Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. Paul continued the picketing after the inauguration. While Wilson might have been somewhat amused at first, his attitude changed with the picketers’ persistence. The silent sentinels, as the women called themselves, were increasingly seen as an embarrassment to the administration. Wilson was moving the United States toward war against Germany, and on April 2 told Congress that war was necessary in order that the world "be made safe for democracy.” The picketers’ banners pointed out the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy and freedom in Europe while denying it to women at home. Which statement best describes the author’s diction in this excerpt?