Erving Winslow

Birth/Death:                             1839 / 1922

League Membership:             Faneuil Hall Meeting, June 15, 1898
                                              Committee of Correspondence
                                              The Anti-Imperialist League, 1898-1899
                                              New England Anti-Imperialist League
                                              The Anti-Imperialist League, 1904-1921

Role in League:                     League Secretary 1898-1920

Occupation:                           Merchant

Brief Biography

Winslow was a Boston Brahman owing his economic wealth to a family trading business he developed. After graduating from Harvard University he married Catherine Reignolds, an actress. They had one son, Charles-Edward Amory. Winslow was most notable in Boston as an editorial writer for newspapers like the Springfield Republican. His poetry was most prolific, but he joined several reform clubs as well and volunteered as a public advocate. Winslow was a controversial figure in the League. He was an ardent partisan and had been accused of corruption in relation to his membership to other organizations. Many anti-imperialists outside Boston would have prefered to have a different man at the helm, but President Moorfield Storey always supported Winslow. On matters of policy, Winslow was also an outspoken critic of any option for the Philippines other than full and immediate independence. His abrasive attitute led many anti-imperialists to join the Filipino Progress Association.

Primary:

Erving Winslow, ‘The Anti-Imperialist League,’ The Independent, LI, Part II. (May 18, 1899), p. 1347-1350.

———, ‘Report of the Secretary,’ Report of the 1st Meeting, The New England Anti-Imperialist League, November 25, 1899.

———, ‘The Anti-Imperialist Faith,’ The North American Review, Issue 171. (October, 1900), p. 810-818.

———, Neutralization: America’s Opportunity (Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1912).

———, 'The Anti-Imperialist League,' Springfield Republican, March 6, 1899, p. 10.

———, 'Bryan or McKinley? The Anti-Imperialist Position,' North American Review Issue, 171. (Oct. 1900), p. 460-468.

———, 'Winslow to Carnegie,' Springfield Republican, October 1, 1900, p. 3.

———, 'The American Plan,' City and State, Vol. 13, No. 17. (October 23, 1902), p. 264-265.

———, 'The Anti-Imperialist Faith,' North American Review, Issue 175. (December, 1902), p. 811-818.

———, 'Liberty at the Vanishing Point,' City and State, Vol. 15. (August 6, 1903), p. 94.

———, 'A Sorry Contrast,' The Public, February 3, 1906, p. 725.

———, 'Neutralization as a General Peace Measure,' Advocate of Peace, February, 1907, p. 44.

———, 'Neutralization,' North American Review, Issue 186. (September, 1907), p. 83-90.

———, 'Mr. Bryan and the Spanish Treaty,' The Public, August 21, 1908, p. 487-488.

———, 'The Conditions and the Future of the Philippines,' North American Review, Issue 189. (May, 1909), p. 708-718.

———, 'Perverted Philippine Policy,' National Monthly, (May, 1910)

———, 'The Philippines for the Filipinos,' The Commoner, May 12, 1911, p. 5.

———, 'The Declaration of Independence in the Philippines,' The Public, July 14, 1911, p. 656.

———, 'Capitalizing Murder,' The Public, November 15, 1912, p.1087.

———, 'Philippine Independence,' New York Evening Post, December 9, 1912, p. 8.

———, 'And So Their Witnesses Agreed Not Together,' The Public, May 2, 1913, p. 416.

———, 'Winslow Raps Forbes Fete,' Boston Herald, September 22, 1913.

———, 'Benevolent Imperialism,' The Public, October 3, 1913, p. 944.

Erving Winslow Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Secondary:

Beisner, Robert L. Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Blodgett Geoffrey T. 'The Mind of the Boston Mugwump,' The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 4. (March, 1962).

Dementyev, Igor. USA: Imperialists and Anti-Imperialists (Moscow: Progres Publishers, 1979).

Lanzar-Carpio, Maria, 'The Anti-Imperialist League,' Philippine Social Review, (1930-1933).

Schirmer, Daniel B. Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing, 1972.

Tompkins, Berkeley E. Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate, 1890-1920. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.

M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, May 9, 2008.

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