The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1919-09-27
URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders in Forty States, Regard
less Of Farty, Sign Ringing
Appeal.
eay Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Irnlncnt Perl Of New
Wsr-Point 10 National
Unrest.

New York. Especial )-rwo hun.
dred and fifty leading Americans, Re
publlcans and Democrats representing
forty different states and every prom
vent activity, have Joined in a non
partisan effort to bring about the rati-
ficstion OF the Peace Treaty without
amendment and without delay Their
names are attached TO an address to
the United States Senate, which was
made public today, through the League
to enforce Peace, after ii had beon sent
10 every member Of the Senate.
The signers, almost without excep-
tion, are men and women Of national
reputation They include such proml-
nent citizens as ex-Presldent Taft,
George W. Wickersham, Attorney Cen
eral in the last Republican admlnistra-
ton; A. Lawrence Lowell, president Of
Harvard Charles c. Moore Of San
Francisco, president Of the Panama
Exposition 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. 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 ratlfylng 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 rea-
tions 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 reopenlIg 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 it. A
state Of nervous strain, tension and un-
rest exists lnanifesting 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. DissensiOns 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 steadled and unit
ed the American people. Peace will
bring property, and prosperity con
tent Delay in the Senate postponing
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 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 certainly by ratifica-
ton which will not keep us longer i'll
the shadows of possible wars, but give
the whole world the light of peace
Reservations in the nature Of clarifi-
cations in the meaning of the treaty.
not Inconsistent with its terms, will not
require the reOpening of the negotia-
tions with Germany and with our as
sOciates in the war, which we all ana
each united 10 win.
But there is no possibility OF doubt
that amendment of the treaty, as il
COW proposed by the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, would re-
qulre negotiation and reopening OF
all the questions decided at Paris
Months Of delay wculd follow The
perlls of the present would become the
deadly dangers of the near future. All
the doubt engendered would aid the
plots for violent revolution in this and
other lands. The issues here and else
where between capital and labor, the
of speculator and profiteer,
would all grow and become more peril
JUS.
This cannot be. The American peo-
ole cannot, after a victorious war;
permit its government to petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty.
Tor its consent to changes In the trea-
". Yet If the United States should
amend the treaty for its own purpose
md policy, Germany would have full
-ight to ask for concessions. Ger
many has agreed to make no claim in
regard to enemy property seized In