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

ing on women. In the Liberty Loan
campaigns they told us, "You must
not touch these big sums; we will
stand behind our counter or desk and
when a man wants ten thousand dol
lars or a hundred thousand or a mil
lion dollars worth of bonds we will
take the subscription, because they
are so big you could not understand
1t. You may go from house to house:
you may set your booths on the cor
ner; you may take fifty dollar sub
scription or a hundred dollar sub
scription." And the women have done
1T in every Liberty Loan drive.
l was in city where. in the last
campaign. in that kind of hard drudg-
cry women raised fifty per cent of the
entire quota, just the women, goins
from house to house, and in all our
cities and states they have done their
full share and have done it splendidly.
What was the cry this time? Was
1t Send the men across the sea-" as
! 1t was in the beginning? Quite diff
ferent. One sign l saw all over New
York, all over Pennsylvania, all over
Boston-"If you could sell bonds to
send the boys across, can't you sell
more bonds to bring the boys home? ?"
Ihat was the cry-to bring the boys
home. How the boys would be cheer
ed when they knew the men and wo-
men OF the country were raising mon
ey to bring them home.
But If all the other nations except
ours sign the treaty OF peace and ac-
cept the League of Nations, and we
still remain at war with Germany, are
we going to bring the boys home with
this money or are we going to keep
them over there and provide for them
while they are still holding the forts
along the Rhine?
BugabOo Words.
But our senate is talking, talking!
We women and men-are so afraid
| OF words. If they are unfamiliar
enough they scare us to death. To
girlhood days was enough to throw
her into spasm. because 1t meant in
that day that she was a little bit in
human or unhuman: and then wo-
men began to discover that there
were only two kinds of minds, strong
minds and feeble minds, and they all
wanted strong minds. they were not
frightened by that word.
Then came the word "suffragist, -
which used to fill them with terror.
BY and by they came to understand
that the suffrage of the people was
the method Of registering the will of
the people, and then we were not at
all afraid of that word because it
dignified us.
Then they used the word-.fem-
mist" and lot of women got fright
ened for fear they would be called
feminists. And when / speak upon
the subject in which l am so much in
terested. the democracy OF the coun-
try, which includes women. they al
ways hurl at me the word feminist, -
and what does that mean? 1t is wo-
man aspiring to be human, which is
not bad thing at all.
We are so afraid OF words, and the
congress of the United States, know.
ing our fear of words, invented the
word super-sovereignty" That is a
wonderful ord-"super-soverei
ty.' There is only one thing that
they have produced that is new in
their arguments against this League
of Nations. that has not been used
against the Nof wo-
men for the last forty years; and that
is the Monroe Doctrine-that I be-
lieye has never been used against wo-
mems political freedom. When they
couldn't do anything else they have
always gone back TO the fathers. You
have heard about the fathers and
what the fathers did. Why, the Chi
nese never worshipped their ancestors
so much as congress worships the
fathers, when the yhaven't any rea.
son to give for their attitude upon any