Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — For Peace Only. [ARTICLE]

For Peace Only.

It is well known that the Friends have always been devoted to the principles of peace. *A.s they had a controlling Influence in the public affairs of Nantucket, there was no military organization on that island for several generations. How the matter was managed is told by the author of “September Days on Nantucket.” Whenever military companies came to the island for a holiday young women thronged the windows and waved handkerchiefs, but there was no rise of military ambition In the town. Once a coterie of young men formed a training company aDd sent to Boston for equipments, but their elders compelled them to make the first article of their constitution read: “This company shall be disbanded immediately in case of war.”