Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-24
THOSE VIOLENT DOVES
Ellis Parker Butler of the visilantes.

The editor handed me a couple of his off-hand way, Something light and humorous about these folks, please. " and deserted me. 1 looked through the material and gave up all hope. The things were a printed letter and a printed circular sent out by the Elm ergency Peace Federation and con tained about as much food for humor as can be found in the Book of Psalms. Or in a Salvation Army Christmas donation appeal The mat ter seemed made up of about equal parts of mighty serious peace talk and urgent request for one dollar.
 There were some things in the let ter that made me feel warm and scrap py-"Wire the president at once and ask him to state his termsi Tell him also that you are opposed to sacrific- ing American men in the trenches of Europe" And this-"Perhaps you will soon be called upon to defend the liberties of yourself and others, Do so at any cost" This did not mean defend the liberty of America against Germany tyranny. It meant, as the letter said-"The Emergency Peace Federation has organized a legal de- fense bureau to take care of persons who are not given fair play" l took 1t to mean something patriot citizen might think unpatriotic. But you hot Drc- pagandist means until afterward.
 Our organization has about ten thousand members" said the letter. A giant organization. Well, then there did come a smile, after all This great membership has been built up in mushroom fashion, and there are doubtless people among the number who do not hold our views" I may be wrong, but to my mind an emer gency peace federation, built like a mushroom and composed of people op- posed to it's views, might be worth 8 laugh, even if it did have somwhat law opposing tone. l went to the offices of the organization at 70 Fifth | Avenue, New York, to learn all about it and discover where the laugh was.
 I found that the Secretary was at a cure, getting well, after her trying | duties (trying to get more dollar mem bers, possibly and the nice young lady in charge sent me to their press agent It reminded me of the old jingle:
 The Eel and the Owl and the Fry
 ing pan
 Went to call on the Soap Fat Man;
 The Soap Fat Man was not within |
 He had gone to call on the Rolling
 Pin"
 The press agent was not within; he had gone to press-agent and First American Conference for Peace and | Democracy at Madison Square Garden Theatre. I found him there, genial | and frank, as a press agent should be, but up to his collar in work and he made an appointment with me for an- other day and introduced me to two of the Democracy and Terms of Peace | ladies. One was an efficient perosn with good manners, who only scolded me for wearing a Liberty Bond but ton; the other-I told her 1 liked her style, she talked as if she meant what she said-told me large part of her life in few minutes and in a most energetic manner, using the word ''hell' now and then, probably to show she was peace advocate l will say frankly that I came. away feeling that on Draft Registration day there would the morning after the draft registra- ton I looked through the papers and was greatly disappointed to see that the young lady had not even bitten policeman. She had not promised me in words that she would bite police man but she had promised me in man. ner, and I came away from my place in the lobby of the theatre to the noise of cheers and hand-clapping inside the auditorium, and feared that patriotism, as you and I know it, was about to have its throat cut to the tune of riot and insurrection. I was wrong in thinking the printed matter of the Emergency Peace Federation suggest ed anything of the sort.
 On the day of my appointment with the press agent went to 70 Fifth ave hue (which houses any number of peace organizations-any who can pay a printer can set up in the busi- ness and ask for dollar head) and found a great many pretty girls fold ing and addressing appeals and one