The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16
(ALICE LEE MOGCE.)

over the country by the newly orga-
nized woman's peace party. AS a
recent meeting Representative Hobson
of Alabama advocated the calling OK
the third Hague conference in WASH
inGton. HI pointed out that the third
conference would lapse unless one OF
the neutral nations could issue the
call, and that he believed the United
States to be in the best position TO 90
this. Them oral effect would be good.
Mr.. Hobson declared. even if only the
neutral powers participated. 1t is
little short of criminal to let this nu-
cleus Of what will some day be an in
te~rnational world government lapse at
this critical time he said.
"Womanhood in Europe is being
pushed back 1000 years by the war"
Mrs. Anna c. Spence stated in her ad-
dress before the Ethical Culture So
ciety. 1.-The war raises again the old
ideal of womanhood as a breeder of
food for cannon The prelates in
England and Germany are even now
advertising a reduction in marriage
fees. Every soldier is encouraged to
get married and given three lays
leave for a honeymoon before going
to the war. Woman, slowly emerging
from industrial and sex slavery, is to
be plunged back again" Mrs. Spence
explains-a fact that is already en-
phasiZed in other quarters.
Printed statements in the press
quoting foreign dispatches. state with
plain effrontery that it will be ne
cessary after the war for a man to
have two wives, n that eff the
slaughter of the past six months is
continued for another year, each wife
will have to share her husband with
two other women-or be an old
maid"
The time is happily past when wo-
men in any country-eXceptng Mo-
hammedan Turkey, where the harem
idea has always been accepted
would not tolerate such a PROPOSE
ton. For the womanhood of Europe
to accept polygamy is uncomfortable
and certainly a stronger and more inn
perious necessity would have to be
advanced thar that Of being IAN old
maid" a bug-a-boo, which no longer
is able to brighten, let alone make
sexual slaves Of enlightened Chris
tan women.
Bulgarian Educator Sends Peace Ap.
peal.
Rev. A. S. Tsanoff, q teacher ant
Bulgarian educator, q graduate o
Amherst College, sends an earne
appeal for American Intervention TO
European and international peace.
we ~Bulgarians tremble at tn
NtlN ilVtSi VI 10 us NhS IN ~
the Balkans again at war;" DR.. Tsan
off states, adding proudly wha
Americans toe, should be able to say
although Bulgaria is quite ready t
defend her rights, even by arms, i
forced to do so. And all this is tn
liZed Europe"
Notwithstanding the jibes an
sneers in some quarters at the "neu
trality" of the United States and q
the peace proclivities of some of tn
administrations chief officials, it be
comes more evident day by day thu
abroad all eyes are turned toward
this country. not only for actual re
lief in giving necessary food SUI
plies for starving Belgians, and tn
as needy Poles, but for the create
and more far-reaching help asked
useless war.
Actual Facts Not just Entertainir
Fiction.
Great public interest has bee
aroused by the discussion of the lay
of the different states, their relate
to married women and their OF
spring and property, by the present
ton during the last Suffrage Week
the scenario, your Girl and Minis"
Between the reels, slides were di
played on which the names of Il
states in which similar laws mo
obnoxious by their Injustice to w
men were shown. Nevertheless
anti-suffragist has written an OPP
letter to one of the Washington p
pers, in which he asks for the We
information given, showing that
either has not seen the film, or h
not troubled himself to read the da
regarding the law presented at eve
performance each day and event
for a week-which in itself proves
a most convincing manner the XII
OF person who fills the now depict
ranks Of those who take every a
vantage Of an opportunity to BELT
women's rights. and yet is blind
the most self-evident truths.
Minnesota Follows the Able Lead
Illinois.
The officers of the National S
frage Association, realizing the
most insurmountable difficulties a
delays in the way Of amending ma