New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Religious Freedom Asked.

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States ask in connection with Mexico
is that whatever form OF government
he established i'm Mexico, with the aid
and friendship of our own country, 1t
shall grant and guarantee liberty Of
conscience and freedom of worship as
tbev exist in our United States and
which are denied in Mexico by unjust
laws"
Resolutions were also passed declar-
ing that the Pope is the logical ar
bitter 10 whom the warning peoples can
turn for a disinterestcd and impartial
settlement Of all their difficulties" and
that history will support the demand
that "the voice of the common father
of all Christendom, whose mind is un-
tainted with national rivalrics and
whose heart embraces all the nations
Of the earth in the truest love, may
I be heard i'm the council of the nations
for securing and cemcnung Of a per-
mancnt peace .,
In the morning the two hundred
women delegates TO the congress held
a meeting by themselves, where the
plan was preached for the formation
/ Of a woman's section Of the federation,
resulting in a lively row. The pro
posal for the organization of the
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America as an autonomous body was
nut before the session of women by
Miss Helen Haney, of Randolph, Mass.
/ She pointed out the power for action
on national lines that would result IN
matters interesting Catholic women.
When resolution to carry this out
was read a dozen women jumped TO
their feet. Mrs Anna c. Nolan, of
I PENNSYLVANIA, refused TO be declared
cut of order,
Women Have Tilt.
'I'm not out of order, and ] am going
TO have my sayl" she cried, but her
say was drowned by the banging gavel
Of the chair and the voices Of others.
The Rev. Vincent de Paul Mclean, nre
cbaplain, got the floor and then the
trouble started.
you women should not be meeting
down here" he said. you ought to be
upstairs with the men of the Fedora
ton. This meeting should never have
been held The Federation must act
as a unit You women had hard time
Getting into the Federation, and now
YOU are in. stick
a roar of applause followed and
whom II subsidized Mrs. Nolan had the
/ Aoor and persisted in talking despite
I
/ cries for the question.
~ dom. care; | am going 20 speak
whether Pm in order or not. she
sboutcd an my county, in Pennsyl-
wanna our men are mainly miners, ana
/ tbcv need US. If you separate into two
+ |'roorizations our work can't be sue
More uproar followed, and Miss
Uanev. after a vain attempt to quiet IT.,
aeLed Francis +. Slattery. Of Boston,
"a take the chair and bang the gayel.
Tbero was a fresh dispute as 20 his
,ay,er 20 do so. but finally order was
/ pbtained the resolution read again and
defeated by a vote OF % TO 10, more
han 100 not voting. private confer,
once , 70 patch up the trouble was called
R;sbop Muldoon, of Rockford, Ill,
- a.. the opening Of the meeting
and urged the women 10 take greater
MT in public welfare and civic WORK.
| f. said there was much truth IN the
cbarge that Catholics have not joined
largely with others in such work
Vice Fight Described.
TIL morning session Of the main
+o5oration was addressed by John 5.
Srmnor. secretary Of the New YORK
Soc;otv for the Suppression Of Vice.
He told the history Of suppresslng I'M
proper reading matter from the tline
Anthony Comstock began H. ana the
rroeecution of the laws against cir
culation was a rough ana tumDIe ngh~
or5 o.. that time his big physique was
needed" down 10 the present more
peaceful method of consulting secretly