THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
Thursday, September 25, 1919
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URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders In Forty States, Re
gardless of Parly, 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.
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Ts'rw Tork (Sperlnl). Two hundred
nd fifty leading AmerlrtttiN,' Repub
licans mid Democrats representing for
ty different states nnd every prominent
activity have Joined In a non imrtlsan
ffort to bring about tha raUftVation
,f the Tence Treaty "wit hunt amend
ment and without delay." Their names
re "attached to an addre to the
United States senate, which was made
fnibllc today, through the Lesgu to
Enforce re ace, after It had been seut
to every member of the senate.
The signers, almost without excep
tion, are men and women of national
reputation. They Include such promi
nent citizens as ex-President Taft,
Oeorge W. Wickersham, Attorney Gen
ral in the last Republican administra
tion; A. Lawrenee Lowell, president
of Harvard; Charles O. More of San
Francisco, president of the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Uray of
"Wilmington, Del.; President Samuel
ompcrs of the American Federation
f Labor; Harry A. Wheeler of Chi
cago, retiring president of the Chain
', ber of Commerce of the United States ;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association; Cyrus II. 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 declare that every day
ef delay In ratifying the treaty puts
the world In "imminent peril of new
war.""
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, nnd Us amend
ment with a reassembling of the con
ference and a reopening of negotia
tions that would bring great delay and
prolonged uncertainty in settling the
great Issues of the ieace. No partisan
pi en run lie made, i .in line are al
ready broken.
Standing at a distance from the
conflict in the Ketuite chamber, we
plead for Immediate ratification with
out delay. ur bind requires it. A
tate of nervous strain, tension and
unrct exist rimnlfcNtlng Itself in dis
turbances, which In itome canes liuvo
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. iMsscnsloiis between us and our
former allies are being sown. We firm
ly believe and solemnly declare that
the stales and cities In which we dwell
desire Immediate peace.
The waging of war steadied and
united the American people. Peace will
bring prosperity, and prosperity con
tent. Iielay in 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 dally necessities of life and
the fears of those whose dully wage
no longer fills the dully market basket.
We beseech the senate to give the
land peace utid 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
tions 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 i
now proposed in the Senate t'ommit
tee on Foreign Relations, would re
quire negotiation und a reopening of
all the questions decided at Paris.
Months of delay would follow. The
perils of t he present would become
the deadly dangers of the near future.
All the doubt engendered would aid
the plots for violent revolution In this
snd 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 lias accepted the treaty,
for Its consent to changes 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 concessions. 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 in this country. All the pro
visions for our trade In Germany
fftlse by the economic clauses of the
benty, many of them vital to our In
uiis;rl.s and our farms, as In dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working of the Repartition 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 alone and no longer as
sociated with other victorious powers
or supported by a victorious American
army on the German border.
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day.
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