The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-05
WHAT THE WAR
MEANT TO WOMEN
continued From Page Twoo

10 one. And no nation can suffer un-
less all nations suffer. No nation can
prosper without all nations prosper
ing We have got to take facts as
'ney are and we have got to find out
'he pest thing we can have. The best
'hing that has been given us and tho
oh'y thing we have before us is this
League of Nations. We have no other
League of Nations. We have only
'his one. We must take this one or
no one can tell what will come. We
nave no midway point. We have no
purgatory. We have to choose either
heaven or hell. We must take it or
we must reject 1t.
suppose the senate of the United
states amends that League Of Ma
uons. so as to make It radically diff
lerent. What will happen? What
is happening to us all over the coun-
Try today? You and have felt the
stump that has come to our national
Ire since the armistice. We have felt
IL In business: we have felt It in the
morale of the people; it is everywhere
apparent. We are simply waiting.
Waitinf for what? Waiting for that
peace which will give to us a basis
upon which we can start our new
ife' and we will not be able to re-
cover unless we do have something
OF that sort to bring us back again
TO the high plane upon which we
stood during the war. To stand where
we stood before the war will not do.
we must have an incentive before us.
an incentive for the intellectual and
moral and industrial advancement of
the people; the incentive must be
universal in it's application and we
are waiting for it-waiting until this
League of Nations Treaty of Peace
has been signed.
If the Senate Amends.
Suppose the senate rejects the
league In its present form and makes
amendments, as It says it has a right
TO do, but as some distinguished law
yers thing 1t has not-suppose they
do that. What will happen? The
thing that will happen is that they
will have to take it back again and
deliver 1t to thirty-one different ma
tions to see If they will ratify these
amendments which our senate has
made. 1t will have to go to Ger
see whether Germany will accept it..
And 1t may not be accepted. And then
some other nation, seeing that we
have distinguished ourselves by max
ing amendments and changes, will
want to make changes and amend
ments and IL will have to come back
and then we will make some more,
and then 1t will go back and forth and
heaven alone knows when peace will
come or anything else to give us a
start in the upward way.
Suppose we do not sign the peace
treaty as it is. Suppose the senate
of the United States refuses to sign
it with the League of Nations COW
enant in it as 1t is now, but amends
the League OF Nations provision so
that 1t is of no value whatever, what
will happen? We are told by the
press that there is one clause in that
treaty which declares that IL any
three nations sign the treaty with
Germany as 1t stands, then they may
enter into international relations with
Germany. They may open up trade
and start to do business with Ger
many just the same as if all the other
nations had signed it.
Suppose Japan and France and
Great Britain and Italy should sign
that pact and we should refuse to do
1t; what would happen? They would
be at peace, and we would be at war
with Germany That is what would
happen. We have not signed the
peace treaty and we are still at war.
They would be in a state OF peace
while we, isolated, would be stand
ing alone.
Another Big job for Women.
Women, what have you been doing
the last few weeks? You have been
going from house TO house raising the
Victory Loan. / think one o. the
greatest jobs that women have done
for the country has been the Liberty
Loan. The country came to you in
the beginning to send your boys
across the seas; what was the cry.
Send them provisionsi Send them