The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-04-20
NOTED AMERICANS
|NDORSE ENTENTE
Address Signed BY 500 Promi-
nent Persons Wishes Allies
Success In War With
Central Powers.

Boston, April 1S.-An Address to
the People of the Allied lSations bear
ing the signatures of 500 Americans all
distinguished in their vocations will be
published simultaneously in the UNI
ted States and Europe.
In inviting signatures the committee
In charge set the arbitrary limit or
500. The intention was not to nave
the address" popularity signed but
rather by persons in different parts OF
The country prominent in their respec-
tive vocations and communities.
The names signed to the address"
represent az states Of the union. OF
the total Of 500, over $50 belong to busi-
ness and legal circles. This number
includes former members OF the ma
tional and state governments, OF the
judiciary and the diplomatic and con-
sular services. 1t also includes former
cabinent officers, exgovernors and ex-
senators, railroad presidents, bankers
and Journalists. The clerical profess
sion is represented by 80 bishops and
other prominent clergymen. The
signers also include many distinguished
members of the faculties Of Harvard,
Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Penn
sylvania, California, Michigan, Illinois,
Chicago, Northwestern, Indiana, johns
Hopkins, Yale and Dartmouth. There
are in the list over 20 university and
college presidents, DeSluSS boluS VI lhO
best known authors, actors, painters,
sculptors and architects.
Text of Address.
Following are the closing paragraphs
of the address.
THE main facts in the controversy
have long been before us. The case OF
the Teutonic allies, especially, has not
lacked fulness of statement. The
nblest German publists and profess
sors have presented the Austro-Ger-
man contentious with great eloquence.
Numerous German documents have
been widely circulated and an active
and sometimes insidious German
propaganda has been extensively car
ried on in the United States
The American judgment has been
deliberately formed and 1t Is based
very largely on a study of German
documents and of German statements
as to the points at issue.
The signers Of this document are
not unmindful of the contributions
which Germany has in the past made
to the common treasure OF modern
civilization; all of Us acknowledge
our debt to Germany; many OF us
have had the advantage of German
education; some of us are Of German
blood. But the welfare Of that civiliza-
ton for which Germany has done so
much, the highest interests of Germany
herself, demand that in this conflict
Germany and Austria shall be defeated.
We confidently and hopefully look for
ward to that result.
The invasion of Belgium we regard
as a crime which can never be justified.
1t will remain a blot upon the history
of Europe. The conscience Of the Amer
lean people cries out and protests
against outrages upon civilization com
mitted by your enemies, and against
their methods Of warfare that break
the international laws Of nations and
the moral laws of humanity.
The sanctity of treaties, the rights OF
small nations, the question as to wheth-
er militarism shall dominate civiliZa-
ton, are all involved in the final de-
cis!on.
"A peace which does not restore Bel
GUM to the Belgian people and their
own government. which does not give
them such indemnity as will allow
them. so far as possible, to reconstruct
their wasted cities and villages and
restore again their ruined prosperity,
peace which does not recognize the
rights Of the smaller nationalities Of
Europe, a peace which does not offer
some guaranty that such a calamity
as the present war shall not recur, a
peace which does not insure these
things would be a disaster and not
blessing.
1T is because we believe that the
success of Great Britain. France, Italy
and Russia will mean the restoration
of Belgium and of Serbia, and the
suppression of miItarism, that we
ardently hope for that contamination.
In that hope we believe the future Of
civilization to be involved"