The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
AMERICANS APPEAL
TO RULERS FOR PEACE
Oscar :. StrauS. Andrew Car.
ncgic and Others Send New
Year Petition.

In response to an invitation addressed
to them by the New York representative
of the Central News. a number OF proml-
nent Americans have written appropriate
New Year messages to the warning ma
lions Of Europe and these were cabled
yesterday FOR publication in the leading
newspapers throughout Europe
Among the most striking and eloquent
of these messages is that written by
Oscar : StlauS. former United states
Ambassador TO Turkey and member Of
The Hague tribunal MIR Straus says:
General Grant the commanding gem
oral OF our civil war laid down his sword
with the appeal, Lot Is Have Peace'
This appeal We would send AS a New
Years message To- the Narring nations.
May he hundred years of peace be-
tween Great Britain and the United States,
which was secured hy a treaty made not
az the end but In the midst OF war. serve
IS a pr"Csder. Neither side assumes the
responsible ~ for this world wai. EIcn
side casts the blame on tho other Each
"harGcs the utUcr with tho same motives
with milltaI,su. th. one on land the p'her
on sea. with CONNER .lHi jealousy with 4
purpos" - dominate the world. Each
claims for .ts'.f 10 bc acting in dcfcnc"
az na''n'r.' ~ ..,"u"a AND roi,h.r claim
o be seeking any part 90 the territory OF
the otae'. /, not all this not only an ex-
plaudtjOu bl' q proof of the fact which
VIII be clear - history. but which to'a
sides, blinded by combat. refuse to recOg.
nize nat this Wa mas its roots IN a great
delusiou and IA Observation-Disclosures which
a bungling diplomacy, a misguided phi
losophy and chauNiuism have fostored?
For the past five months each Of the
nations has been seeking victory in the
trenches Of death hut Il cannot bc found
there. Only through wise Counsels ,an
the victory OF permanent peace be- OBJ
tanned
president wilson and his Holiness tn.
Pope have offered their services to open
the door OF mediation viii not the Kaiser
and King George give the mandate so
that the door may b" opened and this
delusiou he dispe,lcd thereby earning the
blessings of bleeding ana suffering
world"
ANDREW C,nNEGlr. i'm his message SAYS:
Il am convinced that the next effort 81
lovers of peace should he Ia concentrate
the word over i'm demanding that this I'M
partlirled slaughter of man by man shall
he the last var Wagrd by civilized nations
for the settlement ~ international dis
putcs. War dothrouei- Peace cnthroned
surely after au arm site is established
between the nations row unfortunately
~ WAY the majority of enlightened p-o-
pie In an civilized Lands Will realize that
permanent world peace would be ear,h's
greatest blessing. AND IS entirely practi-
cable through q union of very few pow
er'ui nations. pledged 90 maintain it. and
inviting all other civilized lanHs 10 be-
como members thereof, each nation con-
tr.huting TO fhr cost of such union n
proportion to It's population and wealth.
A. nations accepted peaceful arbitration
armies and ulNIcs would rapidly diminish
hr,auSr no longer necessary. and the
prophecy would soon he fulfilled that man
shall learn wa no more The brother