The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-09-26
URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE
LsAoGRs IN FORTY STATES, re.
eARoLGss or PARTY. SION
RINolNo APPEAL.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cay Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Imminent Perli Of New War
Point 10 National
Unrest

row tofh - tbpecthll - Two nuu
drcd and fifty leading Americans. Re'
publlcans and Democrats representing
forty different states and every prom
lnent activity have Joined in u non
partisan effort 10 hrinG abou, tho
ratification Of tho Peace Treaty with
out amendment and without delay.
Tholr names are attached TO an ad'
drosa 10 tho United States senate.
which was made public today. through
the League TO Enforce Peace. after I,
had been sent 10 every member Of the
senate.
Tho slGners. almost without excep'
ton. are men and women OF national
reputation. They include such proml'
nent citizens as ex.Prealdent Taft.
George W. wiekershAm. attorney gen
srai 10 tho last republican admlnlstra.
tion: A. Lawrence Lowell. president Of
Harvard; Charles G. Moore OF San
Francisco. president OF the Panama
Exposition: Judge George Gray OF VIII
minEton. Dol: President Samuel Com
pera OF the American Federation Of
Labor. Harry 4. Wheeler Of Chicago,
retiring president OF tho chamber OF
commerce OF the United States: Mrs,
Carrie Chapman Gait. president Of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association; Cyrus H. X. Curtis. tho
Philadelphia publisher: President lie
bcr J. Grant Of tho Mormon church.
and spargo. leader OF the socialists
who supported tho war.
Tho aisners declare that every day
Of delay tn ratifyInK the treaty puts
tho world in Imminent peril Of now
war"
Their statement follows:
In the senate AZ Washington. now
that tho committee on foreign rcla'
tions has reported the treaty. tho lines
are sharply drawn between the imme,
diate ratification Of tho treaty OF
peaNe WIN aul"AHy' sAu hn b~'ht'
ment with q rcassemblIng Of tho con
ference and q reopening OF negotia.
iIons that would bring great delay and
prolonged uncertainty in settling the
grca, issues Of the peace. No partisan
plea can be made. Party lines are al
ready broken.
Standing At distance from the
conflict In tho senate chamber, we
plead for immediate ratification with.
out delay Our land requires H. A
state OF nervous strain. tension and
unrest exists manifesting Itself In dis.
turbanccs. which In some cases have
no self evident connection with the
war. but which are. In fact, Its after.
math. The world lie put in imminent
peril OF new wars by tho lapse Of each
day. pissensions between US and our
former allies arc being sown. We
firmly believe and soiemnly declare
that the states and cities In which we
dwell desire immediate peace.
The waging OF war stoadied and
united the American people. Peace
viii hring prosperity, and prosperity
content. Delay In the senate postpon'
ing ratification In this uncertain period
OF neither peace nor war has resulted
In indeclsion and doubt, bred strife
and quickenod the cupidity Of those
who sell the daily necessities OF life
and tho 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'
tion which win not keep us longer In
tho shadows OF possible wars, but give
the whole world the light OF peace.
Reservations in the nature OF ciarifi'
cations in the meaning OF the treaty,
not inconsistent with It's terms. will
not require the reopening Of tho me-
gotiations with Germany and with our
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 by the senate commit
toe on foreign relations, would require
negotiation and q reopening Of all the
questions decided at Paris. Months OF
delay would follow. The perils OF the
present would become the deadly dan
gers OF the near future. All the doubt
cngendcred would aid the plots for
violent revolution In this and other
lands. The Issues here and elsewhere
between capital and labor, the con-