mar 24, 1917 - "The Police stopped the pacifist street meeting in the Wall Street district yesterday afternoon after a big crowd had surrounded the speakers and had begun to dispute with them. Benjamin C. Marsh and other pacifist orators had been telling the crowd that the firm of J.P. Morgan & Co. and other financial interests were engineering a "go-to-war" movement. Mr. Marsh spoke from an automobile" NY Times 1917, March 24

BREAK UP PACIFIST MEETING
Police Disperse Crowd Around Auto of Orators in Wall Street.
NY Times 1917, March 24

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