The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-08-28
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than It Can Mean
to Men.
DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
(sy the late Or. Anna Howard Shaw,

Noy ING ISte W. anna howard SHAWL
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 mn open grave that they might
give life To u sou. IL means that
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay In the arms OF a
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 one hundred thousand
dead sons VI the women Of the worldt
! Who can estimate the price which the
women have paid for this war; what
II has cost them, not only In the death
OF their sons, because that is a phase
J OF our war TO which we look
The Courage Of won,sn.
We hear our orators tell us OF tho
courage Of our 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
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 slayed In order that the
war might he 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 Rumanla,
I'm Russla-the thousands OF women
who lie In graves today, murdered,
so horribly murdered that men dare
not speak of II.
And yet we women are asked what
we know about the League of M.
lions; asked what we can understand
about League of Nations. Oh men
the horrible deaths; the horrible lives
of thousands upon thousands of wo.
men today In all these nations, who
must live, and who must look In the
faces Of children unwelcomed, unde.
slreG.-Of little children-nnd know
that these are the result OF war;
And then ask women why they
should be Interested In league of
peacep
Women Suffer Most From War.
II there Is any body of citizens In
the world who ought to be- Interested
In a league To ultimately bring To thu
world peace II IL the mothers of men,
and the women who suffered AS only
women can suffer In the war and In
devastated countries
And we call upon them, we women
| of the world call upon the men who
have been fighting all these battles OF
! the years, the men who have led
armies, and led armies close 10 their
| deaths,
We are now calling upon the men
Of the world to in some way on an,
other find II passage out of the sea Of
| death. We are asking them To form
{ league which will hiring hope to the
! women Of the future, II women are
! to bear sons only that they may die,
| II women may not have hope
! aud aspirations for their children,
| If women may not dream The dreams
| that have I'm them the hope of tina
| highest civilizations, the highest moral
| and spiritual life OF the peOple--if wO-
| men may not have these IN theit
hearts as the mothers of men, then
women win cease 10 desire To- be the
mothers OF men. And why should
uey notf Why should they notG