The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-02
WOMEN FAVOR DISARMAMENT
PROPOSE TO ENCOURAGE CzAR'S
PEACE CONFERENCE.
Resolutions Adopted That VIII Be
Forwarded to Representatives, of
Different Nations at The Hague.

indianapolis, Ind, May Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, chairman of the Amer
lean branch of the International Wo-
mans Peace committee, which is or
ganized to promote the cause of peace
/ by a universal international demonstra-
/ ton of women in favor of the aims for
which the cars peace committee has
] been convened, has determined upon the
/ following programme, which is in har-
mony with that adopted by the other
nations represented in the international
committee:
Women everywhere throughout the
United States are asked to arrange for
holding masS-meetings of women in
their respective communities on May 10.
To prepare the public for this demon
stration the women taking the initiative
are recommended to invite the pastors
of all churches to preach sermons on
the cars conference on Sunday, May
Il. They are also advised to avail them
selves in every possible way of the aid
of the press. Programmes must be ar
ranged by each local committee to suit
local conditions and correspond with
the local resources. The meetings. how
ever will be unified by the presentation
and prejudice of resolutions, the COM
plete text of which follows:
Resolved. That we, the women of the
United States, believing in the solidar-
ity of humanity, recognize that what
ever promotes the permanent interests
of one nation must ultimately secure
the highest welfare for all; believing
that the highest interests of each nation
are best conserved by its own civil po-
litical and social institutions; that de-
votion to these interests in all nations is
measured by the industrial progress of
its people and finds it's best expression
in philanthropy, letters, art and reli-
gion. and realizing that these express
sions of a nations life languish in time
of war and are abated by the influences,
conditions and circumstances accompa-
nying war and resulting therefrom, we
deprecate the maintenance and enlarge
ment of the present standing armies of
the world as menace to civilization, to
culture and to religious ideals; there
fore,
.Resolved. That we gratefully regard
the conference convened by his majesty
the car of Russia as the initiative of
tendency which we hope will result in
the abolition of war as a means of set
Ting international disputes and the es
tablishment of the permanent interna-
tional court of arbitration. Further,
and finally,
Resolved, That we extend to the
commissioners appointed by President
Mckinley to represent the government
of the United Sites at the cars con-
ference our congratulations on the OPP
portunity thus offered them to assist in
the inauguration of that better method
that shall characterize the new civiliZa-
ton; and we respectfully beg to assure
them that their countrywomen conf
IDENTIFY expect them to lend their high
influence and their large abilities to the
service of humanity by their disinter-
ested efforts to promote the objects set
forth in the letter of his majesty the
szar of Russia, and the still higher OBJ
jects which are involved in gradual dis
armament, and which will come to be
regarded as its natural sequence"
It is also desired that telegram
containing the information that the
resolutions have been passed and the
number of people present at the meet
ing shall be sent from every meeting to
May Wright Sewall, Indianapolis. and
to Vredescomite, The Hague. Holland.
The object of sending the cablegram is
to enable the central committee which
will be in session at The Hague from
May 16, to be able to make a sum total
for every country of the number of
women that have convened in meetings
to express their interest in gradual
disarmament and international arbitra-
ton. -'''--'