What is the meaning of everyday use by alice walker

In this story, we encounter three women: Mama and her daughters Dee and Maggie.

The two daughters are very different from each other. Maggie is a simple girl who likes simple things. She is happy with a domestic, relaxed life. On the other hand, Dee is more ambitious. She wants to educate herself, travel the world and learn more about herself and her culture. The two sisters clash over a quilt that they both want to keep.

The title "everyday use" refers to the quilt, and thus to the conflict that exists between the two sisters. While Maggie believes that the quilt should be used as an everyday item, Dee thinks that it should be preserved as an item of cultural importance. This shows how the sisters think differently about their culture and the role that they play within it.

the question concerns exactly this part of the speech:

i am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. property can be paid for; the lives of the peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

president wilson talks about the lives of people destroyed by german army. but these people are not americans, they are the local people living in europe. the president mentions the barbarity of germans, considering that he is not targeting the nation, instead it is said about german army. the correct answer is the last one.