New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-01
SHAKERS URGE PEACE.
addresses and Resolutions at NeSo
Lebanon Convention.
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New-Lebanon, N. Y. Aug. 31.-This lovely town.
in the Berkshire Hills. was alive to-day with visit
ors from the farms round about as we'll as from
stockbridge, Lenox and Albany. to attend the peace
convention called by the Shakers. The winding
wood bordered drive that leads through the 1000
acre estate Of the Shakers was filled with buck
boards. runabouts and wagons. and automobiles
pulled at the door of the old white meeting house.
built nearly a century ago by the founders OF the
community.
The quaint old community houses Of frame and
stone, set their old fashioned gardens. swarn'ed
with city visitors who admired their radiant clean
illness and found with Joy that the true oldtlme
American cooking has not persisted off the face OF
the earth It still lives in the Shaker village.
Shakerisn is a religion Of good housekeeping. Few
knew that Sister Catherine Allen, who introduced
one of the sets Of resolutions with admirable
speech was the baker who made all the bread, and
all the pies and all the cookies several bushels OF
them for the long tables. full of guests to-day
The keynote Of the meeting was found In SEN
tence Of Walter g. Logan, ex-president OF the New
York State Bar Association. first speaker of the
day. LAT the conclusion OF the most terrible OF
modern wars" said he. II believe that we are
nearer to a world peace than ever before.
Again and again the remark has been heard TO-
day that the Shakers must have possessed the
spirit of prophecy to have appointed the peace
convention on a date which followed Immediately
upon the peace Of Portsmouth.
Mr. Logan said that. peace being now declared,
there nothing more to prevent President Roose-
welt from setting the date for the next Hague con-
ference for which he issued the call some time
ago.
Mr.. Logan set forth his belief that world gov
eminent is yet to come, with a world court, 10
which every international claim will be submitted
and whose DEGREES Will be enforced by the armies
of all nations, reduced to joint force needed Tor
police duty alone. Nations must come TO gov
eminent by judges he declared, as individuals hao
been compelled to do by advancing civilization. ana
the amplfcation and extension OF the powers OF
tho Hague tribunal, he believed. would form the
basis OF this world government He was eansulhe
that the next Hague conference called by President
Roosevelt would see an extension OF those powers
unexpected and gratifying to the friends OF arolra-
ton.
Rabbi Charles Fleischer, Of Cambridge, Mass. was
introduced as tho most eloquent of all the ad-
vocates of universal peace. He prefaced his re-
marks by reading poem OF Charlotte Perkins dii-
man. and then defined man as IAN animal. Plus
S n.so Plus S an Mln ehs h
peace Capital punishment, he declared was G COL
was discountenanced: war is going out Of fashion,
Everywhere the se ong angsbe NEXT he
would develop the will, and universal peace "ouio
PROFESSOR John L. Hunt, ex-presdent of the New
York City Board Of Educatiop reylewea .ne ap
and Compared them with the pitiful amounts spent
for popular education .,,s-o, e. cold nr
lanes NJ PEBBLES of Battle Creek, should be
modified to read fewer children and better chill
dren'" 90 A.
Other speakers were William Barnes, sr, OF A. A.
bany; the Rev. Henry s. Ciubb, president OF r Inc
National Vegetarian Society; Bolton Hall, OF New
York: the Rev Amanda Dey. vice-president Of the
Universal Peace Union: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grams q'
president of the National Christian League; MRS
f. G Manchester, president Of the National Asso
Of the Oneonta State Normal School; Harding
Weston of the New-York City Knights OF LABOR,
and Elmer D. Gildersleeve. of Poughkeepsie a
leading Quaker. -
equally barbarous and equally unnecessary, de-
handing the reduction of national armament, to
the limit necessary for international ponce
force the reduction Of taxation to correspond and
the opening of the great waterways OF commerce
as neutral zones, requesting the United states
government to publish the cost and the fatalities
of war for the last hundred years for distribution
throughout the world, and indorsing the organiza-
ton of an international peace cooperation COM
petent to receive requests.