PEACE MEETING IN AMSTERDAM TODAY
CONGRESS IS INVITED TO HOLD CONFERENCES IN MANY EUROPEAN CITIES.
Special Cable to Chicago Herald and Galveston-Dallas News. Copyright, 1915, by Chicago Herald. Reproduction prohibited.
The Hague, May 4. -- A large public peace meeting is to be held in Amsterdam tomorrow evening at which officers of the International Congress of Women are to speak. Since the close of the congress three days ago, requests for meetings have been pouring in from other Dutch cities, as well as from England, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland and other European countries.
The public is enthusiastically [realizing] the great outstanding fact that the solidarity of women in the midst of this world catastrophe has held and that the great international meeting came to a successful close without any serious disagreement or misunderstanding. This is more remarkable when taken in connection with the fact that all the great international organizations of science, labor, religion and social economy deemed it impossible to meet this year lest something be said or done that might endanger the neutrality of the small States or increase the bitterness between the parties due to the conflict. The women who took part in the solemn deliberations which have just ended, many of whom had personally experienced war in the loss of their relations, in nursing the wounded or in the disorganization of all normal living, throughout the meetings treated their sisters from the warring countries in the spirit of understanding and comradeship and their protest was turned against war itself without any attempt to assess blame.
The congress was never without its emotional background and all the more impression was created because so carefully was it restrained at moments that one was reminded of the women of Greek tragedy who mourned not for their personal sorrows, but for the great wrongs of the world. The modern woman, however, with her trained mind, not only cried out against the present system of force, but was able to hold her mind upon devising ways and means for substituting reason and law, conciliation and arbitration for the prevailing system.
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