Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
URGE MAYOR TO
REFUSE INVITATION
German-Irish-American Alliance
Scores Proposed English
Peace Celebration.

request that Mayor Haussling re-
fuse to accept the invitation to at
tend the proposed peace celebration
In England next year is contained in
resolution adopted by unanimous
vote at a meeting of the German
Irfsh-American Alliance of Essex
County, held yesterday afternoon in
the Newark Turnverein auditorium,
In William street. When the mayor
received the invitation he turned the
matter over to the Newark Board of
Trade. That body has taken no ac-
ton on the proposition.
The promoters of the English cele-
bration announce that the purpose
of the event is to mark the one hum
dredth anniversary of peace between
the United States and Great Britain.
The resolution adopted at the meet
ing yesterday is as follows:
Whereas. an invitation has been
| extended to Jacob Haussling, as
mayor of Newark, to attend a cele-
bration to be held in London In 1914
1915. ostensibly for the purpose of OBJ
serving the one hundredth anniver-
sary OF peace between English-speak-
ing people.
! And whereas. the said invitation
| emDod1eS request that Mayor
Haussling appoint local committee
OF twenty-five or fifty members to
body
And whereas, this proposed cele
pration is an historical fallacy, mas
much as there has not been an nm
broken peace covering a period of
one hundred years between England
and America. as the following acts
OF hostility on the part of the British
government will prove
| u The Dartmoor massacre on
April 6. 1915. more than three months
after the signing of the Treaty of
Gnent. which officially closed the
War OF 1872 between the United States
ana england. This massacre re-
suited In the killing and wounding
| OF Slxty-seVen American prisoners of
war incarcerated In Dartmoor prison
England.
20 The burning of the United
| states steamboat Caroline at an
American wharf by British soldiers
m the year of 1888, which resulted in
the killing of many Americans.
| t5) Inc successful warfare waged
/ on American commerce during the
civil War by cruisers built in Eng
land. armed with English guns and
| ~ ASii6llSli StdIltu, WDlCn
offers evidence of an inconvertible
character that fifty years ago Eng
land. without declaring war, was
Waging treacherous warfare against
the United States for the tWofold
purpose of breaking up the Union
and driving American commerce from
| the sea-
And whereas, a celebration. such
as the one proposed, in the face of
| these historical facts, would be an act
of supreme hypocrisy.
| And whereas, the American people
with the exception of a few anglo
mantacs) are not the kind of people
to join In any movement to falsify
the pages of history.
| And whereas, the American peo-
pie are at Peace with the whole world
and have no desire to join in any cele-
bration of hypocrisy, having for
their ultimate object the elimination
OF entangling alliances; therefore
| be II
Resolved. that we. the German
Irish American Alliance of Essex
county, do hereby request Mayor
Jacob Haussling to ignore the inyi
tation. and to refrain from partici-
pating directly or indirectly in the
proposed celebration" (Signed).
| George Grimme, president: Charles
z. Gillen. vice-president, and John
Z. Lennon. secretary.