The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-29
FRIENDS CLOSE YEARLY Meeting;
EARLHAM REPORT IS RECEIVED

creased cost Of living. No college can
depend entirely upon attendance.
Having been presented Saturday
afternoon and disapproved in certain
parts and sent back to the committee
for changes, the resolutions on the
League of Nations, compulsory mill
tary training and intervention in Next
CO, as follows were accepted by Ind
lana Yearly Meeting Saturday evening
and have been mailed to both houses
of congress, President Wilson and Sec
rerary of State Lansing:
The League Of Nations
Believing that the foundations Of
the world order and Of all information
al fellowship must be moral and spirit
ual; that a better social order must
be realized by an extension to nation
al and international society of those
moral standards of department which
govern individual rela tionships; and
that nations can no longer hold them
selves aloof from the affairs of others,
but that together must accept full
responsibility in the spirit of frater-
nifty for formulating an international
compact that will regulate and govern
their nter-relationships upon the basis
Of peace and mutual good will;
Therefore, the Indiana Yearly Meet
ing of the Religious Society of Friends
in session at Richmond, Indiana, with
approximately $4,000 members, from
September % to 2S, 1919, hereby de-
clares itself in favor Of a League of
Nations, and respectfully petitions the
senate of the United States to take
such action as will secure the forma-
ton Of the best possible league which
can be devised that will properly safe
guard the rights of nations, and there
fore more certainly insure permanent
peace for the world.
Mexico
Indiana Yearly Meeting Of Friends,
in session at Richmond, Ind, Sept. %
%, 1919, believes that the United
States has no just cause for military
intervention in Mexico. Until our own
country can qua rantee protection to
life and property at home, both Of
Americans and MeXicans, we are in no
position to demand by force of arms
such guarantees from Mexico relative
to our citizens residing in that coun-
try.
Friends, in common with other re-
Hgious denominations, through extern
slve missionary opera lions in Mexico,
are doing constructive work in that
country, which the tragedy of mill
tary intervention would absolutely
| destroy. We therefore earnestly petit
ton the administration at Washington
and the congress to continue their eff,
forts to find a peaceful method of
settling all differences which either
now exist, or may arise hereafter.
Military Training
! Believing that the world is facing a
new order Of human society in which,
! as shown by many public utterances
| Of recent months, the overthrow of the
militaristic spirit throughout the world
! is implied; and recognizing that edu
! Gators generally protest against mill
| tary training in our schools and col
! leges; that the philosophy of Jesus
negatives it emphatically; and that
the common welfare revolt against its
enormous expense and the moral de
! linQuency which it involves;
The Indiana Yearly Meeting of the
Religious Society Of Friends, com
prising approximately $4,000 members
in session at Richmond, Indiana, from
| Sept. p to %, 1919, therefore petitions
| the congress to defeat all bills now
pending, or to be introduced, which
provide for universal compulsory mill
| tary training in this country.