Then we may escape falling away from the Liberal forces of the Old World and escape the suspicion of indifference to the great scheme of government which was set up by our fathers' giving their blood for it.

I see no other way for us to take the best and biggest opportunity that has ever come to prove true to our faith as well as to secure our own safety and the safety of the world.

Only some sort of active and open identification with the Allies can put us in effective protest against the assassins of the Armenians and the assassins of Belgium, Poland, and Serbia, and in a friendly attitude to the German people themselves, as distinguished from their military rulers.

This is the attitude surely that our fathers would have wished us to take--and would have expected us to take--and that our children will be proud of us for taking; for it is our proper historic attitude, whether looked at from the past or looked back at from the future.

There can be no historic approval of neutrality for years, while the world is bleeding to death.
The complete severance of relations, diplomatic at first and later possibly economic as well, with the Turks and the Germans, would probably not cost us a man in battle nor any considerable treasure; for the moral effect of withdrawing even our formal approval of their conduct--at least our passive acquiescence--would be--that the Germans would see that practically all the Liberal world stands against their system, and the war would end before we should need to or could put an army in the field.