Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-29
IS WOMEN APPEAL FOR cox
AND LEAGUE.
Join in Urging Sister Voters to
Serve the Great Cause of
peaceo

Join in Urging Sister Voters to
Serve the Great Cause of
Peace"
Sixty-five American women prom
inent in political, suffrage, educat-
ional and literary fields and social
service and organized labor activi-
ties, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, the suffrage leader, join
ed in an appeal to the women. of the
nation to support Cox and Roosevelt
on the League of Nations issue. They
urged the women to "serve the great
cause of peace" by working for the
success of the Democratic ticket.
Senator Harding was condemned for
having committed himself positively
against the League of Nations.
In signing the appeal Mrs. Gait
abandoned her announced stand Of
neutrality in the Presidential cam
paign, declaring she could not en-
dure the attitude of the Republican
Party toward the League. Both Re-
publican and Democratic National
Committees had sought her support
in the present contest, but she de-
clared that, officially and otherwise,
she would remain neutral and not
use her influence as head of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association
for either of the two main parties. In
explaining her change of attitude she
said:
! 81 am enrolled in no party and de-
sire TO continue nOn-partisan.
have long been an advocate of Il
League of Nations, and now | be-
licvc in the League because League
in the hand is worth any number Of
Leagues lin the BUSH 1t becomes
clear that the way to enter the
League does not lie in the direction
of Mr.. Harding. The only hope prom
ised by the Root statement, purport-
ing to represent the League wing, is
that Mr. Harding, if elected, will
cause an entire new covenant, or II
fundamental revision of the present
one. to be written.
The appeal points out that lower
ing the cost of living, reduction of
taxes, through disarmament and the
hindering of secret preparations for
war. are some Of the good results
that the passage of the treaty prom
Uses to bring to women. The text OF
the appeal follows:
Text of Womcn's Appeal.
The undersigned earnestly appeal
to their fellow-women to serve the
great cause of Peace.
The League of Nations Is ego
ing concern" with over 225 officials
and clerks employed in it's secre-
tarlat. 1t is administering the Saar
Valley and the City of Danzig, con-
Quoting Il public health campaign to
shield the world from typhus and
other diseases. and for the elimina-
ton of the opium trade and the traf
iic in women and children (thus fol-
lowing out the work begun july %.
1902, ut the Paris conference on that
SUBJECT and approved by President
Roosevelt by proclamation June Is,
1909. 1t is helping the Red Cross to
bind up the wounds left by the war.
to reduce the appalling deaths from
underfeeding and lack of medical
care. 1t has established an mterna
tional labor bureau, and is already
settling international disputes. 1t has
developed plans. in which Elihu Root
participated, to organize an imterna-
tional court of justice Treaties are
being registered and published. thus
marking the end forever of secret
treaties. 1t is acting as clearing
mousse Tor information so that secret
preparations for predatory wnr
Will be found difficult, if not limos
sible.
| The cost of living will be helped
when the world is really again nj
peace. The producer can scarcely
hope to have stable prices for his
goods as long as there is chaos in in
ternational affairs.
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the only hope of eorly disarmament
ana the saving to the taxpayer of
the increasing billions which armam-
ents cost.
Without a strong League of Ma
able.
If the Republicans win oyerwhelm-
mgly the League Of Nations may be-
come dead issue. Such a victory
may be taken to mean the triumphs
not OF Taft, Wickersham, Hughes and
Hoover, but of Lodge, Johnson.
Borah and Brandegce, who are pledg-
cd to scrap" the League. Every vote
Tor Cox, therefore. helps the League,
whoever is elected. Remember, it IS
the Taft-Hughes- Root-Wilson League
, that you are asked to support.
| =. w "chc ocptEale peace with
Germany, enabling her to escape
making just restitution to our asso-
ciates in the war, who are now al
most bankrupt from the costly eff
fort which saved us as much as it
saved them?
Will America go down in history
linked with heroic Belgium. who stood
by her Allies to the end, or will she
do as Harding advises, "scuttle" and
lose her honor among nations?
Ask in Humanity's Name.
We ask you. in the name of hu-
mainly, in the name of your devotion
to fathers, husbands, sons, whose
present and future welfare is at
stake, to keep faith with chose who
sleep in Flonders Fields" and made
the supreme sacrifice to abolish war
to help establish permanent peace.
This is woman's opportunity on
her first Presidential vote under the
Nineteenth Amendment, to show
what womens uffrage means and
to save the country fro,, H. L.-