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50 Am. Advoc. Peace & Arbitration 1 (1888)

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AMERICAN ADVOCATE
OF
PEACE AND ARBITRATION.
VOL. L:  BOSTON, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1888.  E1.00

THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE.
BOSTON, JAN.-FEB., 1888.
8. B. HOWARD,    . ......                  EDITOR.
-Hon. Edward     S.- Tobey,. the President of this
Society, after several weeks confinement at his Brookline
home, on account of temporary illness, is' in his office at
19 Milk Street, Boston, in his usual health, and at the
time of this writing, is. on a business visit to New York
City.
-We are rejoiced to find Mr. J. E. Farwell, for many
years a friend of peace, printer of our periodicals and
member of our Executive Committee, after six months
indisposition, again at his business post of duty.
-If anything can completely'tire.decent people .of
ir rulers, it is the patronage of the Mayor of Boston
d the Prince of Wales of John L. Sullivan, -a former
ken :saloon keeper in Boston, who now fights and
elly and successfully bruises and maims men for pay.
me on you Mayor I Shame on you future king of
land I Better an incurable sore in the throat, like
t of the German Crown Prince, than an indelible
irch on your influence.
-It is hinted that our Government Officials express
t that the Memorial from England should not have
nated from the Government of that country. -While we
re that regret and see ' readily that such a memorial
d have relieved our Government of the responsibility
being the first Government to move in the matter of a
eat policy of international arbitration, no one can
surprised that the Conservative or Tory Government
England should fail to act. It is the people of England
t want to reduce armies and navies and substitute
itration for war. The people of America want the
e thing. What will Governments do about it?
William Jones, Secretary of the London Peace Soci-
arrived safely on the Servia at Liverpool, Dec. 12.
,Committee of that Society met Dec.- 19, Henry
ard, M. P., presiding and passed the following vote:
The Committee of the Peace Society cordially welcome
their esteemed secretary, Mr. William Jones, on.his
from the 'United States. They- congratulate him
the very friendly and encouraging reception accorded
and to the principles he advocated in that country ;
they gratefully appreciate the excellent service he
thus rendered to the cause of peace.

-The Italian Government has been asked to act as
arbitrator between England and Spain, in connection
with a collision between two ships. Signor Crispi has
authorized Count Maffei, the Italian Minister at Madrid,
to accept this honorable mission.
-Col. T. W. Higginson, who occupies the front rank
.among literary men, writes in Harpe's Bazar, I felt like
taking down the swords from above my fireplace and
hiding them away forever, when first called upon to
explain to my little girl what they meant and for what
they stood. Better take them down and beat them into
plow-shares or some smaller implement of husbandry.
Those swords stand for patriotism and self-sacrifice
for the nation's sake. But to reach these objects, so dear
to good men, they must cut and stab and hack and
wound and kill. We would rather put above the fire-
place the hoe with which a father tilled the ground.
There is no necessity that loving fathers or loving mothers.
should open to the tender minds of little girls and boys
such horrors, except they would horrify them.
-The eminent lecturer, Joseph Cook, began the thir-
teenth course of Boston Monday Lectures in Tremont Tem-
ple, Boston, Feb. 6, at noon. The subject of these lectures,
justly popular with the Christian public, is, God in
the Bible, with preludes on.leading reforms. The new
periodical, Our Day, the prospectus of which appears in
this paper, will contain full and accurate reports of these
lectures. One question submitted by a friend of the Bible
and of peace is, Is universal peace on earth consistent
with the character of God and his moral teaching as re-
corded.in the Old Testament? The answer by a man of
Mr. Cook's learning and great ability will be eagerly
looked for by some minds that reconcile with more or less
difficulty the instructions given Joshua and those impart-
ed by Jesus Christ.
-The Universal Peace Union is vigorously attempting
to end justly and beneficially to all concerned the Reading
railroad and coal strike.. A large meeting was held under
its leadership in a Jewish synagogue in Philadelphia,
Jan. 13, which was addressed by A. H. Love and other
able speakers.
-The new army bill which has passed its second reading
in the German Reichstag is sure to get a majority oif the
final vote. Although its terms had been supposed to be
understood, everybody was surprised to learn that it'
increases the strength of the army by 700,000 men and
that the initial cost of putting the change into effect, not
considering the subsequent annual expense, will be $70,-
000,000. Fora poor country like Germany this is simpil
a terrific sacrifice.

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