Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-28
b0RAH SPEAKS
BEFORE EASTER
MASS MEETING
Washington Gathering
Is Under Auspices Of
Wonen's Committee.
Bryan Telegram Urges
Agreement of Nations;
Resolution Adopted.

Washington, March PA resolu-
ton requesting President Harding Ito
call conference of nations on the
question of world disarmament" and
asking that increased appropriations
Of congress for ornaments be post
poned pending such a conference was
adopted here Sunday st an Easter mass
meeting held in advocacy of diserma-
ment under the auspices of the
Women's Disarmament committee.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, who was
the principal speaker. again advocated
Ian agreement between the United
States, Great Britain and Japan to
lreduce naval disarmament and charged
the authors of programs for increased
iarmaments with being "sedulous pa
itrons of bolshevism, painstaking and
industrious gardeners of unrest and
misery.
Il want to tell you," he said, that
the ties which bind peoples to their
governments are swapping everywhere
because of the great burden of arma-
Iments.
Failed in Mission.
"Our representatives at Versailles
were pledged to such a reduction. They
met in the palace of the Bourbons,
talked of better world, and when the
talk was over, went home to lay on
the backs of the struggling millions,
burdens a Caesar would not have
dreamed Of"
The meeting, it was announced. was
held simultaneously with others in Il
Estates in the interests of reduced naval
and military programs. Many of the
leaders in the movement were promi-
Enent in the campaign for women suf-
Ifrage.
Other prominent speakers were Rep
preventative Frear. of Wisconsin; Mrs.
Ida Clyde Clark and Edward f. Grady.
|of the American Federation of Labor.
Mrs. Florence Kelly. of New York,
who presided said the meetings ''lnark
the spontaneous uprising of women on
the first Easter on which they have
had power"
Time Is Now, She Says.
"The time to disarm is now," she
added, "and the place is here
Mr.. Grady said the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor joins ''in demanding
that the statesmen of this country do
something at once to bring about a
definite program for world disarma-
ment.
I'VE, however, clearly recognize" ;"
he added, that we cannot tysarm
while other nations are armed But we
want disarmament, the reduction to be
gradual and by general agreement"
Among the kilograms read was one
from William Jennings Bryan. saying
he was heartily in favor of disarma-
mentor an agreement with other
nations. if possible, by our example, if
necessary.
Il hope the spirit of friendship and
eo-o operation will sense this before the
fear of universal bankruptcy compels
It, the massage added.
Race Is On, Says Borah.
There is no way to bring about dis
armament, except through agreement
with the other naval powers" Senator
Borah said "It should never be our
purpose to leave our country insecure,
but it should be our determined pur-
pose to bring about such an agreement
as will bring security without bringing
bankruptcy.
Great Britain has again taken up
the program of building. Japan is
every day adding to her program. And
we are still to have the greatest navy
in the world. So the race is on. the
made race, which from 1900 to 1914
brought Germany and England, there
tofore close friends. into war. If the
naval race is to continue, I can see
no relief for the overburdened people
of this country"