Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-01
PEACE PRAYERS
FUTILE, ASSERTS
BELGIAN WOMAN
Delegate at Congress in Hague
Declines to Pray for End Of
War on Ground That Her
Country Must Have Justice,

The Hague, Netherlands. April 80
(via London, 4,sO y. m The wings
of the dove OF peace were ruffleg to-
day at the session of the International
Congress Of Women At the instance
OF DR. Augupurg, of Munich, the en-
tire Belgian delegation was invited TO
the platform. Only two women OF
the five present camef rom their box
at the side of the stage and made
their way to the platform. They were
welcomed by the chairman. Miss Jane
Adams. with both hands. but there
was no handshaking with the German
delegates
In moving the final resolution, Mrs.
Rosika Schwimmer president OF the
Hungarian Women's Suffrage associa-
ton, requested that All the delegates
present stand one minute in silent
prayer for peace. Mile. Hamer Of the
Belgian delegation. thereupon asked
permission to utter few words.
When this was granted she astunded
her audience With the dramatic ex-
clamation: 81 am n Belgian before
everything and ] cannot think as You
do. There can be no peace without
justice. The war must continue until
the Belgians' wrongs have been right
ed. There must be no mediation cx-
cept az the bar of Justice"
Cheers for Belgians.
General sympathy for the suffering
of the Rclgians caused part Of the au-
dience To break into cheers.
on the motion Of Miss Florence
Holbrook, Of Chicago, the word iius-
tee" was inserted in the resolution
which reads:
"The International Congress of
Women Of different nations. creeds.
classes and parties Is united In exc
pressing sympathy with the suffering
Of all, whatever their nationality. who
are fighting for their country or who
are laboring under the burden Of war.
Since the mass Of the people of each
Of the countries now warning believe
themselves To be fighting not agrees
sively but in self-defcnse and for
their national existence it urges the
governments Of the world to put an
end to this bloodshed and to begin
peace negotiations; and il emphati-
cally desires that the peace which fol-
lows shall be permanent and there
fore based upon Justice and principles
which include those adopted by this
congress"
Englishwoman Wants War.
Some time before, the congress had
been considerably upset by Mrs Amy
Livingston Of London, who declared
Il was a suffragist and | remain a
suffragist | suffered in jail for Il.
1 am Just a plain English working
woman, but ] represent millions Of
women who favor the present war
just as much as do the men. one
hundred and eighty women are said
to be waiting az Tifbury to come to
this conaress to talk peace. For every
one of these thousand English wom-
en- are willing to accompany their
sons and husbands to fight We are
tired of the century-old silly plati-
tudes such as are uttered here
Mrs. Livingston insisted on eontin-
uing her speech after she was ruled
out Of order
Elizabeth Glendower Evans of Bos-
ton and Rose Morgan French of San
Francisco moved and seconded an
amendment TO the resolutions refer
ring TO ornaments. The amendment
urged that all neutral nations imme-
diately place an embargo on the ex-
ports Of arms and ammunition.
Miss Adams said:
Il am glad TO agree with Miss E,V-
ans indictment, as much of il that
has happened in America, but she
ruled that the amendment was ont of
order