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Dominant Notes of the Annual MeetingSource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 76, No. 6 (JUNE, 1914), pp. 121-122Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20666955 .

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VOL. LXXVI. WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE, 1914. No. 6

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CONTENTS Page

Editorials . 121-123 Dominant Notes of the Annual Meeting?A New Immi

gration Policy. Editorial Notes. 123-125

Twenty-first International Peace Congress?Resolution of Executive Committee?Peace Commission of Federal Church Council?Report of Balkan Commission?Mo honk Arbitration Conference?Department of Legisla tion?Mediation Conference?Two Battleships Voted.

Among the Peace Organizations.. 125 Field Department Notes. 125-126

Central West Department?South Atlantic States De partment?New England Department.

Eighty-sixth Anniversary op the American Peace So ciety .. . . ... 127-128

Meeting of the Board of Directors?Annual Meeting? Annual Dinner?National Peace Council.

General Articles : Address. Hon. William Jennings Bryan. 128-129 Object Lessons in the Mexican Crisis. Hon. Richard

Bartholdt. 129-131 Address. Hon. Walter L. Hensley.. 131-132 Remarks. Jackson H. Ralston. 133 Remarks. Senator John Sharp Williams. 133-134 Eighty-sixth Annual Report of the Directors. 134-142 The Country and the Small Town. Mrs. H. W.

Thomas. 142 Peace and War Measures Before Congress. 143 Correspondence . 143-144 Book Reviews. 144 Pamphlets Received. 144

Dominant Notes of the Annual Meeting. A confident belief that the mission of mediation

on the part of the "A. B. C." republics will yet offset the temporary hysteria over the Tampico incident ; a growing conviction, reinforced by the events of recent weeks, that great armaments are disturbers of the peace rather than its guarantors; satisfaction at the things accomplished during the year just com

pleted, and a frank recognition that the masses of the nation must be reached more widely than here tofore?these were the dominant notes of the eighty sixth annual meeting of the American Peace Society.

The first of these keynotes is evident from the resolution (which appears elsewhere in this issue) which was unanimously adopted by the society after a vigorous debate over whether or not President Wil son's Mexican policy was defensible. However the delegates differed on the latter question, they were

unanimous in welcoming the offer of mediation on the part of our South American sister republics and its prompt acceptance by the two contending parties. The delegates reported with enthusiasm how the

possibility of averting war through mediation was hailed in their various communities with relief and satisfaction by the people in all walks of life.

Congressman Bartholdt drew forth vigorous ap plause when he exploded the fallacy that dread

noughts and excessive armaments are guarantors of peace by pointing out that the presence of a man-of war in Havana harbor provoked the Spanish-Amer ican conflict and the presence of a dreadnought in

Mexican waters the Tampico incident. The same theme was seized upon by Congressman Hensley, who pointed to the insecurity of Missouri citizens in the days when everybody carried arms, and Senator John Sharp Williams, who carried the audience with similar illustrations from the South.

The American Peace Society looks back with un usual satisfaction upon a year of constructive growth and expansion. The executive committee, through its two directing officers, reported the addition of four branch societies, eight section societies, and one affiliated society; an increase of the circulation of The Advocate of Peace to eleven thousand copies monthly ; the addition of over one thousand paying members; the holding under its auspices of nearly fifteen hundred lectures by one hundred and fifty different lecturers ; the visit to the parent and branch societies of such distinguished foreign guests as Nor

man Angeli, Bernard Noel Langdon-Davies, Dr. Sid ney L. Gulick, and Dr. Shosuke Sato; the bringing to bear of pressure upon Congress in favor of the re

peal of the Panama Canal tolls exemption clause, the adoption of the naval holiday resolution, and the calling of the Third Hague Conference.

Inspiring though this record proved, there was a frank recognition of the fact that the masses at large have not yet been adequately reached, chiefly be cause of the lack of funds. Hon. Jackson H. Ral ston well pointed out that public opinion must be awakened to the undesirability of permitting the citizens of one nation to sell arms to another while the latter is at war or to negotiate the sale of foreign bonds for the purpose of financing a war. Senator Burton made the significant statement that the time will soon come when the peace forces will have to demand of all candidates for election to national offices a statement of their position on the inter national questions. Much of the round-table con ference of the members of the board of directors cen tered upon this question of how to extend the mem

bership of the society to include ever greater and greater masses of the people.

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122 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. June,

Three other items of business deserve mention:

First, the resolution to urge upon the international

congress of the Church Peace Union at Berne and the Twenty-first International Peace Congress at

Vienna to agree upon a universal Peace Sunday; second, the request to the executive committee to consider the question of maintaining at the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco a peace exhibit and headquarters in co-operation with similar organ izations; third, a hearty endorsement of the proposal to bring the next International Peace Congress to

America.

The Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, who graced the banquet for a few minutes with his

inspiring presence, paid a warm tribute to the

eighty-six years' work of the American Peace Soci

ety. He impressed upon all the friends of the or

ganization the necessity of patience and steadfastness in the effort to accomplish any really great human itarian enterprise like that of the abolition of war. The members returned home with renewed inspira tion and zeal to enter upon another year's campaign, determined to treat our task as a lifetime job, if

necessary, until the victory is won.

A New Immigration Policy. An unusually clear, comprehensive, and illuminating

discussion of the racial relations of the East and the West is being presented to the people of this country by Dr. Sidney L. Gulick,* a man eminently qualified by his

twenty-six years of residence in Japan to throw light on

many of the difficult problems connected with Japanese immigration, and to promote friendship between Amer ica and the Orient.

Since arriving in this country Dr. Gulick has had

personal interviews with the President and the Secretary of State, and has also presented his new policy and his

proposed amendments to the present immigration law to the Senate Committee on Immigration. A copy was also given to Ambassador Chinda, at his request, to be

presented to the Japanese government. He is now en

gaged in lecturing throughout the States under the aus

pices of the Federal Council of Churches and the Amer ican Association for International Conciliation. So

much of the trouble is due to prejudice and to ignorance of the actual situation that Dr. Gulick will be able to aid greatly in the working out and adoption of a prac tical policy.

In The American-Japanese Problem^ the author con siders at length the Oriental problem of America and the local problem of California, furnishing hosts of facts to support his contention that the "yellow peril" is far other than what it is popularly assumed to be. There

*Dr. Gulick comes of missionary ancestors, and was born in the island of Micronesia. He received his early educa tion in California, graduated from Dartmouth College, and after some years of service as a pastor in New York and California went to Japan as a missionary, where nearly half of his life has been spent. He is a professor in the Doshisha College, and has been a lecturer in the Imperial University at Kyoto. He was one of the founders of the Oriental Peace Society of Kyoto, and is a vice-president of the American Peace Society of Japan.

fThe American-Japanese Problem. By Sidney L. Gulick. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1914. 348 pages. Price, $1.75 net.

is a real "yellow peril," he says, but it is a peril growing out of our attitude of exclusion and ill will, which, if

persisted in, will alienate the two races and develop a

corresponding spirit of distrust and dislike in, the East. He reminds his readers that there is also a "white peril/' which constitutes an equal source of danger in the mind of the Asiatic, who feels both scorn and indignation for the white man's high-handed dealings with him. Dr. Gulick declares that what the world needs is a "compre hensive Oriental policy, free from illusions and from

selfishness, which, while it conserves the real interests of the white race, provides also for the real interests of

Asia."

To outline briefly the points in the suggested policy is all that can be attempted here. As fundamental

principles, Dr. Gulick insists upon the abandonment of the idea of the inherent superiority and the divine right of the white race to rule. He asks for equality of rights and privileges and a< spirit of sympathy for the prob lems and difficulties of the Oriental. That a new Orient now exists must be recognized and the actual conditions in California be acknowledged, while at the same time there must always be conservation of distinctively Amer ican institutions.

The various points which are included in the policy are these :

1) . Granting of American citizenship to every quali fied person, regardless of race.

2) . Fixing a percentage rate of immigration, making the maximum annual immigration from any country five

per cent of those from that country already here and naturalized.

3) . Establishment of bureaus of alien registration and education in order to supervise the immigrants and

prepare them for citizenship. Also of bureaus of natu ralization to investigate and determine qualifications for

citizenship. 4) . Direct Federal responsibility for all legal and

legislative matters in which aliens are involved. 5) . Study by a national commission of problems of

biological and sociological assimilation.

6) . Regulation of international news to restrain "yel low journalism"?a real "yellow peril."

7 ). Establishment of a department of national benev olence, to provide for exchange students between the countries, for contributing to emergency relief, as in famine, fire, and flood, and the like.

8). Education of American school children in Orien tal history, which would help greatly to real race com

prehension and reconciliation. Under the proposed scheme the Japanese would be

allowed to enter on exactly the same terms as other races. If the five per cent rate were adopted, that would mean that in one year more than 400,000 Germans could be admitted, while only 220 Japanese could enter. The admission of such small numbers would allow them to be assimilated easily, and the fact that race discrim ination was abolished would remove the chief Japanese cause for complaint. The details of the program are, however, intended merely to be suggestive; the only point upon which the author insists is the equal treat ment of all races.

Most of the points presented seem to us to be wise and

practicable. The plan for the establishment of three bureaus on registration, immigration and naturalization

might perhaps be unified and simplified somewhat.

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