The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-12-28
THE PEACE JUBILEE.

~. V6NS6 JUBILEE
In the United States for some time
back, preparations are being made in
pro-English circles for the celebration
OF Peace Jubilee in 1914 to comment
crate the one hundredth anniversary
of the Treaty of Client. Andrew Car
negie is the chief promoter of the
movement on this side of the Atlantic
and perhaps on the other side, for
aught we know to the contrary,
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
of last Sunday brings news that will
gladden. the hearts of all the Anglo
maniacs in America. A meeting was
held at the Mansion House in London
on Dec. is, over which Earl Grey, for
mer governor general of Canada, pre-
sided, and it was announced thereat,
for the first time, that the United
Kingdom would Join the United States
two years hence in an international
celebration of a century OF peace
among English speaking people.
The list of vice presidents embraces
100 names. Mr.. Asquith, the prime
minister; Sir Edward Grey, secretary
OF state for foreign affairs, and eleven
other members of the cabinet head the
list, followed by the principal MEM
bers Of the last conservative ministry,
MI. Bonar Law, the leader of the I'm
ionist party, and J. Ramsay MacDon-
aid. leader of the Labor party.
The church is represented by the
Archbishop Of Canterbury, Cardinal
Bourne of the Roman Catholic church.
the heads Of the various monochrome
list Protestant bodies and bishops of
the Church of England; science and
art by the chancellories OF the univer-
stiles, the heads of royal societies ana
various important personalities in
British domains.
The lord mayors of the principal
cities. governors Of many colonies and
former colonial administrators, prom-
inent among them Lord Cromer, the
Earls of Elgin and Mimic, and Lord
Roberts, Lord Rothschild and Lord
Beresford complete the list.
One of the projects of the English
committee is the purchase of Sulgrave
manor. the old home of the Washing
ton family, which still stands in a good
state of preservation. 1t is hoped also
to place bust of George Washington
in Westminster abbey.
Harry Britain, who is secretary of
the English branch of the Pilgrims
club. and Il member of the executive
committee for the peace cemetery, will
| visit the United States and Canada
in January to make arran sements with
the overseas organizations for the joint
celebration which will begin late in
1914.
A similar scheme is afoot in Canada,
which refused reciprocity with the
United States during the present year.
We learn from the press that depu..
tation of leading Englishmen and Cam
adams recently waited on Premier
Borden and his Tory colleagues and
suggested that Il joint military review
Of both American and Canadian troops
he held on Queenstown Heights on the
Canadian side and at Lewiston on the
American side and that King George
and President Wilson take part in the
ceremonies.
/ What is the object of all this and
who is to stand the cost of this gigan-
tic celebration-the first in the history
Of nations? The object is to show the
other nations Of the earth that Britain
and the United States stand together
not only for peace but for war. Con-
gress is asked to give 100000 appro-
priation out of the federal treasury to
pay all expenses. We are greatly mis-
taken If the American people will per-
init their servants in Washington to
squander the peoples money to graf
ify the Anglomaniacs of this country
and their British cousins on the other
side Of the Atlantic.
During the war of 1872, the British
troops burned the national capitol and
destroyed the public archives. In the
Civil war the British privateers aided
the Confederates and destroyed GU,
commerce on the high seas. The Ala
bama claims of s15.O00.00o We're paid
by Britain to the United States to es-
cape hostilities with an outraged ma
ton. and now the British buccaneel
is trying to enter into an alliance with
it. either real or imaginary, to inspire
the great powers with terror at the