The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-07
DIR. SHAW'S LAST
MESSAGE FAVOR
THE PEACE PACT.

New York, July CDR. Anna How
ard Shaw's last message 10 the women
of her country was an appeal for the
League of Nations. The manuscript,
| much of it in DR.. Shaw's own hand
writing, was received here last Tues
=; day at the national headquarters of
p: the League to Enforce Peace and is
now in the printers hands for publi-
cation.
Dr Shaw was member of the ma =
tional executive committee of the
league and one of the first women
elected to office in that organization.
she took an active part in the leagues
campaign for ratification of the Paris
covenant and her friends believe that
her enthusiasm for the league cause
led her to overtax her strength during
the trip she made last May with ex-
President Taft and other leading sup
porters of the covenant, travelling ev-
cry night and speaking every day at
series of league conventions. She
was stricken with pneumonia at
Springfield, Ill, when the trip was half
over.
In the manuscript received here. DR..
Shaw says:
Everybody must die some time, and
it does not make as much difference,
perhaps, as to the number of days we
live as it does to the manner in which
we live the days we do live"
DR.. Shaw's statement. which prob
ably represents her last work before
the relapse which caused her death
on Wednesday, is entitled What the
War Meant to Women" In it she
makes impassioned plea for the es-
adjustment of a League of Nations
for permanent peace and calls upon
the women in the United States to use
all their influence to bring about the
ratification of the league covenant.
Following are some of DR.. Shaw's
most striking sentences:
I'VE know that men are ready to
die in war, but there are a great many
things harder than to die. There are
some things that are worth a great
deal more than life, and one thing
which was worth more than life to the
men who went out and laid down their
lives for their countries was not to
leave a dishonored nation, a nation
unworthy of the civilization of our
time, nation which had no heart to
feel and no understanding to realize
conditions of intimate association be-
tween nation and nation and the OBJ
legation which one nation has to care
for and sympathize with another.
while Mr.. Wilson said we want
nothing out of the war, I said in my
own heart-it may be that we want
nothing material out of the war, but
oh, we want the biggest thing out of
this war that has ever come to the
world. We want peace now and peace
forever
IF we cannot get that peace out of
this war, what hope is there that il
will ever come to humanity? Was there
ever such a chance offered to the
world before? Was there ever a time
when the people of all nations looked
towards America as they are looking
today because of our unselfishness in
our dealings with them during the |
war?
The treaty of peace which has been
submitted to the Germans I think is |
the most marvellous document in the |!
world, and 1 have been wondering how |
many hundred men it took to think |
up all the demands they put into that |
peace pact
I'VE must look facts in the face. All |
humanity is one. The world is one.
And no nation can suffer unless all |
nations suffer. No nation can prosper
without all nations prospecting. We |
have got to take facts as they are and |
we have got to find out the best thing |
we can have. The best thing that |
has been given us and the only thing
we have before US is this League of
Nations. We have no othr League of
Nations. We have only this one. We |
must take this one or no one can tell
what will come. We have no midway
point. We have no purgatory. We
have to choose either Heaven or hell
We must take it or we must reject
it.
"Oh. men, we women. the mothers
of the race, have given everything,
have suffered everything, have sacri-
feed everything, and we come to you
now and say, The time has come
when we will no longer sit quietly by
and bear and rear sons to die at the
viii of a few men. We will not en-
dure it. We will not endure it, We
demand that either you shall do some~
thing to prevent war or that we shall
be permitted to try to do something
ourselves
Gould here be any cowardice, could
there be any injustice, could there be
any wrong, greater than to refuse to
hear the voice of a woman expressing
The will of the women at the peace
table of the world and then for men
not to provide a way by which the
women of tn, future shall not be rob-
bed of their sons as the women of the
past have been?
ITO you men we look for support.
We look for your support back of
your senators and from this day until
he day when the League of Nations
s accepted and ratified by the senate
If the United States, it should be the
luty of every man and every woman |
o see to it that the senators from
leir state know the will of the people;
hat they know that the people wills
hat something shall be done, even
hough not perfect; that there shall be
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