Julia ward howe mothers day
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Mother's Day Proclamation
Again, in the sight of the Christian world, have the skill and power of two great nations exhausted themselves in mutual murder.
When that didn't happen, Howe sought to establish an annual Mother's Day for Peace, to be celebrated in June.Again have the sacred questions of international justice been committed to the fatal mediation of military weapons. In this day of progress, in this century of light, the ambition of rulers has been allowed to barter the dear interests of domestic life for the bloody exchanges of the battle field.
Thus men have done. Thus men will do. But women need no longer be made a party to proceedings which fill the globe with grief and horror.
Julia ward howe appeal to womanhood
Despite the assumptions of physical force, the mother has a sacred and commanding word to say to the sons who owe their life to her suffering. That word should now be heard, and answered to as never before.
Arise, then, Christian women of this day !
Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears ! Say firmly : We will not have great questions dec