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Show BISHOP JONES LAUDS CHICAGO MAYOR'S STAND Salt Lake, Sept. 3. "People of tho United States, like tho people of Germany, Ger-many, had this war thrust upon them," said Bishop Paul Jones, chairman chair-man of the cxecutlvo committee of the People's Council for Democracy and Terms of Peace, last night while discussing the troubles of his fellow anti-war advocates In Chicago. "Subjects "Sub-jects of tho kaiser were not asked whether or not they wanted to engage en-gage in this sanguinary conflict," continued the Salt Lake bishop, "and neither were tho citizens of America. They were forced Into the armies and sent Into the trenches. "President Wilson's criticism, thorefore, of the pope's recent peace proposal must cause a smile to appear ap-pear on the faces of the Germans. It has caused widespread comment here in that tho criticism which the President Presi-dent voices toward Germany may with equal propriety be directed at the United States. "Chas. T. Stoney, stato organizer of tho Socialist party in Utah, is by this time with the National Council now in 'Chicago. Ho left Salt Lake Wednesday, his ticket to Minneapolis taking him through Chicago," said the bishop. Upon hearing that Mayor Thompson Thomp-son and the governor of Illinois had clashed In authority as to whether the council shall bo allowed to meet there, Bishop Jones stated that he was glad that someono in authority had stood for free speech and the constitutional right of a peaceful body to hold a quiet assembly. Bishop Jones stated that the body had been organized for quite a few months, and bad never started any troublo wherever it had met. It had been organized In sixty or seventy cities, and had two million members. "The contest between the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago probably will be settled by Congress," said tho bishop. "Thero are some fair-minded men in Congress and although al-though the Issue may bo beclouded for a time, tho right of tho people to free speech and peaceable assemblage assembl-age will ultimately triumph," concluded con-cluded Bishop Jones. When tho pacifists were denied the right to meet In Minneapolis and North Dakota, Salt Lako members went to Governor Bamberger and asked tho privilege of inviting them to gather here, but Governor Bamberger Bam-berger took a day to think over tho matter and tho governor is said to havo said, "I want nothing to do with them." They wero consequently consequent-ly not Invited. |