The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-12-01
ANTl.IMPERIALISFS ALIVE.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW
ENGLAND LEAGUE.
Many Persons OF Prominence Present
ssoreIsry winsiow Wants an Immsdi-
ate, Definite and ofisiaI Promise of
Entire independence Of the FiIip.nOs
disastrous Enects of imperialism.

Boston. Nov. s0.-Many persons Of
prominence assembled at the Twentieth
Century club this afternoon for the an
nual meeting of the New England Anti
Imperialist league After dinner the
election os officers was held. resulting
in the reelection OF Former Governor
George Boutwell, of Massachusetts, as
president. Erving Winslow was chosen
secretary, David Greene Haskins treas
urer, and the following were elected to
the executive committee: Albert s. Par
sons Rabb, Charles Fleischner, John
Ritchie, Julian Goldman, Archibald q.
Howe, Charles Warren and Fiske War
ren.
In his report, Secretary Winslow said:
+ mo matter what is talked of as pos
sibility of the remote future in the Unit
ed States, no matter what the corrupt
ing influences of the dominant race may
have been in the Philippines. our de-
mand must be made and made more
vigorously than ever for an immediate.
definite, official promise Of the entire
independence for the Filipinos.
"The disastrous effects Of imperialism
upon our foreign and domestic policy
are too obvious for enlargement. The
republic should be a bulwark against
the irnperializing tendencies which are
threatening the progress of the Anglo-
Saxon race. whereas in the recent ex-
plot os Panama we have shown our
selves past masters in the art Of terri
torial buccaneers. Perhaps insignifi-
cant as 1t may seem. this even in Its
high handed presumption and its conse-
Guences may be the means of awaken
ing the American people from the intox-
ication which so long possessed it and
oe the leading 1t back to the ways Of
sanity, peace and humanity"
Professor william Jones, the noted
psychologist Of Harvard university, in
an address condemned the purchase Of
the Philippine islands, but believed
anti-imperialists should look to the fu-
ture rather than bemoan the past. "One
by one,n he said, 1--WE have seen the anti
imperialist prophecies fulfilled, the ma
terial ruin OF the islands, the transfor-
nation of native friendliness to execra-
tions; the Generalization of our army,
y
rated, torture whitewashed, massacre
condoned, the creation Of chronic anar-
chy on the islands, with ladronism still
srnouldering. and the lives Of American
travellers and American sympathizers
nnsase anywhere out Of sight Of army
posts; the deliberate re-infiuence on our
part OF ancient tribal animosities, the
inocculation of Manila with floating
Yankee scum: these things, say. or
things like them, were things which
everyone with any breadth Of UNDER
standing clearly foretold.
1T is only fair to President McKin-
ley and his coadjutors and successor to
say that their better angels also have
d finger in the pie, and that the institu-
tion OF our civil commission has gone
far towards redeeming our national
reputation for good sense"
Other speakers were Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, Rev. Charles w. Wendte,
Rev. C. G. Ames. Rev. r. E. Bisbee,
George E MCNEIL. and Ex-Governor
Boutwell,.