Overthrow of the War System, The.
A Stellar Anti-War Compilation
(Addams, Jane, contributor.) Mead, Lucia Ames, ed. The Overthrow of the War System. Boston: Massachusetts Branch of The Woman’s Peace Party, [1916].
8vo.; interior fresh and bright; eight appendices bound-in at rear; ruby red cloth, stamped in gilt; a fine copy.
First edition of this anti-war compilation featuring articles by seven well-known feminist authors, Addams being the most prominent. Addams’ article, “Women and War, Address Given At The Hague, May, 1915,” runs from page 1 to page 18 and is really the star of the volume. Other contributions include “The Education of the World For A Persistent Peace” by Fannie Fern Andrews; “The Immediate Duty of American Patriots” by Lucia Ames Mead; “Organized War on War, and Some Popular Misconceptions” by Rose Dabney (otherwise known as Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes); “Some Aspects of the Economics of War” by Denys P. Myer; “Race Problems of World Contact” by Ruby G. Smith, Ph.D., and “Moral and Religious Aspects of the War Against War” by Anna Garlin Spenser.
We have come to this International Congress of women not only to protest
from our hearts and with the utmost patience we can command, unaffrighted
even by the ‘difficult and technical’ to study this complicated modern world
of ours so sadly at war itself; but furthermore we would fain suggest ways by
which this large new internationalism may find itself and dig new channels
through which it may flow…
Thirty years ago I came to this beautiful city, full fifteen years before the plans
for international organization had found expression here. If I can look back
to such wonderful beginnings in my own lifetime, who shall say that the
younger women on this platform may not see the completion of an international
organization which shall make war impossible because good will and just
dealing between nations shall have found an ordered method of expression? (Addams 3-5)
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