THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
Thursday, September 25, 1919
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URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders in Forty Stales, Re
gardless of Party, Sign
I Ringing Appeal.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day of De'ay Puts
World in Imminent Peril of
New War Point to
National Unrest.
New York (Sperlnl). Two hundred
nd fifty leading Amerleana, Repub
licans and Democrat representing for
ty different states nnd every prominent
activity liAve Joined In a non iwirtlaan
ffort to britm about the ratification
,f the reaee Treaty "without amend
ment and without delay." Their names
re 'attached to an addreaa to the
United States senate, which waa made
public today, through the League to
Enforce reaee, after It had been seat
to every member of the senate.
The signers, almost without excep
tion, are men and women of national
reputation. They Include such proml
tent citizens as ex President Taft,
eorpe V, Wlokersliam, Attorney Gen
eral In the last Republican administra
tion ; A. Lawrence Lowell, president
of Harvard; Charles O. Moore of San
Francisco, president of the Panama
Eipoaltlon; Judge George Gray of
Wilmington, Del.; President Samuel
Compcrs of the American Federation
of Labor; Harry A. Wheeler of Chi
cago, retiring presldeut of the Chain
'. ter of Commerce of the United States ;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association; Cyrus It. K.
Curtis, the Philadelphia publisher;
President Heber J. Grant of the Mor
mon Church, and Spargo, leader of
the Socialists, who supported the war.
The signers derlare that every day
of delay In ratifying the treaty puts
the world In "imminent peril of new
war.,r
Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela
tions has reported the treaty, the lines
re sharply drawn between the Imme
diate ratification of the treaty of
peace with Germany, and It amend
ment with a reassembling of tho con
ference and a reopening of negotia
tions that would bring- great delay and
prolonged uncertainty In settling the
great Issues of the peace. No partisan
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plea run be made, l-.iriy line are al
fea ly Itrohcn.
Standing at a distance from the
conflict In the senate chamber, w
plead for Immediate ratlflcnllon with
out delay, our land requires It. A
Mate of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists manifesting Itself In lls
turlmn's, which In some rases have
no self evident connection with the
war, but which are. In fact. Its after
math. The world is put In Imminent
peril of new wars by the lapse of each
day. Dissension between us and our
former allies are being sown. We firm
ly believe and aolemnly declare that
the states and cities In which we dwell
desire Immediate peace.
The waging of war steadied and
united the Ainerlcnn people. Peace will
bring prosperity, and prosperity con
tent. Delay iu the senate postponing
ratification In this uncertain period of
neither peace nor war has resulted In
indecision and doubt, bred strife and
quickened the cupidity of those who
sell the dully necessities of life and
the fears of those whose dally wage
no longer fills the dully market basket.
We beseech the senate to give the
land peace und certainty by a ratifica
tion which will not keep us longer in
the shadows of possible wars, but give
the whole world the light of peace.
Reservations In the nature of clarifica
tion In the meaning of the treaty, not
in consistent with Its terms, will not
require the reopening of the negotia
tions with Germany and with our as
sociates in the war, which we all and
each united to win.
But there Is no possibility of doubt
that amendment of the treaty, as !
now proposed in the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, would re
quire negotiation and a reopening of
all the questions decided at Paris.
Month of delay would follow. The
perils of the present would become
the deadly dangers of the near future.
All the doubt engendered would aid
the plots for violent revolution lu this
and other lands. The Issues here and
elsewhere between capital and labor,
the conspiracy of speculator and prof
iteer, would all grow and become more
perilous.
This cannot be. The American peo
ple cannot, after a victorious war,
permit its government to petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty,
for Its consent to change in the trea
ty. Yet if the United States should
amend the treaty for Its own purpose
and policy, Germany would have full
right to ask for concession. Ger
many has agreed to make no claim In
regard to enemy property seized la
this country to an amount of seven
hundred million dollars. Our recent
foe could ask for a reopening of this
Issue and of the Lusltanla claims. It
could raise every question open be
fore hostilities In regard to submarine
warfare and the treatment of its na
tionals lu this country. All the pro
vision for our trade in Germany
falsed, by the economic clauses of the
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treaty, many of them vital to our ln
utisi.rl.vi and our farms, ns In dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working of the Reparation Com
mission, which superintends the trail
of all with Germany, could all be
brought up by Berlin for readjustment
by our negotiators, acting for the Unit
ed States atone and no longer as
sociated with other victorious powers
or supported by a victorious American
army on the German border.
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