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urged meetings in the country to protest against the war*
The naptict Midland Conference in. f-tarch,, representing eighty
three churches and over ton thousand members passed a resolution
deprecating the war#
(2)
The IUottiughamahiro Congregational
Union passed a resolution of thanks when the armistice wan
doclarod«
(3)
The Society of Friends while anxious about
the natives in the Transvaal was not prepared to condone the
wart - Yorkshire Friends at Bradford sent a memorial to the
Government asking for the termination of hostilities and
suggesting the Peace Societies plan of arbitration to solve
the problem,
(4)
rust of the or; anioationa- which were to be known
for their anti-Imperialism in the futures were present in 1881.
The Positivists$
- who issued a formal protest against the wars ''
the Tionconforminta, the Peace £ociotioa and the more Radical
noctions of the Liberal Party, The Liberal anti-Imperialista
were varied, - they ranted from advanced Radicals such as 0.11.
Clark and Paocmore Eduards to rather old--fashioned temperance
ý1) Ba2tiRt1 25th February 1881.
(2) lbid, 18th larch 1881.
(3) tlonconforraint and In nd+ ntt 31st March 1881.
(k) I
ienc1, March 'ßi81.
(5) cho * 12th Fcbruwary 1881s
(1)