Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-15
PRELUDE OFPEACE CONGRESS-
Choral Service in Carnegie Hall Attended
By Five Thousand Persona
BISHOP HENRY POTTER PREsOEs
Or. Emil q. Hirsch of chicago Makes
an Address and n Paper written
BY Archbishop Farley
Il Read.

By Archbishop Farley
Il Read.
{ NEW YORK. April IA choral service,
a fitting prelude to the first national ar
bitration and peace congress which is to
be opened tomorrow. was held at Carnegie
hall tonight. Probably 5000 persons found
admittance, while thousands were unable
/ to get within the hall.
Andrew Carnegie was to have presided
at the meeting, but owing to a delayed
train he failed to reach the hall until the
meeting was well under way and when
once inside the place he was unable to
make his way through the throng to the
platform. In his absence Bishop Henry c.
Potter presided.
1t had been expected that a peace mes
| sage from President Roosevelt would be
read, but no mention Of the message was
made.
Archbishop John NJ. Farley who was to
/ have been one OF the speakers, was de-
tained in Washington and his prepared ad-
dress was read by Manager NJ. ]. Lavelle
i of St. Patricks cathedral
The other speakers were Rabbi Emil G.
! Hlrsch of Chicago and Bishop Potter. The
/ former spoke from the words; The Advent
OF the Plough"
! In concluding Bishop Potter said: Let
us thank God for The Hague congress and
that an American has built the building
In which 1t Is to meet and may It hasten
the triumph Of universal peace"
Tomorrow at o'clock the first delibera-
tive session OF the peace congress proper
will be held.
speech of DIR. Hirsch.
/ mi
| Chicago. speaking The Advent Of the
! Plough" said:
Intensity the productive methods which
coax from the earth the blessings stored
therein and hunger's dominion correspond
/ lnsly shrinks. None need starve II all work
! together to prevent famines capricious and
iniquitous intrusion
we hail the advent Of the plough II
Is the sign Of triumphant democracy. With
| cooperation as with the polar star, fric-
/ ton Will be minimized. II the courts are
competent to maintain the social altruism
between different contestants and ltigants
IN one country shall we despair or inter
national tribunals efficiency in making for
equilibrium among the nations? II all ma
lions were united would one single nation
dare reject the decree7
Let nations dream OF peace and peace
! "A4i Oe sure OF contamination. The hands
that guide the plough carry credentials of
hopiity ana strength less doubtful than
do the fingers that pull the trigger"
Archbishop Farley, writing on 'Univer-
sal Peace" said he was not prepared 10
! say that war could ever be removed from
society but that much might be done to
/ mitigate Its horrors and lessen its fire.
quency. Efforts for universal peace, he
declared, would accomplish only imperfect
results until the moral power and authority
I OF organised religion were openly recog-
nized.
The archbishop said no horror, moral or
material, was lacking to war, and added
! Its benefits, II any are indirect and un-
| certain; its evils are immediate, inevitable
and universal-vitiation OF human charac-
! ter. waste of life and gain, arrest of hu-
man progress, injustice to the helpless and
innocent, popular and permanent legacies
OF hate and all the hercest and most ruinous
passions OF the human breast"
Mass Meeting In Boston.
| BOSTON, Mass, April 14.--Over 5000 peo-
pie assembled in the Christian Science
! church tonight "to swell Boston's voice."
as one speaker said, I'm recognition and
support OF the national peace and arbitra-
tion congress-" which begins in New York
tomorrow. Former Secretary OF the Navy
! JOHn ~ lSOnHs IOTIneI governor JOnn L.
Bates and william Lloyd Garrison made
addresses, pleading for universal peace.
William Lloyd Garrison did not spare the
churches in his criticism and said the bear
ers OF the name OF Christians were ever
! ready to uphold and justify legalized mur-
/ der when their own country was involved.
Mr.. Garrison denounced the war with
Spain and said!
'This guilty nation and our kindred in
! guilt across the Atlantic are ripe for re-
pentance. which should manifest itself in
acts"
Former Governor Bates referred briefly
TO ex-Secretary Long as the bravest man
that ever issued orders TO a fleet OF war
ships, and TO Mr.. Garrison as the son Of
the man who did more TO bring on the
| civil war than anyone else In the country
and who at the end was still shouting that
he would never retract. He declared uni
Versal peace is no longer a dream.
! italian Delegates TO The Hague.
| ROME, April lL-From the exchange OF
Official communications between them, It
is apparent that Germany, Austria and
Ftussia are unanimous concerning the Ques-
ton Of limitation OF armaments at The
Hague conference and that they permit OF
a discussion OF the question, but not par
ticipate IN Il. not considertn gths PROPOSE
ton a practical one.
Italy has chosen as its representatives at
The Hague Count Tornieln. ambassador
TO France; Deputy Pompily an under sec
retary of state for foreign affairs. and the
duke Of Cavello. minister at The Hague
all as plenipotentiaries. and General Robi-
lapt and Admiral CallandTi as technical
delegates. II is not likely to have a law
delegate, both Count Tornielu and siEnor
Pompily being experts In Law.
THREE MEN KILLED IN WRECK