Putnam patriot., 1910-05-20
New England Arbitration and Peace
 Congress.
HELD In HAWTSoKD AsD NEW BHi
 TAIR MAvs-tt


 There have been international, na- tionsl ,and various lccal Peace Con- gresses but the NEW ENGLAND Arbi- traitor and Peace Congress convened for the first time fast week. Hartford was one of the strongest centres of the Peace movement in the early part ot the last century. William Watson and friends founded the Connecticut Peace Society in 1897, and 'srhe Advocate Of Peace,n for the past sevcnty-five years the authorized exponent Of the pfinci' pies of the organization, was flrst pub iished tn Hartford in 1884.
 The history of the Peace movement in the United States shows steady advance since its inception in isiS. The readers of the PATRIOT may bc in. terested lo know that there were Peace Societies started about 1885 in Thomp. son, Brooklyn, Abingdon and elsewhere in Windam county. The Rev. Samuel J. May, then pastor of the Unitarian church In Brooklyn, was an important factor in this ss we'll as In other re- forms.
 Although the formal opening of the New England Peace tongrcgss was on Monday afternoon, May sth, special services in The interest of peace were held Sunday morning in most of the churches m Hartford and vicinity, pro minent delegates to the Congress occu- pying some of the pulpils.
 In the afternoon mass meeting, held in Foot Guard aall, WAS devoted to the workingman John Brown Len non, Treasurer ol the American tede- ration of Labor, who addressed the Congress on "I.shor's Interest in World Peace, maintained that the organized labor movement throughout the world stands for international peace and the settlement ef differences between na- lions, by arbitration where the eN- istencc of the nation Is not the issue, and after dwelling upon the eost and horrors of war, he said.
 "reacc among nations Is largely de pendent upon peace within nations Where the great body of workers is largely restricted in the exercise and enjoyment of life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness, that spirit of good will and fellowship that really makes the national characteristics. does mol and cannot grow as it should. IL be- comes. therefore, the duty of men and women who love peAce, io work for tha, which lcads to pracc at home--tn their own nsishboshood, iu the fscto- ries, tho mtils and mines, where labor is employed"
 MT. Lennon was followed by Charlcs F. Beals. of Chicago. Field Secretary os the American rcscs Society, who spoke on "The Workman and the Gun Man." ard gave various reasons why the workman Is an anti-gun man; and in closing said;
 .I.et me venture the prediction that civilization In it's splendid new vision of economy. democracy, education, in- tefnaslonalism and morality, Is sooa-- hy that | mean before the middle of the present centary--to arise and cast eat the gan-man, eax and baggage, philos. ophs. psraphefnalis and apprepsia- tlons, and in his place shall be install ea the one who has hong eeen sieiFaud. eli of his due-ihe workman, the sol- dicr os peaee."
 sunday evening. al s general pesce meeting. held in Parsons Theatre, the Right Rev. CAaaneey B. Brewster, Bishop eE Connecticut, presided. h his eisninS remarks he quoted General