New-York tribune., 1911-04-19
PEACE MEETING GIVEN Up
Crowd Waits Outside for Com
perS and Cochran in Vain.
FIND COOPER UNION DARK
Rumor of Anti-Peace Demon
stration Brings Police Force
to the Square.

About seven hundred persons gathered
outside Cooper Union last evening and
waited To get into the hall TO hear Sanue!
Gompers and W. Bourke Cochran speak
or International peace. but they found the
hall dark About o'clock they were told
that Mr. Gompers had written suddenly
10 ". II. Short, executive secretary or
the New York Peace Society. that he
would not be able TO attend. Mr.. Cochran
sent word that he was Ill from the grip.
so ]. Aspinwall Hodge, the chairman. had
a sign put up telling the crowd that the
meeting was cancelled"
The peace meeting was 70 be held joint
" by the Peoples Institute and the New
York Peace Society. A few women were
In the crowd that lowered about the ell
trance 20 Cooper Union. and many were
the reasons volunteered as 10 why the
meeting wasn't held. Finally a sergeant
and half a dozen policemen came up and
dispersed the crowd. \ report had been
circulated that the crowd was trying 10
instigate an anti-peace demonstration.
when Mr. Gompers sent word that he
could not appear he sent along letter
setting forth the reasons why organized
ldpOr VdS opposed 10 Wat. "" tpUlHAiAA''
asked Rabbi Stephen s. Wise Of the Free
Synagogue 10 speak in the labor Leaders
place The letter from Mr.. Gompers was
10 have been read.
One Young man, who said he vas a
member Of the Peoples Institute, but not
an officer. said he was sure the order for
the postponement of the meeting originated
H. Washington. He believed that Presi-
dent Taft had his hands full Of Mexican
trouble and didn't care 10 be handicapped
by any peace talk.
J. Aspinwall Hodge when seen last
night said he understood that some Of the
labor people objected TO Mr.. Gompers
speaking at the peace meeting, but he
wasn't sure that that was the reason why
he had declined to appear at the meeting
after he had said he would come. He also
said he knew nothing about the report that
the opposition of the Irish people 10 the
proposed Anglo-American arbitration
treaty was responsible for The non-appear-
ance Of Mr.. Cochran.
Mr. Gompers's letter read. in part, as
follows:
OF all the people VINO suffer from war
the toilers are the most interested IhtF
are the great 6Nrden bearers OF It's r.
sliltant horrors and suffcrin2S. II Is there
fore not difficult 10 discern why they have
from their first gathering and AT almost
every gathering thereafter. committed
themre,ves unalterably ana vitaliy 70 the
abolition o. war and. through q duly con
stitutcd international court of arbitration,
the adjudication of all international con-
tentionS which canDOt be settled througn .
the ordinary channels Of concilatiou and
diplomacy.
The building by Great Britain Of her trst
Dreadnought | regarded as the monumental
biunder of this generation. England mas
been known for many generations ds re
"Peridious Albion" Her power she used
like a giant and a brute but side by side
with growing Intelligence Of the people or
our country. The people Of England, as re-
fected I'm her ministry and government.
took Oh a more humane aspect. II was the
building of her first Dreadnousht that set
he world arguing again 10 consider what
should he done by each nation 10 buhd
B-eadnou-nie FOR Themselves.