Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
Leaders in Forty States, Regard less of Party, Sign Ring
 ing Appeal.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day of Delay Puts World in Imminent Peril of New War Point to
 National Unrest.


 ty different states and every prominent activity have joined in non-partisan effort to bring about the ratification of the Peace Treaty without amend ment 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 it had been sent to every member of tEe senate.
 The signers, almost without excep- ton, are men and women of national reputation. They include such promi- nent citizens as ex-President Taft, George w. Wickersham, Attorney Gen: eral in the last Republican administra- 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 Statesi Mrs. | Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Cyrus H. K. 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 peril of new war"
 Their statement follows:
 Tn 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 it's amendment with a reassembling of the conference and a reopening of negotiations that would bring great delay and prolonged un- certainty in settling the great issues of l the peace No partisan plea can be made. Party lines are already broken. l Standing at distance from the conflict in the senate chamber, we plead for immediate ratification without de- lay. Our land requires it. A state of nervous strain, tension and unrest ex- ists manifesting itself in disturbances, which in some cases have no self evil dent connection with the war, but which are, in fact, it's aftermath. The J world is put in imminent peril of new wars by the lapse of each day. Dissen- sions betwen us and our former allies are being sown. We firmly believe and solemnly declare that the states and cities in which we dwell desire imme- diate peace.
 The waging of war steadied and united the American people. Peace will bring prosperity, and prosperity content. Delay in the senate postpon- ing 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 certainty by 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- cations in the meaning of the treaty, not inconsistent with its terms, will not require the reopening of the ne 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 tee on Foreign Relations, would re- quire negotiation and a reopening of all the questions decided at Paris. Months of delay would follow. The perils 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 elsewhere between capital and labor, the conspiracy of speculatOr and prof iteer, would all grow and become more perilous.
 This cannot be. The American peo- pie cannot, after a victorious war, permit it's government to petition Ger many, which has accepted the treaty, for its consent to changes in the trea- ty. Yet if the United States should amend the treaty for its own purpose and policy, Germany would have full right to ask for concessions. Ger many has agreed to make no claim in regard to enemy property seized in this country to an amount of seven hundred million dollars. Our recent foe could ask for reopening of this issue and of the Lusitania claims It could raise every question open be- fore hostilities in regard to submarine