The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-04-28
PEACE MEETINGS
A Plan for Holding Them Simultane.
ously Over the World May 49,
addresses Of sympathy Will Be Exchanged
Dy the Women in Different Civilized
Countries-1he Meetings Will Send
Resolutions to Peace Conference,

lNDIANAPoLIs Ind, April 26.-As the
American member of the International
Peace and Arbitration committee. Mrs.
May Wright Sewall is sending out the
following plan for holding simultane-
Gus peace meetings throughout the
world on May Is.
"A universal and international de-
monstration is to take place in favor
OF the aims for which the peace con-
ference that will open May IS at The
Hague, has been called together by
the invitation of the car. This de-
monStratiOn will consist in simultan-
eous meetings of women held as much
as posi- bic on the same day (for which
the 18th of May has been fixed) in
most of the more important towns
all over the civilized world.
In the simultaneous meetings
the women will proclaim their uni
versal and unanimous will for the idea
of peace and the promotion of the
principles of justice, instead Of force,
IN the international relations of peo-
pies. Besides, they will interchange
addresses of sympathy with all the
other women gathered for the same
cause at the same hour in other coun-
tries.
These meetings must be held, in as
much as possible. in all the important
towns of each country. The organiza-
tiOD and avaou+;o,o Orrrb4 : - no oo,, +o,,c1
in one hand, which also would take the
charge of sending and of receiving the
addresses of sympathy which will be
exchanged between countries and
which will have to be
distrib uted to all places in
the country, where meetings will
be arranged in time so that they may
all be read aloud during these meet
ings These addresses have to be sent
before hand (until the Sth of May, by
means of the central committee of one
country to that of all the other coun-
tries, which will probably amount
to Is or Is, and will have to be for
warded to the different meetings in
copies).
1.-The meetings will indorse short
resolutions, addressed to the govern
menUs and to the peace conference, and
the passage of these resolutions has to
be communicated before May II to the
following address: Vradescomite,
Hague"
May Wright Sewall, honorary presi-
dent of the National Council of Women
of the United States, and vice presi-
: dent of the International Council of
Women, has addressed letter to the
car of Russia, thanking him in the
name of the 1,25O,OOO women of the
United States included in the member
ship of the council, for his action in
calling a convention of the representa-
tives of all nations to consider the dis
armament of the armies of the world.
In her letter Mrs. Sewan says:
The women of the council believe
that whatever is most promotive of
the best interests of one nation must
in the end secure the highest interests
of all. They see in the maintenance
and enlargement of the present stand
ing armies of the world menace to
the highest civilization, to the finest
culture and to the realization
of Christian ideals. They there
fore unite in the desire
that his majesty's motives in conven-
ing a conference to consider disarma-
ment may receive from all people the
most generous interpretation. They
unite III the hope that his majesty, in
the execution Of his benevolent de-
signs, may enjoy the cooperation of
Governments of all civilized countries
throughout the world.