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The New Chicago Peace SocietySource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 72, No. 2 (FEBRUARY, 1910), pp. 30-32Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20665887 .

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30 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. February,

harmony. When that lesson is learned, Englishmen will realize that their country won truer renown when she

voluntarily gave up the Ionian Islands to Greece and re stored its freedom to the Transvaal on the morrow of a defeat than when she overcame Napoleon or when she

acquired the empire of the East. They will look back to these achievements in the conquest of false pride as

pioneer acts in the growth of a new civilization, and will

recognize in Gladstone the founder and foremost name in the statesmanship of humanity."

D. Mead of Boston; George W. Kirchwey, Dean of the Law School of Columbia University; James Brown Scott, solicitor of the Department of State; and Nicholas

Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. The Interparliamentary Union Bureau at Brussels has

addressed to the governments of all countries a proposi tion to re-adopt and extend to dirigibles and aeroplanes the provision of the first Hague Peace Conference forbid

ding the dropping of explosives from balloons during war. This expired by limitation after five years.

News from the Field, The British National Peace Council, a committee

made up of representatives of all the British peace organizations, has appointed Carl Heath its secretary in

place of H. S. Perris, resigned. Mr. Heath is secretary of the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, and is deeply interested in all humanitarian movements.

It is announced that the British National Peace Con

gress this year will be held at Leicester the 14th to the 16th of June. The mayor of the city is chairman of the Committee on Organization, and is warmly supported by persons of all religious faiths and political connections.

Prof. Samuel T. Dutton of the Teachers' College of Columbia University, General Secretary of the Peace

Society of the City of New York, has returned "hale and hearty

" from Europe, where he has spent the last six months in travel and in giving courses of lectures before some of the universities. He recently visited and lectured before the American College for Girls at Con

stantinople, of which he is a trustee.

Miss Anna B. Eckstein has been holding meetings in Switzerland the past few weeks in the interests of the World-Petition. She has met with a very warm recep tion in all the cities where she has spoken. Just before

leaving for Austria-Hungary, where she is now laboring, she received a very warm testimonial from the Central Committee of the Swiss Peace Union. Dr. Bucher-Heller, chairman, wrote her as follows : " Before you leave

Switzerland I once more, in the name of the Central Committee, express to you their thanks for the great services which you have rendered to us and the peace

movement in Switzerland by your splendid addresses. I am convinced that all sections in which you have

spoken are very, very thankful to you."

Following a vote of the Mohonk Arbitration Confer ence of May last, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Conference, has announced the following ten

gentlemen to constitute a committee to consider plans for a National Council on Arbitration and Peace, whose

purpose is to try to bring into more harmonious coopera tion the different peace and arbitration organizations, so as to save duplication and overlapping, and to secure

greater unity and efficiency : Flihu Root, Senator from New York; Andrew Carnegie, honorary president of the New York Peace Society; Albert K. Smiley, organ izer of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International

Arbitration; Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston, secre

tary of the American Peace Society ; E. D. Warfield of

Easton, Penn., president of Lafayette College; Lyman Abbott of New York, editor of The Outlook \ Edwin

Brevities. ... At the request of the United States government, the date for the hearing at The Hague of the case in re

gard to the rights of United States fishermen in New foundland and Canadian waters, in the north Atlantic, has been postponed for six weeks from the original date eet, April 14. The postponement was sought in order to

give our government further time to prepare its case.

... At the meeting of the Canadian Club of Boston at the Parker House January 21, the speakers from Canada,

Mr. P. W. Hibbard of Montreal, crown prosecutor for that district, and the Hon. Robert E. Finn, member of the Nova Scotia parliament, and other speakers, made a strong plea for better trade relations and general friendly coop eration between Canada and the United States. One of the speakers from our country went so far as to prophesy political union of the two countries. Mr. Finn regretted that this country had not seen fit to be more neighborly with the Dominion. Canada was friendly to the United States and ready to be more so, he said.

. . . Germany's naval budget for this year calls for the

expenditure of $108,500,000, an increase of $7,000,000 over last year. The larger part of this, over $60,000,000, is for battleship construction.

. . . During the recent election campaign in Great Britain, the Anglo-German Friendship Committee issued a strong protest against the scare articles on u

Germany and England

" which appeared in the papers and were

exploited by politicians for the purpose of vote-getting. Lord Avebury declared in the protest that though rivals each of the two countries was u one of the best customers of the other, and to ruin a good customer and to destroy so great a commerce was an act of folly that he did not believe either country was likely to fall into." " A war between Germany and England would be disastrous to both, and those who endeavor to make mischief between the two countries incur in our judgment a terrible respon sibility. For ourselves, however, we feel confident that the common sense, the good feelings, and the immense interests we have in common will prevent so fearful a

catastrophe."

The New Chicago Peace Society, As an outcome of the great National Peace Congress

held in Chicago last May, a Branch of the American Peace

Society has been organized in Chicago with a strong personal and financial backing.

About a dozen years ago a Chicago Peace Society was

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organized as an auxiliary of the American Peace Society. This did good work for a few years under the presidency of Hiram W. Thomas, D. D., with Mrs. E. A. W. Hos well as secretary. But after a time Dr. Thomas, on ac count of ill health, resigned his position and Mrs. Hoswell moved away. No successors were found for these and the society practically came to an end.

So great was the interest awakened in Chicago by the second National Peace Congress last spring that, at a

meeting of members of the American Peace Society, following the Congress, it was voted that it was desirable to establish a new Chicago Society as a Branch of the American Peace Society.

Soon after the close of the Congress Rev. Charles E.

Beals, who, with the aid of Royal L. Melendy, Rev. Jenkin

Lloyd Jones, Miss Jane Addams/ Rabbi Hirsch and

others, had organized the Congress, was entrusted with the duty of effecting the new organization. The task was far from an easy one. Mr. Beals had the coopera tion ?f a strong committee of Chicago people appointed by Hon. Robert Treat Paine, president of the American Peace Society. It was considered unadvisable to start a new society without a good financial basis and the services of someone to look after its work continually. The Board of Directors of the American Peace Society de cided in May last to transfer the office of the Field Sec

retary to Chicago, and to allow him to act as secretary of the new society, provided the Chicago Branch should materialize and would finance an onice, including rent and

stenographer, for the headquarters of the Field Secretary ship and of the Chicago Branch, etc.

On the fourth of last month, sufficient funds having been pledged for three years to warrant the opening of an office, a meeting was held in the rooms of the Chicago College Club, Fine Arts Building, to which were invited the members of the former Chicago Peace Society, the

Chicago members of the American Peace Society and the local delegates to the National Peace Congress. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones was chosen chairman. It was voted to reorganize the Chicago Peace Society as a Branch of the American Peace Society, and a constitu tion was adopted and officers chosen. The officers, ex ecutive committee and honorary vice-presidents of the new society are as follows :

OFFICERS.

President : Hon. George E. Roberts, President of the Commercial National Bank.

Vice-President : Alfred L. Baker, of Alfred L. Baker &Co.

Secretary : Charles E. Beals, Field Secretary of the American Peace Society.

Treasurer: Leroy A. Goddard, President of State Bank of Chicago.

Auditor : (to be chosen by Executive Committee). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and the following :

Miss Jane Addams, Head Resident of Hull House. Richard C. Hall, former President Association of

Commerce.

Alexander A. McCormick, former President Union

League Club.

Edward M. Skinner, President Association of Com merce.

Sidney R. Taber, Attorney for Aldis & Co.

Harry A. Wheeler, Vice-President Union Trust Com pany.

HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Miss Jane Addams, Hull House.

Right Rev. Charles P. Anderson, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Chicago.

E. J. Buffington, President Illinois Steel Company. Hon. William J. Calhoun, United States Minister to

China. Hon. Charles S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois. Hon. J. M. Dickinson, Secretary of War. Walter L. Fisher, of Matz, Fisher & Boyden. David R. Forgan, President National City Bank. James B. Forgan, President First National Bank. President Abram W. Harris, Northwestern University. Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, former President Federation

of Woman's Clubs. Hon. Harlow N. Higinbotham, President World's Co

lumbian Exposition. Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Minister of Sinai Congregation. Charles L. Hutchinson, Vice-President Corn Exchange

Bank.

Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Director Abraham Lincoln Centre.

Mrs. John R. Lindgren, wife of donor of Lindgren Peace Fund.

President Charles J. Little, Garrett Biblical Institute. Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury. Bishop William F. McDowell of the Methodist Epis

copal Church. President John S. Nollen, Lake Forest College. Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons, Philanthropist. Julius Rosenwald, President Sears, Roebuck & Co. Prof. Graham Taylor, Chicago Commons. Towner K. Webster, President Webster Manufactur

ing Company. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent of Schools.

All these persons were consulted in advance, and have accepted the positions to which they have been chosen. It will thus be seen that the society begins its work with unusually strong support. Several of these officials are among the leading Chicago business men, and all of them are prominent and influential in the life of the city.

By vote the present life members of the American Peace Society in and around Chicago were invited to consider themselves members of the new Branch without additional payment, and the present annual and sustaining members of the American Peace Society in and around Chicago were invited to consider themselves members of the new Branch without further payment, with the understanding that upon the expiration of their present subscription re newal be made to the Chicago Society by the payment of its regular membership fee.

The newly elected president, Hon. George E. Roberts, one of the strong business men of Chicago and a pro nounced friend of peace, was introduced and made a brief, happy address. The sentiments advanced by him called forth repeated applause. Remarks were made by a number of other members of the society, including Hon. Harlow N. Higinbotham, President John S. Nollen of

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Lake Forest College, and others. There was much en thusiasm and interest in the meeting, and all those present felt that a new chapter in the history of the peace move

ment, in Chicago at any rate, had opened. It was voted that the executive committee be instructed

to open an office and secure a stenographer at once. The office was consequently opened in the Association Build

ing, 153 La Salla Street, Room 815. The services of the

stenographer who assisted in organizing the Peace Con

gress were secured.

Rev. Charles E. Beals, Field Secretary of the American Peace Society, has transferred his headquarters to the office of the new Chicago Peace Society, of which he will act as secretary. He will carry on his field work in the

organizing of Branch Societies, local conferences, etc., from his new quarters, instead of from Boston as hereto fore. The new office will keep on hand supplies of the American Peace Society's literature. It will also have a

general reference library as funds will permit. Mr. Beals left Boston with his family on January 30,

and will resume his work at once at the Chicago office. He carries with him the great respect and appreciation of the Board of Directors of the American Peace Society for his success, after many months of unremitting and difficult work, in organizing the new Branch. They bespeak for him the cordial confidence and cooperation of all the friends of peace in and about the great Western metrop olis. Chicago is a city of enormous influence in the life of the nation, and the kind of work which will be carried on from the new office, with the cooperation of the eminent men and women connected with the new society, will

necessarily have a powerful influence in strengthening and

shaping the future course of the world peace movement.

pioneer work. The Massachusetts Peace Society, organ ized in 1815 by Noah Worcester and Dr. Channing, be came at once the most important of all the early societies. The American Peace Society, founded by William Ladd in 1828, by a union of the then existing peace organizations, has had its headquarters in New England since 1834. Hartford, next to Boston, was, in the early days of the movement, the strongest centre of peace work in the

country. The American Peace Society moved from New York to Hartford in 1835. The Connecticut Peace So

ciety, founded in Hartford in 1827 by William Watson and his friends, was a vigorous organization, and by 1834 there were branches in every county of the State. The Advocate of Peace, the organ of the American Peace

Society for seventy-five years, was first published in Hart ford by William Watson in 1834 and edited by C. S.

Henry, Since Connecticut has a State Peace Society, organized recently as a Branch of the American Peace

Society, no place could be more fitting than Hartford for the holding of a general New England Peace Congress. It is believed that, with the hearty cooperation of all the friends of peace in this section of the nation, the New

England Congress can easily be made one of the largest and most memorable peace conventions ever held, even in its influence upon the whole nation.

elihu burritt centennial.

Further, the year 1910 is the one hundredth anniver sary of the birth of Elihu Burritt. This man first saw the

light in New Britain, a few miles from Hartford. The citizens of New Britain treasure the fame of the " learned blacksmith," and purpose to erect a monument to his

memory, if possible this year. Elihu Burritt was more than a philanthropist, he was an apostle of universal brotherhood among nations; he inspired and shaped the international peace congress of 1848; he was the domi

nating factor of the international peace congress at Paris in 1849, where he was associated with Hugo, Cobden, Bright, Napier, Liebig, Amasa Walker and others ; he was the earliest advocate of oceanic penny postage ; an author, linguist and statesman. The centennial anniver

sary of this man's birth is no insignificant reason why there should be a New England Peace Congress in Hartford and New Britain this year.

a cordial invitation.

To this coming Peace Congress in Hartford and New Britain all important organizations in the New England States are invited to send delegates : chambers of com merce, boards of trade, other business organizations, law societies, teachers' associations, both State and county, religious organizations, State and local, women's soci eties, labor organizations, universities, colleges, acad emies, farmers' associations, and other varied companies of men and women. As far as possible all the interests of New England will be represented. Among the leaders of New England who are being invited to participate are the State governors and ex-governors, mayors and

ex-mayors of cities, jurists, legislators, presidents and

professors of universities and colleges, superintendents of schools, and leaders in business, social and religious circles.

the program.

Every effort will be made to have the program one of the strongest that has ever been carried out in any peace

New England Arbitration and Peace

Congress.*

To be held at Hartford, Connecticut,

May 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1910.

An Arbitration and Peace Congress for the six New

England States will be held at Hartford and New Britain, Conn., on the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th of May, 1910, under the auspices of the American Peace Society and the Connecticut State Peace Society.

RECENT PEACE CONGRESSES.

Two great National Peace Congresses have recently been held in the United States, the first in New York in

April, 1907, the second in Chicago in May, 1909. Two State Congresses have also been held, the first in Texas in

November, 1907, the second in Pennyslvania in May, 1908. All these Congresses were large and conspicuously successful, showing the enormous development of peace sentiment in recent years.

WHY A NEW ENGLAND PEACE CONGRESS.

It has seemed fitting that the next in the series of local

congresses should be held in New England, and that all the States of New England be asked to participate. New

England has been for nearly a century the chief centre of the American peace movement. It was here that

Worcester, Channing, Ladd, Sumner and Burritt did their * Circular issued by the Committee on Organization.

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