The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-02-24
TO THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES.

On Christmas Eve, 1914, MeSSrS.
John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard,
Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin and Jona-
than Russell, on behalf of the United
States, and Lord Gambler, DR.. Adams
and Henry Gouldburn, ESQ.,, on behalf
of Great Britain, signed the Treaty of
Client, which ended the war between
the two countries.
Shortly thereafter Mr.. John Quincy
Adams expressed the hope, so wonder
fully realized, that the peace thus re-
stored should be enduring, saying,
MAY the gates of the temple of Janus
closed here never be opened during
the century"
A few months later peace societies
sprang into being in both America and
England; and within three years, by
| formal agreement, the boundry line
between the United States and Can
ada became mere political limita-
ton, like the peaceful boundaries
separate the States of the American
Union, instead of a series of fortifca-
lions between two nations mutually
distrustful of one another.
| Believing that the blessings that
have followed in the train of the peace
thus established cannot better be
brought to the attention of the world
at large than by fitting celebration,
| the American Committee at it's initial
meeting, held four years ago, fOrmu-
lated a plan for this purpose. The
proposal was soon thereafter laid be-
fore the peoples of Great Britain and
the self-governing colonies of the
British Empire.
| The American committe was ami
mated by a patriotic impulse and the
belief that through an adequate world
wide celebration of the century of
peace great good would be accom-
plished towards the rational settle
ment of international disputes. And
it hoped and hopes to effect this
through the creation of a sentiment
which shall educate the peoples of
the wrold to regard forbearance and
mutual understanding as virtues to be
cultivated by governments and ma
tons, as we'll as by individuals.
The committee also considered that
through the association of the peoples
of many nationalities there would re-
suit increased acquaintance, friend
ship and mutual understanding which
are essential to permanent peace.
Therefore, the undersigned, a speci-
al committee acting for the American
Committee, body whose many thous-
and members are representative of
every section of the United States,
of every walk of life, and of every
profession and calling and of the diff
ferent elements from which our pop
ulation is drawn, invite and urge CO.
operation throughout the United
| h OH IN,
terest of the citizens or subjects of
all countries.
1t is sincerely hoped that all will
take part with the american Commit
tee, or with similar committees i'm
other lands in the preparation and ex
ecution of an adequate and fitting pro-
gram that shall signalize, as no other
occurrence in the past would enable
us to do, the realization of Mr.. Adams
prophetic wish that the twentieth CEN
fury might find the Ieace still unbro-
| ken.
That our country has been such an
active factor in this wonderful
achievement prompts us to celebrate
the event-fOr peace as we'll as war
is an event between nations-and
arouses the hope that the hundred
years which have passed since the
Treaty of Client was signed on Christ
mas Eve, 1914, may be not only the
precursor of perpetual peace be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States, but the promise of a broaden
ing era Of enduring peace between all
nations.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington, Del.
William Jennings Bryan, Washington,
! d. G..
Nicholas Murray Butler, New York.
Warren A. Gambler, Atlanta, Ga.
Andrew Carnegie, New York.
William L. Carpenter, Detroit, Mich.
Joseph H. Choate, New York.
John D. Crimmins, New York
George Dewey, Washington, D. G..
Jacob M. Dickerson, Nashville, Tenn.
Henry Sturgis Drinker, South Bethle-
hem, Pa.
John F. Fitzgerald, Boston, Mass.
. Austin G. Fox, New York
Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York.
James Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore
Md.
Samuel Gompers, Washington, D. C.
Reuben B. Hale, San Francisco, Cal.
w. O. Hart, New Orlenas, La.
Charles D. Hilles. New York
Andrew B. Humphrey, New York.
Hennen Jennings, Washington, D. C.
Harry P. Judson, Chicago, Ill.
WILTON F. McCombs, New York
Henry B. F. Mcfarland, Wahsington,
d. G.
William Hodges Mann, Richmond, Va.
Andrew ]. Montague. Richmond, Va.
Alton B. Parker, New York.
Jacob H. Schiff, New York.
James Brow Scott, Washington, D. G..
Albert Shaw, New FORK
Adlai E. Stevenson, Bloomington, Ill.
John A. Stewart, New York.
Oscar S. Straus, New York.
Frank S. Streeter, Concord, N. H.
William Howard Taft, New Haven
Conn.
Charlemague Tower, Philadelphia, Pa.