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Show 260 261 as much for our navy this year as we paid sixteen years ago. Let practical citizens use their own reason and refuse to be scared by vested interests and navy leagues. Let us again be leaders, not servile followers of world policies. Upon our sanity depends in large measure the progress of the world. subject of p ‘ace, I fancy you will find in that federation that they are studying in regard to this matter the disarmament of all nations. the statistics in regard to them and everything that per- tains to the peace question, especially arbitration, You will find this hotly of women lookingr on every side to find out what has, been done and what should be done in the future. I have been very glad indeed that Mrs. Mead preceded me with her very fine address. You will understand that when she has for the last two or three or four years beseeched the General Federation to take up the subject of peace, that she has been absolutely imperative in that demand, and that we have quietly and persistently set it aside until we have realizediperhaps I might say we realized it first at the last Hague Conference-that our own people are deeply interested in peace and are going to do the very things that she asks for. (Applause) We sent at that tinu: to the llagne Conference ottr recognition of arbitration as one of the greatest principles for which we could stand. and now we are going to do still more and we are going to ask Mrs. Mead and a peace organization to give into our educational forces some lines of work which will show otir women just what peace means in the world, what arbitration means, and will help us in an educational way, because I have to say right there that the great work of the General Federation is educational. \\'e have taken up almost every subject of special interest to women, but we have always taken it up in an educational way because we have realized that you who are taking one subject alone of thought and devoting your whole time to it may not realize that we have taken up ten different lines of thought and have taken the subjects that those committees consider from the very best point of view. This has been our work in this great organization of 800,000 women. We do not stand back for any organization but we do wish to conn- forward and help any organization. There is no question that any of these organizations take up that we are not most anxious to help in. We have decided in the General Federation that at the next biennial convention we will ask the Peace Congress to present to us both sides of the question, That is the only way that we can consider anything, and I ask you to present the matter of ])t"tt‘(‘ and arbitration. ‘t'e shall ask you to present arguments in Mas. HENROTINI I now have the pleasure of presenting to you Mrs. Philip N. Moore, president of the General Federation of VVomen's Clubs, and I shall ask you to rise to greet her in recognition of the work she has done. (Applause) Mas. PHILIP N. Moons: MADAM CHAIRMAN AND Laori-‘s: I fancy I am speaking to members of the Peace Congress, and I am the first one to bring the greetings of the General Federation to these members of the Peace Congress. It may not be out of place in bringing the greetings of this large body to you to show you how and why it is that we have not been actually members of the Peace Congress. national or international. We have been an organization that has been formed with the policy of doing anything that we choose to do individually. Every club is perfectly welcome to study any subject that may come to that club. Every state has the matter of state's rights clearly in hand, and can study anytlnnq that may come to that state. I atn pleased to notice that there are so many representatives today from the different states to the l‘eaec Congress. It means that they have taken up this subject as they ought to take it. \‘Vc started out, the General Federation, with a very conservative body, and some timid, feariul ltodit's ot' women were always afraid that we would take up a subject that we could not endorse and we have been very careful in tht- did'ert‘nt phast-s ot' it in the Federation to yield a lllllt' to those very conservative bodies. \\'e have not taken up national subjects which national organizations naturally have considered their own. \\'e have not taken UP thibltioni we have not taken up suffrage. we have not taken up religious debates, \\<' haw not considered any of those as our special province ltecattst- we are (‘Hlllpt‘st'tl of women that wish to come together to study both sides of cyt-ry question. f any state takes up the |