Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-08-28
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More TO
Them Than It Can Mean
to Men.
to Men.
DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
tsy the Late Dr.. Anna Howard shaw3

II
seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives in
the great war Think of it! Seven
million, one hundred thousand young
men had died on the field of battle!
What does that mean to the women
OF the world? 1t means that seven
million one hundred thousand women
walked day by day with their faces
toward an open grave that they might
| give life to a son. 1t means that
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay in the arms of a
mother whose love had made them
lace even the terrors of death that
| taey might become the mothers of
men,
1t means that year after year these
women had put up their lives into the
lives of their sons until they had rear
ed them to be men. For what? In
the hope that these sons of theirs could
give to the world the things for which
women dream, the things for which
women hope and pray and long. These
were the things that the women had
In their hearts when they gave birth
to their sons.
4 But who can estimate the value of
seven million one hundred thousand
dead sons of the women of the world?
VINO can estimate the price which the
women have paid for this war; what
it has cost them, not only in the death
OF their sons, because that is a phase
of our war to which we look.
The Courage of Women.
We hear our orators tell us of the |
courage of our men. How they went
across the sea. Very few of them re-
member to tell us of the courage of
our women, who also went across the
sea; of the women who died nursing
the sick and wounded; the women /
who died IN the hospitals, where the
terrible bombs came and drove them |,
almost to madness. They tell us 4
nothing of the forty thousand English 4
women who went to work back of the +
renches in France.
They tell US nothing of the thou !,
lands upon thousands upon thousands
# women who not only toiled and
worked and shaved in order that the
var might be successful, but we do
lot hear of the thousands of women. ,
lot alone in Armenia, not alone in !
Montenegro, not alone in Serbia, but Z
a Flanders, in Belgium in Rumania,
n Russia-the thousands of women
'ho lie in graves today, murdered,
o horribly murdered that men dare
OF speak of it.
And yet we women are asked what r
re know about the League of Ma {
ons; asked what we can understand :
bout League of Nations. Oh men I
he horrible deaths the horrible lives =
thousands upon thousands of wo-
ZEN today in all these nations, who L
ust live, and who must look in the
ices OF children unwelcomed, unde-
red-of little children--and know -
at these are the result of war.
And then ask women why they
lould be Interested in a league of
ace?
Women Suffer Most From War;
II there is any body of citizens In
g world who ought to be Interested
league to ultimately bring to the
rid peace ii is the mothers OF men,
d the women who suffered as only
men can suffer in the war and in
vastated countries.
And we call upon them, we women
the world call upon the men who
We been fighting all these battles of
: years, the men who have led
MES, and led armies close TO their
lths. ~
We are now calling upon the men
the world to In some way or an IN
Ter find a passage out of the sea Of 4
18th. We are asking them to form
eague which will bring hope to the | |;
men of the future. If women are
bear sons only that they may die,
women may not have hope I'll
aspirations for their children,
women may not dream the dreams
t have in them the hope of the I
hest civilizations, the highest moral
spiritual life of the people-if wo-
q may not have these In their
rts as the mothers of men, then
non will cease TO desire to be the 7 %
Tiers of men. And why should
J not1 Why should they not?