Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-18

At Sea, Dec. 17.-All is not peace
on the Peace Ship. War has been
declared, and early hostilities are
expected. Belligerents on both sides
are digging in and preparing to fight
it out, if it takes all winter
The preliminary skirmsh in the
peace war was fought Friday night,
in the trenches of the saloon. The
opening gun was fired by the Rev.
Jenkins L. Jones, who placed reso-
luton on the table in the main as
sembly hall, asking the Peace Pill.
grims to sign it.
In part, the resolution declared,
our opposition to any increase by
the United States of military or ma
val forces. We call upon our fellow
citizens to unite in opposition to that
policy, which is dangerous to the
country and the entire world"
Dr.. Aked Backs Ford.
The Rev. DR.. Aked, Chief of Staff
of the Jones Forces, headed the list
of signatures, and Henry Ford and
about thirty other recruits joined
under the colors of the Army of Un-
preparedness.
Dean S. s.. Marquis of Detroit who
is Ford's best friend on the Ark OF
(former) Peace, took up the gauntlet
and recruited an Army of Prepared.
ness. In refusing to sign the resolu.
ton, he was heartily seconded by S. S.
Mcclure, editor of the New York
Mail; Judge Ben B. Lindsey Of the
Boys Court of Denver; State Senator
Helen Ring Robinson Of Denver, Gov.
l.. B. Hanna of North Dakota, Her.
man Bernstein, editor of the Day, of
New York, and others who are re.
garded as the best thinkers on the
Ark.
Mr.. Mcclure made an impassioned
speech against the resolution during
melting of Ford's Cabinet, which
was held somewhere on the Peace
Ark" where information of military
value to the enemy might he "de-
leted by the censor
But intrepid correspondents pene.
trated to the edge of the. firing line
and heard the verbal big guns as they
fired salvos of superheated words and
volleys of indignation.
Supports Defense Plan.
High above the din of battle sound
ed the voice of John D. Barry, San
Francisco journalist and author, as he
fought a rear.guard action for pre-.
paredness against the Commanders
in Chief of the Army Against Unpre.
paredness, in whose firing line could
be heard the encouraging voices of
the Rev. jenkins Jones, Mime. Rozs-
ika Schwimmer, the Hungarian peace
advocate; the Rev. DR.. Aked, Ellis
Jones of Forest Hills, L. l., and a
few others. Barry bitterly opposed
the anti.preparedness resolutions.
This scandal" he said, will go all
over the world. The world will say
this peace party broke up in fight.
This act places Mr.. Ford's guests in
a most embarrassing position. You
ask these peace delegates to sign a
paper ,disapproving their President,
whom many fthem admire and up.
hold"
The, crowd of spectators about tbs
battle line became denser, and as the
newspaper correspondents escaped
the vigilance of the censors and push.
ed into the danger zone, they heard a
number of Fords peace guests and
delegates declare:
"This means the breaking up of the
whole peace scheme"
Judge Lindsey said, without re-
serve:
This is a most serious mistake to
make, just as things were progress
sing so nicely"
Fear for "Mistake."
A majority of the peace delegates
declared privately that they thought
a bad mistake had been made, and
that Ford had been misled by group
of idealists. Groups all over the ship
are discussing the matter heatedly,
but the consensus Of the majority