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should be given to every project for the unification of weights and measures, of coinage, tariffs, postal and telegraphic arrangements, means of transport, etc. , which would assist in constituting a commercial, industrial, and scientific union of the peoples. “The Congress, in view of the vast moral and social influence of woman, urges upon every woman throughout the world to sustain⁠ ⁠… the things that make for peace; as otherwise she incurs grave responsibilities for the continuance of the systems of war and militarism⁠ ⁠… “This Congress expresses the hope that the Financial Reform Association, and other similar Societies in Europe and America, should unite in convoking at an early date a Conference to consider the best means of establishing equitable commercial relations between states by the reduction of import duties.⁠ ⁠… The Congress feels that it can affirm that the whole of Europe desires Peace, and is impatiently waiting for the moment when it shall see the end of those crushing armaments which, under the plea of defence, become in their turn a danger, by keeping alive mutual distrust, and are at the same time the cause of that economic disturbance which stands in the way of settling in a satisfactory manner the problems of labor and poverty, which should take precedence of all others. “The Congress, recognising that a general disarmament would be the best guarantee of Peace, and would lead to the solution, in the general interest, of those questions which must now divide states, expresses the wish that a Congress of Representatives of all the states of Europe may be assembled as soon as possible, to consider the means of accepting a gradual general disarmament.⁠ ⁠… “The Congress, considering the timidity of a single Power or other causes might delay