1. _A Concert of Europe._ The surest method of establishing permanent peace is to bring about a Concert of Europe, based upon the knowledge that, with nations as with individuals, cooperation and not conflict is the law of progress. In order to insure mutual conference and concerted action, there should be organized a representative Council whose deliberations and decisions would be public. This would mark the end of offensive alliances and ententes which have proved their inability to safeguard the real and permanent interests of the people. 2. _Nationality Must be Respected._ No territory should be transferred from one nation to another against the will of the inhabitants, nor should any readjustments be made which might breed fresh wars. National boundaries should coincide as far as possible with national sentiment. No terms of settlement should be regarded as satisfactory if they impose upon any nation such harsh and humiliating terms of peace as would be inconsistent with its independence, self-respect, or well-being. All idea of revenge should, of course, be rooted out. 3. _Limitation of Armaments._ Since the policy of huge national armaments has lamentably failed to preserve peace, competition in armaments should end. The nations should agree to have no military forces other than those maintained for international police duty. Militarism should be abandoned by all nations, because they recognize the absolute futility of force as a means of advancing the moral or material well-being of any country. To facilitate the elimination of militarism, the conditions of peace should stipulate that all manufactories of arms, armaments, and munitions for use in war shall hereafter be national property. No private citizen or corporation should be permitted to engage in such manufacture. PROGRAM OF WOMEN’S PEACE PARTY Organized in Washington, January 10, 1915. [Sidenote: Women’s Peace Party.] 1. The immediate calling of a convention of neutral nations in the interest of early peace. 2. Limitation of armaments, and the nationalization of their manufacture. 3. Organized opposition to militarism in our own country. 4. Democratic control of foreign policies. 5. The further humanizing of governments by the extension of the franchise to women. 6. “Concert of Nations” to supersede balance of power. 7. Action toward the gradual organization of the world to substitute law for war. 8. The substitution of an international police for rival armies and navies. 9. Removal of the economic causes of war. 10. The appointment of our Government of a commission of men and women, with an adequate appropriation, to promote international peace. PROGRAM OF WOMEN’S PEACE PARTY Washington, January, 1916. 1. That no increased appropriations for war preparations be voted during the present session. 2. That a joint committee be appointed to conduct a thorough investigation with public hearings, and report within the next six months upon the following matters: