The Washington herald., 1917-02-13
DECLARE LINCOLN MAN
OF PEACE, and NOT war
World Disarmament Urged at Martyr $
Birthday Celebration.
CALL NATION A "THEATER"
International Brotherhood of Ho-
boes" Interrupts with Cheers.

In the memory of our greatest Ameri-
can, Abraham Lincoln" the Emergency
Peace Federation, at a mass meeting
held at the All Souls Unitarian Church,
last night unanimously passed resolu-
tion calling upon the entire land to be
leaders in world peace and not the
followers in a world war.
Representative Oscar Galloway If
Texas, one of the many who addressed
the meeting, declared that people in the
United States didn't really want war;
This opinion on the question" he said,
'is Just beginning to pour in from the
South and from the West to their vari-
Gus Representatives"
II am thankful that we have a Presi-
dent who believes in peace" Prof. Harry
Allen Overstreet of City College, of New
York, said fervently.
'T am convinced that the American
people believe in peace" he continued
"If we are drawn into war it will be
because we Americans have been per-
picked and dumfounded by the sudden
ness of a great catastrophe. 1t is neces-
sary for us to keep our heads. to see
clearly the ideals for which We in this
hour should stand!
America had its birth In a willingness
to adventure a great new thing Today
again it has the chance to adventure for
humanity.-to refuse to follow the age
worn paths of hatred and retaliation; to
refuse to pick up gauntlet thrown
down"
Like Crisis of 1850.
David Saville Mussey. professor of his
tory of Columbia University and the au-
thor of several American histories, spoke
from a historical point of view. He
said:
I'VE are facing q crisis in our coun-
try's history no less serious than the
crisis of 1860. The crisis that now con-
fronts President Wilson is much similar
to the question that confronted Abraham
Lincoln. Shall this country continue to
be the theater on which the experiment
of free, democratic. humane republic
can be developed? The greatest harm
that can come to America in this crisis
is the harm she may do herself the vio-
lence TO her own ideals!"
Throughout the evening an audience
which taxed the capacity OF the church
and which included a large delegation
of the International Brotherhood Welfare
Association. under the leadership of e.
]. Howe, the millionaire hobo. interrupt
ed the various speakers with applause.
Many Noted Speakers.
Others who spoke were: Prof. William
I. Hull, Swarthmore College, OF Philadel-
phia; w. T. Greasy. secretary; Pennsyl-
vania State Grange: Edward Cassidy,
New York City: Winter Russell. New
York; Rev. DR.. Norman e. Thomas, New
York; Theresa Malkiel, woman's socialist
Suffrage committee. New York State, and
Mrs. May Wright Sewell, honorary presi-
dent, International Council Of Women.
New York
Two hundred delegates Of the Emer-
gency Peace Federation gathered IN
Washington yesterday and after drafting
a set of resolutions opposing any declars-
tion OF war by the Congress of the
United States without the question pro-
viously having been voted upon by q
referendum to the whole people OF the
nation, marched to the White House TO
present the resolutions to the President.