The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-03-07
Meeting at London Of People
With Peace Proposals.
WAS DISAPPOINTING IN SlZt
Letters From Gladstone, Balfour and
Others showing Hearty Accord
With the Meeting.


tions at Queens hall tonight in favor
of permanent arbitration between the
United States and Great Britain was
disappointing from the point of view of
numbers, the audience, Which was not
large, being mostly women. Much en-
thusiasm was caused pending the ar
rival of the speakers when the girls
who were to sing in the choir trooped
upon the stage in patches, which were
arrayed alternately in sashes formed of
the union jack and of the stars and
stripes, until a complete blending of the
flags of the two countries was effected,
intended to be in symbol of the har-
mony which the projectors Of the meet
ing are seeking to establish. When the
meeting opened the organ played
Hearts of Oak" "Our Ships that
Sailed" Columbia and kindred airs.
The choir sang the we'll known patriot
ic air which is to some extent common
to the two countries, one half of the
choir singing God Save the Queen"
and the other half MY Country, IT'S of
Thee simultaneously, the audience
joining in the dual anthem.
Sir James Stansfeld presided over the
meeting, and he was supported by w.
l.
j. Mundel, M p for Sheffield, Professor
James Brice, Rt. Hon. George Shaw
Lefevre, Mrs. Hall Game, Rev. Hugh
Price Hughes, the bishop of Rochester
and others.
Stead, after the opening of the meet
ing, read letters OF sympathy with its
purpose from A. j. Balfour, first lord
of the treasury, Mr.. Gladstone, Rt. Hon.
Henry Asquith, home secretary in the
liberal government, Mr.. Labouchere,
George Meredith, the author, Henry
Norman and many others.
Balfour wrote: MY sympathy with
the object of the meeting has been more
than once expressed in public, and ]
hope I need not emphasize it,"
Gladstone wrote: IT am glad the dis
cussion of arbitration is to be separated
from the Venezuela question, upon
which l do not feel myself in final and
full possession of the facts that should
wish. My views on arbitration in
place of war were gathered from the
part 1 took in the matter of the Alaba-
ma claims. 1 win only add that my
conviction and sentiments on the sub.
ject grow in strength from year tc
year, in proportion to the growth of the
monstrous and barbarous militarisn
in regard to which l consider that En-.
gland has to bear no small share of re-
sponsibility"
Henry Norman said in his letter: "Th'
Americans are practically unanimou:
for arbitration on all subjects. The
overwhelming majority of the British
are the same. Only official conservat
ism blocks the way"
Several letters were read from Her
bert Spencer, Holman Hunt, Wilson
Barrett, the actor, William Watson, thu
poet, Viscount Peel, ex-speaker Of tn,
house Of commons, Leonard Courtney
Alma Tadema, G. f. Watts, DR.. Par
ker and several bishops.
The reading of these letters ELECTED
vigorous cheers from the audience. ST
James Stansfeld. the chairman, in hi
opening speech said that if it were onl,
for the hearing of the letters, the meet
ing would not have been in vain. Tn
Venezuela question, he thought, was
blessing in disguise, because he be
lieved the result would be a treaty o
arbitration.
Shaw Lefevre moved resolution in
structing the chairman to sign a me
mortal on behalf of the meeting to Pres
{ ident Cleveland, the Marquis of Sails
bury and Balfour, urging that the tim
/ was opportune to conclude a treaty @
= arbitration. He then made a speech o
the history of the Alabama case an
subsequent cases of arbitration, refer
r ring to Americas vigor in negotiatin
treaties containing arbitration clauses
? He urged the arbitration of the Venez
uelan question without any reservatio
{ whatever.
America.
Hall Caine, Rev Hugh Price Hughe
and others spoke on the resOlutio
? which was carried by exclamation.
Mr. Mundell, in the course of HI
{ speech, read a telegram of sympath
and concord from America. He urge
the Importance of grasping the han
\ of fellowship thus extended, and he az
e vocated the formation Of a great Angl,
= American Association to promote IL
= movement and perpetuate the prime
pie by means of permanent standin
e committee on both sides of the Atlal
q tic. This motion was carried unan
0 mously, and the meeting ended with Il
singing Of the national anthem.
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