The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-04-20
NOTED AMERICANS
|NDORSE ENTENTE
Address Signed By 800 PromI-
nent Persons Wishes Allies
Success In War With
Central Powers.

Boston, April 1S.-An Address t0
The People of the Allied Nations" bear
ing the signatures of 500 Americans ali
distinguished in their vacations Will ne
published simultaneously in the ohi-
ted States and Europe.
In inviting signatures the commlttee
in charge set the arbitrary limit OF
500. The intention was not to nave
the address" popularity signed put
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 MO OF
the total of $50, over $50 belong to busl-
ness and legal circles. Thls numoef
includes former members of the ma
tional and state governments, OF tle
iudiclary and the diplomatic and con-
sular services. 1t also includes former
cabinent officers, exgovernors and eX-
senators, railroad presidents. nike
and journalists. The clerical profess
sion is represented by 80 bishops and
other prominent clergymen. Inc
si2ners also include many distinguished
members Of the faculties of Harvard,
Princeton. Columbia, Cornell. Penn
s~ylvania, California, Michigan, Illinois,
Chicago, Northwestern, Indiana, Johns
Hopkins. Yale and Dartmouth. There
are in the list over 20 university and
college presidents, besides some of the
| DeSt known authors, ACTORS, palilSiS,
sculptors and architects.
Text of Address.
Following are the closing paragraphs
Of TIE 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
ablest German publists and profess
sors nave presented the Austro-Gfer-
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 or in the United States.
THE American judgment has been
deliberately formed, and it is based
very largely on a study of German
documents and of German statements
as to the points at issue.
The signers OF his document are
not unmindful of the contributions
which Germany has in the past made
to the common treasure of modern
civilization; all of is 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
herself, demand that in this conflict
Germany and Austria shall be defeated
we coillllelLly ana nOpelully lOoh lot
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 ON
mitted by your enemies, and against
their methods of warfare that break
the international laws of nations n
the moral laws of humanity.
The sanctity of treaties, the rights of
small nations, the question as to Wneth-
er militarism shall dominate civiliza-
ton, are all INVOLVE in the final de-
cis:on.
"A peace which does not restore Bel
gium to the Belgian people and their
Town 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,
a 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 a
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 militarism, that we
ardently hope for that contamination.
In that hope We believe the future of
civilization to be involved