The Washington herald., 1915-01-18
PEACE SEEKERS
ASK FOR funds
Appeal of the New Woman S
Party Is for the Sum Of
$4,000.
WILL CAMPAIGN NATION
Workers Will Invade Homes and
Schools to Enlist Millions
Against War.
WILL CAMPAIGN NATION

At a mass meeting of representa-
tive women held in Washington last
week at the New willard, the Wo-
mans Peace Party was organized, with
Jane Adams as its chairman.
The declaration, unanimously adopt
ed, of reasons for the organization OF
women in the interest of peace was
in part as follows:
"As women, we feel peculiar
moral passion of revolt against both
the cruelty and the waste of war.
"As women, we are especially the
custodians of the life of the ages.
We will not longer consent to its
reckless destruction. AS women. we
are particularly charged with the fu-
ture of childhood and with the care,
of the helpless and the unfortunate.
We will not longer accept without
protest that added burden of manned
and invalid men and poverty stricken
widows and orphans which war places
upon us.
"As women. we have builded by the
patient drudgery of the past the basic
foundation of the home and of peace
full industry. We will not longer en-
dure without a protst which must be
heard and needed by men that hoary
evil which in an hour destroys the
social structure that centuries of toll
have reared.
LAS women. we are called upon to
start each generation onward toward
a better humanity We will not longer
tolerate determined opposition that de-
nial OF the sovereignty of reason and
justice by which war and all that
makes for war today render impotent
the idealism of the race.
Demand Right as Mothers.
Therefore. as human beings and
the mother half of humanity. we de-
mand that our right to be considered
in the settlement of questions con-
cerning not alone the life of individ
uals but of nations be recognized and
respected.
I'VE demand that women be given
a share in deciding between war and
peace in all the courts of high de-
bate; within the home, the school. the
church, the industrial order, and the
State.
so protesting, and so demanding,
we hereby form ourselves into a ma
tio1al organization. We welcome to
our membership all who are in sub
stantial sympathy with that funda-
mental purpose OF our organization
whether or not they can accept in full
our detailed statement of principles"
The platform propositions included:
Limitation of armaments and the
naturalization of their manufacture.
Organized opposition to militarism
in our own country.
Education of youth in the ideals of
peace.
Democratic control of foreign poll
cies.
TIE further humanizing Of govern
ments by the extension of the fran
chise to women.
Concert of Nations" to supersede
Balance of Power"
Action toward the gradual organi-
zation of the world to substitute law
for war.
Removal of the economic causes of
war.
The appointment by our government
of commission of men and women,
with an adequate appropriation, to
promote intentional peace.
Purpose of Party.
The purpose Of the Woman's Peace
Party is to give the millions of women
OF America anxious to express them
selves the opportunity to protest against
war and to work together for peace.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is need
I'd to meet the cost of headquarters.
printing, travel. and other expenses of
organizing a nationwide peace cam
paign that will reach the remCtest
homes and schools as well as the CEN
ters of population.
Members of a committee asked to
assist in promptly raising this fund of
which there is urgent need. appeal to
the women OF Washington for generous
contributions. Money or checks may
be sent to Mrs. George Rublee, 1105 Six
teenth street. The committee consists
of Mrs. John J. White, Mrs. Louis F.
Post. Mrs. Robert NJ. La Toilette, Mrs.
William Kent, Miss Julia Lathrop. Miss
Janet Richards. and Mrs. George