The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-22
DISTINGUISH
AMERICANS SEND
= WORD TO ALLIES
scholars, Lawyers, Scientists, Bish-
ops, Writers, Business Men,
Sign Address to Allies
DECLARE FUTURE PEACE
OF WORLD THE ISSUE
Liberty and International Law in
Death Struggle with Prussian
Militarism

w INV
TONS bearing the signatures of 500
Americans all distinguished in their
vocations will be published stimuli
taneously in the United States and
Europe.
In inviting signatures the COM
mittee in charge set the arbitrary
limit of 500. The intention was
not to have the address popularity
signed but rather by persons in
different parts of the country prom
inent in their respective vocations
and communities.
The names signed to the lad
dress" represent AZ states of the
union. OF the total of 800, over
$50 belong to business and legal
circles. This number includes o
mer members of the national aud
state governments, of the judiciary
and the diplomatic and consular
services. 1t also includes former
cabinet officers, e~x-governors and
ex-senators, railroad presidents,
bankers and journalists. The cler-
ical profession is represented by 81
bishops and other prominent cier-
gvmen. The signers also include
many distinguished members OF the
faculties of Harvard, Princeton,
Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania,
California, Michigan, Illinois, Chi
cago. Northwestern, Indiana, h
Hopkins, Yale and Dartmouth.
There are in the list over 20 uni
~versity and college presidents, be-
sides some of the best known au-'
thors, actors, painters, sculptors
and architects. The address fol
lows:
Text of Address
Address to the People OF the AL
lied Nations: We, the undersigned
citizens of the United States OF
America, send to you, the people OF
the nations of the triple entente n
your allies, this message:
AOur judgment supports your
se. and our sympathies and our
hopes are with you in this strug-
gle. In saying this We are conil-
dent that we are expressing the
convictions and feelings of the
overwhelming majority of Amerl-
cans.
Since the beginning of the pres
ent terrible world conflict there
have not been lacking in America
individual expressions OF ardent
sympathy with the cause of Eng
land, France and their allies, and
horror and detestation of the meth
DDS employed by the Teuton con-
federates in the conduct OF the
war. Patriotic Americans, how
w while individually In public
and private expressing their views,
which have also found voice abunc-
antly in the daily press in all parts
OF the country, have hitherto hest
tated to nulte in any more formal
statement, at first ecaus they
looked to the government to speak,
and later for fear of embarrassing
the government in the difficult ne
~gotiations growing out of German
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maintain that official neutrality
which it has felt impelled to up
hold. in the hope that through
neutrality it could best support the
lettering pillars of international
law, and aid in preserving, to use
the presidents phrase, the foun-
dations upon which peace can be
rebuilt
Ideals at Stake
The time has come, however, If
indeed it has not long since passed,
when Americans W it to them
selves to express more publicly and
mere formally their sympathies and
their Judgment. Even as we have
always held ourselves as a nation
free to express openly our sympa-
thies with people struggling for
their liberties, so now we have the
duty of at least making clear our
solidarity of sentiment with those
who are struggling to preserve the
liberties of the world and the
highest ideals of civilization.
In face or the great moran ques-
tions involved. the right solution of
which is vital to the whole future
course of civilization, the Amer1-
can conscience cannot remain silent.
lannot run the risk of appear
ihS to be neutral minded without
injury to it's own integrity and its
s~elf-respect. For this reason it
seems fitting and needful that
American public opinion should re-
ceive some more collective express
sion.
The main facts in the controversy
have long been before us. The case
of the Teutonic allies, especially,
has not lacked fulness of state
ment. The ablest German public
;ctc and DrofaSSorc hava O~raSentpd