National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-27
THE REIGN OF PEACE
Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of the Universal
Peace Union.
Politics, Temperance, the French Cow
srnmont, aud the Chinese Question.

house, / street, between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth northwest, with Alfred IL. Love,
president; Henry S. Clubb (oditor of tho
Pcdccmdkcr) secretary.
The delegates arc Bernard T. Janney,
Samuel NJ. Baldwin, Bolva A. Lockwood,
Joseph $. Fowler, District Of Columbia; Jacob
NJ. 1roth, Mount Vernon, Va; Charles Will
lams, fredericksburg, Va. WalterWalton, Va;
Ex-senator Fowler, Tennessee; w. Harrison
Lewis, Buffalo, \. Y; Alfred II. Love, Edwin
II. Coates, Y. Ellwood Chapman, Henry S.
Club, Dr. Sarah r. Rodgers, Clayton B.
Rodgers, Kate Loe, Hannah NJ. Harlan, Jessie
Clcaver, Philadelphia; William Wood, Ed
ward l.. Palmer, Henry Jauney, Jonathan X.
Taylor, Baltimore; Rev. Mr. Phillips, Texas,
Levi X. Josliu, Rhode Island.
After remarks by the president, letters APP
preciative of tho sentiments and policy OF
tho Universal Peace Union were read from
X. Stewart Patnell, Hon. Charles O'Neill,
house Of representatives; Hon. Hiram Price,
commissioner of Indian affairs; Row Robert
Collyer, Brooklyn, ~ Y; Hon. ]. Newton
Evans. house of representatives; Zebulon Z.
White, Pawtucket, r, l.; Jonathan W. Plum
mer, Chicago; Edward s. Toby, postmaster
of Boston, and Secretary Frelinghuysen. Tho
latter was in response to = request from the
Universal Peace Union that the President
place In his message to congress some allusion
to the court of arbitration, which was done.
1t was stated that Darlington Hooper, one
of tho originators of the Universal Peace
Union, was prevented from attending the
meeting on account of family alEiction.
President Love was pleased to state that
arbitration treaties had been affected be-
tween Italy and Belgium and England and
Italy. He also stated that John Bright and
William Il. Gladstone were in sympathy
with tho Universal Peace union, and that the
Hebrews took an active interest in the meet
ipc bal1 In PhiIadalnhia
Henry s. Clubb reported that the Peace
maker had trebled its circulation within the
past two years. Referring to the principles
Of the Universal Peace union to promote
peace among all nations, he took occasion to
say that in the late telegraph strike no had
been informed by the officials of the Ameri-
can Rapid company that the Peace union,
through its efforts toward arbitration, had
been instrumental in bringing the strike TO
an end.
Satisfactory reports woro made by Jesse
Cleaver, treasurer, and Lewis X. Joslin, Of
the committee on the permanent fund of the
union.
Committees were appointed as follows:
On nominations, Edwin II. Coates, DIR. Sarah
Il. Rodgers, Henry Janney, T. Elwood Chap
man, Jacob Al. Troth on resolutions, Levi
X. Joslin, Walter Walton, Henry s. lubb
A. II. Love, Hannah III. Harlan, Belva A.
Lockwood, s. s. Fowler Tennessee; Bernard
Hannah M. Harlan, Kate Lee.
Mr.. Janney, of Baltimore, said that the
withdrawal Of the French troops from Ton
quin and transferring them to the Island Of
Madagascar was most iniquitous measure.
The queen Of Madagascar had banished in
temperance and slavery from the island, and
Just because the Chinese had shown a most
wonderful patience in yielding to tho do
mands of the French, they (the French) had
no right to make the Same demands from the
queen of Madagascar.
Mr., Fowler said, that although ready to
consure the French, he thought we should
stop at home, as our own conduct toward the
Chinese was just rs censurable rs that of the
French.
Mrs. Rodgers said that the conduct of the
government toward the Chinese was cruel and
arbitrary and from what she had seen Of the
Chinese, she thought it preposterous to call
them heaLhenR. ,-------- --
cussed by Messrs. Coates, Lewis, Clubb, Fow-
lor, Troth, and others.
Mr.. Clubb said that he objected to Blaines
nomination for the presidency because he
advocated the privileges Of the sand lots in
California as against those Of the Chinese.
Mr.. Janney admitted that Mr.. Blaine had
called a peace convention of all the nations
of the western world, which had been frus-
trated by tho death of President Garfield,
but the speaker objected to his policy in tho
Chili-Peru affair. He did not like the
Monroe doctrine policy of Mr.. Blaine in the
Panama canal discussion.
President Love hoped that the meeting
would not become personal, and remarked
that what had been said was merely by way
Of illustration.
Mr.. TToth thought that the Peace union
had always been too conservative in its delib-
erations. He was glad TO see O discussion Of
public men and their records, and especially
when the momentous question of who should
be the nominee of the republican party for
president is to be decided next week.
Let US have" said MIR. Coates, of Philadel.
phia, "a conscientious regard for the truth,
and, like Davy Crockett, be Sure we are
right and then go ahead"
Said Mr.. Janney, ~ hope it will not go out
that We arc dabbling in politics. there will
be enough Of that at Chicago"
Mr.. Clubb thought a good deal of Blaine,
and might vote for him. He believed it was
much better 10 express an opinion before
than after q nomination.
Mrs. Rodgers wss of the opinion that the
Universal Peace union should keep aloof
from politics; but Mr.. Clubb took strong
grounds against such policy. She closed the
debate upon politics, and the members began
to talk about temperance.
Mr.. Clubb stated that Intoxicating liquors
were being taken TO the island of Madagascar
under the protection Of the Britiah flag, and
after further remarks upon the subject, as
also in reference to the action Of the Fren CHI
toward the island Of Madagascar, the fellow
ing was adopted:
Resolved That the recent action Of the French
governments IN transferring their army and navy
now In TonQuin, China, 10 the island OF Madagas-
car be Investigated and referred to our executive
committee with instructions To petition tbs French
government against making war upou the island :
and also the armed enforcement Of the iutroduu.
tion OF Intoxicating liquors by Great Britain
therein.
The Union, at LES p m, took a rocess until
3p III.
At the afternoon session o resolution was
offered by Bernard II. Jannoy, of the District
of Columbia, relative to the sending of a
committee to the republican aud democratic
national conventions with the Wow OF having
an arbitration plank inserted IN the platforms
of said conventions. After discussion IL was
referred TO tho committee on resolutions.
AZ the night session u letter WAS read from
Senator Miller, of California, chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, inviting tho
members Of the union to appear before the
committee this morning Tho invitation
was accepted
A letter was also read by the president,
from Charles Laymoni, of Paris Franco,
chairman of the European branch Of the
Peace union, which gave q very favorable
repOrt Of the work Of the union on tho other
side of the Atlantic.
James X. Joslin, of the committee on reso-
lutions, submitted a series to the effect that
peace is q blessing upon humanity; that it
aboliahes the customs of war, controls tho
self-dlyine spirit in man. that 1t establishes
the principles Of Justice, love, and arbltra-
tion; that international arbitration is the
practical policy of government; that the