Non-Sequitur's source, boondocksnet.com, is so noteworthy, I will present the linked page which he is apparently too bashful to present. In all your excitement, you turned Jim Zwick into Edward Zwick.
http://www.boondocksnet.com//ai/masters/
Anti-Imperialist Writings by Edgar Lee Masters
By Jim ZwickAlthough he began his career as a lawyer, Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) is well-known today as a poet, his Spoon River Anthology still appreciated by many. Unlike most of the anti-imperialists, Masters opposed the Spanish-American War. "I had read enough in the papers to know that war was avoidable," he wrote in his autobiography, Across Spoon River (1936), "and I resolved to have nothing to do with it." He was roused to action by the annexation of the Philippines and the beginning of the new war there. He threw himself into studying the history of the Constitution and the United States' republican form of government, and within the next few years wrote a play, Maximilian (1902), a volume of poetry, and a series of essays on imperialism. During the 1900 presidential campaign, he wrote numerous essays and speeches opposing imperialism and supporting the campaign of William Jennings Bryan, the anti-imperialist Democratic candidate. In October of 1900, The Public, a Chicago-based weekly edited by the single taxer and anti-imperialist, Louis F. Post, called Masters' pamphlet, The Constitution and Our Insular Possessions (1900), "the best presentation of the Philippine question, in its constitutional and other legal aspects, that has yet come to our attention."
His literary and political efforts received favorable reviews from the anti-imperialists but hurt his law practice. His isolation led him to accept an offer to become the law partner of Clarence Darrow, one of the most prominent civil rights lawyers of the time. He explained in his autobiography:
I was known over Chicago and Illinois by this time as the author of the constitutional articles and political essays published in the Chronicle, and in Tom Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine; and also as the author of a pamphlet entitled "The Constitution and Our Insular Possessions," which had made the conservative lawyers of Chicago indignant at me. Thus my life had moved in such a way that I was unwelcome among the lawyers who were doing a large business, and there was no place for me to go but to the radicals.
While in practice with Darrow, Masters collected some of the essays written during and shortly after the 1900 campaign and published them as The New Star Chamber and Other Essays (1904). He published his early anti-imperialist poems in The Blood of the Prophets (1905) under the pseudonym Dexter Wallace. Darrow had been a vice president of the Chicago Liberty Meeting of April 1899 that led to the formation of the Central Anti-Imperialist League in Chicago, and he would later join the national committee of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League (1928). In 1904, Masters signed the Philippine Independence Committee's petition to the Republican and Democratic national conventions calling for the ultimate independence of the Philippines. His opposition to imperialism continued for many years. He returned to the turn-of-the-century events in the Philippines in his Spoon River Anthology (1915) and a verse play, Manila (1930), and in 1916 he reminded the country that it was the seizure of the Philippines that made it difficult to stay neutral as warfare raged in Europe. The Spanish-American War "changed the form of our government," he wrote in his autobiography, and entrance into the World War "would solidify that change."
I positively cannot understand why you left out what Zwick actually wrote about the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. That is at the following boondocknet.com link.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ail/allamer.html
The All-America Anti-Imperialist League
by Jim Zwick* * *
Although it was started by the Workers (Communist) Party, many leading liberals and peace advocates within the United States signed on as members of its national committee, including the lawyer, Clarence Darrow; Roger Baldwin of the the American Civil Liberties Union; Freda Kirchwey and Lewis S. Gannett of The Nation; W. E. B. Du Bois, the leading African American intellectual; William Pickens of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Robert Morss Lovett of the New Republic; and Scott Nearing. Only one former officer of the Anti-Imperialist League, S. A. Stockwell, joined the new organization's national committee. Stockwell was the first president of the Minneapolis Anti-Imperialist League (1899), a nationally prominent leader of the single tax movement, and for many years a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
The League reached beyond middle class and intellectual circles for its officers to develop a multi-racial and multi-class coalition. Undoubtedly the League's most noteworthy member was Socrates Sandino, half brother of Augusto Sandino, the leader of the Nicaraguan revolution. Socrates Sandino made a national speaking tour for the League and gained considerable attention from the U.S. media. In 1934, both he and his half-brother Augusto were assassinated in Nicaragua. Besides the prominent people named on its letterhead, the League's leadership included representatives of the Filipino Association of Chicago, the Filipino Workers Club, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sun Yat Sen Lodge, Machinists Lodge, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Jewish Marxian Youth Alliance, Teachers' Union, Sociedad Mutulista, and other labor, national, and reform organizations. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League was replaced in 1933 by the American League Against War and Fascism.
I never knew that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was a Communist organization. Good catch, Non-Seq. As well, I knew the ACLU was on the left, but I never realized it was as far left as The Brigade. I never knew that the NAACP was as radical, whacko, liberal left as The Brigade either. The Machinists Lodge as well. Who knew? Thanks for pointing this all out, Non-Sequitur. </sarcasm>
How about your Brigade Commander? How deep do you have to dredge to find him? Your fearless leader.
Gee. I'll bet if you had to pick between being John Wilkes Booth or your Brigade Commander, you probably would not be able to decide.
FWIW, Robert M. Lovett was formerly connected with Hull House and Elizabeth Seton in Chicago, and was later a faculty member for many years at the University of Chicago. He was mentioned by name by Louis F. Budenz in his 1954 decalogue against Communist infiltration of American education in the 1930's. Link here (see the eighth graf):
The Techniques of Communism, Louis F. Budenz, 1954.
Budenz's article is worth a read. What the Communists did in the 1930's, the New Left did in the 1970's; and their infiltration never completely failed them, although now you have a few specimen exponents of the Old Left still wandering around, like Eric Foner (notice that Columbia University and NYU both figure very prominently in Budenz's article) and Susan Sontag.