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Show PEACE FEDERATION BEGINS CAMPAIGN Organization of Pacifists Directing Movement to Keep United States Out of War. NEW YORK, March 10. The Emergency Emer-gency Peace Federation began an organized or-ganized campaign today to keep the United States out of war with Germany. Prominent pacifists have been summoned here to direct the movement. More than $4000 has been raised to meet the costs. The money was subscribed last night at a mass meeting. Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram headed the list of pledges with $1000. Resolutions were adopted declaring declar-ing that the country could not allow itself it-self to be drawn into the war nor enter upon relations of "veiled hostility likely like-ly to lead to war." The resolutions advocated ad-vocated the appointment of a joint high commission to endeavor to settle the questions at issue between this country and Germany and urged President Wilson Wil-son to summon all the great powers to discuss plans for peace. A messaee from William J. Bryan, ( read at the meeting, stated Mr. Bryan 's opinion that "an overwhelming majority" ma-jority" of the American people favor keeping Americans off belligerent ships and would exclude arms and ammunition ammuni-tion from all American and neutral ships carrying passengers between the United States and Europe. Mr. Bryan said be did not believe the government should arm vessels carrying munitions. |