The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-27
Enthusiastic Meeting at St. James
Hall, London.
THE OUTLOOK IN VENEZUELA
Transvaal Raiders - Probable Early Release
of Jameson and Companions Drop
in Sugar Wants a Slice of China.
Revolt in the Philippine Islands,

| LONDON, Oct. 19.-St James Hall
tonight was packed with an audience
of 1000 people, large proportion of
whom were women, to take part in the
demonstration of protest against the
Armenian massacres. Nearly 1000 peo-
/ pie applied for admission to the hall.
| The Bishop of Rochester presided in
stead of the Duke of Westminster,
who wrote regretting that i'll health
compelled him to be absent. The Earl
of Portsmouth, the Earl of Meath, Bar
on Abinger, Baron Kendall, Viscount
Oxenbridge, the Earl of Stamford, the
Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of
Hereford, the Bishop of Aberdeen,
James Bryce, Rev. Harry r. Drew and
Mrs. Drew (Mr. Gladstone's daughter),
Canon Wilberforce, Canon MacColl,
Sir Lewis Morris, Rev. DR.. John Cliff
ford, Rev. DR.. John Guinness Rogers
and a number of members wearing
their insignia sat upon the platform.
Ten peers, twenty-eight bishops and
number of deans and non-conformist
ministers wrote expressing their regret
at their inability to attend the meeting
Intense interest was manifested by
those present, especially over the read
| ing of a letter from Gladstone. In this
| letter Gladstone expressed the hope
that the meeting would worthily crown
the Armenian meetings of the past two
months, which, he said were without
parallel during his political life. The
great object, Gladstone said further
was to strengthen Lord Salisbury's
hands and to stop the series of mas
sacres which was probably still unfin
ished, and to provide against their re-
lneWal. AS he believed that Lord Sails
bury would use his powerful position
for the best, personally he objected in
the strongest manner to abridging Lord
Salisbury's discretion by laying down
this or that as things which he ought
not to do.
1t was a wild paradox, without the
support of reason or history, to say
that the enforcement of treaty rights
to stop systematic massacre, together
with effective security against Great
Britains abusing them for selfish
purposes, would provoke the hostility
of one or more of the powers. To adj
vertise beforehand in the ears of the
great assassin that Great Britain's act
ion would be cut down to what the
most backward of the six powers think
to be sufficient would be the abandon
ment of duty and prudence, and would
be to doom the national movement to
disappointment. The concert of Eu-
rope, said Gladstone, was valuable and
important but such an announcement
would certainly be followed by its fail
ure.
Gladstones letter concluded as fol-
lows: Il have special opportunities of
knowing of what materials the Sultan,
with all his seeming obstinacy, is
made. From deplOrable and disgrace
full causes he triumphs for the moment,
but for the moment only. In the face
of civilized mankind he has recorded
the final condemnation, first and fore
most of himself, but next and no less
effectuaIly, those who have been his
willing, brutal and sanguinary tools.
The meeting unanimously adopted
resolutions expressing adherence of
the Armenian massacres and in sup
port of the British Government in it's
efforts to stop them; appealing to the
powers to cooperate with that object,
and asking all nations and creeds to
assist in the succor of the helpless and
starving Armenians.