The Detroit times., 1915-06-30
Salutation to the Citizens Of
the World.
Citizens of the World. l salute you.
~ OR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1918. by Frank Cyane>

Citizens of the World. salute you.
| want you to know there are thoae
who share your aspirations, believe In
your dreams are sure that your ideals
are stamped with victory.
You are everywhere, even in Germany.
The Germans are not all crazy with ma
tional egotism. There are many who
under their boards curse the folly OF
Prussian militarism. In many sound
German breast still glows the Are OF In
ternational Brotherhood. The Socialists
are not all cowed. A few Christians are
left.
I salute you in France. Beneath the
yociferous "Vive la Franco are heard
the mutterings of "Vive rHumanite!"
| In your deputy-chambers, in your state
papers, there is hate for Germany.
| but have heard rumors of "The Broth
erhood of the Trenches" Your captains
must change you often lest you become
| friendly with your gutteral foes, realize
they are human beings, and 90 home
Disguised
salute you in England. Already de-
mocracy is honeycombing your concrete
mass Of caste. You are great travellers.
You have begun to know that the mis-.
sion of the Mistress Of the Seas is not
to rule the world. but to synthetic the
world. There are teeming world-idcas
in England.
salute you, brothers of the world-to-
be, i'm Russia. Beneath the hard glitter
of your autocracy is the tender heart OF
the moujik, the universal vision OF your
novelist.
salute you in Poland the land ground
to powder between the hate-stones OF
nationalism.
In Italy, in Turkey, in Japan, in China,
| salute you.
In the states of Denmark Holland,
Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. Spain
and Portugal there must be myriads Of
you, hoping. praying that the cloud of
patriotism asphyxiating the multitudes,
may soon be dispelled by the winds Of
humanity.
salute you, World Brothers, in South
America, and cheer for you in your en-
deavors toward an-Americanism, pre-
lude to world federation.
World Hearts, sympathize with you
in your present subsection to the saw
ages. the MEDIEVAL the militar-
list. the paraders of bull-necked national
ism, the chauvinist, the my-country-
right-or-wrong egoist, the platitude-
cursed diplomats. the insane men who
have the audacity to call themselves
practical. yet advocate policy Of arma-
mcnt that has brought nothing but ruin
and death to the peoples Of the world.
All mothers, weeping behind closed
doors, wives and sweethearts broken and
hopeless, homeless farmer-folk, impover-
ished shopkeepers, manned little chill
dren, | salute you. The curse of national
ism cannot last forever. Humanity shall
arrive. Lift up your hearts!
Quakers. Socialists, Christians, all who
refuse to fight the senseless. idiotic, stu
pid battles of nations, and who go to
death rather than to soldiers butchery.
| salute you, martyrs Of the coming age.
seed Of the new world. Fear not, little
flock, for it is your Fathers good pleas
ure to give you the kingdom.
Citizens Of the World, everywhere, I
salute you. Stand firm. Waiver not.
Yours is the final triumph.
Let the swashbuckling patriots" re-
vile you, sheer at you. call you towards,
traitors, for so have they always done
unto the prophets.
Die, if need be. in the glorious cause
Of humanity. Die in friendship for all
foreign peoples. while the bat-eyed muir.
derers go out to battle with them
Yours is the cross. Theirs is the
sword. And the triumph Of righteous.
ness, the liberation of mankind, the
progress Of civilization, has never been
furthered by the sword, but only by
them that march
With the Cross Of Jesus