ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OTTO LEOPOLD SCHMIDT, President CHARLES HENry Rammelkamp, Vice President LAURENCE MARCELLUS LARSON, Secretary JESSIE PALMER WEBER, Librarian ADVISORY COMMISSION EVARTS BOUTELL GREENE WILLIAM EDWARD DODD JAMES ALTON JAMES ANDREW CUNNINGHAM MCLAUGHLIN EDWARD CARLETON PAGE CHARLES HENRY RAMMELKAMP VOLUME VI WAR DOCUMENTS AND ADDRESSES EDITED BY MARGUERITE EDITH JENISON SECRETARY, WAR RECORDS SECTION PUBLISHED BY THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER 24 5-9-1924 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Public Opinion and the War... Address by Governor Lowden before the 50th General Pledge of Support to Federal Government, Senate Resolutions adopted by Chicago City Council, Feb. 5, Message from Edmund J. James, president, Univer- PAGE 1-117 1-2 2 3 3-4 4-5 Address by Governor Lowden at the laying of the 5-7 Address by Jacob M. Dickinson, Patriotic Rally, Chi- 7-13 Address by Judge John P. McGoorty, Patriotic Rally, 13-15 Address by Governor Lowden, Patriotic Rally, Chi- 15-20 Resolutions adopted at Patriotic Rally, Chicago, March 31, 1917.... 20-21 .... Military Preparedness: Senate Joint Resolution Num- 21-22 Labor's Endorsement of the United States' Participa- 22-28 Resolutions adopted by Springfield Federation of Labor, April 13, 1917.... 29 Resolutions adopted by Illinois State Bar Association, 29-30 Address by Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, April 28, 1917.... 30-42 |