Philadelphia Quakers Regret War Tax Resistance Lapse

The Friends Intelligencer devoted some space to covering the 1901 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

The ninth query called forth regret that Friends had not maintained a stronger and more consistent testimony against war, but had paid the war taxes without protest. Lydia H. Price said that if Friends had been more faithful a few years ago these recent wars might have been prevented.

This was the time of the U.S. war in the Philippines. It was also, alas, a time when American Quaker war tax resistance was on the wane.

Do you read German? If so, you can get a peek into the war tax resistance movement in Germany by reading this article and this interview concerning Brigitte Janus of “Netzwerk Friedenssteuer.”