Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-09-18
URGE SENATE To
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders in Forty States, Re.
CARELESS of Party, Syn
Ringing Appeal
TREATYWITEoUI AMENDMENT
Say Every Day OF Delay Puts World
In Imminent Peril OF New, War.
Point TO National
Unrest

SHlCSI
New York.-(Spec.al. 1.-TWO hundred
and fifty leau.ns Americans, Repub,
Ncans and Democrats representing for.
ty different states and every prominent
activity have joined in d non-partisap
effort to bring abo4t the ratification
OF the Peace Iteuty without amend.
meat and w.tEout delay" Their names
are attached TO an address to the
United States Senate, which was made
public today, through the League 10
Enforce Pe~ce, a..er it had been sent
to every member OF the Senate.
The s!sners, almost without excep.
ton, are mea and "Ome1 OF national
reputa ton. IHey include aj.ch promi.
nent citizens as exPresident Taft,
George w. WicIiersham, Attorney Gen.
eral in the last Republican administra.
ton; A. Lawrence Lowell. president of
Harvard; Charles e. Moore, of San
Francisco, president OF the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray, OF
Wilmington, Del; President Samuel
Gompers, Of the American Federation
of Labor; Harry A. Wheeler, Of Chica.
90, retiring president of the Chamber
OF Commerce of the United States;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
OF the National American Woman Suf.
frage Association; Cyrus H. X. Curtis,
the Philadelphia publisher; President
Herber J. Grant, Of the Mormon
Church, and Spdrgo. leader of the So
cialists. 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.
tons has reported the treaty. the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme.
diate ratification of the treaty of peace
with Germany, and its amendment with
a reassembling Of the conference and
q reopening OF negotiations that would
bring great delay and prolonged un.
certainty 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 hand requires it, A
state Of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists manfesting itself in dis.
turbances, which in some cases have
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. Dis ensoas 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 steaded and
united the American people. Peace
will bring prosperity, and prosperity
content Delay in the Senate post
coming ratification in this uncertain
period Of neither peace nor war has
resulted in INDIGESTION and doubt, bred
Slltlt di-u Iuil tiiS StpiNity W
those who sell the daily necessities
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 ratifica'
ton which will not keep us longer IN
the shadows Of possible wars, but give
he whole world the light of peace.
reservations in the nature OF clarih'
,ations in the meaning of the treaty,
not Inconsistent with it's terms. will
not require the reopening of the ne
gotiations with Germany and with our
associates in the war, which we all
and oh united to win.
But there is no possibility OF doubt
that amendment Of the treaty, as Is
Low proposed in the Senate Commit
lee or Foreign Relations, would re-
uuire negotiation and reonening OF
all the questions decided at Paris.
Months of delay would follow. The
perils of the present would become
the deadly dangers Of the near future.
All the OOuDl tHSeHucleu Wcuia al"
the plots for violent revolution in this
and other lands, The issues here and
elsewhere between capital ard labor,
the cons piracy of speculator and prof
iteer would all grow and become more
perilous,
This cannot be. The American peo'
pie cannot. after a victorious war,
permit its government to petition Ger
many. which has accepted the treaty,
for it's consent to changes in the treaty.
Yet II the United States should amend
he treaty for its own purpose and
policy, Germany would have full right
TO ask for concessions. Germany has
agreed to make no claim in regard t6
enemy property seized in this country
to an amount OF seven hundred mil,
Hon dollars Our recent foe could ask
for a reopening Of this issue and OF
the Lusitania claims. u could raisa
avery question ope, before hosti!!tles