Milford chronicle., 1940-10-04
Text ofUlillkie Address to Republican
Women at Detroit Monday EYening

haeh OL America. / welcome the
50 opportunity because 1 have a jot
Is for the women Of America to do
II is specific job, and a vitality i'm
= portant job. l want to take this
time to explain it to you.
= AS l have said many times, this
campaign of mine is a crusade. II
is a crusade to preserve American
democracy.
It But it is a crusade that cannot
z be fought and won without the help
II OF every woman in America.
d mean all of yOu-wiVes, mothers.
teachers-wOrkers in business and
industry, nurses and social workers.
women in the professions and the
; arts, hOmemakers and hOmekeepers
Every one of you is vital to the
cause l am fighting tor. Every one
OF you has the same stake i'm the
survival of our democracy. And if
you fail to do the job l am going to
ask you to do. democracy may per
ish from the earth.
Look At Germany
First let us look elsewhere to find !
out what happens to a country. and |
| particularly the women of a conn
try, when democracy fails. Let us
look at Germany.
Today there are fifty million wo-
men in greater Germany-that is.
Germany and the conquered coun-
tries that Hitler has actually an
nexed
These women are not free to go
about as they please or to do what
seems good to them. There is
woman dictatOr-a single woman in {
charge of all German women. who S
has absolute authority over them. I
Under this woman there is A vast
organization of women wardens and {
" omen spies. These wardens can S
enter a house any time without !
warning to examine everything on !
the stove, or even in the garbage !
can. S
German women have lost the right !!
TO determine the most intimate Il
things of their private lives. They
DO not chose their own work.
They do what the state orders {
Breeders Of Soldiers L
They have been relegated to the II
A'tchen, and they are regarded as
breeders of soldiers, not for defense. o
'ut for aggression. Decency and
'elf-respect have been taken from
heir lives. .,
Their children are taken from u ~
hem when they are infants of six "
md seven-poured into the state {!
Machine. and turned out as regi-
ented fanatics-born and raised TO g.
'e cOgs in war machine. ~ ~
Now l would not talk about that ~, ~
iluation if it had no bearing on ~
he cause that brings us together ~ ~
lere. l do not use it as an isolated y
Example of-ssOfRething-dista .
l describe il because it is now - -
life that almost all the ID
'omen on the continent of Europe >.
re leading. li'
whereas here tonight you are still ' u.
4 possession of something far diff III lli
5rent from that. sc
Just compare your lives with IN IN
nose l have described. iO
Ours Is Highest Standard la,
Democracy has given you the full ev
't-the freest-lives of any women We
history. II has given you the vote. tt
has given you opportunities gu
1thOut limit for education. for tn;
nancipation. 1t has made you the
iief promoters and patrons of cuI-
re in our civilization.
II has given you the highest ma
rial standard of life the world has leS
er known. eu
Democracy has given and given WI Nlr
ID given. And now the time has 80
me for you to give to democracy.
Ihe women of Britain are giving yid ,i
utmost and dearest of everv- oIS
ing they have - as free women &C..
We always done, when their ma Ou
ms were in danger US
on, and your mothers. and your VIZ
'ndmothers have given in this "
y when our country needed YOU. ~, ~
I needs you today. tDo
hank God. it does not need TO odl'
for the lives of your sons, your 1"I
5band or your brothers. IN war. u''n "
5ut it does need every other ="
'rt that You can make. II does oi
d you to do this specific Job WIZ, WIZ
l am going to ask of you. ia
ut first. in order TO do this Job. nv, hs W
must be absolutely sure that iHSi 81,
know what democracy is. You "
It know what you mean by the Try
d. from
ost Americans and all of us Ul %
pretty much alike - arc care lteu
about that word. We don't earn
to think what it means.
Government BY Law Th
ost of us have the notion that OF Sc
ocracy is kind of government De
hinery-a congress, an eXecu- tIe
supreme court. commissions, u9V
Orities, and the like. Well, of soou
Sc, those are all part of DEM AN
tic government. They are the races
hinery by which the people Is IN
IN themselves. 10 &C
1t that machinery is not really 1Ol
1cracy. You can understand rekin
when you think about the Ger Eeopi
Reichstag The Reicbsto9 :. wher'
of Germany and it used on "a
perform essentially the same your
tion as our Congress. Hitler schoO
convenes it once IN a while But NOV
it comes together it does not thls J
the way people want, but the ana
Hitler wants. It's life is Just a help.
of must" votes. 1t has no will
J own. you.
e Reichstag is an example of Judgm
cratic machinery that has lost IN an
cracy. 1t is a travesty on DEM Yelopt
ic government uon I
W there are two ways of gov ihlnis'
g mankind. One is by force .aaL. .,iaI