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preparedness
for war is an incentive to war, and the only hope of permanent peace is the systematic
and scientific disarmament of all the nations of the world,
either
a Republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. If it is, then
we should have it, if it is not then we ought not to pretend that we have it.
If
woman's suffrage is wrong, it is a great wrong; if it is right, it is a profound
and fundamental principle, and we all know, if we know what a Republic is, that
it is the fundamental principle upon which a Republic must rise
you
can no more build up homes without men than you can build up the state without
women. We are needed everywhere where human problems are to be solved. Men and
women must go through this world together from the cradle to the grave; it is
God's way and the fundamental principle of a Republican form of government.
To
be bound by outworn customs and traditions, and to be hampered by every known
obstacle which could be put in one's path, and then to have the world calmly look
on and tell you it was no use it was the divine will, was growing too absurd to
be longer tolerated with dignity or accepted with self-respect. The soul within
me refused to beat out its life against barred doors, and I rebelled.
The
idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder
and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and
higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
