off into captivity by the vic
tors of yore? Have not the blacl
allies of war, disease and famine, vast
$ ed and deciniated themas Are they
not robbed Of hearth and home, of Sc
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