Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than 1t Can Mean
! to Men.
DR.. sHAW's STIRRING PLEA.

DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
(By the Late Or. Anna Howard Shaw.)
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 q
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
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
But who can estimate the value of
seven million n 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 a phase
of our wal to which we look.
The Courage Of Women.
We hear our orators tell us of the
courage of III 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
in Flanders, in Belgium, in Rumania,
in Russia-the thousands of women
who lie in graves today, murdered,
so horribly murdered that men dare
not speak of it.
And vet we women are asked what
we know about the League of Ma.
lions; asked what we can understand
about a League of Nations. Oh men
l the horrible deaths; the horrible lives
, Of thousands upon thousands of wO
! men today in all these nations, whc
must live, and who must look in the
faces Of children unwelcomed, unde
sired-of little children-and know
that these are the result Of war.
And then ask women why they
should be interested in. a league O.
. peace?
: Women Suffer Most From War.
If there is any body of citizens il
the world who ought to be interested
in a league to ultimately bring to tE'
world peace it is the mothers Of men
and the women who suffered as onl,
ONE can suffer in the war and IL
devastated countries.
And we call upon them, we wOmel
e of the world call upon the men VIII
have been fighting all these battles 0
o the years, the men who have le
j. armies, and led armies close to thei
l. deaths.
If We are now calling upon the me,
q Of the world to in some way or ar
ID other find a passage out of the sea @
s. death. We are asking them to for1
Sc q league which will bring hope to tn
IN women of the future. If women ar
so to bear SONS only that they may dix
II wOme may no have hop
10 and aspirations for their children
Ia " women may not dream the dream
a. that have IN them the hope OF III
highest civilizations, the highest mori
and spiritual life oY the people~-if W,
men may not nave these In the
., hearts AS the mothers OF men, the
=. women VIII cease to desire TO be I'll
mothers of men. And why sloul
80. they not1 Why should they nati