The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-17
1T is A WoMAN'S RIGHT
TO DEMAND PEACE NOW
She is Manufacturer of Chief Material
Used in War Says Mrs Belmont.

Used in War Says MRS Belmont.
Hon. c. w. Cooper of this city has
handed The Tribune the following in
terview which has been given the
press by Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont, the
well-known New York society wo-
man and woman's suffrage advocate
Mr.. Cooper has dehed us to publish
it. So here goes:
If | were the owner of the Beth
lem Steel factory, you would say:
Let us pay close attention. This
person manufactures cannon and
shrapnel." If l were the walking de-
legate of a union of mechanics en-
ployed by the Remington Arms COM
pany, you would say: Here is an
individual worthy of respect. He re-
presents those that manufacture the
rifles. Let us hear what he has to
say"
If l were the head of big bank,
you would say: This person supplies
the money that buys the machinery
that inflicts death. Let us be polite to
him.
l am here to advance the PROPOSE
ton that merely as a war-making ma
chine woman has her place here the
same as a manufacturer of Shrapnel
on a wholesale scale or a maker of
armor plate, or a mechanic turning
out rifles.
Woman Manufacturer of Chief Food
in War.
Woman is the manufacturer of the
chief tool used in war, namely, man.
For every rifle there must be a man
| Co.
the trigger and push the shells into
the magazine. For every cannon there
must be man of keen insight, born
of some healthy woman who gave him
good nerves, the power to aim at his
enemy straight amid noise, smoke
and death. More important than the
cannon, powder, dynamite or war
ships is the war material that the wo-
men supply-the soldiers, the sailors,
the officers, those that have their
statues built in the market place
when war is over, and those that lie
bleeding to death on the ground when
the battle is over.
If you would listen, patiently to the
walking delegate of rifle manufacture
ing mechanics, you should also listen
patiently, if only for few minutes, tc
walking delegate for the women who
manufacture the men that carry the
rifles.
Ours is the hard work, the painful
work and the slow work.
You can give an order to Schwab
and he will give 100000 rifles in three
months.
A good mechanic may produce a
death~dealing weapon in few hours
of work.
But it takes woman many months
to produce the son who is sent to be
killed with the rifle on his shoulder
And it takes her many years OF pa
tient care and anxiety to bring him up
to the age where he is fit to kill or
be killed.
Your factories have FASTENED the
process of manufacturing the weapons
that men produce. But there is nc
fastening of the process that Nature
lays upon women.
We are manufacturers of all time
and it is time for some attention to be
paid, when you discuss preparation
for war and wholesale slaughter, tC
the women, who must produce the
real machinery of war-the men that
are to kill and be killed.
Women do not demand recognition
where war is concerned as actua
fighters.
Women Have Shown Courage on the
Battlefields.
In their day, women have shown
the physical courage on the battlefield
that they show now every day in the
hospitals and in childbirth.
| of A~b
regiment of fighting women till they
were so ferocious and terrible that Z
half dozen of them would easily chase
twenty-four big New York policemen
into the North river.
The women of the Germanic tribes
whom Tacitus describes, went into
battle with their men, fought as saw
agely as they, and those that survived
strangled their children, and ther
themselves, that they might not b.
captured.
Women have done their share o
real fighting in the world, creating
the armies to begin with, feeding
them, clothing them, encouraging
them, rewarding the heroes and shun
ming the towards.
, Women no longer fight with thei
hands, although their courage has BY
no means left them, as men will dis
cover if they insist too long upon
program of injustice.
Women demand that they be con
suited in public affairs, and in war es
pecially, since it is they who suppl,
| every man sent to be killed, and be
cause woman suffers mentally anC
, physically infinitely more than mar
; in war.
| wish all of those who lack ap
, probation of woman's place in tn
cosmic scheme could read DIV
/ Schreiner's book. woman and La
bor." She defines admirably woman
contribution to war as follows:
+ read an extract from her chapte
on woman and War"
| Men have made boomerangs, bows
snunrds or nuns with ,.rhich To dastrn,