The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-08
People Of Europe
Ready for Peace
SO Says Jane Adams, Just Returned
But Negotiations Must Come
From NeutraIs

new YORK, July 5.-Miss Jane Al
dams. chairman Of the International
Congress of Women for Peace that
met at The Hague in April last and
who headed the delegations appoint.
ed at the conference to sit the va
rious countries on a peace mission,
arrived here today on the steamship
St. Louis from Liverpool.
Miss Adams declared that the peo-
pie of the warning nations were in
mood to consider peace terms, but
that negotiations must come from rtu
trails and the longer they we're de-
layed the harder would be the task
Of restoring peace. Since the ad-
journment of the conference with
other delegates she visited most of
the countries at war, met and talked
with leading civil and military ofiic-
ials and sounded each on the pros
poets OF peace.
"The nations of war;" Miss Adams
said, have no choice but to go on.
No negotiations can now be suggest
ed by any OF them without giving
the appearance Of weakness and none
Of the nations as yet feels in the
slightest but that its cause can ND
must succeed.
Delay Makes Terms Harder
Every day that peace negotiations
are delayed will make terms OF peace
just that much harder. The heavy
toll of life and the expenditure of
treasure mean that the people will
expect just that much more CONSIDER
at on for their agreement to END The
war. What will be the outcome aid
what nation or nations will Ne the
mediative forces cannot be told at
this time despite the fact found ev-
erywhere a spirit of anxiety among
the people to stop the horror.
In every country at war there are
two parties, civil and military. Mem
bers of the civil party are .)atr oric
and the military party is naturally in
control. The sentiment for peace
carries with 1t the question OF acces-
sion or giving up of territory. There
Is some feeling in Germany that Bel
GUM might be given up in return for
concessions Of territory in the Con-
go. In France there is the desire
for the restoration Of Alsace and Lor-
raine, but with feeling the conces-
sions might be granted in other
ways. All this, however, Is unofficial
and so far as could see, peace terms
and conditions are as yet but mat
ter of speculation.
THE people in all the countries
are beginning to realize the frightful-
ness Of the slaughter. l was told by
an officer who had served on the
western front that even on days when
an engagement was not on, the loss
was fully 1000 lives every "a hours
lives taken by sharpshooting, ny
firing from advanced trenches aud
by dropping bombs from aircraft. On
the days when an actual engagement
Is in progress the loss of life So Ear
can only be estimated"
France Resentful to America
What country could or would take
the lead in peace negotiations, Miss
Adams could not say. While Am
erica, she said, was recognized as
the strongest of the neutrals In Ger
many there was resentment owing to
sale of arms and ammunition to the
allies. In France she said she found
resentment because the United States
had not made formal protest over the
invasion of Belgium. In Germany,
however, she found among officials,
she said, an Acknowledgement that
the United States was acting wholly
within her rights. Minister Won ia
gov himself told her, she declared,
that the United States had a legal
as we'll as a moral right to sell arms
and ammunition to whom II chose.
After the conference at The Hague
had closed, Miss Adams said, dele
gates we're sent to belligerent and
neutral countries. Representative
from neutral countries went to the
belligerents and representatives from
belligerents to the neutrais. Miss Ad-
dams headed the party that visited
England, France, Australia and Italy.
In all countries she was received
courteously.
Audience With the Pope
On June s she was in Rome and
was granted a half hours audience
with the people. "The pope was very
nice to u.s." said Miss Adams. "He
said that he realized that women lad
great part to play in the restora.
ton of peace, and he added that the
vatican stood ready to cooperate and