Evening journal., 1919-04-02
AMERICA, AWAKE!
(From the New York Tribune. ),

A clean announcement OF American
policy and purpose concerning war and
peace is contained in the Governors
deflSlstion unanimously adopted at In
dependence Hall, on May II, 1918
without dissent signatures were at
tached to the follow ng:
In the military triumph OF the En-
tente Allies and in the organization az
terWard OF all the resources OF c.vili-
zation against m liiaristic aggression
kind.
70 this goal there is only one way
y Hes through battle and bloodshed-
! 10 Victory.
Therefore, we, governors and for
mer governors, representing the peo-
PIE OF seventeen sovereign States OF
The American Republic. do hereby
pledge our utmost endeavor 10 cary
this war to q victorious end. 4, resist
all comprom Sc and repudlate all offers
OF peace that VIII leave Germany and
ger allies unchastened and unsubdued.
asa'n 10 menace the peaceful devei-
.opment OF independent peoples and
nlnder the coming OF world ruled by
since the a-mist'ce, especially since
the assembling OF the peace conference
THIS simple objective has been obscur-
ca. Pursuing an unexplained mind
pairing policy the American delegation
al Paris has seemingly been an lnsu-
perable obst7cle TO its attainment.
After inn'fie sacrifices military
yioto-y was achieved Its fruits. as
succinctly described hy the governors
nave not been gathered. A course has
been pursued which is lrst apparent
ly directed toward re-essabllshlng an
unrepentant Germany in her old place
or power; and. second, Is inactlon in
the presence Of the agrees We MILL
tar.sm OF B0lshevik Russia a milltar-
ism which Is the twin brother OF the
sscotched but unkilled mlltarism Of the
kaiser.
year ago Germany and Russia were
IN all ance. Orders from Berlin were
ooeyed In Moscow: German Officers
commanded and German suppl.es
equipped Russia Reds armies Naw
there Is practically a renewal OF the
alliance which prudence required TO be
temporarily d'savowed. In militar site
and imperial.stic Hungary Koralyi sus-
piciously turns the government Ove~ 10
Bolshevists when a boundary settle
ment did not suit him the new gov
ernment promptly aligns itself with |
milltaristic Russia, and Len.ne warns |
his followers not TO expect In Hun |
gary full applicat on Of Red principles |
Germans and Hung3rians, one may
believe, are too INTEL gent to wish 10
destroy their industries as Russia has
done. but war. like politics. makes
strange bedfellows The Bolshevist
power has International cannotati0ns
as well as domestic ones. Germany.
enc may surmise. feels that she can 7
co operate with Russ in the interna.
tional field without becoming B0lshe-
yist in her domestic affairs.
The new triple alliance Is as menac
ing as the old. Diplomacy Of the mOslI
secret sort Is at work. A population oi
two hundred and flfty mill ons or
more is being brought together fof
aggT essive purposes. To repeat an IN
qury made on another occasion. what
sort of minds have the statesmen at
PARISH Mihtarism, impertalistlc I'M
PEI ialism, Is again afoot. with a now
set q fags, but with no change u pur-
pose or methods.
These cond tons have been sllowcd
70 develop when they. could els II
have been barred-if peace had been
speedily made, peace alike of victory
and Of justice. Heavy Is the respol-
sib,lity Of those who do not apprc-
bend the simple truth that the war and
the peace are one.
'In matters that do not fall within
their immediate existence and obser-