Arizona republican., 1918-03-09
ARCHBISHOP ASKS AMERICANS TO DO
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Republican A.P. Leased Wlre1


 NEW YORK, March 7.-In appealing today to the New York Chamber of | Commerce to use all its resources to | help Great Britain win the war, the | Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, arch | bishop of York, expressed the con- l viction that inevitable occasions in | which it may appear that there is some difference of outlook between our l country and yours' would not be al- lowed to stand in the way.
 "Gentlemen,' he said, you will not suppose for a moment that 1 am here in the guise of a suppliant either for sympathy or for help. No. Our old country has many abuses. A chimney that has smoked so long must needs have some soot within it. We are less able, 1 dare say, than you are in many ways to adapt ourselves quickly to a new situation such as this, but I know that the old country with all it's diff 1 faculties is still heart and mind strong and resolute and it is not as a SUD- | pliant, but rather as comrade, who, because he is fighting as strong as he can, wants the grasp of a hand strong CT and freSher than his own, that I would ask you-I know it is needless to ask-that l would ask you to do every thing you can with your resources to hasten the speed the help that you can give to us at this present time
 Has Confidence in America
 You will, l know, do your utmost because I realize the force of public opinion in America upon the admins tration of America which such a body as this represents; you will do your best to see that nothing blocks the way of the real desire of the American peo- pie to get this thing done and this help rendered.
 You will I am sure, never allow in- evitable occasions in which it may ap- pear that there is some difference of outlook between our country in Europe and yours to affect either our cor diality or confidence. We will stand shoulder to shoulder in this business to the very end.
 You have an immense problem in the transporting and maintaining of your own army, but believe me any, thing that you can do to facilitate and hasten the construction and the fitting of ships immediately and directly for our aid will do more than anything else to put fresh heart and life into our people after the strain of these three and one-half years of war. It would be idle to disguise the fact that the cry which comes to us in the same-ships, more ships and still more ships" r Assured by EIihu Root . At a meeting held in honor of the archbishop at Carnegie hall here to- night, Elihu Root assured the primate 3 of England that the United States r was heart and soup. with Great Bri- 3 tain in the fight against German op- 7 precision.
 !, Referring to the message of encour- 3 agement sent to President Lincoln in l 1862 by the people of Manchester Eng IR T . reply and renewed the pledge of broth g erhood contained in the message.
 We are with you in heart and soul, he continued, 'in judgment and con V1ctlon, in purpose and determination proud to be with the men who have shown the manhood, the heroism, the high courage, the self devotion, the willingness to die for liberty, that the men of Great Britain have shown ir these times. We are proud that oul laws, our system of justice, our con- ceptlon of liberty, our customs, come from those fathers out of whose loins II sprang the men in the trenches upor the British line.
 | "The future of your children ant | ours depends upon the same struggle for If the Germans conception of gov. ernment in this world is to control your children and ours will not be free
 Not War Over Boundaries = This Is not a war about boundaries n or provinces or the determination O S territory; it is not a war which we ar, e entering because ships are sunk be r cause plots have been laid and carried on within our boundaries, or becaus - attempts have been made to fomen . attacks and partition our territory, it i
 not a war for Serbia or Alsace-Lor raine, or even for Belgium. It is a wa
 to determine whether this world shal go back under the domination of tn
 prince of darkness, out of the light
 back to the days of despair and ig
 norance and slavery. or whether tn | God who is just and compassionat
 shall still smile on this universe