Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-02
URGE Senate TO
HASTEN PEACEE:
Leaders in Forty States Re-
CARELESS of Party Sign
Ringing Appeal
TREATY WITHOUT AMEND MENT
Say Every Day of DELAY Puts
World in Imminent Peril #
New War Point to
National Unrest

leading Americans, Republicans and
Democrats representing forty differ
ent states and every prominent activ-
ity, have joined in a non partisan
effort to bring about the ratification
of the Peace Treaty without amend
ment and without delay" Their
names are attached to an address to
the United State Senate, which was
made public today through the
League to Enforce Peace, after it had
been sent to every member Of the
Senate.
The signers, almost without eIcep-
ton, are men and women of national
reputation. They include such promin-
ent citizens as ex-President Taft, Geo.
w. Wickersham, Attorney General in
the last Republican administration; A.
Lawrence Lowell, president Of Har-
ward; Charles G. Moore of San Fran
cisco, President of the Panama Ex-
position; Judge George Gray Of Will
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. K Curtis, the
Philadelphia publisher; President
Heber j. Grant of the Mormon
church. and John Srargo, leader OF
the Socialists who supported the war
The signers declare that every day
Of delay IA rsttfyins the treaty pwts
the wsrfd IN 'fMniHs1t prn Of nsw
WEI"
Ykstr ststsMsat tu6sovs:
In tAe seeste 1t Washington, now
that tis ecsanittss On foreign rels-
lions has reported the treaty. the
lines are SHARPLY drawn between the
immediate ratification OF the treaty
/ of peace with Germany, and its
amendment with reassembhng of
the conference and a reopening Of
negotiations 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 already broken.
Standing at distance from the
conflict in the Senate Chamber, we
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires 1t. A state
of nervous strain tension and unrest
/ exists, manifesting itself In disturb
ances which in some cases have no
self-evident connection with the war,
but which are in fact it's aftermath
The world Is put in immi- mt peril
of new wars by the lapse Of each
| day. Dissentions between US and
our former allies are being sown.
We firmly believe and solemnly de-
clare 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 post
poning ratification in this uncertain
period of neither peace nor war has
resulted in INDIGESTION and doubt.
Bred strife and quickened the cupid
itv of those who sell the daily neces-
sites Of life and the fears Of those
whose daily wage no longer fills the
daily market basket.
We beseech the Senate to give the
land peace and certainty by an i'm
mediate ratification 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 Qualifications in the
meaning Of the treaty not inconsistent
with it's terms will not require
the re-opening OF the negotiations
with Germany and with our as
associates in the war. which we
all and each united to win. But
there is no possibility Of doubt that
amendment of the treaty, as is now
proposed in the Senate committee On
foreign relations, would require nego-
tiation, and re-opening of all the
questions decided at Paris. Months
of delay would follow. The per
lis of the present would becoms
the deadly dangers of the neAa
future. All the doubt, engendered
would aid the plots for violent
revolution in this and other lands,
the issues here and elsewhere
between capital and labor, the con-
spiracy of Spectator and profiteer
would all grow and become more
perilous
This cannot be. The American
people cannot, after victorious war
permit it's government to petition
Germany, which has accepted the
treaty, for its consent to changes IN
the treaty. Yet, if the United States
| shOu16 amend thn trpntV for ifs owl,