The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-21
OPEN TO ALL NATIONS
ALL VIII BE INVITED TO TAKE
l>S.:T IN MEET.
Countries Of World Invited to Join

bCOQntfleS OF W OrlQ luVlCSU 10 OOlu
English People in Conmemorating
One Hundred Years of Harmony.
/ The nations of the world are urg-
| ed to join the United States, Great
Britain, Canada, Newfoundland and
Australia and the municipality of
| Client, in making the celebration Of
one hundred years Of peace among
! English-speaking peoples signalize a
new era of international good will.
The invitation was issued Monday by
the international conferees now in
this country arranging the celebra-
tion. The American secretary of state
and the British secretary of state for
foreign affairs are asked to transmit
the invitation to other governments.
The manifesto adopted by the con-
ferees says:
Representatives of Great Britain,
| Of Newfoundland, Of the United
States, of the Dominion Of Canada,
of the commonwealth of Australia,
and of the municipality of Client,
having been in conference concerning
an appropriate celebration of the cen
tenary of the signing of the treaty Of
Ghent, which marked the end of the
last international war between the
| British and American peoples, unite
| in offering to the governments and
| the peoples of the civilized world an
| earnest invitation to take part in
making this celebration in every way
worthy of the one hundred years of
peace that it commentaries.
eve invite such cooperation to
the end that it may be made clearly
unmistakible to public opinion every
where that the time has come when
international rivalries and differ
ences, though numerous and severe,
may be settled without the carnage
and horrors of war. Although it be
| unreasonable to disregard the posi-
bility of conflict arising in the fu-
| ture, out of mutual or partial misun-
derstanding, yet we gratefully recog-
nize that the chances of misunder-
standing have been largely eliminat-
ed by the degree in which modern
science has facilitated Intercourse
and accelerated communication.
| "Great Britain has been a colon
! izing nation and the United States
has drawn to its population various
and powerful elements from different
| countries and from different flags.
Therefore, century of peace be-
tween Great Britain and her domin-
ions beyond the seas, on the one
hand, and the United States, on the
other hand, touches directly both the
interests and the Imagination of ev-
cry land to which Great Britain's
sons have gone, as well as those Of
every nation from which the present
day population of the United States
have been drawn.
eve respectfully request his maj
esty's secretary Of state for foreign
| affairs and the secretary of state Of
the United States to transmit this in
vitation through the proper official
channels to the governments of the
| world in order that both by the par
ticipation of governments and by the
cooperation of men of good will in
every land this celebration may be so
carried out as to mark not merely
the close of the one hundred years of
peace between English-speaking peo-
pies, but the opening of what we sin
cerely trust will be a fresh era of
peace and good will between all the
nations Of the world"