Twenty Fifth Anniversary 1914

Author : Union League Club of Los Angeles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365634195
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Union League Club of Los Angeles, 1914 (Classic Reprint) written by Union League Club of Los Angeles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Union League Club of Los Angeles, 1914 League was organized in New York City. Composed of a large number of the leading business men, firms and corporations of that city, it was alike representative of her commercial strength and her patriotic loyalty to the government. The primary and chief purpose of the organization was to give comfort and aid to the government in carrying on the war; or, as declared by its organizers, to promote, encourage and sustain by all proper means absolute and unqualified loyalty to the government of the United States; to discountenance and rebuke, by moral and social influences, all disloyalty to said government and every attempt against the integrity of the Union. Secondary purposes of the organization were to minister to the comfort 'and enjoy ment of its members With social, library and kindred privileges. Philadelphia soon followed the example of New York and organized the second Union League; While during the following year, and before the dawn of hope in the Union cause broke over the battlefields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, similar organizations had been formed in a number of other cities of the North. These clubs exerted a strong influence in making loyalty effective in both moral and financial support of the government. Necessarily, all these clubs were in the beginning funda mentally political, the conditions of membership in them requiring a pledge of adherence to the principles of the Republican party, and absolute loyalty to the government of the Union. Many of the clubs soon incorporated and became established institutions, influential in the political, industrial and social affairs of the cities and states in which they were located. As time healed the wounds inflicted by the Civil War and substituted other issues for those settled with the sword, political alignments were more and more determined by economic and administrative policies of government. While this change was taking place, the Union League organizations throughout the country, extending from coast to coast, grew gradually, in their activities and ministrations, more social and civic, and less political. As a result, many of them have become non-political as regards partisan politics, dropping from their conditions of membership the pledge of fealty to the Republican party, but retaining the pledge of unqualified loyalty to the government of the United States. Thus, in general, the Union League, which for several decades exerted such a potent political influence in city, state and nation, has evolved into a non-partisan institution, whose influence is exerted chiefly on the civic and social life of the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.