The San Francisco call., 1899-08-26
SESSION OF THE
PEACE SOCIETY
Three Thousand PeO-
pie Attend.
STRONG SPEECHES MADE
SEVERE DENUNCIATIoN OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
In His Address the Presiding Officer
Spares Neither President NC
Kinley Nor Admiral
Dewey.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

MYSTIC, Conn, Aug. 25.-Fully 5000 peo-
pie attended the annual meeting OF the
Universal Peace Union and the Connec-
ticut Peace Society in the peace temple
here to-day. At the morning session Pres
ident Love delivered a brief address on
the Philippine situation. Other. addresses
were made by j. II. Earl OF Boston, Mrs.
Comegys of Philadelphia and Mrs. Han
nah White of Lebanon At this after
Moons session the pricipaI address was by
William Lloyd Garrison of Philadelphia,
who took for his theme mo Compromise
With War" Mr.. Garrison spoke in part
as follows:
A year ago when. in the interest of peace. we
met upon this spot the war with Spain was In
full blast. Then in the national eye Spaniard
was the type of treachery and oppression ana
the sorrows of the suffering Cubans filled our
hearts.
What space twelve months covers. The Span
lard is nc longer a monster, but respected as
a brave and gallant foe. The Cubans then
patriots and statesmen now, in the opinion OF
military experts and politicians. are people IN
capable Of governing themselves war WIN
the device Of freedom and chivalry on It's ban
neT has developed into a conflict Tor conquest
and baseness.
At The Hague the conclave of the great pow
ers was each eagerly engaged in plundering
schemes of its own.
Is il strange that the international congress
failed? 1t is not the armed savasery OF the
savagery that Theodore Roosevelt represents.
Had President Mckinley, understanding the
needlessness and iniquity Of the war forced
upon Spain vetoed the declaration of Congress
and avowed his purpose OF resigning his high
office rather than to prostitute 1t by subserVi-
ence to wrong. he would have made a niche IN
the worlds pantheon. Had John ID. Long, a
man OF finer quality than the President and In
touch with the nobler sentiments which make
his commonwealth exceptional, paraphrasing
the indignant res ponse Of Charles Sumner In
fugitive slave DAYS Il was a man before / was
a (slave) commissioner" declared Massachu-
setts manhood more precious than the Seere-
taryship OF the Navy. and surrendered his port
folio he would have occupied a place in her
love and respect forever lost
Had Admiral Dewey, the one man who in
military HE who after distinguishing himself
In his destructive profession, refrained from
self -laudation-had Admiral Dewey in protest
ouarterdeck to private citizenship. rather than
abet the outrage. the victory OF Manila would
have paled in comparison
Political independence however, has not been
wanting as is demonstrated by such party ad
herents as Hoar Boutwell, and Edmunds-all
honor to them. But look in vain for a sin
gle instance where office has been sacrificed
10 principle Even the Secretary OF State clngs
To his position forgetful OF his vow, when
untrameled bard he wrote:
For always in thine eyes. Liberty,
Shines that high light whereby the world is
saved,
And though thou slay US, we Will trust In
thee
Has Liberty lost its high light or has John
Hay lost HIS vision?