Posted on 08/27/2016 12:07:07 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
EVER since the calling of the First Hague Conference, The Independent and its editor have been urging a League to Enforce Peace as the next great step in the political evolution of the world.
Tho the idea of world federation has been the dream of the poets, prophets and philosophers down the ages it is only in recent times that it has been put forward here and there as a practical possibility.
In 1905 at the Thirteenth Interparliamentary Conference at Brussels Richard Bartholdt, member of Congress from Missouri and president of the American delegation, presented a plan for consideration that would furnish the basis of a world federation.
In the same year Andrew Carnegie in his rectorial address at St. Andrew's University in Scotland developed the same idea.
In 1907, at the Second Hague Conference, Senor Ordoney, ex-President of Uruguay, in behalf of that republic, officially introduced a detailed proposal for a League of Peace to go into effect when adopted by "ten nations, of whom half shall have at least 25,000,000 inhabitants each."
In 1910, in his Nobel Peace address, delivered at Christiania, Norway, Theodore Roosevelt proposed a league of nations to guarantee national territory and sovereignty, to arbitrate all other questions, and to limit armaments by international agreement.
In 1911, at Baltimore, Maryland, the editor of The Independent, as president of the Third American Peace Congress devoted his entire opening address to the exposition and elaboration of the principles of a league of nations.
When the Great War broke out, The Independent was the first paper in this country - possibly in the world - to urge editorially the formation of a League to Enforce Peace as the one sure way to maintain a lasting peace. This editorial, which appeared in our issue of September 28, 1914, under the title of "The Way to Disarm: A Practical Proposal," was reprinted by various organizations and widely distributed. It received much comment both in the United States and Europe.
It was this editorial, more than anything else, that led to a meeting of a small group of publicists and political scientists in New York City, who, after a series of conferences, formed themselves into a preliminary committee, drafted proposals for a League to Enforce Peace, and launched the idea on the 17th of last June, at a public meeting at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, the very spot where the United States of America was born.
The Independence Hall meeting organized a permanent committee, with ex-President Taft at its head, President Lowell, of Harvard University, as the chairman of its executive committee, and a thousand other of America's most distinguished citizens cooperating.
This American branch of the League to Enforce Peace has now, within less than a year, increased its membership and prestige until it is organized in almost every state and congressional district in the Union.
It has not only extended itself in the United States, but the idea has taken strong hold abroad; the group in England, for instance, being so close to the British Government that we can almost assume that Great Britain is officially behind it.
And now, at its first annual meeting at Washington
last week, delegates foregathered from every state in the Union to hear the principles of the League expounded and to devise ways and means to carry out its program. Nearly $400,000 was subscribed to its treasury, and, to cap the climax, the President of the United States endorsed the League and put himself, as spokesman of the United States Government, at the head of this movement to enthrone reason instead of force as the final arbiter of the destinies of nations.
Published in 1916, this is in the public domain
Ping..........
Why the dichotomy?
Jumbo Shrimp.
Rap Music.
Enforcing Peace.
You want peace...first thing you gotta do is get rid of these basterds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEu-OLMKLQ
Midnight basketball is the answer.
Illuminati?
Is there anything they don’t have the answer for?
Cue “Superfriends” cartoon intro music.
That actually made me laugh-—The League to Enforce Peace.
As long as man walks the earth there will be some group fighting some other group.
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