New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
Address Issued Declaring
Sympathy for the
Allied Nations.
DECLARES GERMANS
MUST BE DEFEATED
Trouble Already Caused in Uni
versity of Michigan Because
Professors Signed Paper.

Boston. April is.-An Address to the
People Of the Allied Nations" bearing
the signatures o. 500 Americans, all
distinguished IN their vacations, has
been given out here. Arrangements
have been made to publish il simultane-
ously in the United States and Ger
many.
The address expresses sympathy for
the Entente Allies and denounces Teu-
tonic methods in .hs conduct Of the
war. II was for having signed this sd-
dress that protest was mad. few
days ago to the president of the Uni
versity Of Michigan against fourteen
professors Of .bat institution, charging
that they had violated President Will
sons neutrality proclamation.
The names signed TO the address
represent forty-two states. OF the
total OF 500. more than $50 belong 20
business and legal circles. This num-
Der includes former members OF the
national and state governments, OF the
judiciary and diplomatic and consular
service. II also includes former Cab
met officers, ex-Governors and ex-Sen-
ators, railroad presidents. bankers and
journalists
The clerical profession is represented
by thirty-tvo bishops and other prom
inent clergymen. The signers also in
clude members OF the faculties Of Har-
ward, Princeton. Columbia, Cornell,
Pennsylvania, California, Michigan
Illinois. Chicago, Northwestern, lndi-
ana, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Dart
mouth. Twenty-six Columbia profess
sors are in the list. There are also in
the list more than twenty university
and college presidents. besides some Of
the best known authors, actors, paint
ers, sculptors and architects.
Some of the Signers.
Among the signers are DR.. Lyman
Abbott. editor Of THE outlook ).
Mark Baldwin, writer and psychologist;
John Kendrick Bangs, author; Charles
A Beard. author and Columbia Profes-
sor: Poultney Bigelow, author; ). e. a. (
Bracket. Ex-Governor Of Msssa-
chusetts: c. b. Brewster. 7. I. Bishop !
Of Connecticut; John Burroughs, nat
uralist: Justice Lester ". Clark, New /
York Supreme Court; eX-Cnited states
Senator William A. Clark, Frederic K: !
Couder-. lawyer. New Iork; ifowsrL
Elliott. chairman New Haven Railroad; /
{. 5. Fairchild, ex-Secretary United /,
States Treasury; A. ?. Gardner, Nassa-
chusetts Representative in Congress- |
George Harvey, editor North Amer I
can Review: William Dean Howells'
author; Wayne MacNeagh, eN-Attorney
General Of the United States; Girord
Pinchot, Samuel Rea, president Penn |
sylvania Railroad; L. II. Sothefn, actor /
and Henry L. Stimson. lawyer:
The address 70 the people o. tne
Allied Nations" says:
"Our Judgment supports your cause,
and our sympathies and our hopes are I
With vou in this struggle. sln saying /
This we are confident that We are ex-
pressing the convictions and feelings
10 the overw helming majority oil
Americans.
"Siuce the beginning Of the present
terrible world-confict there have no.
been lacking in America individual ex- I
pressions Of ardent sympathy with
the cause OF Great Britain, France
and their allies, and horror and de-
testation Of the methods employed by
tho Teuton confederates in the CON
duct Of the war. Patriotic Americans 4
however. while individually IN public T
ana in private expressing their views
which have also found voice album
0sntlv in the daily press IN all parts
a. the country-have hitherto hest
tated TO unite IN any more iorma!
statement. at first because they looked
10 the government to speak, and later
for fear of embarra ssing the govern
ment in the difficult negotiations
growing out of German offences and
in its endeavor 20 maintain that OIL
cial neutrality which II has fei, I'M
PEELED to uphold. in the nope ths'
through neutrality it could best sup
port the lettering pillars OF interna-
,ioral law and aid in preseryin. 10
uso the Presidents phrase -'the foun-
da.ions upon which peace can be re-
built
Make Clear Their Sentiment.