The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-01

CIVIC LEAGUE A MEMBER
Women at Annual Luncheon Last
Saturday Voted Unanimously
to Become Part Of it's
Activity.

Announcement was mace in The
Gate City yesterday that the Civic
league of Keokuk had joined the
peace party. Miss Jane Adams of
Hull House is chairman, and there
are four vice chairmen, with Carrie
chapman Gait, honorary vice chair
man. At the conference at which the
peace party was established, 2. resolu-
/. ton was passed condemning the at
tempt to prepare this country for
further preparedness
The tenets and platform Of this
peace party which Keokuk women
are now enlisted in follows:
The Platform.
We. women of the United States,
assembled in behalf of world peace,
grateful for the security of our own
co,Itry. but sorrowing for the misery
c/ all involved in the present struggle
among warning. nations, do hereby
band ourselves together to demand
that war shoulG be abolished.
Equally with men pacifists. we I'M
derstand that planned-for. legalized.
wholesale, human, slaughter Is today
the sum OF all villainies. AS women,
We feel a 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 it's reckless
destruction. AS women, we are par
ticularly charged with the future 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 wiGows and
orphans which war places upon u.s.
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-.
4 dur.4 without protest 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
AS women, We are called upon to /
start each generation onward toward
better humanity. we will not long
er tolerate without determined oppo-
sition that denial of the sovereignty
OF reason and justice by which war
and all that makes for war today rem
der impotent tn, idealEm OF the race.
Therefore. as humansbeings and the
mother half of humanity, we demand
that orr right to be considered in the
settlement of questions concerning
not alone tn, life Of individuals but
of nations, be recognized and re-
rpected
We. demand that women be given a
share in deciding between war and
peace In all the courts of high d.ebate;
within the home, the school, the
church. the industrial order, and the
state.
So protesting, and SO demanding,
we hereby form ourselves into ma
tional organization to be called the
Woman's Peace Party.
We hereby adopt the following as
our platform Of principles, some OF
The items of which have been accept
ed by a majority vote. and more of
Which have been the unanimous
choice Of those attending the confer
ence which initiated the formation OF
this organization. We have sunk all
differences Of opinion on minor mat |
tiers and given freedom of EXPRESSION |
to wide divergence of opinion in the
details OF our platform and in our
statement of explanation and informa
lion in common desire to make our
Woman's protest against war and all