Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-08-21
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means Mora TO
Them Than II Can Mean
TO Men.
DR.. snAN's STIRRING PLEA.

/ 10y the Late Dr. Anna howard shawl
Seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives In
he great war. Think Of i'll Seven
million, one hundred thousand young
men had died on the field OF battIel
What does that mean 10 the w0rnen
IL the worid7 ii means that seven
1 million one hundred thousand women
walked day By day with their faces
toward an open grave that they might
| give life to son 1t means that
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay In the arms Of q
mother whose love had made then
face even the terrors or death that
they might become the mothers of
men.
Il means that year after year these
women had put up their lives into the
lives OF their sons until they had rear
I ed them TO be men. For WhatI In
the hope that these SONS Of theirs could
give 70 the world the things Cor 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 one hundred thousand
dead sons Of the women Of the worldf
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 Ii . phase
of onr war 10 which we look
The Courage es Womsn.
We hear our oratorB 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 81
our women. who also went across the
sea /; Of the women who died nursing
the sick and wounded: the women
I who died in the hospitals, where the
terrible bombs came and drove them
almost to madness. They tell rs
nothing of the forty thousand English
women who went to work back IL 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 slayed In order that the
war might be successful, but we Do
not hear Of the thousands O9 women,
not alone III Armenia, not alone in
/ Montenegro, not alone ID Serbia, bnt
In Flanders, In Belgium, in Rumania,
ln Russia 1.-The Thousands Of women
] who lis Id graves today, murdered.
50 horribly murdered thar men dare
not speak OF Ii
And yet We women are asked what
1 we know about the League Of Ma
/ tions; asked what We can understand
about League Of Nations Oh meni
the horrible deaths; the horrible lives
og thousands upon thousands Of wo-
men today In eli these nations who
must live. and who must look Ii 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 q league %
peacel
Wcusen suffer Most From War.
IL there Is any body Of citizens b
the world who ought to be interested
Id d league to ultimately bring to the
world peace ii Ii the mothers Of men.
i and the women who suffered as only
women can suffer In the war and u
4 devastated countries.
i And we call upon them. we wOmen
I 81 the world call upon the men who
have been fighting AL these battles Of
the years, the men who have led
armies, and led arnies close 70 theis
/ deaths
We ere now calling upOn the men
81 the world to IA sOEae way OF an
other fInd d passage Out of the SEA os
death. we are asking them 70 fOrm
/ 4 league which win bring hope % the
women oS tha future IL womeR are
so bear soss only that they may die.
ii women mag not have hope
and aspirations Cor their childran
i il women may nok dream tha dreams
that have Ia them the hops of tha
4 highest civilizations, the highest moral
and spiritual life ox the peopIs H no
men may not have these IL their
hearts as the mothers Of men. then
women viii cease to desire 10 be sle
mothers Og meas And Why asA0uid
slaey mott Why allOuld they n0ts