The Indianapolis journal., 1901-09-29
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WAR MAY BE NECESSARY.

- W ferks, figured on the n1,tf,,,,
-helhocism in England. he said b.d ro
"ioAstalrs entrance TO the councils of state
"hu her Influence on international noacs
eoulu only be indirect. He believed himself
mat wars were sometimes necessary. and
- magnanimous was this Methodist John-
"' DUH that he put in this class Americas
"ar against England for independence ue
"U'i iseu ministers not to issue manifestoes
y" PoIucal or governmental matters with
out nrst taking the laity into their councils.
ioi il they did they would come to grief.
"S large body of Jealous but misguided
MINISTER'S had recently done i'm London.
amongst the causes tending to make for
war ne mentioned commercial competition.
ui''iuied journalism, false conception OF
HerOlsm and glory and the profession of
arms Upon the latter point America did
ho' nave much to fear, her standing army
oeins still small, despite it's recent increase.
nu'' SAID Mr.. Perks. looking toward the
american side of the house, you have an
enormous standing army of pensioners in
your country. and that. in my Judgment.
puts premium on war, and is a factor
which. with international peace trembling
IN the balance. might turn the scales the
wrong way"
n,
little faith in law to promote either tenn
perance or international peace PRAYER in
closet would 90 more than any deliverance
at conference. 1t was singular, he said.
that John the Baptist should preach to
soldiers without passing any censure upon
the business they followed, and Christ said
hlmself added the slow-speaking but droll
and lnc1sive bishop, that He came not to
send peace on the earth, but a sword. Mr.
Thomas Shape, of Liverpool. rejOined to
this that he didn't take his gospel from
John the Baptist He wanted to know, too.
why Christians who believed in peace didn't
proceed TO practically apply their principles
in the governments of the world Mr.
Shape is the gentleman who at the Wash
ington ecumenical, ten years ago, intro
duced a resolution favoring international
arbitration. Since then there had been a
Pan-American and Hague conference on
peace, but what had been the result? Amer
lea at war with Spain and England at war
with two South African republics He
gratefully recalled the speech delivered at
the Washington ecumenical by the late
President Harrison. 1t was in support of
Mr.. Shapes peace resolution. He recalled
also President Harrison's humorous but
strikingly suggestive. remark at the close
of that speech. 1T may seem inconsistent"
he said, but, having spoken here in favor
of peace, duty requires me to go imme-
diately from this church to inspect the
navy yard"
AMERICANS AS FIGHTERS.
DR.. Hoss, of Nashville, continued this
lively debate. AS an American he should
resent as an impertinence any expression
by that conference that would criticise his
own government in relation to the Philip
pines, and he should just as bitterly resent
any reflection upon the conduct of England
in South Africa. He couldn't quite agree
with those who had said Americans were.
on the whole, a peaceable people. On the
contrary, they had fought everything in
sight-the Indians, the French, the En-
glish twice over, the Mexicans, and, last
of all, having nobody else to fight, they
had fought one another. For the last
named folly" added this sturdy repre-
sentative of the South, "God pity us.' DIR.
A. B. Leonard thought ii a matter for re-
joicing that, while at the opening of the
nineteenth century all Europe was bloody
battlefield, the twentieth century opened
with no wars worth speaking of. To his af-
firmation that large armies and navies
were a guarantee of peace there were loud
English cries of mo, no." answered, how
ever. just as emphatically and vociferously
by the good old English Hear hear"
The English, in fact, got into quite a
squabble at this point, for it was here that
the Rev. Adam Adams got the platform
and was proceeding to say that the war in
South Africa was brought on by two men.
He would probably have added that these
two arch -transgressors were Chamberlain
and Rhodes, but he was not allowed 10 do
so. He was compelled indeed to take back
what he had already said, and this Incl
dent found it's immediate counterpart in
the effort of Mr.. Martin Harvey, another
Englishman, to tell the conference that
England was for peace, that it was not she
who declared war in South Africa, but
the wicked Mr. Kruger who did so. This
is what Mr.. Harvey started to say, but the
English habit of vociferous dissent was
too much for him, and he had to start on
another tack. So progressed that remark
able debate on peace and war. the day be
fore the sad news came that the American
President had been twice shot by an
Anarchist, sometimes ono side scoring and
sometimes another. 1t was not satisfactory
i'm all respects, but it served admirably to
show the good will of America toward
England. and in the favorable light In
which it had brought William Mckinley
into view, it served also to prepare the
way for the remarkable tribute that was
paid TO him on the following day
TRIBUTES TO NJ MkINLEY.
Since il has been known that a man of
color was one of the first TO spring upon the
dastardly assailant, one cannot help think
ing. as he recalls this conference gathered
in the gloom of international sorrow that
memorial morning, how very appropriate
il was that in the previous allotments or
the business committee the chairman for
that day should have been Bishop Arnett,
of the African NJ E. Church. But the
chairman had little to say and not much to
do. Promptly was the platform taken by
DIR w. ]. Dawson, president Of the British
WESLEYAN Conference, who, in well-chosen
words. voiced the feelings Of the British
side. and indeed, as he said. of the British
nation. and presented the resolutions which
were passed later on by rising vote. Then
came DIR. Waller, one of the ex-presidents
of the Wesleyan Church, whose remarks
were peculiarly touching from the fact
that while in Washington few months
AGO he was presented to President McKin-
lev and sat for time in private and, as
be said sacred conversation with him. Dr.
Waller recalled that McKinley's first refer
ence was TO the late Queen. Then it was
ba fri brrfa Of a