New Britain herald., 1915-12-13
BREAK IN RANKS 0F
 FORD PEACE PARTY
Members Refuse to Condemn Wil-
 sons Preparedness Policy
THREATEN TO QUIT JUNKET

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 Claim Presented Resolution Is Unpa-
 triotic-AppeaI to Each Reigning
 Monarch of Europe Sent From Oscar II. by Wireless.
 On Board the Steamship Oscar IT., by Wireless Via. Steamship Noordam, Dec. 13.-A resolution condemning President Wilson's preparedness policy brought protest from some of the prominent members of Henry Ford's peace party last night when it was presented for adoption. The resolution was drawn up by the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and the Rev. Charles F. Aked and others who asked that it be signed by all the members of the party as their plat form.
 More than a dozen members, in cluding s. s. Mcclure of New York, and Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey of Denver, refused to sign on the ground that the resolution was unpatrlotlc. Some of them even threatened to
  Europe if the proposed platform was put through. It's supporters said that the opponents of the resolution failed to understand the spirit of MT. Ford s invitation.
 Appeal to Rulers.
 The following appeal to the rulers of Europe was sent out by wireless today. addressed individually to each reigning monarch:
 "Sir: We come in this time of trouble not to add to your burdens, but to help lift them, not to consider which nations are most to blame for the disaster that has befallen Europe but to end the strife; not to .intrude ourselves upon your national life and national ideas but rather with an earnest desire to understand them and heartfelt wish to aid in realizing them.
 Love Of Country.
 ''The love of country for which every day tens of thousands of lives are sacrificed is the same in every land. Your nation, like the people of all the other belligerent countries is fighting for it's national existence and it's best national traditions and so
 
 cnces. Such common ideals surely must afford a basis upon which to establish a magnanimous and honor able peace. The men and women of your country and of all the warning countries have proved their loyalty. Enough blood has been shed, enough agony endured and enough destruc- tion wrought. The time has come to stop the bloodshed, to save the people from further slaughter and the civilization of the world from anarchy end ruin. Has not war been tried enough in sixteen months of fighting? Is it not proven that war cannot solve the problem, but that it leads only to loss and misery? Must lives be crushed and wives and mothers be- reaved before we recognize that Europe is bleeding to death and that the grievous wound must be staunched?
 The rising desire of the people in neutral nations to convert a barren disinterestedness into active good will has prompted citizens of the United States of America to sail for Europe | On the steamship Oscar IT, with the l serious purpose of joining with citi- zens of the European neutral nations |
  peace upon an honorable and just | Easis, to facilitate direct negotiations 1 between you and the other warning | nations.
 Let Armies Stand Still. we neutrals are about to join in l a conference which shall without de- lay frame and sumbit simultaneously l to you and all the other belligerent na tions proposals as a basis for dis cussion leading to the final settlement. , we do earnestly entreat you and the rulers of all the other war ring nations to declare an immediate truce. Let the armies stand still where they are. Then let the nego- tia tions proceed so that the soldiers may be delivered from another bitter winter in the trenches and sent back to their labors and their firesides. As there is no other way to end the war except by mediation and discus sion, why waste one more precious human life? For the sake of hu- IT, anity.
 HENRY FORD"