South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-26
ATTACK PEACE
At ANY PRICE
Manifesto Signed by Leaders
Says Henry Ford
is Wrong.
international News Service

International News Service:
NEW YORK, May 60 Peace at
any price" is attacked strongly in
manifesto signed by labor leaders,
churchmen. social reformers. pub
lcists. authors, sudragists and pub
lie officials and made public here to-
day
While Henry Ford's statement
that not one per cent he Amer
lean people want wa Is conceded
10 be true. the man sesto declares
that mot one per cent want peace
at any price"
The manifesto says that 13 out or
q peace programs Of the world is
sued by Henry Ford's Stockholm
bureau emphasize the need Of mill
itary power TO enforce national law
The United States is summoned 20
take steps necessary 10 play its part
IN enforcing international justice. as
well as for self defense. and ar alli-
ance between America and other
democratic and peacefully inclined
nations for international action is
recomme -dcJ.
The sIgners OF the manifesto in
clude. John 3. Andrews. secretary
American association labor legisla-
ticn: Irving Bachelor, author;
George y. Bartlett, Dean Divinity
school. Philadelphia; Dante Barton,
committee Of industrial relations:
Mrs Charles Sumner Bird. Massa-
chusetts. Peter J. Brady. Allied
ham Brooks. Cambridge Mass.
Parkes S Cadman, Central Congre-
gational. Brooklyn; Alice Carpenter.
association OF WOman's Suffrage;
Joseph Blount Cheshire, bishop OF
North Carolina; Katherine Bement
Davis. head of New York City prison
ssstem. George William Douglas.
Union Theological seminary; Hugh
Frayne. general organizer American
Federation Of Labor; Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman. formerly of L.. 5. indus
trial commission; Timothy Heaiy
president Interna tional Brotherhood
OF Stationery Firemen; Reginald
Wright Kaufman. author; jerome
B. Keatirg. international holders
conference; Samuel McCune Lind
say. publfcist: Henry Noble Mac
Cracker, president OF Nassar col
lege: Alexander Mann. rector Trim
ity church. Boston; Samuel Merwin.
author; Charles K Nelson bishop
OF Atlanta; Clifford Pinchot. Penn
syivania, Charles Edward Russell.
author; Joseph SHERMAN. president
eastern council rabbits, j. w. Sulli-
van, International Typographical
union; william English Walhns,
author: william Allen White. En-
poria. Kas.: Charles y. Williams.
bishop Of Michigan; Elwood Wor-
cester. Emmanuel church. Boston.
The manifesto reads as follows:
Henry Ford's statement that not
one per cent Of the American people
want war is true. but it is also true
that not one per cent want peace at
any price" If the public opinion of
America adopted this attitude II
would tend to prolong the present
war and 10 lay the foundation for
future wars. To would be profound
y anti-democratic and anti-Ameri-
can. and would work against all
principles Of humanity and inter-
national justice.
We are told almost daily that even
IN the extreme cases of aggression
there are substitutes for war In
face of the testimony of the over
whelming majority of well-informed.
responsible pacihst authorities Q. &,
John a Hobson. Loves Dickinson,
Rertra1,. Russell and Hamilton Holt.
Oheir number grow daily we are
told that a wise and humane gov
eminent may avoid war i'm every in
stance by the means of peace trib-
urals or commercial boycctts. with
out the backing either of national
arm ments. an international police
or OF a league 90 enforce peace
Such irresponsible and misleading
statements ignore the fact that as
gressive military powers rejected the
idea Of an effective international
peace tribunal before the outbreak
Of the present struggle. and have
since announced that they will resist
By force OF arms any effort TO use
economic pressure 20 compel them