Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-09-23
URGE SENATE To
HASTEN PEACE
LEADERS IN FORTY STATES, RE.
cARDLEss OF PARTY, SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
TREATY WITHOUTAMENDMeNT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Imminent Peril Of New War
Point to National
Unrest.

New York. -- Especially Two hun.
dred and fifty leading Americans. Re.
pnbllcans and Democrats representing
forty different states and every prom.
lnent activity have Joined In non.
partisan effort TO ltring about the
ratification OF the Peace Treaty with
out amendment and without delay"
Their names are attached TO an ad.
dress TO the United States senate
which was made public today. through
the League TO Enforce Peace. after II
had been sent 10 every member, Of the
senate.
The Bgners. almost without ercep.
ton. are men and wbmen OF national
reputation. They include such proml-
nent citizens as ex.PresIdent. Taft
George w. Wickersham. attorney gen.
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 Wfl.
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 n. X. Curtis, the
Philadelphia publisher. President He.
Der 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 ratifying the treaty puts
the world in Imminent, Ssrli Of asw
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 imme-
diate ratification Of the treaty OF
peace with Germany, and its amend.
ment with a reassembling OF the con.
terence and a reopening OF negotia.
tons 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 al.
ready broken.
Standing at a distance from the
conflict in the senate chamber. we
plead for immediate ratification with.
out delay. Our land requires II. A
state Of nervous strain; tension and
unrest exists manifesting 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. Discussions 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 steadied and
united the American people. Peace
will bring prosperity, and prosperity
content. Delay in the senate postpon.
disqualification 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
laid peace and certainty by a ratifica.
tion which will not keep us longer in
the shadows of possible wars, but give
the whole world the light of peace.
Reservations In the nature of clarifi.
in the meaning of the treaty,
not inconsistent with its terms. will
not require the reopening of the ne
with Germany and with our
associates In the. war. which we all
ana each united to win.
But there is no possibility Of dolttt
that amendment OF the treaty. as lie
now proposed by the senate commit.
tee on foreign relations, would require