The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-04-20
WOMEN'S WORK A
LABOR OF LOVE.
Address Delivered at Skanee Liberty
Loan Meeting BY Mrs. J. 7. Been.
Printed by Request.
CONTINUED from Last Week.)

Now / wish every woman before
registration day, the 9th Of this month,
would look deep into the motives Of the
country. Look back over the records
of our vast achievements. Think what
solace she has ever been to those op-
pressed. Think what she has been to
you. Look all the way back to the be-
ginning if you will and see if she is not
in every way worthy of your love, your
respect, and your service. You will
find many mistakes but no blots OF
America would not be heralded today
as the Savior of Nations.
Another thing want to ask of you,
don't let people slander the country.
Criticise the governme mt, justly always.
Criticise its organizations, its institu-
tions, it's politics, these things need
your criticism, they also need your
help. Don't let people tell you Gamer
lea is in the war to get her money
back". Isn't that perfectly idiotic?
That we would spend ten times. twenty
times, hundred times, over and over
the amount of the original loan to get
it back? Don't let them tell you that
we hear only one SIDE of the horrors of
war, that the Germans are not as bad
as our reports read. They are as bad
and a great deal worse. We have
sworn statements from God-fearing,
earnest men and women, who have the
respect and confidence Of the world.
Just last week read in the Century, a
magazine positive and reliable, a
magazine that has never stopped to
cheap yellow journalism or sensational
literature, an article by Henry Rood
entitled Our Men in the Army I'VE
do not dare tell our men half the truth
of the German atrocities. We would
never be able to control" In Heavens
name what can be worse than the re-
ports we do hear? If there can be
anything worse than ravished women,
murdered babies, desolation, devasta-
tion, and despair everywhere they have
passed l cannot conceive of it, and yet
there evidently is. Don't let them tell
you the English did the same things in
the Boer war. Do you think that the
Beers would have risen to man to
England's aid today, if they had
suffered the same atrocities at their
hands so short time ago? People may
forget and forgive these things but not
so quickly. Englsnd has no mere loyal
support TODAY than the Beers. An
other proof, we would have heard of
these things at the time. Our sympa-
thies were not at all with the English
during that war. We just gloried in
the spunk and spirit of the Beers and
hoped that they would just lick En-
gland to a finish" 1t would have made
excellent copy for us then. 1t seems
strange that only favored few are in
possession of that information. 1t is
not racial, it is not British. Don't let
people say 1--WE don't know, people are
pretty much alike, we might do the
same things in the same circum-
stances. Speak for yourself and your
own instincts. People are not all alike
or we would not be in this war today.
Don't put US in that class by the re-
motest supposition. Don't let them
tell you america is not in this war
for nothing, she is going to get some
thing out of it, don't you forget it. I"
This remark is usually accompanied by
a knowing expression as if the speaker
were possessed of some sly facts which
for some reason he does not mention.
Indeed we are going to get something
out of this war. That is the only true
thing the Pro-German ever says. We
are going to get the freedom of the
seas for one thing. We are going
down to our graves sustained By the
conviction that our children and our
children s children are going steadfastly
on in their pursuit of higher things
unmolested. Oh, could make along
list of all manner of good things we
are going 10 get out of this war. Some
day when l have time / am going to
write a paper on that subject alone.
But it will be mighty long one. Don't
let the people tell you we are SO in
debted to the Germans. We are not
any more indebted to the Germans than
we are to the Chinese for that matter.
Look what Germany is indebted to US
for. They use our electric lights and
inventions of all kinds, our telephones,
our telegraphs and thousand and one
other inventions and discoveries they
have borrowed and profited by. 1--we
were indebted to them we have squared
ourselves long time ago. Don't let
people tell you I'VE must admire the
Germans, we must admire Kaiser.
They are 80 wonderfully efficient, just
see how long they have held out against