Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1912 — Women Are for Peace [ARTICLE]

Women Are for Peace

Otie of the fruits of sex equality Willi be the decline q( war—international strife, industrial strife and sex *trlfe. Women cay not know how to play fair, at first, but they will be wore apt pupils than the men. In masculine contests the rules are often more important than the game: What la fair in war? Murder, but not torWhat Is fair in industrial war? •Usrratfoa, but not murder. Dyuamit-

ing is not fair, but blacklisting is, evicting is. monopolizing food is, maintaining tuberculosis tenements is. These rules won’t pass, boys, when the girls learn to play the game. The tyrannical employer will have to go, syndicalism and sabotage (the logical answers to arbitrary capitalism) will have to go. We already have the children’s bureau with a real statesman, Julia Lathxop, at the head. We are

getting the beginning of eugenics. When the instinct of motherhood is allowed free play we shall become constructive. synthetic, peaceful.-*-Twentieth Century Magazine. t