Gilpin observer., 1919-09-18

dustries and our farms. as In dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working of the Reparation Com
mission, which superintends the trade
IF all with Germany, could all be
brought up by Berlin for readjustment
by our negOtiatOrs, acting for the
United States alone and no longer as
ISOLATED with other victorious powers
or supported by a victorious American
army on the German border.
Peace itself, the peace of the world,
Is delayed until ratification comes.
And any amendment postpones peace.
Germany and England alone Of the
principal powers have ratified. The
other principals necessarily await our
action, Influential and powerful as we
are today in the worlds affairs. The
ravages of war on more than a score
Of fighting fronts are continued by any
needless delay. Let the Senate give
the world peace by ratification with
out amendment.
Even the amendment for which most
can be said, the provision in regard to
Shantung, will secure nothing which
cannot be gained if China, backed by
the powerful advocacy of the United
States, addresses itself to the machin-
cry for righting international wrongs
and meeting just claims created by the
league between nations. China, after
eighty years of oppressive treaties and
despoiled rights, by which all the great
powers have profited directly or indi-
rectly, has for the first time, in this
covenant and treaty, the means and
method to secure justice and the re-
mOval of the oppressive economic in
terference of stronger nations whose
citizens are within her gates, protected
by long succession of international
agreements. Moreover, it should be
remembered that the clause regarding
Shantung was made upon the state
ment by Japan that she will return the
territory to China and, therefore, upon
that condition, compliance with which
promise the league can require.
The peace of the present and the
righteousness of the future can be best
secured by the ratification of the cove
nant and treaty without amendment
Let the Senate take no action that will
give any party to the treaty, and espe-
cially Germany, ground for maintain
ing that the ratification of the United
States is not complete and that
changes requiring resumption of
conference and negotiations have been
Llade in it.
Among the signers in Colorado, New
Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas and Wyo-
ming:
Colorado.
Mrs. James II. Baker, Educator.
L. Ward Bannister, Lawyer.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, State Su-
perintendent Public Instruction.
G. A. Duniway, President Colorado
College.
julius G. Gunter, Ex-Governor.
Francis J. Mcconnell, Methodist
Bishop.
James II. Pershing, Lawyer.
John Franklin ShafrOth, ex-U, s.
Senator.
S. Harrison White, formerly Justice
Supreme Court.
New Mexico.
Neill B. Field, Lawyer
Nebraska.
Norris Brown, ex-senator.
c. N. DietZ, Lumber Merchant.
Gould Dietz, Lumber Merchant.
W. A. Fraser, Sovereign Commander
Woodmen of the World.
Jeremiah ]. Harty, Archbishop.
Edward p. Smith, Mayor of Omaha.
Homer c. Stuntz, Bishop.
G. w. Wattles, Banker.
Kansas.
G. Q. Chandler, Banker.
A. A. Hyde, Manufacturer.
Chester l. Long, ex-senator.
Charles f. Scott, ex-Congressman.
Frank Strong, President Kansas
University.
William Allen White, Publicist.
Wyoming.
Harry w. Fox, President State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
Duncan Mcleod, International Ex-
ccutive Board United Mine Workers of
America.
James Morgan, Secretary Miners
Organization.
King George has urged upon the
people of Great Britain to practice
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