Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1914 — War and Woman. [ARTICLE]

War and Woman.

“There is, perhaps, no woman who could look down upon & battlefield covered with slain, but the thought would rise in her, ‘So many mothers’ sons! So many-young bodies brought Into the world to lie there!' So many months of weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped within! So many hours of anguish and struigle that breath might be! So many baby mouths drawing life at women’s breasts —all this, that men might lie with glazed eyeballs, and swollen faces, and fixed, bine, undpsed mouths, and great limbs tossed!’ And we cry, ‘Without an Inexorable cause, this must not be!’ No woman who is a ,woman says of a human body, ‘lt if nothing!’ “Women will end war when her voice is fully and clearly heard in the governance of states —because, on this one point, and on this point almost alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man. She knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.” —Olive Schreiner.