New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Expatriate
Explains u. S. to
Neutral Europe
George D. Heron, Socialist,
Says Pacihst Emissaries of
Germany Are Americas
Greatest Bane
Upholds President as Great
est Opponent of Militarism
and Fighter for All Demo
cratic Nations

There Is but one thing that can pos.
sibly render vain Americas masterful
and majestic consecration-snd that is
the procurement Of a permanent peace
by the paeifst emisssries Of Germany
The writer Of the foregoing extract
is George D. Heron, author Of Wood
row Wilson and the Worlds Peace"
and "The Menace Of Peace" Heron
comes from Indiana. He studied for
the ministry and served Congregational
churches in Minnesota and Iowa and
became professor Of applied Christi
anity in Iowa State College under an
endowment supplied by Mrs. E. D.
Rand, who founded the Rand School Of
Social Science, in New York, where
pacifsts hold fatuous appointment with
the millennium. As a socialis. in
America his life was stormy.
Failed to Avoid the Conflict
At the outbreak of the war Heron
found himself a neutral refuge in
Switzerland, islanded in ssa Of
whispering intrigue. He tried TO live
in the neutral atmosphere Of Romsin
ROLAND, above the Battle" but his
Americsnism drove him out Of that
nebulous region.
1t was then that Europe began 70
learn of this man Heron from Indiana.
He attacked paeiAst politics and pSei..
fist morality In the leading journsls'of
France, Italy. and Switzerland with
astonishing vigor. La Semanis Lit
4ar pI al IL HA-,sO I'D
Die Freie Zeitung" and LA Revue
Mensuelle," in Switzerland; al Gior-
male dTtalia," in Rome. and a score Of
French papers learned an interpreta-
tion OF America such as they had no.
dreamed Of.
Heron was publicly honored by the
French government when Paul De.jar-
dinS cooperating with the French Min
ister Of Public Instruction, published
his "Pro-America" as q preface to the
classic edition Of President Wilson'S
message Of April for French schools.
Wilson a True Pacifst
In "Pro-America" Heron says: at
Is Q curious but divine irony that most
OF the great pseifsts Of history-the
men who loathed war and sought to end
it-have been placed In positions that
morally compelled them 10 fight. They
have had to enter the wars Of their
times in order 20 conclude and conse-
crate them, making them the violent
openers Of freedoms doors, the pro-
curers Of a closer approach to mutual
lied man and his welded world. Such
is the destiny decreed 70 the last and
greatest Of political pacifists, President
Woodrow Wilson.
Heron continues TO show that Amer
lea is only incidentally at war with
Germany, but is purging the world Of
its feudsl class and Is aiming ct world
union and world happiness that are be-
yond the vision or belief OF European
nations. He says:
81 know that as against the inter-
pretatlon have presented the pacifst
critics proclaim the action OF America
20 be the triumph Of scheming and
moneyed militaristic propaganda; but
precisely the opposite is profoundly
the truth. America has become prac-
tically and exultantly anti-militarist.
Will Destroy Militarism
"She has modified her will and hey
faith, her sons and her cities and her
prairies. her natural and industrial and
inventive resources. for the purpose OF
bringing militarism TO it's full and
final end. She has taken up arms in
order to destroy the need for arms
She has made herself the militant ex-
por ent Of millennial peace"
Heron concludes his preface TO the
French state paper thus: "The end Is
not in doubt-even though the human
race wade through woes yet unknown
and immeasurable. Already, in the
hour when America decided TO hght for
the freedom Of humanity and the peace
of the world-in that instant the old
heaven and the old earth began gath
ering themselves together for depart
ure; and IL is beneath a new and more
intimate heaven, It is amid the sud
Den vast resources OF a collective
spiritual perception, and into the tre-
mendous morning Of an earth newly
born and transHgured. that Woodrow
Wilson leads now the enleagued and
determined democratic peoples"