Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 8 | Pacifists Issue Another Protest

PACIFISTS ISSUE PR0IESI Mass Meeting in Madison Square Garden; Resolutions Resolu-tions Passed. :NEW YORK, March 24. Resolutions declaring that "overt acts, however brutal, bru-tal, do not afford adequate cause for war to a republic whoso essential relation rela-tion to international affairs iB summed up in the words 'conciliation, arbitration and democracy. ' " .were adopted at a mass meeting nere by the Emergency Peace federation tonight in Madison Square garden, as a "protest against war. 1 ' "This mass meeting," the resolutions said in part, "protests against the proclamation proc-lamation by the metropolitan press that a state of war exists between the United Unit-ed States and Germany; protests against the campaign of misrepresentation Frompted by those who would profit rom plunging this country into the abyss of war; protests against the systematic sys-tematic inflammation ot the, public mind by hysterical preparations for war. "Statistics show clearly that to send a considerable army to Europe would involve in-volve such a drain on our food resources as to plunge us into the famine conditions condi-tions of Europe. The idea that war would bring any real prosperity to the country at Targe is a cruel illusion, even though" doubtless some individuals or industrial groups might profit for a time. T fV, fltar fcanrl the United States should adopt the suggestion of certain financial leaders and use money only, not armies, we should find ourselves our-selves as a nation merely an appendage to the financial system of London and New York City, there being already bonds, sold and unsold, covering thousands thou-sands of millions of dollars awaiting indorsement in-dorsement by the government of the United States. "To undertake to protect by force any part of the European war debt involves in-volves the protection of the entire debt and tends to encourage war for the extension ex-tension of loans. "We oppose as undemocratic and inimical in-imical to moral aud political liberty every ev-ery form of conscription or compulsory military training. In such training we see the effective tool of the militarism now devastating the earth. "For ourselves we respectfully urge that instead of entering upon the misery, mis-ery, distress and desperation of international interna-tional warfare, the government of the United States appoint a joint high commission com-mission to meet deputies of the German Ger-man government and by joint agreement agree-ment to settle the issues involved. "If meanwhile any nation proffers its friendly offices in mediation a step which by a Hague convention to which we are a party can never be considered con-sidered an unfriendly act we respectfully respect-fully urge that such mediation be ac-. cepted in a friendly spirit and any proper prop-er adjustment of the controversy be welcomed. "If such adjustment prove impossible, impossi-ble, we further urge that our government govern-ment then defer the settlement of our just claims till after the European war. "Finally, we demand that congress should in no case issue a declaration of war nor declare the existence of a state of war without first considering the result, re-sult, of a referendum." The meeting was attended by considerable consid-erable disorder. Persons who took exceptions ex-ceptions to some of the remarks of the speakers were ejected from the garden, in spite of protests on the part of those who occupied seats on the platform. The principal addresses were made by Dr David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford university; Professor Pro-fessor Scott Nearing, Joseph D. Cannon Can-non of the Western Federation of Miners Min-ers and John E. Milholland, father ot the late Mrs. Inez Milholland Boisse-vain.