NAWSA General Correspondence Sewall, May Wright The International Council of Women Palast Hotel, Berlin W. 9. June 7, 1904. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Palast Hotel. My dear Mrs. Catt:- I believe you have as yet received no invitation to the "breakfast" which I am giving to the Executive of the International Council on Thursday. I regret the delay which, however, is explained. The luncheon being given with a view to bringing Council workers together socially, I told my secretary the classes of people to invite, and you may be glad to know that these classes included those with official connection with the present meeting, International Council, and in addition the Executive Committee of the National Council of the Women of Germany and the Executive Committee of the Local Committee of Arrangements. I then told my secretary to add to these the names of all American Council workers in this hotel, whether they had any official connection or not with the Council. Naturally, as you were not thought of as a worker in the Council, your name was not added to the list. I now take much pleasure in sending you an invitation, because I shall be very glad to have my American acquaintances enjoy, as I am sure you would enjoy - meeting the Council workers of the International. Feeling that Americans, whether Council workers or not, are differently related to me from what other people are, it will be a pleasure to me to have all Americans here my guests Thursday at one o'clock. I am, with kindest regards, Very cordially yours, May Wright Sewall per to Dict. President of the International Council of Women. Sewall Larchmont, New York - Nov. 12, 1915 My Dear Mrs. Rogers, I haven't a scrap of "official" paper at hand and so I must apparently rebuke your impressive letterhead by this scrap from a tablet. I am very glad if my sudden and unexpected arrival in this quarter of the planet suits your convenience as in the Part, it has always pleased me whenever I enjoyed accidental encounters with you. Now as to my part in the merging of the two suffrage societies, there can be no doubt as to my part in that historic incident for I was Chairman of the Executive Com. of the National Ass'n, took this initiative in the Union and presided over the meeting which accomplished the fact: a meeting which, held at the Riggs House, finally adjourned at part [ ] - [50 A.dl] The exact date I can't give you and all my diaries of those years with such printed documents as I've kept since the loss of my home, 2 are stored in Indianapolis and at present inaccessible except at some expense and much trouble. Both I would be willing to incur for the cause if necessary - But I fancy this statement of my official position in the National at the time will fortify my [ ] signing an affidavit which, if with no more definite statement than the foregoing, it would be valuable to you, I am more than ready to do. It may help you to know that Mr. Wm. Dudley Foulke of Indiana (Richmond) was the officer of the American Society, who represented it in the preliminary interviews about the Union as I represented the National. I shall probably be in New York for a weeks after Nov. 22 - next week I expect to be in Boston. Hoping that what I have written may help you to decide how I can best help you, I am very cordially yours, May Wright Sewall Of course I am glad of the legacy. Boston May 30 - My Dear Mrs. Stone - The very kind note from Mrs. Sam'l E. Sewall was rec'd - and through a card from you later, I learned it had been sent through your kindness, for which I am much obliged. I was so rushed last week that it was quite impossible for me to call as I wished to - and I deferred it until today not thinking until the day had arrived that your office would probably be closed on this Decoration Day. I go to Providence this P.M. but now expect to be in town tomorrow - and if I am I shall certainly call. The one disappointment to me in our meeting here is that you did not come to it - and as it may be that I shall miss the pleasure of seeing you, I add the following word. I know little of the differences between "Nationals" and "Americans" but I believe it originated in the Woodhull con[nection] (2) widens the gulf. I disapprove it just as much in any one of our National leaders as I do in you - and I disapprove it because I think such action not in consonance with the nobleness of you and of them and not in consonance with the heroic labor of you all - and because we younger women honor you all - want to work with you all and want to feel that our relations with you all are truly amicable. Pardon my taking your time & believe me with kind regards [ ] May Wright Sewall 1881 Mrs. May Wright Thompson Sewall June 1881 gives advice and admonishes me. [con]nection. Undoubtedly mistakes were made. But my dear Mrs. Stone that is no reason why there should be an unbridgable chasm between these two hands. I speak for the younger women. For myself I can say I never have seen Mrs. Woodhull. She has lectured in the west but abhorring her principles I have kept away even from her voice - many more have without doubt done the same. Now I feel that I and other young women have a right to the inheritance which comes from the proud leaders of both wings. For myself I always have been and always shall be ready to recognize with gratitude the work of both and ready to work with both according to my ability, and according to the opportunity given. I take every opportunity in public to link the names of the Leaders together in a chain which should find the loving gratitude of all America young womanhood - I deprecate exceedingly everything that perpetuates or "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake." RABINDRANATH TAGORE. PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN WORKERS TO PROMOTE PERMANENT PEACE to be held in the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Corner of Post and Mason Streets San Francisco July 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1915 Issued by Committee of Organization May Wright Sewall, Chairman PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION 1915 "When the soul of Woman conquers and God's banners are unfurled- We shall gain a glimpse of Heaven From the hill-top of the world." -James W. Foley. "My first wish is--to see the whole world in peace and the inhabitants of it as one band of brothers, striving who should contribute most to the happiness of mankind."--Washington. "The more I study the world the more am I convinced of the inability of force to create anything durable."--Napoleon, at St. Helena. Preliminary Session SINDAY, JULY FOURTH, 2:30 P. M. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, presiding. Invocation....Rabbi Martin A. Meyer Welcomes by....The State of California The City of San Francisco The Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Woman's Board The Bureau of Conventions and Congresses The First Congregational Church, Dr. Charles F. Aked *Hymn, Hear, O Ye Nations.... Frederick L. Hosmer (Tune, Portuguese Hymn, page 283.) Reading, Peace.... Mr. James W. Foley (A poem written for the Conference and read by its author.) Reading. The Declaration of Independence (1776)....Mr. Leo Cadenasso The Second Declaration of Independence (1876) (Announcement) The Third Declaration of Independence (1915) Oration....Mr August Schwam (Norway) (Advocate of International Citizenship) Address....Mirza Ali Kuli Khan (Minister from Persia to the U. S. A.) *Hymn, Our Native Land (Tune, America)....W. E. Hickson Benediction....Rev. J. S. Jackson I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Are there no means of coercing justice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?--Thomas Jefferson. *See next page. HEAR, O YE NATIONS (Tune Portuguese Hymn 283) Hear, hear, O ye Nations, and hearing obey The cry from the past and the call of today! Earth wearies and wastes with her fresh life outpoured, The glut of the cannon, the spoil of the sword. Lo, dawns the new era, transcending the old, The poet's rapt vision, by prophet foretold! From war's grim tradition it maketh appeal To service of all in a world's commonweal. Then, then shall the empire of right over wrong Be shield to the weak and a curb to the strong; Then justice prevail; and, the battle-flags furled, The High Court of Nations give law to the world. And thou, O my country, from many made one, Last-born of the nations, at morning their sun, Arise to the place thou art given to fill, And lead the world-triumph of peace and good-will. OUT NATIVE LAND God bless our native land; May Heav'n's protecting hand Still guard our shore; May Peace her power extend, Foe be transformed to friend, And all our rights depend On war no more. May just and righteous laws Uphold the public cause, And bless our name. Home of the brave and free, Stronghold of liberty-- We pray that still on thee There be no stain. And not this land alone, But be thy mercies known From shore to shore; Lord, make the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world o'er. It is the Dawn! The Dawn! The nations From East to West have heard a cry,-- Through all earth's blood-red generations By hate and slaughter climbed thus high, Here--on this height--still to aspire, One only path remains untrod, One path of Love and Peace climbs higher. Make straight that highway for our God. —From The Wine Press, Alfred Noyes. "DAS EWIGWEIBLICHE FUHRT UNS HINAN" —Goethe. MONDAY, JULY FIFTH Morning Session Members of Conference and of Local Committees are asked to assemble at 9:45 A. M. Opening of Conference, 10:30 A. M. (Mrs. Sewall, presiding) Invocation....Ruth B. Ridges *Music, Hymn of the Coming Day....Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Air, Battle Hymn of the Republic) Introduction of Members of the Organizing Committee and of Representatives of Foreign Countries. (A two-minute response from each.) Address, The Revolt Against War...May Wright Sewall Commentary of Recently Organized Peace Movements in Great Britain...Ethel Snowden Ireland...Alice Park Norway Denmark Australia Switzerland The Netherlands Persia Japan and the United States....By Natives or Residents of each Country Evening Session, 8 P. M. (Mrs. Sewall in the Chair) Invocation....Rev. Dr. J. Nieto Music, Solo, Women's International Song....Madame Augette Foret Accompanist....Miss Constance Estcourt (Composed by Adele Cederschiold, Sweden; Words by Eva Upmark, Sweden; Adopted by International Council of Women at The Hague, 1913) GENERAL SUBJECT, INTERNATIONAL AMITY (Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, Presiding) Pan-American Amity....Mrs. Isabel S. Shepard (Native of Bogata, Columbia) Germany's International Contribution...Frau Riga Hellman, of Berlin Poland's International Contribution....A. Emily Napieralski (Polish Delegate to Hague Congress) Sister Republics....Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd Americanism is Internationalism...A. H. Proudfoot Music.... *Anthem of All Nations....Words and Music by Louise R. Waite (Chicago) Miss Edith Hibberd, Soprano; Mrs Clarence Eddy, Contralto; Robert Burton, Tenor; A. W. Sperry, Bass Organist, Wilbur McColl *See next page. AUDIENCE WILL PLEASE JOIN IN SINGING HYMN OF THE COMING DAY Our eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the day When all shall give their honest work and take their honest pay, And poverty, the social Curse, be wholly swept away— That day is marching on! CHORUS Glory, glory, hal-le-lu-jah! Glory, glory, hal-le-lu-jah! Glory, glory, hal-le-lu-jah! That day is marching on! We have seen it in the writing of a thousand men who know, We have heard it in the meetings where the crowding workers go, We have felt it in the people's heart, where all great movments grow— That day is marching on! CHORUS The day when every man on earth shall find his fullest power, When mother love shall ring the world and bring a nobler hour, When every baby born shall live and blossom like a flower— That day is marching on! CHORUS The end of fort and battleship! The end of gun and sword! The end of shame and misery and vice and crime abhorred! The time for us to build on earth the Kingdom of the Lord! That day is marching on! CHORUS ANTHEM OF ALL NATIONS O God of every nation We turn our hearts to Thee. Within Thy love is safety, Is peace and liberty. For love alone can conquer The strife within each breast, And bind with ties eternal Thy sons of East and West. O Truce of God enduring, Come Thou to all the world, And may Thy flag of beauty In each land be unfurled. O covenant proclaiming That cruel war has ceased, Be loved by all Thy children, The spotless flag of Peace. O God of every nation, Thou Father of us all, Let now Thy benediction Upon each country fall. With wide division ending May every voice now ring And in love tones exultant One nation's anthem sing. "War is inefficient towards redressing wrongs, and multiplies instead of indemnifies losses."—Madison. "And shall ye reign, O kings, O strong men? Nay! Waste where ye will and gather where ye may Yet one thing is there which ye cannot slay, Even Thought that fire nor iron can fight." —Swinburne. TUESDAY, JULY SIXTH Morning Session, 9:45 o'clock (Mrs. Sewall, presiding) Invocation....Mrs. May Andrew Wiggin Music, Peace to the World....Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Tune Antioch, Page 97) Peace to the world! The hour is nigh When man shall greet his queen, When both shall reign in service high And joy on earth be seen. They'll rule the world in mutual power, They'll serve the world as one, And every land shall hail the hour Of love and peace begun! When mother love the law shall mould, The end of war has come; Each child be safe in mother's hold, And all the earth be home! Address, The Women's Peace Party....Mrs. Wm. I. Thomas, Executive Secretary Poem, The Bravest Battle....Joaquin Miller Read by Mrs Abbie Leland Miller The World's Congress of Women at The Hague... Frau Riga Hellman A. Emily Napieralski Mrs. William I. Thomas And others who were present Travel and Neutrality...Mrs. S. Ella Wood Dean Evening Session, 8 P. M. (Mrs. Sewall, presiding) Invocation....Rev. Dr. Frank L. Goodspeed *Music, Anthem, Out of Pain and Black Disaster. (Words composed for this Conference by Herman Hagedorn) Adapted to Grieg's "Land Sighting," by Chalmers Clifton. Address, The Basis of Permanent Peace....Madam Katherine Tingley Foundress-President of Peace and Universal Brotherhood ....Mrs. Philip Snowden ....Rev. Charles F. Aked, D. D. Music, When Wilt Thou Save the People....Congregation (Page 537) Soloists, Miss Edith Hibberd, Mr. Lowell Redfield Organist, Mr. William Carruth *See next page. OUT OF PAIN AND BLACK DISASTER Out of pain and black disaster, Hear our voices mighty master, Fires of hell rise round and sear us: Lord, in love and pity, hear us! War and torment roar assailing, Sick with sorrow earth is wailing, Trampled, broken, bleeding, dying, Lord, for Thee our hearts are crying. Lord in pride we scorned to heed Thee. Boasting "God, we do not need Thee," We to whom all earth is given, What have we to ask of heaven? Roaring, delving, warring, slaying, What have we to do with praying? Lord forgive the mad words spoken! Lord behold, our pride is broken. Lord with hearts abrased and burning, See Thy beaten sons returning, Blind with smoke and bent with grieving, Hungry, tattered, but believing; See, we gather round about Thee, Failures, failures, Lord without Thee. Take us, Lord, these hands, O take them; Breathe upon our souls and wake them. Lord we fell in our defiance, Lord, with Thee we stand as giants. Lord we perished, burning, rending, Lord, with Thee the battle's ending, Lord with Thee the darkness dwindles, Lord, with Thee the daylight kindles, Lord, we faint without Thee; feed us! Lord, we fail without Thee; lead us! Lead us, Lord! Lead us, Lord! GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND God bless our native land! Firm may she ever stand Through storm and night! When the wild tempests rave, Ruler of wind and wave, Do Thou our country save By Thy great might! For her our prayers shall be, Our fathers' God to Thee, On Thee we wait! Be her walls Holiness; Her rulers Righteousness; Her officers be Peace; God save the State! Lord of all truth and right, In whom alone is might, On Thee we call! Give us prosperity; Give us true liberty; May all the oppressed go free; God save us all! "All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"—Benjamin Franklin, in 1783. WEDNESDAY, JULY SEVENTH Morning Session, 9:45 o'clock (Mrs. Sewall, presiding) Invocation....Reverend Bishop Edwin H. Hughes *Music, God Bless Our Native Land....C. I. Brooks (Tune, America) General Subject: SOCIAL SERVICE AND WAR. Address, Recreation and Race Amalgamation.... ...Miss Marie Ruef Hofer (President National Play Guild) Addresses....Mrs. Mathilde S. Frankenthal ....Mrs. Wm. I. Thomas The Story of Our Peace Flags....Miss Elberta Kate Shipley Music, The Mother's Peace Song...Written for this Conference ....Words by Miss Shipley ....Music by Mrs. Collins *See preceding page. N. B.—Dinner to be served at "Old Faithful Inn" at 5:30 p. m. At close of dinner members of the Organizing Committee, speakers, delegates and active supporters will form in procession, and officially escorted by representatives of the Exposition and by a band, will march to Festival Hall, where seats on the platform will be provided for members of Conference and invited guests. CHAIRMEN SPECIAL COMMITTEES Program—Mrs. May Wright Sewall. Music—Miss Constance Estcourt. Reception—Mrs. E. T. Peck. Publicity—Miss Hester E. Hosford. Finance—Mrs. J. C. Levy. Symbols—Mrs. May Wright Sewall. Sales & Distribution—Mmes. R. A. Gould, G. A. Graeber, Wallace Reay, Lehman Blum, Miss Ethel Wickes. Decoration—Mrs. Charles F. Holman. Hospitality—Mrs. John O. Davis. Details—Mrs. M. F. Gainage. Official Stenographers—Fisher & Co. Usher—Miss Dorothy Estcourt. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMAN WORKERS TO PROMOTE PERMANENT PEACE. As already announced the preparations for this conference are being made by a Committee, whose Chairman holds a Commission from the Honorable Charles C. Moore, which authorizes her to select her associates in the execution of plans approved by the Directorate of the Panama- Pacific Exposition and by the Bureau of Conventions and Societies, when first submitted in April of 1914. The original Commission, issued on June 24, 1914, and received in Rome, Italy, was rendered practically inoperative by the paralyzing effect of the Great War, which, suddenly engrossing the public mind, caused the work to be postponed for almost five months, and it was not until December 22nd, 1914, that the Chairman issued the first announcement of her plans modified and enlarged by the war, to the fourteen women whom she had chosen to act with her, on the Committee of Organization. This Committee consists of the following, most of whom are well-known lecturers, writers and publicists: 2 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Chairman, 1401 Hyde St., San Francisco, Cal. Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 2 W. 86th St., New York City. Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Audubon Road, Irvington, Ind. Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, 521 6th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Aline Shane Devin, Pass Christian, Miss. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, New York City Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, 39 Newbury St., Boston, Mass. Miss Harriet Noble, 707 E. 20th St., Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, 4958 Blackstone Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dr. Inez C. Philbrick, 1023 "H" St., Lincoln, Neb. Miss Elberta Kate Shipley, 39 E. 27th St., New York City. Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, Meadville, Penn. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe Watson, Cupertino, Cal. Mrs. Cyrus H. Woodruff, Bryson Apts., Los Angeles, Cal. 3 PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE The first printed announcement of this Conference distinctly declares that it is "NOT ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE TO ATTEMPT TO STOP THE PRESENT WAR." Grateful and happy as it Organizing Committee would be to be able to assist in putting an immediate end to the horrible tragedy of slaughter and devastation that has been in progress for the last eight months, it remains the conviction of the Chairman that THIS WAR CANNOT BE STOPPED, until the desire or at least the willingness to have it stopped is felt by the leaders on both sides of the struggle. The original primary purpose TO MAKE THIS THE LAST WAR has been strengthened by every experience since it was first announced. The conviction that this purpose can be accomplished only by an education of public opinion, which will compel such a re-organization of human society as will make war among nations as remote from national intention and purpose, as murder is remote from the intention and purpose of the average individual, has been strengthened by the history of the conflict now waging in Europe; by 4 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Chairman, 1401 Hyde St., San Francisco, Cal. Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 2 W. 86th St., New York City. Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Audubon Road, Irvington, Ind. Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, 521 6th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Aline Shane Devin, Pass Christian, Miss. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, New York City Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, 39 Newbury St., Boston, Mass. Miss Harriet Noble, 707 E. 20th St., Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, 4958 Blackstone Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dr. Inez C. Philbrick, 1023 "H" St., Lincoln, Neb. Miss Elberta Kate Shipley, 39 E. 27th St., New York City. Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, Meadville, Penn. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe Watson, Cupertino, Cal. Mrs. Cyrus H. Woodruff, Bryson Apts., Los Angeles, Cal. 3 PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE The first printed announcement of this Conference distinctly declares that it is "NOT ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE TO ATTEMPT TO STOP THE PRESENT WAR." Grateful and happy as it Organizing Committee would be to be able to assist in putting an immediate end to the horrible tragedy of slaughter and devastation that has been in progress for the last eight months, it remains the conviction of the Chairman that THIS WAR CANNOT BE STOPPED, until the desire or at least the willingness to have it stopped is felt by the leaders on both sides of the struggle. The original primary purpose TO MAKE THIS THE LAST WAR has been strengthened by every experience since it was first announced. The conviction that this purpose can be accomplished only by an education of public opinion, which will compel such a re-organization of human society as will make war among nations as remote from national intention and purpose, as murder is remote from the intention and purpose of the average individual, has been strengthened by the history of the conflict now waging in Europe; by 4 the comments of the daily press upon this history; by the activities of organized peace-associations in different countries; by the public utterances of distinguished peace-advocates, and above all, by THE GENERAL UPRISING OF WOMEN IN THE NEUTRAL COUNTRIES, with the avowed intention of PUTTING AN END TO WAR, not to the war now raging, but to war itself as a recognized agent of organized force. Not only in the United states, but in Norway, in Denmark, in Switzerland and in the Netherlands, meetings called by women have had large and spontaneous response; new organizations for peace have been formed which are, to a large degree, officered by women whose names have not, hitherto, been familiar to the readers of peace-journals,—and each of these groups has issued a proclamation of purpose summoning the women of the whole world to give sympathy and support to their various sincere, simple and practical initiatives. In the United States, the Women's Peace Party has sprung up, branches of which formed in large cities of the country including Washington, New 5 York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, have experienced an almost mushroom growth. The one element, common to all these new organizations is the avowed intention of their initiators, to unite THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD, TO PUT AN END TO WAR, BY A POLICY OF EDUCATION IN PRINCIPLES WHOSE DIRECT AIM IS THE INCULCATION of that spirit of CO-OPERATIVE INTERNATIONALISM which makes for CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE. THE ATTITUDE OF WOMEN IN BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES It is not only in the neutral countries, that these new peace organizations have been formed, but in Great Britain also, new peace-societies, officered by women, not hitherto conspicuously connected with peace movements, have been organized. This spontaneous and universal uprising of women is an occasion of the greatest encouragement to the organizers of this Conference. SUPPORT OF WOMEN FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, RESIDING IN SAN FRANCISCO OR TEMPORARILY HERE. Further encouragement is derived from the fact that the large majority 6 of representatives of foreign countries at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,—including Commissioners, Exhibitors and Hostesses of buildings from both belligerent and neutral countries, express their unqualified approval of the Conference,—and as rapidly as such groups can be formed, the women connected with the various National Divisions of the Foreign Advisory Board of this Conference. THE APPEAL TO THE AFFECTIONS The first sentence is quoted from the first announcement of this Conference: IT IS THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN TO LEND THEIR AID TO THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE HUMAN HEART." The proclamations issued by the Norse women from Christiana, by the Danes from Copenhagen, by the Swiss from Geneva, and by the Dutch from Amsterdam, will show that the immediate and permanent need of organizing the emotional activities of the world, in support of Peace, is recognized by them as being as essential to securing Permanent Peace as is the organized legislative coo-operation of the work essential to it. 7 This fact is now almost universally acknowledged by women who are admitted to be the most reliable generators of universal sympathy and compassion. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THIS CONFERENCE The basic principles of this Conference may be thus re-stated: First—IN TIME OF WAR PREPARE FOR PEACE, AND IN TIME OF PEACE DENY THE POSSIBILITY OF A RATIONAL GROUND FOR WAR. Second—THIS CONFERENCE STANDS FOR A REVISION OF PATRIOTISM. The popular conception of patriotism must be revised, cleansed from the vanity, selfishness and arrogance which lead Nations to covet the territory governed by other peoples, and to desire the supremacy of their respective national ideals and governments over the national ideals and governments of other peoples. Third—In respect to HUMAN LIFE THERE MUST BE ONE MORALE for INDIVIDUAL and for NATION. The same code of morality for man and nation means the recognition that WAR is MURDER,—and as much more horrible and repugnant to the 8 moral consciousness as is any long premeditated, laboriously prepared for, co-operative crime, worse than the unpremeditated and impulsive or even the premeditated crime of the individual. The Chairman of the Organizing Committee of this Conference cannot drop the work on the Pacific Coast to respond personally to the invitation to attend the Conference of brave women at the Hague, on April 28th, 29th, and 30th, but will be represented at the Hague by Miss Jane Addams, a member of its Organizing Committee, who has been authorized to represent it and to convey an urgent official invitation to women of both neutral and belligerent countries to attend this Conference. ASSURED SUPPORT OF THIS CONFERENCE At the time the first announcement of the Conference was issued, it was the intention to publish in the second announcement, a list of the names of all women whose support should by this time have been secured as members of the various branches of its Advisory Board. The number of such supporters is so great that this is quite impossible, and their representative character is so important, that it would be invidious 9 to publish the names of some without including all; therefore, in the enclosed Bulletin of Information only the names of the first group of the residential Advisory Board (with names and addresses of the Chairman of each National Group of the Foreign Advisory Board), and a short list of the names of foreign women who have been or are now in the United States, on some mission connected with War or Peace, who have given their hearty support to this Conference, will be published. PROGRAMME Opening on the Fourth of July, 1915, which falls on Sunday, the service of the first session will indicate the new conception of the significance of that honored historical date. With features universal to a Fourth of July service there will be included, besides welcomes by the State of California, the City of San Francisco, the Boards of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Bureau of Conventions and Societies, a religious service in which representatives of various religious faiths, as well as of different sections of the Christian church will unite, and an oration sympathetic with the purposes of the Conference will be delivered. IT is intended that this service shall 10 lift JULY 4TH into the short category of INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS. On each of the following days, July 5th, 6th, and 7th, there will be two public sessions, the proceedings of which will present a summary of women's service in some specific line of human progress and will show how each department of this service is fostered by Peace and destroyed by War. The preparation of the programme of each such session has been placed in the hands of an expert, as follows: Industrial Progress and War... ...Mrs. Raymond Robins Social Service and War... ...Miss Jane Addams The Economic Aspects of War... ...Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead Woman Suffrage and War... ... Mrs. Ida Husted Harper International Amity and War... ...Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot Each expert charged with the preparation of this programme will secure for their presentation of each sub-topic of her sections, women of ability and experience. PROPOSITIONS At the first public session of July 5th, there will be presented a summary of the attempts of women to secure international 11 co-operation in divers lines of humane, reformatory and cultural effort, during the last quarter of a century followed by an open discussion of the actual causes which have impeded the attainment of the desired degree of such international co-operation. The last public session will be devoted to the discussion of propositions upon which, women of different nations have indicated their substantial if unconscious agreement, by the harmony that exists in their respective declarations and appeals, as announced in the constitutions and programmes of Peace organizations started by women since the WAR. These propositions will be found in the Bulletin of Information above referred to and are taken from the platforms of the new Peace organizations of different countries. GROUP MEETINGS Two hours of each afternoon will be occupied by group meetings, held in smaller halls in the Civic Auditorium, adjacent to that in which the public meetings will be convened. These group meetings will be devoted to the discussion of propositions to come before the last public session. 12 FINAL PROGRAMME The complete programme will be issued on May 15th. All members of the Organizing Committee of this Conference and of its Advisory and Publicity Boards are earnestly requested to circulate the information contained in this announcement as widely as possible; to give all possible publicity to the BASIC PRINCIPLES of this Conference and to such further details as are here and may hereafter be announced. PEACE TOUR Details of the PEACE TOUR, which it is expected will bring hundreds of women from all parts of our own country and which will arrange the transportation of European participants from New York will also be found on the separate Bulletin of Information. SPECIAL EXPOSITION DAYS The Governing Board of the Panama- Pacific International Exposition has given to this Conference the special privilege of two days on the Exposition Grounds, viz., the Fourth of June and the Seventh of July. On June 4th meetings will be held coincidently in the different State 13 Buildings on the ground, and also in many of the Foreign Pavilions. The Peace fete of June 4th, which will be in charge of Special Committees, wil close with the production of "The Trojan Women," by the Little Theatre Company of Chicago. On that date there will be a distribution of buttons, badges, banners, etc., which will be the external symbols of membership in the Conference to open one month later. The Peace fete of June 4th will close with the production of "The Trojan Women" by the Little Theatre Company of Chicago. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chairman of Organizing Committee of the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace. 14 to publish the names of some without including all; therefore, in the enclosed Bulletin of Information only the names of the first group of the residential Advisory Board (with names and addresses of the Chairman of each National Group of the Foreign Advisory Board), and a short list of the names of foreign women who have been or are now in the United States, on some mission connected with War or Peace, who have given their hearty support to this Conference, will be published. PROGRAMME Opening on the Fourth of July, 1915, which falls on Sunday, the service of the first session will indicate the new conception of the significance of that honored historical date. With features universal to a Fourth of July service there will be included, besides welcomes by the State of California, the City of San Francisco, the Boards of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Bureau of Conventions and Societies, a religious service in which representatives of various religious faiths, as well as of different sections of the Christian church will unite, and an oration sympathetic with the purposes of the Conference will be delivered. IT is intended that this service shall 10 lift JULY 4TH into the short category of INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS. On each of the following days, July 5th, 6th, and 7th, there will be two public sessions, the proceedings of which will present a summary of women's service in some specific line of human progress and will show how each department of this service is fostered by Peace and destroyed by War. The preparation of the programme of each such session has been placed in the hands of an expert, as follows: Industrial Progress and War... ...Mrs. Raymond Robins Social Service and War... ...Miss Jane Addams The Economic Aspects of War... ...Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead Woman Suffrage and War... ... Mrs. Ida Husted Harper International Amity and War... ...Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot Each expert charged with the preparation of this programme will secure for their presentation of each sub-topic of her sections, women of ability and experience. PROPOSITIONS At the first public session of July 5th, there will be presented a summary of the attempts of women to secure international 11 co-operation in divers lines of humane, reformatory and cultural effort, during the last quarter of a century followed by an open discussion of the actual causes which have impeded the attainment of the desired degree of such international co-operation. The last public session will be devoted to the discussion of propositions upon which, women of different nations have indicated their substantial if unconscious agreement, by the harmony that exists in their respective declarations and appeals, as announced in the constitutions and programmes of Peace organizations started by women since the WAR. These propositions will be found in the Bulletin of Information above referred to and are taken from the platforms of the new Peace organizations of different countries. GROUP MEETINGS Two hours of each afternoon will be occupied by group meetings, held in smaller halls in the Civic Auditorium, adjacent to that in which the public meetings will be convened. These group meetings will be devoted to the discussion of propositions to come before the last public session. 12 FINAL PROGRAMME The complete programme will be issued on May 15th. All members of the Organizing Committee of this Conference and of its Advisory and Publicity Boards are earnestly requested to circulate the information contained in this announcement as widely as possible; to give all possible publicity to the BASIC PRINCIPLES of this Conference and to such further details as are here and may hereafter be announced. PEACE TOUR Details of the PEACE TOUR, which it is expected will bring hundreds of women from all parts of our own country and which will arrange the transportation of European participants from New York will also be found on the separate Bulletin of Information. SPECIAL EXPOSITION DAYS The Governing Board of the Panama- Pacific International Exposition has given to this Conference the special privilege of two days on the Exposition Grounds, viz., the Fourth of June and the Seventh of July. On June 4th meetings will be held coincidently in the different State 13 Buildings on the ground, and also in many of the Foreign Pavilions. The Peace fete of June 4th, which will be in charge of Special Committees, wil close with the production of "The Trojan Women," by the Little Theatre Company of Chicago. On that date there will be a distribution of buttons, badges, banners, etc., which will be the external symbols of membership in the Conference to open one month later. The Peace fete of June 4th will close with the production of "The Trojan Women" by the Little Theatre Company of Chicago. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chairman of Organizing Committee of the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace. 14 Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 International Conference of Women Workers TO PROMOTE PERMANENT PEACE TO BE HELD IN THE Civic Auditorium, - San Francisco July 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1915 Mrs. May Wright Sewall, B. L.: M. A Chairman of the Committee of Organization May Wright Sewall OFFICE OF The Women's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Boston, May 31, 1881 My Dear Mrs. Stone, Am very sorry not to find you in. I should not feel satisfied to come to Boston without paying my respects to the Editor of the Journal. I hope you will believe the sincerity of my statement in yesterday's note—Indiana and I think all of her representative this great question recognize their allegiance to a cause and to all OFFICE OF The Women's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Boston, __ 188_ the noble women who have done eminent service to it—they owe and always acknowledge their gratitude [ ] [ ] [ ]— always include the name of Lucy Stone to [when? where?] I subscribe myself— Very Sincerely May Wright Sewall Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.