the" Now York Times BS Gometoe The follows striking cing article is Some of the chief men of the empire have put forth a book that in professedly written as the appeal of Germany for the sympathy and support of the people of the United States. Among the authors of the volume are a former Chancellor, a Field Marshal, a President of the Reichstag, several university professors, prominent men of business and finance, and some are of princely title. A' case that enlists pleadors of this high distinction must in truth need buttressing, and it is an occasion for regret that they have not been able to make a better defence, The blame does not rest with them. No voice or pen, however eloquent or gifted, can convince an impartial world of the justice of Germany's cause or change the rooted belief of right-thinking men of civilization and make the peace, the prosperity, and the happiness of the nations less secure.
These men of Germany ask us to give no heed to the lies of their ened mies. In this land of enlightenment public opinion does not take form on anybody's lies. We keep no mind of perversions sent out from London or Paris. We have sought truth in its undefiled sources, in the British White Paper and in the Memorandum of the German Foreign Office, in the observed and acknowledged policies of the combatant. nations, and in the utterances of their men of authority. The Princes and professors who pay us the compliment of this appeal to our candid judgement will not impeach the testimony of their Foreign Office, we suppose, yet if there was suspension of judgement in the first weeks of the war, doubt vanished and full conviction came when " The Times" published the official documents and records. The American people there read of the untiring efforts of Sir Edward Grey to reach a peaceful adjustment ugh a conference of the Powers, of his appeals to which France, Russia, and Italy gave immediate assenting response, which Germany alone met with evasion, excuse. disfavour, and refusal. From Germany's Memorandum they learn that the Kaiser's Government had from the first sustained and encouraged Austria in a policy of war and had denied the rights of any other Power to stand between her and the Servian objects of her wrath. It is wholly futile, it is an affront to our intelligence, for these German suppliants for our favour to tell us now that Russia and England brought on the war, that Germany id not choose the path of blood,
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