The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-16
UTAH WOMAN HONORED
Mrs. Wells Elected Secretary Of
National Council.
DELEGATES FOR PEACE
EXPRESSED DISAPPRoVAL OF
THE LATE WAR.
Simply Question of Brute Force
Sympathy Expressed For the
Cars Peace Movement - Minnie
j. Snow of Utah On Young La
dies Mutual Improvement.

Washington, Feb. 15.-The National
Council of Women held its triennial
election of officers today OF the fifty
six votes which constitute the total del
egate vote there We're forty-seven pres
ent. For president the nominations
stood: Rev. Ann Garlins Spencer of
! Rhode Island, as candidate TO succeed
Mrs. Sewell, %; Mrs. Gaffney. New
/ York City, IS; Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
rett of Washington, 2; Rev. Anna II.
Shaw of Pennsylvania, 1.
Mrs. Gaffney withdrew in Mrs. Spen-
/ GERS favor, but the latter announced
! that unless the presidency was relieved
/ OF much of the work that belongs to
} the committees she would not accept.
Finally it was decided that Mrs. Gaff-
ney should have the Office.
/ Other officers elected were: Vice
| president at large, Mrs. Marian Purdy
! Peck of Iowa; corresponding secretary,
| Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, District of
! Columbia; treasurer, Mrs. Hannah Sol
or.on. president of the Women's Jewish
council, Chicago; first recording secre-
Hel lnna -. Spencer, Rhode
Island; second recording secretary, Mrs.
Emmeline B. Wells, Salt Lake City. 1t
was Susan B. Anthony's 18th birthday,
! and she was reminded of the fact by
several floral tributes Miss Sadie
American of Chicago, president of the
National Council of Jewish Women.
presented a handsomely engrossed list
of the past years additions TO the mem
bership Of the National Suffrage asSo-
citation to Miss Anthony.
DISAPPROVED THE WAR
The afternoon meeting was the most
largely attended as yet, and was de-
fn 1o 5ar-a of the i'm
portant questions of arbitration and
disarmament. All of the speakers took
ground in favor of arbitration, and most
of them for speedy disarmament. Some
expressed in no uncertain terms their
opposition to an increased army in this
country, and their disapproval of the
Spanish-American war.
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw presided.
Rev Amanda Deyo of Philadelphia,
president of the Universal Peace
Union, delivered an address on THE
Relations Between the Council and
Peace and Arbitration" At the COM
ing Paris congress, she said. %
men of the world viii ask the IS
for nothing less than disarmaI.
There was considerable discussion on
the subject matter of the address, |
those participating including Mrs. Belva
\. Lockwood of this city and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth B. Grannis of New York. The
latter declared that the Spanish war
was simply matter Of brute force, and
settled only which country had the |
most money and the ability to defeat |
the other.
The missionaries say the open doors |
of all nations have been ready to well |
come US; but will, she asked, tiS
mothers OF the FDilipinos accept our /
gospel now?
CZAR'S PEACE PROPOSAL
The remainder of the afternoon was
consumed in discussing the attitude of |
the women toward the cars peace con-
ference. Much of it hung upon petit
ton presented by Rev. Amanda Deyo, !
expressing the hearty sympathy of the
undersigned sovereign citizens of
the United States, with the czars noble
effort for the cause of God and human
ity. Rev. Anna Spencer of Providence,
r. L, thought there had been times
when bad powers have had to be met
by good in conflict. She had never had,
she declared, so deep a sorrow in con-
nection with her own country as in the
events Of the past few months. She
could not see how any human being
could contemplate with pride the rise
of the war spirit in this country. She
believed arbitration measures for set
ting difficulties must for years precesie
disarmament.
Miss Susan B. Anthony objected to
the phrase, sovereign citizens" in
Rev. Deyo's petition. Il never heard of
anything so absurd she said I'VE
are not sovereign citizens-we are po-
litical slaves"
Further discussion was indulged in
by Rev. Anna Shaw and Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, who declared that wo-
men were born as sovereign citizens,
and that no man could take this SOW
ereignty from them.
Rev. Deyo's petition will go to the
committee on resolutions
At tonight's session Lillian NJ. Hol-
lister of Michigan told Of the work in
Supreme hive, Ladies of the Macca-
bees of the World, and Minnie J. Snow
Of Utah spoke of the Young Ladies
Mutual improvement association.
The evening closed with an address
on christianity as Related to Soci-
ology,'' by Miss May Perkins Davis.