Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25
AMERICAN PEOPLE
FULLY AROUSED
Such Is View of Scotch Clergy
man After Travelling
Many Miles.
ENERGIES FULLY ENLISTED
Finds Enthusiastic Response to
Sentiments Involved in
Struggle.
ENERGIES FULLY ENLISTED

the United States, Sir George Adam
Smith, the Scottish clergyman, who has
boon making tour Of the country un-
der the auspices of the National Com
mittee on tho Churches and the Moral
Aims OF the War. reported t. the Blu
reau of Information Of the British War
Mission that the American people
everywhere are fully aroused and heart
and soul in the war.
From a very wide experience in all
parts OF the country and among all
classes" says Sir George. II am sure
that the conscience. the heart. the will
and all the boundless energies Of the
United States are thoroughly and In
telligently enlisted in the war. This
is as true of tho more German centers
as Of the rest Of the country. I had
nowhere more cordial reception for
my message than in st. Louis, Cincin-
natl and Milwaukee and among men
with German names. My chairmen and
other speakers were frequently men
of German descent"
Sir Georges report was given out
on the eve of his return Scotland
He came to America last March on the
invitation Of the national committee
and Of the Department of Information
OIL inc bTltlSn FOrelRn OTnCs.
1.-THE mission with which was
charged" says Sir George. was two
fold-to enforce the moral aims com
mon to the allies and to tell the part
which Great Britain has taken in the
war.
The line which I followed with re-
gard to these closely related subjects
was to remind my audiences OF the
nd of he
came to our people and at the same
time it's moral clearness and emphasis.
and to assure them that the conscience
with which we had originally acclaimed
that signal call was to-day. IL possible,
stronger than ever. Our ethical ,con-
victions found their materials not only
in the crimes. but also in the blunders
Of our foes for those plumbers were
from the first to last those of the GRIM
inal mind. In rroof Of this limited
myself to the testimony OF Germans.
using chiefly that ofPrince Lichnowsky.
Bethmann-Hollweg, General ION Birn-
ing. DR.. Stuermer and Max Harden.
From there I sought to show how
Germany might have gained all that
she has sought through war by peace
full methods. but was toe obsessed by
the military spirit to see this.
Usually 1 dwelt on what the Amer
lean adhesion to our alliance meant to
us morally. America. coming into the
war after two and a half " RS OF at
tempts to deal with Germany by peace
full methods, furnished us with the
greatest noral vindication of our orig
inal attitude and action that any one
people ever offered to other in the
whole range of history. In other ways
l enlarged on the justice Of our cause
and our determination to see AZ through
to victory. The sacrifices we have en-
dured for 1t had but further hallowed
1t to our hearts, and we were resolved
that their unfinished warfare which our
fallen sons had left to US as a sacred
trust should be completed by US, how
ever much moro II still cost us.
DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN
FALSE AND TRUE PEACE
Tn a number Of my addresses dis
tinguished between a false and a true
peace. I tried to show that much of
the false pacifsm prevalent on both
sides of the Atlantic rested upon the
fallacy of confusing merely political
peace with the only peace which Christ
promised or God avowed to us-the in
ward peace. peace which comes to duty
done and sacrifice faithfully borne. In
Scripture peace is never a primary
blessing or duty, but the fount Of
Righteousness, truth and faithful strug-
gle To put peace before justice and
the redemption OF the oppressor Is to
turn Christianity upside Gown.
Il found everywhere an enthusiastic
response to those sentiments and argu-
ments-not only, however, from my
numerous and large audiences and from
my fellow speakers, but from CONVEX
sations in hotels and on the long rail-
way Journeys and in reading the lead
ers in the journals OF every locality
visited. know that the American
people are convinced of the justice of
our common cause and resolute to
carry it through on those moral issues
which Germany has forced on the
world.
II found good deal of ignorance
OF the scale on which Great Britain
had been fighting and supporting the
war and naturally of the details of
our warfare. Most Americans had
failed to value the many fronts-on
three continents-on which our armies
have been engaged; the vast numbers
of our armies which were raised be-
fore CONSUMPTION was established, or
the extent of our sacrifices. I sup
piled them with concise Information on
each OF these subjects and on our
methods of feeding our troops supply
ing them with ammunition, etc, and
caring for the wounded. Many audi
ences were amazed at the facts I gave
them, and 1t would have been we'll
worth coming to America for this pur-
pose alone"