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THE

AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF

PEACE AND ARBITRATION. [Entered at the Boston Post Office, as Second Class Mail Matter.]

VOL. LIII. No. 6. BOSTON, AUG?SEPT., 1891.

Price, $1.00 a Yeak.

CONTENTS. PAGE

Italy at Chicago, in 1893 . . . . . 139 The Universal Peace Congress at Rome?Its

Delegates. *?? The Inter-Parliamentary Conference . 140,141 Result of Internat'l American Conference 140 Spain's Samoan Outrages .... Emperor William in England Warlike Fits. International Peace Congress Literary Honors . . Peace Meetings at Washington, D. C.,

Mystic, Ct., and Portland, Me . A Step in Advance.142 a Talk with and about Ministers . . .143 Childishness aad Childlikeness . . .144 Man is a-Fighting Animal . . . .

}44 The Anti-Opium Resolution . . . .144 Diary of the Secretary .... 145-148 " He is Oar Peace" Poem . . . .148 Mr. Paine's Acceptance.149 Meeting of Executive Committee . . 149

140 141 141 141 142

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PAGE 150 Mothers' Peace Day ....

A Daniel come to Jadgmant ? By a Lasell Girl.

Military Drill for Bays and Girls. Address on Peace at Lynn, Mass. Life Poem, Charlotte Fiske Bates . Dr. E. E. Hale on Quincy's Oration . War Outgrown. Poem, J. Critchly Prince The Coming Peace. Oration, Josiah

Quiacy.152-160 Help for the Congress at Roms. Hodgson

Pratt. Mr. Blaine and the Missionaries . A Friend's Worship. Poem, W.Evans Darby Correspondence. The German Emperor and Alsace-Lorraine The Wind from the Sea. Rev. E. A. Rand . Going Abroad to Promulgate Peace. . Abstract of Annual Report of London

Peace Society. I Soon Shall Know. Poem, Julia H. May

160 160 161 161 162 163 163

163 161

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The Italian Peace Societies Propagating Peace . Boston Sends Ram to Africa Topics of the Rom in Congress Death of M. Vigano . The Sumner Prizes at Harvard Restoration of Peace in Chili On the Congo. Poem, Maria L Abolition of the Opium Traffic Responses of Public Men Extended Conscription in Italy The Heavenly Guest. Poem, Ida Whipple

Benham. M. Frederic Passy on War , The Seals of Behring Sea The Seals and the Cod. Poem Cost of Men for the Navy Cochise, The Apache Chief, and Peace. L.

E. Dudley. Beecher's Advice to his Son . Family Relations of Nations. Elihu Burritt

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PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, No. 1 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass.

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138 THE AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF PEACE AND ARBITRATION.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

president :

Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Boston, Mass.

corresponding secretary:

Rev. Rowland B. Howard, 1 Somerset St., Boston, Mass.

vice-presidents I

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Boston, Mass. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. Prof. Geo. N. Boardman, Chicago, 111. Pres. Samuel W. Boardman, Maryville, Tenn. Hon. Charles C. Bonney, Chicago, 111. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Felix R. Brunot, Pittsburgh, Pa. Hon. Thomas B. Bryan, Chicago, 111. Rev. W. A. Campbell, D.D., Richmond, Va. Hon. Jonathan Chace, Providence, R. I. H. B. Chamberlain, Denver, Col.

Joseph Cook, Boston, Mass. Hon. Frederick Douglass, Port au Prince, Hayti, Rev. Howard C. Dunham, Winthrop, Mass. Hon. David Dudley Field, New York, 1ST. Y. Hon. John B. Foster, Bangor, Me.

Philip C. Garrett, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Thomas N. Hart, Boston, Mass. Hon. Rowland Hazard, Peacedale, R. I. John Hemmenway, St. Anthony's Park, Minn.

W. G. Hubbard, Columbus, Ohio. Hon. John Jay, New York, N. Y. Hon. Sumner I. Kimball3 Washington, D. C. Rev. Geo. F. Magoun, D.D., Grinnell, Iowa. Hon. Nathan Matthews, Jr., Boston, Mass. Rev. John W. Olmstead, Boston, Mass. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon. Amos Perry, Providence, R. I. L. H. Pillsbury, Esq., Derry, N. H. Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, Portland, Me. Hon. Charles T. Russell, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. J. H. Stickney, Esq., Baltimore, Md. David S. Taber, New York, N. Y. Pres. C. F. Thwing, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.

Bishop Henry W. Warren, Denver, Col.

directors :

Rev. L. H. Angier, Holyoke, Mass. Hannah J. Bailey, Winthrop Centre, Me. W. H. Baldwin, Boston, Mass. Ida Whipple Benham, Mystic, Conn. Rev. Geo. D. Boardman, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Sidi H. Browne, Columbia, S. C. Rev. Frank G. Clark, Plymouth, N. H. Rev. Joseph S- Cogswell, Standish, Me. Rev. D. S. Coles, A.M., M.D., Wakefield, Mass. T. B. Cooledge, Esq., North Woburn, Mass. Geo. Cromwell, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. S. Hopkins Emery, Taunton, Mass. Thomas Gaffield, 54 Allen St., Boston, Mass. Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., Portland, Me. Hon. H. O. Houghton, Cambridge, Mass. Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Mass. P. McGrath, Esq., Quincy, Mass. Thos. A. Robertson, Rockford, 111. Frederic A. Smith, Maiden, Mass. Kate Gannett Wells, Boston, Mass. Rev. A. E. Winship, Boston, Mass. Rev. John Worcester, Newton, Mass.

executive committee:

Rev. J. H. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. Nathaniel T. Allen, West Newton, Mass. Rev. S. C. Bushnell, Arlington, Mass. Joseph Cartland, Newburyport, Mass. Cornelius T. Dunham, Esq.,ArundalePark, Dorchester, Mass. Rev. David H. Eia, D.D., Chelsea, Mass. J. E. Farwell, Esq., 45 Pearl St., Boston, Mass. Hon. David K, Hitchcock, Newton, Mass. Augustine Jones, Providence, R. I. Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., 528 Columbus Av., Boston, Mass. Wm. A. Mowry, Ph.D., 50 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. Rev. Philip S. Moxom, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. W. E. Sheldon, West Newton, Mass. Rev. Chas. B. Smith, West Medford, Mass. Rev. G. W. Stearns, Acton, Mass. Hon. A. B. Wentworth, Boston, Mass.

Rev. Daniel Richards, Office Agt., ISLoring St., Somerville, Mass. F. M. Patten, Treasurer, 15 Milton Place, Boston, Mass. D. C. Heath, Auditor, Newtonville, Mass.

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

Article I. This Society shall be designated the "American Peace Society."

Art. II. This Society, being founded on the principle that all war is contrary to the spirit of the gospel, shall have for its object to illustrate the inconsistency of war with Christianity, to show its baleful influence on all the great interests of mankind, and to devise means for insuring universal and permanent peace.

Art. III. Persons of every Christian denomination desirous of

promoting peace on earth, and good-will towards men, may be come members of this Society.

Art. IV. Every annual subscriber of two dollars, and every donor of five dollars, shall be a member of this Society.

Art. V. The payment of twenty dollars at one time, shall con stitute any person a Life-member, and fifty dollars, a Life-director.

Art. VI. The chairman of each corresponding committee, the officers and delegates of every auxiliary contributing to the funds of this Society, and every minister of the gospel who preaches once a year on the subject of peace, and takes up a collection in behalf of the cause, shall be entitled to the privileges of regular members.

Art. VII. All contributors shall be entitled within the year to one-half the amount of their contributions in the publications of the Society.

Art. VIII. The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-Pr?sidents, Directors, Secretaries, Treasurer and an Execu tive Committee of not less than five, with power to fill their own vacancies, and transact the general business of the Society. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than twenty, who shall have power to supply vacancies in any office of the Society, and direct all its operations till successors are chosen. The Vice Presidents shall be ex-officio Directors, and the President, Secre taries and Treasurer ex-officio members of the Executive Com

mittee.

Art. IX. The Society shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as the Board of Directors may appoint, to receive their own and the Treasurer's report, to choose officers, and transact such other business as may come before them.

Art. X. The object of this Society shall never be changed; but the constitution may in other respects be altered, on recom mendation of the Executive Committee, or of any ten members of the Society, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any regular meeting.

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