Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-09
BISHOP sPALDING.


BISHOP SPALDING
Bishop Spalding was introduced by
Gov. Cutler, who had appointed him
to represent the State of Utah at the
Seventeenth International Peace con-
terence held at London 1908. Bishop
aSpalding reported the conference i'll
part as follows:
There We're "a nations represented
at that great peace convention Peace
societies to the number Of 2S6 We're
either represented or in touch with the
convention. I was surprised at the
number Of nations represented In .
common cause, and was greatly i'm
pressed With the convention through
out.
II was waiting upon my credentials
when I happened to notice a woman
looking my direction. ] looked at her
and she finally addressed me by say
ing: I'm from Kansas, What west
ern state do you come from? Some
how we westerners are peculiarly
branded The statement met with
much applause.
SPEAKS OF sUFFRAGETTEs.
He told how the woman suffragists
broke in upon the speech Of Lloyd
George, chancellor of the exchaquer of
England.
THE meeting had scarcely started
when q woman in the gallery shouted:
Give the women votes, and we will
have peace!
"a voice cried. Put her Quit! That
was done, and before Mr. George was
allowed to proceed 25 suffragists We're
pulled and hauled out Of the building,
screaming and hollering as only crazy
women can He told of Mr.. Georges
address, and his pleas for peace. Bish-
op Spalding was much impressed with
the words of an Austrian baroness, who
is an author of note. She told what
war was as did Gen. Sherman. but in
a kindlier way.
If you heat n tub OF water luke
warm, it Is called d bath the baroness
said" declared the bishop. .If you
heat it to the boiling point It is some
thing else. It Is in fact what Gen. Sher-
man said war is 1t Is hell"
IF that Is the case we should ,lse
the word hell instead OF war" contin-
ued the bishop Some good Republic
cans In Utah already know that the
late secretary Of hell is to be our next
PRESIDENT
WILLIAM II. KING.
VIM. H. King was the next speaker,
He urged the advisabllity of the adop-
ton or a code of International law
and the foundation of an international
tribunal. He said In part:
We must start small and commence
to educate the people Of the world to
true Christianity IL we want peace. We
should commence in the school rooms
and churches, and plank in our POI
litical platforms should declare against
the continuance of war We are too
prone to attribute the greatness of na-4
tons to conquests by arms rather than
by their intellectual achievements. Put
the great warrior beside the intellectual
giant and many will pick the warrior
as the greatest man.
we should submit our International
to fair tribunals made IN
by representatives of all nations and
allow the tribunal to decide all uues-
tons. Some South American repub-
lies a short time ago signed obligatory
agreements to submit difficulties to
fair tribunals and war has been ended
between them Cannot this be extend
ed: why tax people millions to keep
up a great army and navy and prepare
It for a war that is not wanted. Why
not use those millions to extend our
churches. our schools and to irrigate
reclaimed land that each man may
come into his own.
all nations of the world What hurts |
one, hurts all. When we cultiyata
hat conscience that we are bound To-
sethel by ties that cannot be severed
men in'ere VIII be no more war,
JOHN p. MEAKIN.
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