The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-10-03
.,-.,AlE TO
HASTEN PEACE
s4DERs IN FORTY STATES, RE-
CARELESS or PARTY, SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
.REATYWITHOuTA AMENDMENT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Imminent Peril Of New War
Point to National
Unrest.

Unrest.
New York. - Especially = Two hnn-
dred and fifty leading Americans, Re-
publicans and Democrats representing
: forty different states and every prom
inent activity have Joined in a non
partisan effort to hiring about the
ratification Of the Peace Treaty with.
out amendment and without delay,
Their names arc attached to m ad-
dress to the United States senate.
which was made public today. through,
the League to Enforce Peace, after 1t
had been sent to every member Of the
senate.
The signers, almcst without excep-
tion, are men and women Of national
reputation. They include such promi-
snent citizens as ex-President Taft,
George w. Wickersham, attorney gen
eral in the last republican administra-
ton; A. Lawrence Lowell, president Of
Harvard; Charles G. Moore Of San
Francisco. president Of the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray of VIII
mington, DEL; President Samuel Com
pers OF the American Federation Of
Labor, Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago,
retiring president OF the chamber Of
commerce Of the United States; Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait; president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association; Cyrus H. X. Curtis. the
Philadelphia publisher: President He
ber J.. Grant Of the Mormon church.
and Spargo. leader Of the socialists
who supported the war
The signers declare that every day
Of 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
are sharply drawn between the imme-
diate ratification OF the treaty of
peace with Germany, and its amend
ment with reassembling Of the con-
ference and reopening Of negotia-
tions that would bring great delay and
prolonged uncertainty In settling the
great issues of the peace. No partisan
plea can be made. Party lines are al
ready broken.
Standing at q distance from the
conflict in the senate chamber. we
plead for immediate ratification with
cut delay. Our land requires it. A
state of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists manifesting itself in dis
turbances, which in some cases have
no self evident connection with the
war, but which arc, in fact, its after
math. The world is put in imminent
peril Of new wars by the lapse Of each
day pissensions between us and our
former allies are being sown. We
firmly believe and solemnly declare
that the states 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
content. Delay In the senate postpon
ing 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 daily necessities Of life
ID the fears of those whose daily
. longer fills the daily market
,eeeh the senate to give the
lailos peace and certainty by ratifica
ton which will not keep US longer il
The shaaows OF possible wars, but give
the whole world the light Of peace
Reservations in the nature Of clsEifi
cations in the meaning Of the s-sSaty
not inconsistent with its terms, will
not require the reopening Of the ne
gotiatio1s with Germany and with ouI
associates in the war, which we al
and each united to win.
But there is no possibility OF doub
that amendment Of the treaty. as i
now proposed by the senate commit
tee On foreign relations, would requir'
negotiation and arsopening Of all th
questions decided at Paris. Months Q
delay Would follow. The perils of tn
present would become the deadly dar
gers Of the near future, All the doub
engendered would aid the plots 70
violent revolution in this and othe
sssues mere and elsewher
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