Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-31

TO war. therefore,
they must not be allowed to vote.
And again. The final test OF citizen
ship is the ability TO defend ones coun-
try" .-.
heard a man say. How 1. would
look TO Gee regiment OF women making
charge"
And his audience laughed.
But a regiment OF women have made
n charge, and neither the women who
made the. charge nor the enemy
laughed.
when women fight they do 50 to save
theft children, their homes, their towp
their country. Theirs is a fight for free
dom.
Women 20 to war. as did Clara Barton,
as organizers OF relief service, as nurses
as assistants to surgeons. as protectors
as mother.
DO women think OF The dangers OF the
battlefield7 No more than do men. IL
Is the mother spirit which Is aroused
and active In women in war time.
The mother Is the sacrificer. She docs
not think OF her own safety when her
child Is In danger
Women who come TO the relief Of tho
wounded on the battlefield. in hospital
tents, are not there for the abstract
something which VIC eall ''patriotism.'
They are there TO relieve suffering. to
minister TO the sick, to take care OF and
save the lives of the people who make
nation. who are the state
This does not mean that woman loves
the state less. but she loves humanity
more,
The QUARREL That sinks into oblivion
when men are stretching out arms for
help-and she can save them.
| Confederate pain, federal pain, Prus-
sian main. English pain Pain il pain 70
woman. Jew or GENTLE, bond or free
are all one 10 her.
Pain creates q democracy In the hearts
OF mothers, .ss
And here is the only compensation that
can see In war, that II huuibles our
bride. Il brings US back to primitive
conditions, 20 natural living and pure
hearts II we are wholesome.
But the women on the battlefield. the
women in the hospital tent, or hospital
buildings, the women who arc nursing
wounded and sick who have boon re-
turned 10 their native country for care,
are not those who suffer most In time
OF war. .s
suffering is not alone matter Of phys
lcai hardships.
The keenest suffering a woman can
endure IL that which her imagination
makes her suffer.
Her home life lie broken when hus-
band, brothers. the men OF her mouse
hold, are taken from her.
All the happy routine which made
home Is broken. $500. te
Her leisure Is not occupied by Thoughts
OF hope and anticipation OF pleasure. she
Is not looking for the Homecoming Her
anticipation Is OF fearful news that may,
will come. tt.h
she reads the lists Of wounded and
killed. she watches to sec what rcgi-
ments are engaged in battle. The head
lines. Great LOSS OF Life in Battle Now
! Going Ont" makes the world turn inky
black for her, and the blood recedes from
II her heart.
II There Is not an experience on the
il battlefield that she has not lived n
imagination.
The pale crippled soldiers life is broker
= no more than hers
She has endured all the physical hard
: ships that the majority of wives ant
n mothers are cdlleo upon 70 chuNtS "hoi
i. the family provider has gone to war
: And added TO these hardships. she has
to endure every tragedy that the imagina
J. ton can conjure forth. Do women 81
Q TO war?
Wherever there IL war women are par
Elephants In II. For when men are sorels
u wounded they lie where they fell. and
'e there 10 a limit TO physical suffering.
n When they fan on the battlefield the!
I sleep to wake no more.
But there is no limit to the picture
which the imagination centuries forth
day and night. forever, and as long as tn
y woman lives.
Q Her war Is never over. The battles ar
2 never finished for her
y For her there is never victory. no mat
:. ter who wins.
E. Her heart is broken her life is MANNED
-, For the woman must live ON and OF
= and on.
There may be a reason why womel
I, should not vote. but the silly statement
Women should not be allowed 10 vot
because they cannot fight" isn't it3