and women, they are looking to us as the hope of the world
and whenever I gaze on our flag, whenever I look on those stars
on their field of blue and those stripes of red and white, I say
to myself: "I do not wonder that when that flag went over the
trenches and surmounted the barriers, the people of the world
took heart of hope. It was then that they began to feel they
could unite with us in some sort of security for the future. And
that flag means so much to me. I never look on its stars but that
I see in every star the hope that must stir the peoples of the
old world when they think of us and the power we have of helping
to lead them up to a place where they may hope for their children
and for their children's children the things that have not come
to them." ...

We women, the mothers of the race, have given everything, have
suffered everything, have sacrificed everything and we say to you
now: "The time is come when we will no longer sit quietly by and
bear and rear sons to die at the will of a few men. We will not
endure it. We demand either that you shall do something to
prevent war or that we shall be permitted to try to do something
ourselves." Could there be any cowardice, could there be any
injustice, could there be any wrong, greater than for men to
refuse to hear the voice of a woman expressing the will of women
at the peace table of the world and then not provide a way by
which the women of the future shall not be robbed of their sons
as the women of the past have been?

To you men we look for support. We look for your support back of
your Senators and from this day until the day when the League of
Nations is accepted and ratified by the Senate of the United
States, it should be the duty of every man and every woman to see
that the Senators from their State know the will of the people;
know that the people will that something shall be done, even
though not perfect; that there shall be a beginning from which we
shall construct something more perfect by and by; that the will
of the people is that this League shall be accepted and that if,
in the Senate of the United States, there are men so blinded by
partisan desire for present advantage, so blinded by personal
pique and narrowness of vision, that they cannot see the large