The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-26

iiiNfSu illilStlI Liidl WdIS were SOIIlG
 times necessary, and so magnanimou
 was this Methodist Johnny Bull that h
 put in this class Americas war agains . | England for independence He advised ministers not to issue manifestos on DO
 lttical or governmental matters, with
 out first taking the laity into thei
 councils, for if they did they would
 come to grief, as a large body of zealou
 but misguided ministers had recently
 done in London. Amongst the cause!
 tending to make for war he mentioned
 commercial competition, unbridleC
 journalism, false conception of hero
 ism and glory and the profession ot
 arms. Upon the latter point America
 did not have much to fear, her standing
 army being still small, despite it's re- cent increase. But" said MT. 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 a premium on war; and is a fac
 tor which, with international peace
 trembling in the balance, might turn
 the scales the wrong way"
 Bishop Wilson, of the Church South,
 had little faith in law to promote
 eithre temperance or international
 peace. Prayer In the closet would do
 more than any delverance at confer ence. 1t was singular, he said, that
 John the Baptist should preach to sol diers without passing any censure upon
 the business they followed and Christ
 said himself, added the slow speaking
 but droll and incisive bishop, that He
 came not to send peace on the earth
 but sword. MT, 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 prin-
 ciples in the governments of the world,
 MT. Shape is the gentleman who at the | Washington Ecumenical ten years ago, | introduced a resolution favoring inter-
 national arbitration. Since then there | had been Pan American and a Hague | conference on peace but what had been | the result? America at war with Spain and England at war with two South African Republics. He gratefully re- ! called the speech delivered at the Washington E,cumenical by the late President Harrison. It was in support of MT. Shapes peace resolution He recalled also President Harrison's hu-
 morous but striklngly suggestive re- mark at the close of that speech. Tt may seem inconsistent" he said but having spoken here in favor of peace, duty requires me to go immediately from this church to inspect the navy yard"
 Dr. Hoss, of Nashville, continued this lively debate. As an American, he should resent as an impertinence any expression by that conference that would criticize his own government in relation to the Philippines, and he should just as bitterly resent any re- flection upon the conduct of England in South Africa. He couldn't quite agree with those who had said that Anleri cans were on the whole a peaceabla people. On the contrary they had fought everything in sight--the Indians the French, the English twice over, the Mexicans. and last of all, having no body else to fight, they had fought one ! another For the last named folly" added this sturdy representative of the l south. God pity us!' pr. A. B. Leon ! ard thought it a matter for rejoicing | that while at the opening of the nine | teenth century all Europe was a bloody ! battlefield, the twentieth century | opened with no wars worth speaking of. | To his affirmation that large armies | and navies were q guarantee of peace, | there were loud English cries of No, | mo-" answered, however, just as enl- phatically and vociferously by the good old English Hear hears"
 The English. in fact, got into quite g 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 transeressors were Chamberlain and Rhodes, but he was not allowed to do so. He was compelled indeed to take back what he had already said, and this incident found it's immediate in the effort of MT, Martin another Englishman, to tell the conference that England was for peace, that 1t was not she who declared war in South Africa, but the wicked Mir. Kruger who did so. This s what Mir, Harvey started to say, but the English habit of vociferous dissent was too much for him, and he had to start ,n another tack. So progressed that debate on peace and war, he day before the sad news came that he American president had been twice shot by an anarchist. sometimes one side scoring and sometimes another. It vas not satisfactory in all respects, but t served admirably to show the good will of America toward England, and n the favorable light in which it had brought William Mckinley into view, | served also to prepare the way for he remarkable tribute that was paid to i'm on the following day. Since it has been known here that l nan of color was one of the first to ; pring upon the dastardly assailant, { me cannot help thinking, as he recalls his conference, gathered in the gloom | if international sorrow that memorable S morning, how very appropriate 1t was ( hat in the previous alotments of the I business committee the chairman for ( hat day should have been Bishop Ar z ett, of the African M. F. church. But s he chairman had little to say and not ( much to do. Promptly was the plat t