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 men «TIME OF WAR 
 PREPARE FOR PEACE 
 
 A Program: 
 
 TO defend our fundamental 
 American rights of 
 
 FREE SPEECH 
 FREE PRESS 
 
 PEACEFUL 
 ASSEMBLY 
 
 TO work without ceasing for 
 
 EARLY AND 
 LASTING PEACE 
 
 A UNITED STATES 
 OF THE WORLD 
 
 TO oppose legislation for 
 
 COMPULSORY 
 MILITARY SERVICE 
 
“To Defend American Ideals of Liberty 
 
 and Democracy and to Work for 
 an Early and Lasting Peace 
 
 Our country is at war. Events are moving rapidly. Each day brings new threats 
 against American liberties, new dangers to our democracy. In the heat of war, meas- 
 ures are being proposed which would curtail or abrogate the most fundamental of our 
 constitutional rights. 
 
 LET US REMAIN A FREE PEOPLE 
 
 The Espionage Bill was supposedly aimed against alien spies, but contains clauses 
 which would kill free speech and muzzle the press. Meetings to protest against con- 
 scription have been and are still being suppressed. Speakers have been jailed for 
 criticising the war, and in some cases the police have stopped the sale of peace literature. 
 A campaign of threats and “frightfulness” is conducted in the press against those who 
 refuse to bind their consciences. 
 
 SHALL WE ADOPT CONSCRIPTIONP 
 
 If this were a people’s war there would be no need to talk conscription. If 
 free Americans are failing to rally to the cause, may the fault lie not in their loyalty 
 but in the cause itselfP Is it American, is it democratic, to force the plain people to 
 fight the war on which they had no opportunity for consent or opposition? 
 
 _ Why should America compel her men to fight in Europe when Australia refused 
 to coerce their own British subjects to fight on European soil? Shall the United 
 States fight this war with conscripts when the British colonies send only volunteers? 
 
 Let us know and control our own foreign policy. Each of the Entente Allies 
 has bound itself to make no peace until the war aims of all shall be satisfied. 
 
 The Sherman Resolution, just introduced in the Senate, would “bind the United 
 States not to make a separate peace with the German Government—nor with any of 
 the Allies of the German Government.” It demands that no peace be concluded save 
 by the “joint action of the United States and the governments with which it wages war 
 
Emergency Peace Federation 
 
 Room 901, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
 Telephone Chelsea 5458 
 
 OBJECT 
 
 To defend American ideals of liberty and democracy in 
 war time, and to work for an early and enduring peace. 
 
 IMMEDIATE PROGRAM 
 
 1. 
 
 . To oppose the 
 
 To defend our constitutional rights 
 of free speech, free press, peace- 
 ful assemblage, and the right to 
 petition the government. 
 
 enactment of 
 measures for compulsory military 
 service, 
 
 - To assert the right of the people 
 
 to know and discuss the aims, 
 scope, and method, of our partici- 
 pation in the war, and their right 
 at any time to advocate terms of 
 peace. 
 
 + TO oppose the adoption of any 
 
 treaty, alliance or policy which 
 would prevent the United States 
 from making an independent de- 
 cision as to when and on what 
 terms it shall make peace. 
 
 . TO urge our government to seize 
 
 every opportunity for bringing 
 about peace negotiations and estab- 
 lishing international organization 
 as a guarantee against future wars. 
 
 Executive Committee 
 EMILY GREENE BALCH 
 
 Chancellor DAVID STARR JORDAN 
 
 PHILIP SARGENT FLORENCE 
 LOUIS P. LOCHNER 
 REV. JUDAH L. MAGNES 
 BENJAMIN C. MARSH 
 JOSEPH CANNON 
 PROF. H. W. L. DANA 
 ELSIE BORG GOLDSMITH 
 ROBERT W. HALE 
 PROF. HARRY OVERSTREET 
 TRACY D. MYGATT 
 DR. HENRY NEUMANN 
 FANNIE M. WITHERSPOON 
 
 Secretary 
 LELLA FAYE SECOR 
 
 Treasurer 
 DR. FREDERICK LYNCH 
 
 Field Secretary 
 REBECCA SHELLY 
 Legislative Secretary 
 
 ELIZABETH FREEMAN 
 
 Legislative Headquarters 
 ROOM 648, MUNSEY BLDG. 
 WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
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 April 20, 1917. 
 
 Dear Friend? 
 You have stood by us - Wear ae 
 
 You supported us nobly in the effort 
 to prevent war - 
 
 Now the war is on, but ovr work is by 
 no means ended. 
 
 The attendant evils of war must be fought. 
 In the heat of the war spirit we must not 
 permit any abrogation of our dearly won 
 constitutional liberties. We must prepare 
 the way for peace, 
 
 The Federation is working night and day - 
 we want you to know some of the things it 
 is accomplishing. 
 
 Won't you read the enclosed pamphlet - you 
 will see at once the great importance and far 
 reaching character of the work we are trying 
 to do. 
 
 All our friends are standing by us in our 
 efforts to serve the best and abiding interests 
 of our country. Will YOU help us? 
 
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against Germany, and any other governments which may be joined with Germany as 
 an ally, either now or hereafter.” 
 
 This would make it absolutely mandatory that America continue the war even 
 though Germany abandon her submarine warfare. Must American boys continue to 
 die on European battlefields in order to secure for Italy Albania, Dalmatia and the 
 Greek Islands, or to win for Great Britain Messopotamia, or to acquire new Asiatic 
 possessions for JapanP 
 
 Secret diplomacy prevailing in every nation now at war is conceded to be one of 
 the greatest contributing causes of the European struggle. The Americans have the 
 right and the duty to demand complete publicity on all our foreign dealings. 
 
 WHAT THE EMERGENCY PEACE FEDERATION DOES 
 
 The Emergency Peace Federation maintains a strong legislative committee in 
 Washington which examines and reports especially dangerous war bills. It demanded 
 and secured public hearings on the Espionage Bill, which exposed its pernicious 
 features. At this writing it is watching sharply to prevent any clauses being slipped 
 in which would endanger free speech. The Emergency Peace Federation also induced 
 the Committee on Military Affairs to hear opponents of conscription in executive 
 session. By letters, telegrams and newspaper publicity it is organizing the vast though 
 inarticulate opposition to conscription. 
 
 The Emergency Peace Federation is sending out hundreds of letters warning 
 against the dangers of binding ourselves to continue the war until the Allies are 
 ready to stop. 
 
 An immense mailing list is also being built up. The Federation is trying to 
 get in touch with all persons and organizations who are able to see, write or telegraph 
 to Congressmen, write to the papers, or speak at union, lodge and church meetings. 
 
 The ultimate purpose of the Emergency Peace Federation is expressed in the 
 title, PREPARE FOR PEACE. Our workers are planning to the end that we may 
 not be found unprepared when the “psychological” moment comes for a great nation- 
 wide demand for peace negotiations. 
 
 STAND WITH US! 
 
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 YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!-~ 
 
 To carry on this work costs courage, intelligence and money. 
 
 Make the Emergency Peace Federation your weapon of defense, your 
 voice of protest. It has the organization, the courage and the facilities to 
 defend your liberties, to fight for an independent American foreign policy, 
 and make itself heard in the councils of the nation in its advocacy of an 
 early and lasting peace. 
 
 WE MUST ACT—AND ACT AT ONCE 
 
 Funds are urgently needed, and we must rely on our friends to make 
 sacrifices, if need be, to enable us to carry on the work with all the 
 intensity demanded by the present crisis. 
 
 There are two things you should do—and do at once: 
 
 1. Sign the Liberty Defense Pledge—make your contribution as large as 
 your means will allow. 
 
 2. Send the names of friends who will help to further the object of the 
 Federation. 
 
 LIBERTY DEFENSE PLEDGE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY 
 
 I will help to further the object of I suggest the following names of my 
 the Emergency Peace Federation by friends interested in peace and the 
 contributing the following amount to defense of American ideals. 
 assist in the work of the Emergency 
 Peace Federation. 
 
 Enclosed please find my contribu- 
 
 LOT: Prices ee . I pledge myself to 
 
 send you $ weekly /monthly. 
 
 EMERGENCY PEACE FEDERATION 
 70 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY