El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
Papers Assdil Women For
Complaining Against the
HUdships OF War.
MANY CASES OF
HEROLSM FOUND
Women Rebel Only When
They See Their Babies
Dying from Hunger.

II ERLIN. Germany, March Ger
man newspapers are attacking
the women Of this country because
after year and a half Of constant war
fare during which they have lost hus-
bands, brothers and sons. while them
selves forced to endure untold hard
ships. they are showing signs Of what
is termed weakness
1T is most humiliating.r saws the
"Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten." ito
see that after eighteen months Of war.
a very large parf OF our women have
not yet learned 20 understand what
wartime conditions really mean.
They are signing, weeping and
groaning, because they can no longer
get all the bread or meat they want.
because pastry made without butter
does net appeal to their taste and
because they feel disgusted when they
have to drink coffee without milk.
"Once moro, German women. we ap-
peal to you, nay. We command you, to
stop these cowardly lamentations, to
submit 10 existing conditions and not
unnecessarily 10 make life harder 10
our brave men who are fighting in the
trenches"
ReprOnches Not Justified.
To an unbiased observer these re-
preached directed against the women
CT Germany. who have taken up and
carried their part Of the burden of war
In most admirable, manner, are by
no means justified
The women Of Germany have shown
fortitude and endurance in no less de
gree than have their heroic sisters in
France and il they are now occasion
ally becoming unmana geable. it should
be remem Dcrcd that they are not riot
ing and fighting the police and troops
set against them from selfish reasons
but because they see their babies dy-
ing from lack Of milk while their old
or children are growing pale and ema-
ciated, because all articles Of food
even the most elementary ones. have
risen to prices which il IS utterly i'm
possible for them to pay.
They fight the police and attack
the provision and baker shops because
they know that their Weather sisters
are able to buy even luXuries and that
tho farmers, large and small alike. are
hiding their grain in the hope Of still
higher prices
Troops Charge Women Rioters
There have been many riots here in
Berlin in these last three months, some
in which even machine guns have been
displayed. II not actually used. There
have been riots at LudWigshafen, where
only OF women and children, at Mu-
Mich. where the lack of food is felt
very painfully, and Chemnitz. IN Sax
ony. where the disorders lasted nearly
a whole week. The firemen at last
cleared the streets with powerful
streams Of water from their engines,
IS the local authorities refused to en-
'plOy troops.
Everywhere these riots have been led
by women. but invariably these women, |
it must not be forgotten, have been
mothers. made desperate because they
could not bear the sight Of their chill
dren starving while their fathers were
away fighting for their country and (
while the papers daily assured their !
wives that there we're enough provi- !
sions iu the country.
These optimistic statements, in the |
Afficial and semi official press, are in I
Heed very largely TO blame for many Of |
she disturbances. for they merely ex-
asperate the masses Of the people, to I
whom nothing is more evident than the |
striking difference between happy,
prosperous Germany Of two years ago F,
and the present conditions. The peo- |
Dle at home suffer more than the |
armies.