The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-17
WIVES, MOTHERS
AND DAUGHTERS
Protest of Center Sex Against
Continuance of Wars Among
Civilized Peoples.
SOME STIRRING ADDRESSES
WOMEN'S MEETING AT PEACE
CONGRESS.

New York, April 16.-The protest of
mothers. wives and daughters against
4 continuance of wars among civilized
peoples was uttered today at the fourth
session of the first national Arbitration
and Peace congress in Carnegie hall,
presided over by Mrs Anna Garlin
Spencer of Providence, r. l. The big
hall was crowded with women gathered
from many sections Of the country, all
wearing the white badge of delegates.
Following the morning session. at
which THE Relation of Women to the
Peace Movement" was discussed, there
N-cTe two sessions this afternoon, one
=, tho I'otel Astor, devoted to the
Commercial and Industrial Aspects OF
Ire Peace Movement" and at Carnegie
hail, devoted to young people.
N. NJ Marks, president of the Ma
tional Associat ton of Clothiers, presided
at the Hotel Astor meeting, while at
Carnegie hall William II. Maxwell, su-
perintendent of the public schools of
New York, was in charge.
Miss WooIIey's Address.
One of the notable addresses Ceiiv-
of Miss Mary E. Wooiley, president of
Mount HOlyOke college. Miss WOolley
declared that the naval and military
display TO be made at the Forthcoming
jamestown exposition might work
much harm in the minds of the suscept-
ible youth of the country.
Imitation enters into the very fast
ness of character" she declared, ''and
the ideals held before the child deter
mines to a great extent what the man
Will be If we really wish to develop
the spirit Of mercy, other than that. of
cruelty, to eXalt reason more than viO-
lenee, why not depict the enticing
splendors of peace instead of the entic
ing splendors of ware"
Miss Jane Adams head of Hull
House, Chicago, received a hearty well
come She spoke of New Ideals of
Peace" and dwelt upon the part that
women may play in bringing about a
Christian unity among nations.
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston
spoke on The History of the Peace
Movement
Mrs Ellen NJ. Henrotin. former pres
ident of the General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs. discussed THE Home and
the Economic Waste of War"
Address of Mrs. Nathan.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan. president Of
TIE Consumers league of New York
City, took for a topic Industry and Its
Relations 10 Peace"
Mrs. Nathan said that we may feel
that We have at last begun to enter
upon a new era prOphesied by Jane Ad
dams in her new book, THE Newer
Ideals of Peace" the triumph of indus
tTialism over militarism. She continued:
War is becoming too business-like
for business generation. It costs too
much. not only to the conquered, but
To the cOnquerOT. In killing his enc
mics, he destroys, at least in part, the
source of his own wealth. Hence the
necessities of industry work eternaily
for peace.
Realizing that we have thus reached
point far beyond tribal isolation and
that we must il future realize our in
ternatiOnal commercial bonds, an in
ternational conference has been ar
ranged to be held next July in Switzer-
land, TO be attended By delegates from
the various European Consumers
leagues, for the exchange of ideas and
statements relating TO the different
standards of production and distribu-
ton in different countries The aim is
eventually to establish an International
standard of ethics of labor.
The feeling of universal brotherhood
has already been aided by this move
ment. aided more than perhaps most of
of the fact that largely through their
efforts this Consumers league move
ment has been organized and fOstered.
Women Bear the Burdens.
Although women are rarely given
voice i'm the matter of deciding whether
war shall be proclaimed or not, the
maintenance of the family falls largely
upon the women in times of war. WO-
men suffer IL war as well as in peace.
for that matter, from the reduction in
wages and the increased taxes due to
the cost of armies
From 1897 to 1904 the United States
spent S307 600 900 for military purposes
An expenditure of S200 000, 900 is now
considered normal, so great has been
the increase during the last few years.
Yet when bill was recently passed by
congress providing for the investiga-
ton of conditions of industry under
which women and children in our coun-
try work, the clause providing for an
appropriation for the task was DELHI
erately stricken out
Hence il seems that our land has
fallen behind in the advance toward in
dustrial harmony, and industrial pros
perity and harmony are the mightiest
impulses making for perpetual peace.
This country, which planned the first
international peace congress, and which
led the world in organized work for
peace has left to other hands the con-
summation of the work. Can we not
return 10 our place in the forefront of