Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-27
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE
PEACE AROUSED
Declares Treaty Should Be Rati.
fled at Earlist Possible Mo-
ment After Dec.

New York, Nov. 23--Settlement of
differences over the treaty of peace
to permit it's ratification as soon as
POSSIBLE after the Senate reconvenes
| is urged in a statement issued to-day
by the League to Enforce Peace. at
the conclusion of special meeting of
the executive committee.
Former President William II. Taft,
president of the league, presided
Among others at the meeting were
| Edward A. Filehe. Henry w. Taft,
Herbert S Houston. Oscar s. Straus
and Herbert c. Hoover. The leagues
statement follows
The defeat of ratification has been
| received by the country with surprise
and Indignation. The people want
peace They want peace and they want
League of Nations to guard the
peace Whose name it bears, which
party brand it wears, they care not at
all They longed for and expected rati-
fication before adjournment of the
Senate
THE making of peace is no more
party question than was the making
of war The American people. without
regard to party, stood behind the war
until the day of victory. With like
unanimity they now stand behind the
treaty.
Shall the small minority who oppose
League of Nations in any form defeat
ratification? Shall fifteen senators de
eide where America shall stand in this
world crisis? Eighty senators have
| shown by their votes that they favor the
great principle of the League of Nations.
| The fate of the treaty rests In their
hands. They have the votes, They have
| the power. Theirs Is the responsibility.
They must get together
The failure TO rstify tine peace treaty
has encouraged social unrest both al
home and abroad. Europe must have sup
plies or il will face starvation and anarchy
this winter. Our farmers, cotton plant
ers. livestock raisers and manufacturers
have .arre surplus production which they
can market only in Europe, The rates
of exchange already demonstrate the col
lapse Of any national credit. These cred
its. resting upon commerce and interna-
tional securities are the foundation of
our continued prosperity are are vital to
the maintenance of order and life in Eu-
rope
Men and women of America this is
your problem. Your interests, your well
fare, the honor and the future of your
country are involved. Your will is the
supreme command for the men in
Washington entrusted by your votes
with guiding the nation along the
paths of peace and victory
THE allied nations established dur
ING the war a practical union which is
being succeeded by the League OF Ma
tons. To refuse to join this league is
to loose numberless benefits. and to-
invite the development of league that
VIII be hostile to us in feeling and
policy. The League of Nations gives
the promise of a world cooperating
Tor the purposes of peace and protect
ing itself by concerted action against
war and the threat of war. The ideal
~ American,
The men and women who gladly dedl-
| Gated their sons and their substance to
the cause of obtaining peace through the
defeat of the German menace refuse to
believe that they have made an empty
| sacrlhce. They demand that the senators