The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-05

sui: :ect.
Then when they have exhausted the
fathers they bring out the constitution
and they say ''it is unconstitutional. \"
Everything is unconstitutional.
The Meaning Of League.
President Lowell, of Harvard. has
clearly explained every single idea
there is in the league and every pur-
pose of it-simply that we may be
| able to have some sort of an organ
lied body by which we may have in
ternational cooperation in keepins
peace. international cooperation in
helping to protect weaker peoples, in
ternational cooperation in providing a
| certain uniformity of law in the pro-
lection of the laboring people of the
world, international cooperation to
prevent the spread of disease and
other evils. There is little for me to
say on that last proposition. When
influenza was sweeping over the coun,
try didn't we wish that we had some
| Kind of an international health bu-
reau by which we could have kent
that disease out? And that is only
the beginning of many diseases which
Will sweep the world as result OF
the war, Of the impoverished condi.
tion OF Europe, and the unhealthful
, conditions of living forced upon the
soldiers in the trenches.
And from those evils come back to
us the lesson we must learn, that the
sins of the fathers are visited upon
the children even to the third and
fourth generations" When 1 read
that peace pact and thought how
hard 1t is, how difficult it is. there
appeared before me just as If it were
written in words of light, "The Sins
OF the fathers shall be visited upon
the children unto the third and fourth
generation" So Germany's children
| Will bear the burden to the third and
fourth generation of the crimes
against them and the children of the
world will bear the burdens of the
obligations which they are compelled
to assume because of the sins of the
peoples of the world.
We women, the mothers of the race
/ nave given everything, have suffered
everything, have sacrificed everything
and we come to you now and say
| The time has come when we will nc
/ longer sit quietly by and bear ant
| rear sons to die at the will OF a few
| men. We will not endure 1t. We viii
not endure it. We demand either
that you shall do something to pre-
vent war or that we shall be per
mitted to do something ourselves"
Could there be any cowardice
could there be any injustice. coulc
there be any wrong, greater than tC
refuse to hear the voice of woman
expressing the will of women at tn,
peace table of the world and then 70,
men not to provide way by which
the women of the future shall not b,
robbed of their sons a. the women o.
the past thave been?
To you men we look for support
We look for your support back o
I your senators and from this day ur)
til the dag when the League of Na
tions is accepted and ratified by the
senate of the United States, il should
be the duty of every man and ever,
woman to see TO it that the senator.
from their state know the will Of tn,
people; that they know that the peo
pie will that something shall be done
even though not perfect; that ther,
shall be beginning, from which w,
shall construct something more per
feet by and by; that the will of the
people is that this league shall be ac
cepted. and that if, in the senate o
the United States, there are men SC
blinded by partisan desires for pres,
ent advantage, so blinded by persona
pique and narrowness of vision. thai
they cannot see the large problem.
which involve the nations of the
world; then the people of the states
must see 10 ii that other men sit IN
the seats of the highest.