The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-09-04
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than 1t Can Mean
to Men.
DR.. sHAW's STIRRING PLEA.
(By the Late Or. Anna Howard shaw.)

IN1y hs'~ Eate ~. ANNA f1OWaFo o0AW.,
Seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives il
the great war. Think of it! Sever
million, one hundred thousand youn,
men had died on the field OF battlei
| What does that mean to the womeT
of the world? 1t means that sever
million one hundred thousand women
| walked day by day with their facet
toward an open grave that they might
give life to a son. 1t means thai
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay In the arms OF a
mother whose love had made them
face even the terrors OF death that
they might become the mothers OF
men.
1t means that year after year these
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.
But who can estimate the value of
seven million ono hundred thousand
dead sons Of the women Of the world :?
Who can estimate the price which the
women have paid for this war; what
1t has cost them, not only In the death
OF their sons, because that Is 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
nothing Of the forty thousand English
women who went to work back Of the
trenches In France.
They tell us nothing of the thou
sands upon thousands upon thousands
Of women who not only toiled and
worked and shaved In order that the
war might be successful, but we do
not hear of the thousands of women,
not alone In Armenia, not alone In
Montenegro, not alone In Serbia, but
n Flanders, in Belgium, In Rumania,
N Russia-the thousands of women
who lie In graves today, murdered,
70 horribly murdered that men dare
lot speak of 1t.
And yet we women are asked what
We know about the League Of Ma
Ions; asked what we can understand
bout League of Nations Oh men
he horrible deaths; the horrible lives
If thousands upon thousands OF wo-
men today In all these nations, who
must live, and who must look In the
aces of children unwelcomed, unde-
Ilred-of little children-and know
hat these are the result Of war.
And then ask women why they
Ihould be interested III a league OF
,eace?
VOnl0V 0uU0T MOSk TToW WAT.
If there is any body of citizens in
he world who ought to be interested |
n league to ultimately bring to the
gorld peace 1t is the mothers Of men,
nd the women who suffered as only |
gomen can suffer In the war and In
devastated countries.
And we call upon them, we women
t the world call upon the men who
ave been fighting all these battles Of
he years, the men who have led
rmies, and led armies close to their
eaths.
We are now calling upon the men
the world to ip some way or an
Their find passage out OF the sea Of
cath. We are asking them to form
league which will bring hope to the
omen OF the future. II women are
} bear sons only that they may die.
women may not have hope
nd aspirations for their children,
women may not dream the dreams
lat have In them the hope OF the ],
CHEST civilizations. the highest moral
ld spiritual life Of the peopls--if wo-
en- may not have these in thei-
carts as the mothers Of men, then
omen Will cease to desire to be tho +,
others Of men. And why should Ii
'ey notl Why should they not7 "