Members of the Philippine Independence Committee

Established as an autonomous organization from the New England Anti-Imperialist League

The Philippine Independence Committee was created in 1904 by Edward Ordway and Josephine Shaw Lowell with advice from several other anti-imperialists. The Committee was designed to be temporary and distinct from the anti-imperialist movement. The Committee sought to create a more permanent organization that would be a bi-partisan lobby with a positively defined goal: Philippine self-government. Ordway and Lowell issued a petition to several leading American characters in 1904 and 1905. The following are those who accepted the tenets of their petition.

Charles Francis Adams

Felix Adler

Edwin Anderson Alderman

James Monroe Allen

William Henry Baldwin, Jr.

Chauncey Bunce Brewster

Roeliff Brinkerhoff

George Burnham, Jr.

Andrew Carnegie

George Colby Chase

Robert Fulton Cutting

Charles William Eliot

William Herbert Perry Faunce

Philip C. Garrett

James Gibbons

George Gray

G. Stanley Hall

Walter Barnard Hill

William Dean Howells

William Reed Huntington

William DeWitt Hyde

William James

David Starr Jordan

Henry Churchill King

James Laurence Laughlin

Josephine Shaw Lowell

Charles Fletcher Lummis

Wayne McVeagh

Samuel Walker McCall

William Nelson McVickar

Reuben A. Meyers

Edward Warren Ordway

William Jackson Palmer

Charles Henry Parkhurst

George Foster Peabody

Bliss Perry

Henry Codman Potter

Uriah Milton Rose

Patrick John Ryan

Jacob Gould Schurman

Edwin R. A. Seligman

George Frederick Seward

Isaac Sharpless

Hoke Smith

Rufus B. Smith

John Lancaster Spalding

William Graham Sumner

Robert Ellis Thompson

Henry Van Dyke

Horace White

 

M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, May 20, 2009.

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