The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-01
HEARSTS APPEAL TO
 LONDON NEWSPAPERS

LONDON NEWSPAPERS
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 The following is the appeal of Wil' liam Randolph Hearst to Lord North. cliffe. publisher of the London Times, and Lord Burnham, publisher of the London Telegraph, for peace, an ap- peal by the way, that would have had more effect, probably, had Hearsts papers not screeched so loudly for war with Mexico a few short weeks ago:
 "The war in Europe seems to us in America one of the most terrible and one of the most unreasonable things that has ever happened in this world.
 Moreover, the war itself is to us not more terrible than the possible consequences of the war.
 "The disasters of the war, and the even greater disasters which may fol- low. affect England. and America too. Both countries are sharers in the worlds prosperity, in the worlds pro- gress, in the worlds social develop ment and in all the achievements of civilization.
 "The long continuance of the war means inevitably the destruction of a large portion of civilized humanity If the civilized races shall be largely destroyed, the world will be left to the less civilized races, and it is con ceivable that civilization might again be submerged in an overwhelming in- undation of barbarism.
 "The longer the war continues the more civilization will suffer, the more the European nations, which are the sponsors of civilization, will become exhausted and the more likely will be the eventual triumphs of either mill. tarism or Mongolism.
 Truly as Kipling says, "The Hun is at the Gate" but the Hun comes not. nor never has come, from Ger many, nor from any part of Europe, but will come. as he has come in the past, in successive, almost irresistible tides of invasion. from the interior of Asia.
 Wars are on ever greater scales, and the next war might be between all of Europe and all of Asia. Then, f Europe is sufficiently prostrate, it is within the bounds of possibility that the ideals and institutions of our occident civilization might fail of de. rense.
 That is a fearful prospect for you as Englishmen and for as as Amerl. cans.
 Gan the war be stopped? I think it can.
 "The only way surely to stop those appalling possibilities is promptly and positively to stop the war.
 "I think both sides must be supreme ly mortified at the awful death and de- struction of modern warfare.
 'I think the people Of all countries must be realizing now, as they could not possibly have realized before the event, what illimitable caIamities are occurring and impending.
 q think the people of the nations can end this war, and end all wars. "I think the press can appeal to the people, to your people. to our people, and to all other people as no other in tluence can I believe that if the a. peal is made now to the press of all nations and by the press of all na- tions. the war can be stopped and will be stopped.
 "If it is not stopped there may be more than war and worse than war There may be riot and revolution and red anarchy worse than war. in the centers of government and the relent- less revenge of the outraged masses, resentful at their endless and needless sacrifice.
 "Win the press of England not join the press of America in an effort to avert these infinite calamities?
 Gan We not appeal to the people of our own countries, and to the press and people of all countries, to make one mighty, united effort to compel peace and restore happiness and civil ized conditions to the people of the world?"