The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-16
WOMEN DEPLORE WAR
ARBITRATION AND DISARMAMENT
OF NATIONS DISCUSSED IN A
COUNCIL OF WOMEN
CARS PEACE CONFERENCE

CARS PEACE CONFERENCE
Proposed That 1t He Officially In
dOrsed i'm Petition Expressing
Hearty sympathy Herewith
Election of Officers Completed
Observance of the Seventy-Ninth
Birthday of Susan b. Anthony.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. The Ma
tional council of women held it's strien-
NAL election Of officers today Pre-
ceding that event the delegates held a
| closed business session, In which they
| made nominations and discussed minor
matters. 1t was Susan B. Anthony's
| seVenty-ninth birthday, and she was
reminded Of the fact by several floral
tributes, and Miss Sadie American, of
| Chicago, president of the National
| Council Of Jewish Women, presented q
handsomely engrossed list of the past
years additions to the members of the
National Suffrage association to Miss
Anthony.
The storm had the effect of reducing
the attendance. OF ffty-six votes.
which constitute the total delegate
vote. there were forty-seven present
When the election for officers opened,
the nominations stood: Rev. Anna
Garland Spencer, of Rhode Island, the
administration candidate to succeed
Mrs. sewall, 26; Mrs. CARNEY, New
York city, IS; Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
rett. of this city. 2; Rev. Anna H.
Shaw, Pennsylvania 1.
Mrs. Gaffney withdrew in Mrs Spen-
GERS favor but the latter announced
that, unless the presidency was re-
!ieved Of much of the work that be-
longs to the committees, she would
not accept. and finally it was decided
that Mrs. Fannie Humphrey Gaffney,
OF New York city, should have the Of
| nee. Other officers elected were: Vice
president at large. Mrs. Maria Purdy
! Peck, of Iowa; corresponding secretary,
| Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, District Of
Columbia; treasurer, Mrs. Hannah G.
Soloman, president Of the Women's
Jewish Council, Of Chicago; first re-
| cordlng secretary, Rev. Anna G. Spen-
Ger, Rhode Island
MOMENTOUS QUESTIONS.
The afternoon meeting was the most
largely attended as yet and was de-
voted to the consideration of the i'm
portant questions of arbitration and
disarmament. All the speakers took
ground in favor Of arbitration and
most OF them were for speedy disarm-
ament. Some expressed in no uncer-
tain terms their opposition to an in
creased army In this country and their
dlsapproval Of the Spanish American
war Rev. Anna Howard Shaw pre-
| sided.
Rev. Amanda DeyO, of Philadelphia,
| president Of the Universal Peace union
delivered an address on 1.-The Rela-
lions Between the Council and Peace
and Arbitrations." The workings Of
civilization, she declared, have brought
us to realize how near we are to uni
Versal peace. At the coming Paris
| congress the women Of the world have
determined they will ask the nations
| for nothing less than disarmament.
There have been divisions among us
| Tor centuries, but at last we have come
| together.
There was considerable discussion on
| the subject matter of address. those
| participating including Mrs. Margaret
! Dye Ellis. Of New York: Mrs. A. M.
Moody of New York: Miss Belva A:
| Lockwood. Of this city. and Mrs. Eliza
! beth B. Grannis. of New York. the lat
| ter declaring that the Spanish war was
simply a 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 welcome us. but will. she
asked. the mothers Of the Filipinos be
ready to accept our Gospel now?
CzAR'S PEACE CONFERENCE.
The remainder Of the afternoon was
consumed in discussion along the same
general lines. the topic being the at
titude Of the women towards the cars
peace conference. Much Of it hung
upon petition presented by Rev.
Amanda Deyo, expressing the hearty
sympathy of the undersigned sovereign
citizens Of the United States with the
cars noble effort for the cause Of God
and humanity.
Rev. Anna Spencer. of Providence,
r. l.. thought there had been times
when bad powers had to be met with
good in conflict. She had never had,
she declared. so deep 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 of this nation. She
believed arbitration measures for set
Element Of difficulties must for years
precede universal 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 SOW
ereign citizens = we are political
slaves"
Further discussion was INDUCED in
by Rev. Anna Shaw and Mrs. May
Wright Sewall. who declared that
women were born as sovereign citizens
and that no man could take this SOW
ereignty from them.
1t was suggested by some of the
speakers that the cars motive in pro-
posing disarmament was not altogeth-
er a disinterested one, and was made
for selfish purposes.
The petition offered by Rev. Deyo
will go to the committee on resolutions.
REPORTS READ.
At tonight's session a number of in
teresting reports were read. That on
the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, by Lillian M. Stevens
the president, of Maine. asserted that
the canteen system of the army had
been abolished largely through the eff
forts of the association. She eulogiZed
the late Frances E. Willard. and read
a telegram announcing the passage by
the Illinois state senate of a bill au-
thorizing the placing Of a statue to her
in the national capitol.
A petition was adopted requesting
the Illinois house of representatives to
take favorable action on the bill.
Of the work of the supreme hive, Ladies
of the Maccabees of the World. and
Minnie Snow, of Omaha, spoke of the
National Mutual Improvement associa-
ton. Mrs. Mary G. Osgood. of New
Hampshire, reported for the National
Free Baptist Woman's Missionary as
ISOLATION and Mrs. Frances Maddox,