The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
Five Big Meetings on Program
f. of Peace Congress.
Relation of Women to Peace
Movement Is Discussed.
WAR COSTS TOO MUCH.
Says Mrs. Frederick Nathan in a
Strong Address.
1t Is Expensive to the Con-
querOrs and the Conquered.

New York. April 16.-The advocates
of peace who have come here from all
sections of the United States and from
many foreign countries to participate
in the national peace conference to-
day found a hard and long programme
before them. Five different meetings
which promised to fill in practically
every hour from early forenoon until
near midnight had been arranged for
today. The first of these was the fore
noon meeting at Carnegie hall, where
the topic was the relation of women
to the peace movement Among the
speakers at this meeting were Mrs.
Mary f. WOoley, president of Mount
Holyoke college for women, who spoke
on the Educational Aspects of the
: Peace Propaganda" Mrs. Ellen NJ.
henrotin of Chicago, former president
OF the General Federation of Womens s
clubs; Mrs. Frederick Nathan, presi-
dent of the New York Consumers
league; and Miss Jane Adams, of Hull
house. Chicago. A letter from Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, who was unable to
In the afternoon there We're two
meetings, one at the Hotel AstOr,
where commercial aspects of the peace
movement were discussed, and a young
peoples meeting at Carnegie hall. Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor Straus
was the speaker at the Hotel Astor
meeting, and addresses also were de-
livered by Baron D'Estournelles de
Constant. head of the international
Cancellation committee; Nahum J.
Rachelder, former governor of New
Hampshire: James Van Cleave, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers and others. William T.
Stead. the London editor, Baron
DEstournelles. DR.. Nabon c. Schaef-
fer. Pennsylvania superintendent of
public instruction, and Henry Bailey
n-1 Of
education, were among the speakers of
the young peoples meeting.
The two sessions this evening will be
the university meeting at Carnegie hall,
and a meeting at Cooper Union to dis
cuss the question of organized labor in
relation to the peace movement.
Representative educators and labor
men will address the respective meet
fngs. Among the speakers at the uni
versity meeting will be DR.. John RFSs. !
head of Jesus college and pro-Vice cham !
cellor of the University of Oxford, Eng |
land, who will take for his subject THE
relation of the university to interna-
tiOn good will President Charles w. |
Eliot of Harvard university, the Rev. |
f. S. Roberts, master of Gonville and |
Caius college and vice chancellor of the !
University of Cambridge, England, and |
Edwin D. Mead, director of Old South |
Historical work Boston.
. James Duncan of Massachusetts, first |
See president of the American Fedora |
rlon of Labor. will preside at the labor |
meeting. Among the speakers will be |
the leaders of several national and in
ternational unions. including James |
O'Connel of Washington. president of |
the International Machinists; Dennis A. |
Hayes of Philadelphia. president of the |
Glass Bottle Blowers association of the |
United States and Canada and Daniel |
J. O'Keefe. president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Marine and |
Transportation Workers association of
Detroit
Mrs Nathan's Address.
Mrs Frederick Nathan in the course
of her address said that we may feel
we have at last begun to enter upon a
new era. prophesied by Jane Addams
in her new book. The Newer Ideals of
Peace" the triumph of industrialism
over militarism. She continued:
War is becoming too businesslike
for a business generation. 1t costs too
much. Costs not only to the conquer
ing his enemies he destroys at least in
part, the source of his own wealth.
Hence the necessities of industry,
work eternally for peace.
Realizing that we have thus reach
ed a point far beyond tribal isolation
and that we must in future recognize
our international commercial bonds,
an interna tional conference has been
arranged to be held next July in Swift
zerland. to be attended by delegates
from the various European consumers
lea CUES, 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 the ethics of labor.
"The feeling of universal brother
hood has already been aided by this
movement. aided more
than perhaps most of us realize. Wom-
en- can indeed be proud of the fact that
largely through their efforts this con-
ne los
gganized and fostered.
at'Although women are rarely given L
| voice in the matter of deciding
whether war shall be proclaimed or
lot. the maintenance of the family
alls largely upon the women, in times
If war Women suffer in war as well
Is in peace, for that matter. from the
eduction in wages and the increased
lavies.
..From 1897 to 1904, the United
states spent $780,. 100000 for military
purposes. An expenditure of $780,
100. 900 is now considered normal so
-reat has been the increase during the
asst few years. Yet when a bill was
ecently passed by congress providing
or the investigation of conditions of
industry under which women and
hildrep in our country work, the
lause providing for an appropriation
or the task was deliberately stricken
ut thus making the entire bill prac-
ically worthless
Hence, it seems that our land has
allen behind in the advance toward
Industrial harmony, and industrial
prosperity and harmony are the I
nightiest impulses making for per-
etual peace. This country, which
tanned the first international peace
ongress and which led the world in
rganized work for peace. has left to
ther hands the contamination of the
rork. Can we not return to our place