New Britain herald., 1915-06-16

that they represent the inclinations of
the whole nation.
Against this aspect or German ma
tional life the women or belligerent
ard neutral countries alike are ar
rayed. Whatever their resources or
their influence in the councils of their
husbands, sons and brothers, 1t will
be devoted without ceasIng to the
destruction of militarisn that de-
grades and sllames womankind. The
German woman knows in her heart
that her men have in countless in
stances become sperverts, but she is
dumb because she Is rorbidden to
speak, s'ifRa 7o s 9rt
Barred From Politicar Unions.
I'm Prussia no woman may or
ganize a union that has political aims;
she may not even joint one. 1t is the
purpose Of the dominant caste to keep
woman in subjection; to restrict her
activities to the kitchen. the cradle.
and the church; even to deny her the
mental and the physical development
that might tend to lead her to revolt.
Woman may find limited salvation
in the conduct of business; through
cut the German Empire not far short
CT million women conduct CONNER
cial enterprises of one kind or another
and collectively they strive with some
success to better the physical and
moral conditions under which their
sisters live. No effort of which they
have yet been capable has accom-
plished more than this their condition
of tutelage remains complete.
Il do not pretend to be satisfied
with the position of women in Eng
e., I,,,f l.. Al.
countries already enumerated, it is
better far than in Germany
Views Are Marrow.
"The views of the wisest men are
narrow, and few among them will
realize or admit even yet the truth
that woman is now q factor in the
worlds affairs When this war is
over we shall tell in no uncertain
words what is in our hearts; at pres
ent we must needs be silent. If those
dreamers of world empire had but
remembered that women, too, have
minds and are learning to use them,
the story of the great world tragedy.
even if it had to be set down, would
have been widely different in many
of its incidents. 1t was Germany's
fata! mistake that, not content with
dominating its own Womenkind and
suppressing them whenever and
wherever possible, it believed that the
rest of the. world was equally indiff-
erent to the treatment of it's mothers,
wives and daughters Every known
outrage has raised fresh fighters; has
strengthened the allies with the sure
fore of moral sympathy.
Whatever the limitations of our
knowledge, we know that the one sex
completes the other; that man en-
larges vision of woman and woman
enlarges the vision of man, and that
1t is the peculiar gift of sex to con-
troll mans passions, to stimulate his
humanity, to direct his ambitions
away from dangerous paths. We do
not all strive we might; we do not
always to the swift, nor the battle
man is wofully incomplete without
us, and the spectacle of a nation That
has despised womanhood waging war
shows that this contempt +, corrodes
his moral fibre, leaves him at the
mercy of his worst instincts, and
raises up against him all the spiritual
forces, against wnicl, none may strive
! VIGOROUSLY We woman, who have
never handled weapons, whose only
place in the area of strife is among
the manned and helpless. know even
better than men. that the race is not
always to tn swift, nor the battle TO
to the strong"