The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-16
in INTEREST OF PEACE
ABOUT 900 ATTENDED THE LOCAL
MEETING YESTERDAY.
Addresses ny Well-known People
Cablegram Afterwards Ser
to The Hague.

About two hundred persons attended the
peace meeting called for yesterday after
noon at the First Baptist Church. The ar
engagements were made by a committee of
fourteen women, Of which Mrs. +. ]. Fos-
ter was the chairman. The meeting wa
held in the interest of peace and interna-
tional arbitration, Mrs. Sewall presiding.
The programme of sixteen numbers includ-
ed an organ number by Mr.. Charles f. Han
sen, a hymn of peace. sung by the audience.
an invocation by Rev. Mr.. Villers, followed
by the reading by Mrs. Sewall of the peace
proposal. made by the Gar OF Russia, and
the resolutions passed by the National
Council of Women in Washington, both of
which have appeared in the Journal. Mrs.
Alice Fleming Evans followed with a vocal
solo, Song of Sunshine" and Mr.. Villers
made the first address. 1t was brief and
merely gave the statistics of the standing
armies OF Europe, which in land and naval
forces to-day numbered twenty-four million
of men.
Rev. F.. E. Dewhurst spoke Of the Cost
of War; In which he said that the intel
lectuSl and moral cost of war deserved
quite as much emphasis as the material,
that the standing armies of Europe re-
quired a billion of dollars a year to sup
port. a sum which no mind could appre-
ciate. and that it was at the rate of n tax
OF 50 a year on every man, woman and
child in Europe. The civil war cost at
the rate of 5000 for every dollars worth
of slaves freed and the pension list had to
be added TO this TO count the cost or the
civil war in America. Our moral life, he
said, is determined by thought. and In his
estimation 1t took more courage for Gov
ernor Roosevelt to sign the franchise tax
law in New York, in the face of Plat and
the Republican party, that 1t did for him to
lead the Rough Riders up San Juan hill.
The moral cost comes in the breaking down
of the finer sensibilities and the coarsening
of the mental fibre.
Mrs. A. b. Mitchell spoke for 1.-The Need
of Peace She said that women did not
belittIe the greatness nor the sacrifice of a
righteous war, nor the freeing of four mill
lion slaves. but the need Of peace to-day
was to heal the wounds made by the worlds
struggles. The church must have the pro-
tection and safety for it's missionaries.
Many say the message of the Car is Wis
ionary, but SO were religious freedom and
personal freedom once visions. Mrs. Grace
Julian Clarke followed on the same subject.
giving as her line of thought that there is
lack of faith. Men call the Cars message
desirable but impracticable and Utopian,
and she heard a judge say in a club that
wal Is a blessing because II stimulates cour-
age and keeps US from being eneminate;
Let us cling to our faith that the Eternal
Goodness shall at least prevail said she.
Rev. j. A. Milburn spoke OF the "Enects
or Feasibility of Peace" He said 1t wouid
bring great Industrial prosperity and would
promote intelligence and physical life. lie
would have the money now spent Tor war
used In the erection and maintenance OF
great national universities, where free edu-
cation would be given. and that the heat
and energy now given to war might be used
to promote economies and the culture OF lie.
Mrs. Ida Gray Scott sang the aria from
the "Queen of Sheba," Mrs. Harriet Angus
ia Prunk read two selections, one from the
Prayer of Peace" written by Mr.. joseph
F.. Brown, and the Hymn of Peace. by
oliver Wendell Holmes. Mr.. Frank Cro4-
ton SANG the closing song and Kew. "A. %.
Philputt pronounced the benediction.
Mrs. Sewal1 called for a vote on the reso-
lutions and there was no dissenting voice.
A cablegram was sent to the womenS COM
mittee at The Hague recording the number
present. with a series of reports from ike
meetings held i'm Hillsdale, Mich, where 800
met: Mount Pleasant, Pa, with 1,52l; Attain
ia, Ca, with 1900: Washington, d. e, with
500: from ten churches in Rochester, togetn-
er with postals and kilograms from indivld-
uals. The cablegram will be delivered by the
United States commissioner, Andrew ID.
White. to the peace conference at The
Hague to convene Thursday.