That policy must be adopted. There can be no alternative. The final triumph of militarism would be too appalling to contemplate.
Must every woman who bears a son live under the terror that she may have to dedicate him to be mangled in the service of the War God?
Must every home remain liable to be ruined and destroyed by the fires of war?
Must every fair and beautiful garden-land continue to be subject to the menace of devastation by marching armies or the bloody ruin of the battlefields?
Must the flower of the world's manhood continue to be flung into the jaws of death to satiate the blood lust of militarism?
Must the wheels of industry turn, and the sweat of human labor, for all time, be given to make machinery for human slaughter?
Is there no inspiration to patriotism that will move the people to action but the death combat?
Is there no glory to be won, that will stir heart and brain to supreme effort, except by causing human agony and devastation?
Is there nothing else that will bring out the best there is in men but the stimulus of war, and its demands for sacrifice, even of life itself?
Is there no higher service to their country to which women can give their men than to die fighting to kill the men of other women?