Milford chronicle., 1919-10-03
Leaders In Forty States, Re-
gardless of Party, Sign
Ringing Appeal.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts
World in Imminent Peril of
New War---POint to
National Unrest.

ent states and every prominent ac
tivity have joined in a non-partisaI
effort to bring about the ratification OF
the peace treaty without amendment
and without delay" The names are
attached to an address to the United
States senate, which was made public
today through the League to Enforce
Peace, after it had been sent to every
member Of the senate.
The sgners, almost without excep-
ton, are men and women of national
reputation. They include such prom
inent citizens as ex-Presldent Taft,
George W. Wickersham, attorney gen
eral in the last Republican admlnistra-
tiOn; A. Lawrence Lowell, president Of
Harvard; Charles c. Moore, of San
Francisco, president of the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray, of
Wilmington, Del; President Samuel
GOmpers, Of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor; Harry A. Wheel
er, Of Chicago, retiring president
of the Chamber Of Commerce of
the United States; Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the Phlla-
delphia publisher; President Heber J.
Grant, Of the Mormon Church, and
John Spargo, leader Of the Socialists
who supported the war.
The signers declare that every day
Of delay in radfying the treaty putt
the world in Imminent peril Of neo
war" Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela
tiOns has reported the treaty, the
lines are sharply drawn between the
immediate ratification Of the treaty
of peace with Germany and its amend
ment, with a reassembling Of the con
ference and a re-opening of negotia-
tions that would bring great delay
and prolonged uncertainty in settl-
ing the great issues Of the peace. No
partisan pleR can be made. Party
lines are already broken Standing at
a distance from the conflict in the SEN
ate chamber we plead for immediate
without delay. Our land
requires it, A state of nervous strain,
tension and unrest exists, manifesting
Itself in disturbances which in some
cases have no self-eyldent connection
with |the war, but which are In fact its
Aftermath. The world is put in immi-
nent peril Of new wars by the lapse of .
each day. Discussions between US and
our former allies are being sown. We
irmly believe and solemnly declare
that the states and cities In which we
iwell desire immediate peace.
The waging Of war steadled and
inited the American people. Peace .
will bring prosperity and prosperity
content. Delay in the senate post .
)oning ratification in this uncertain
)eriod Of neither peace nor war has
esulted In indecision and doubt, bred
trife and qulckened the cupidity of
hose who sell the daily necessities of
ife and the fears Of those whose daily
wage no longer fills the daily market
asket
We beseech the senate to give the
and peace and certainty by ratlfca-
lon which viii not keep US longer in
he shadows OF possible wars, but give
he whole world the light Of peace.
reservations in the nature of clari-
cations In the meaning of the treaty
OF Inconsistent with its term will not
equire the reopening of the negotia-
ons with Germany and with our
ssociates in the war, which we all
nd each united to win.
But there Is no possibility of doubt
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DIV proposed in the senate committee
l' foreign relations, would require
egotiatlOn and a reopening of all
e questions decided at Paris.
Onths Of delay would follow. The
srils Of the present would become the
'adly dangers Of the near future. All
e doubt engendered would aid the
OTIS for violent revolution 10 thia and
her lands. The issues here and else
here between capital and labor the
nspiracy of speculator and prOfteer,
Duld all grow and become more peril.
s
This cannot be. The American
ople cannot, after a victorious war,
rmit Its government to petition Ger
any, which has accepted the treaty,
r its consent to changes in the treaty.
t, II the United States should amend
treaty for its own purpose and pol
:, Germany would have full right to
k for concessions. Germany has
reed to make no claim y regard TO
emy property seized in this country
an amount Of seven hundred mil :
n dollars. Our recent foe could
for a reOpening Of this issue
d OF the Lusltania claims It
lld raise every question open before
stilities In regard to submarine
Ts""o and the treatment OF its ma,
'nals In this country. All the pro-
sions Tor our trade In Germany
ised by the economic clauses Of the
eaty, many Of them vital to our
duHtries and our farms, as in dye
tents, dye-supplies and fertilizers,
e working Of the reparatlon com
ssion which superintends. the trade
all with Germany, could all be
ought up by Berlin for readjustment
our negotiatorB acting for the
lited States alone and no longer as
,iated with other victorious powers
supported by victorious American
ny on the German border.
Peace itself, the peace Of the
rid, is delayed until ratification
mes. And any amendment nosb-