Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-09-25

duStr1eS and our farms, as In dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers.
the working Of the Reparation Com
mission, which superintends the trade
of all with Germany, could all be
brought up by Berlin for readjust-
ment by our negotiators, acting for
the United States alone and no longer
associated with other victorious pow
ers or supported by victorious
American army on the German border.
Peace itself, the peace of the world,
is delayed until ratification comes.
And any amendment postpones peace.
Germany and England alone of the
principal powers have ratified. The
other principals necessarily await our
action, influential and powerful as we
are today in the worlds affairs. The
ravages of war on more than a score
of fighting fronts are continued by any
needless delay. Let the senate give
the world peace by ratification with
out amendment.
Even the amendment for which most
can be said, the provision in regard to
Shantung, will secure nothing which
cannot be gained if China, backed by
the powerful advocacy of the United
States, addresses itself to the machin-
cry for righting international wrongs
and meeting just claims created by
the league between nations. China.
after eighty years of oppressive trea-
ties and despoiled rights, by which all
the great powers have profted direct
ly or indirectly, has for the first time,
in this covenant and treaty, the means
and method to secure justice and the
removal of the oppressive economic in
reference of stronger nations whose
citizens are within her gates, protect
ed by a long succession of interna-
tional agreements. Moreover, it should
be remembered that the clause regard
ing Shantung was made upon the state
ment by Japan that she will return the
territory to China and, therefore, upon
that condition, compliance with which
promise the league can require.
The peace of the present and the
righteousness of the future can be best
secured by the ratification Of the cove
nant and treaty without amendment.
Let the senate take no action that will
give any party to the treaty, and espe-
cially Germany, ground for maintain
ing that the ratification of the United
States is not complete and that changes
requiring a resumption of conference
and negotiations have been made in it.
Among the signers in Wisconsin and
Illinois are:
Wisconsin.
Melvin A. Brannon, President Beloit
College.
A. M. BraytOn, Editor.
G. e. Broughton, Editor.
George w. Burton, Banker.
Richard T. Ely, Political Economist.
Edward Evans, Physician.
w. L. Evans, Lawyer.
w. S. Goodland, Editor.
Albert Hougen, Lawyer.
John Kline, Editor.
George w. Mead, Manufacturer
r. e. Minahan Physician.
Thomas Morris, formerly Lieutenant
Governor.
John NJ Olin, Lawyer. III;
Samuel Plantz, President Lawrence
University.
John Schuette, Merchant.
Gilbert e. Seaman, Physician.
James A. Stone, Lawyer.
George Wits, Manufacturer.
August Vogel, Manufacturer.
w. P. Welch, Editor.
John M. Whitehead, Lawyer.
Roy P Wilcox, State Senator.
John B. Winslow, Chief Justice Su.
preme Court
Illinois.
John r. Alpine, Vice President Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Edgar A. Bancroft, Lawyer.
Anita Mccormick Blaine, Philanthr0-
pist.
Louise De Koven Bowen, Social Work
Jacob M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary Of
War.
John V. Farwell, Merchant.
Anna A. Gordon, President National
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion.
Edmund D. Hubert, President Mer-
chants Loan and Trust Company.
. Edward N. Hurley, formerly Chairman
U. S. Shipping Board.
Charles Cheney Hyde, Lawyer.
David B. Jones, Mineral Point Zinc
Company.
Thomas D. Jones, President Mineral
Point Zinc Company.
Ira Landrith, formerly Moderator
Presbyterian General Assembly.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, Manufacturer.
Mary e. Mcdowell, Settlement Work
er.
Smaller Mathews, Educator, Editor.
T. A. Rickert, President International
Garment Workers of America.
Graham Taylor, Sociologist.
John 81. Walker, formerly President
State Federation of Labor.
Harry A. Wheeler, formerly President
Chamber of Commerce of q. s.
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