Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-02
PEACE LEAGUE ASKS
QU|CksETTLEMEA1
Asks Senate to Get Together and
Ratify Pact.
is NOT A PARTY QUESTION
Formal Statement Declares Country u
Indignant at Delay, and People
Resent Politics in Senate-Taft
President of Organization.

New York, Nov. 25.-Settlement OF
differences over the peace treaty TO
permit its ratification as soon as pos
sible after the senate reconTenes IL
urged in a statement issued by the
League TO Enforce Peace at the con-
clusion of a special meeting OF the eX-
ecutive committee.
William H. Taft, president OF the
league, presided. Among others al
the meeting were: Edward A. Fllene'
Henry w. Taft, Herbert 5. Houston
Oscar S. Straus and Herbert Z. HooV-
er. The leagues statement follows:
THE defeat of ratification has oeen
received by the country with surprise
and indignation. The people want
peace They want peace, and they
want a League of Nations TO guard
the peace. Whose name it bears
which party brand it wears, they care
not at all. They longed for and ex-
pected ratification before adjournment
of the senate.
Say It's Not Party Question.
4lC VI pOeNC - nv
a party question than was the making
of war; The American people, with
out regard to party, stood behind the
war until the day of victory. with
like unanimity they now stand behind
the treaty.
"Shall the small minority who OPP
pose a League of Nations in any form
defeat ratification? Shall 10 senators
decide where America shall stand in
this world crisis? Eighty senator's
have shown by their votes that they
favor the great principle of the
League of Nations The fate of the
treaty rests in their hands. They
have the votes. They have the pow
err. Theirs is the responsibility. They
must get together.
1.-THE failure to ratify the peace
treaty has encouraged social unrest
both at home and abroad. Europe
must have supplies or it will face star
walton and anarchy this winter.
Our farmers, cotton planters, live
stock raisers and manufacturers have
large surplus production, which they
can market only in Europe.
National Credits Have Collapsed.
"The rates of exchange already
demonstrate the collapse of many ma
tional credits. These credits. resting
upon commerce and international Sc
curitfes. are the foundation of our
continued prosperity and are vital to
the maintenance of order and life in
Europe.
''Men and women of America. this
is your problem. Your interests, your
welfare, the honor and the future Of
your country are involved. Your will
is the supreme command for the men
in Washington intrusted by your votes
with guiding the nation along the
paths of peace and victory.
1.-THE allied nations established dur
ing the war a practical union which
is being succeeded by the League Of
Nations. To refuse to join this league
is to lose numberless benefits, and to
invite the developments of a league
that will be hostile to us in feeling
and policy. The League of Nations
gives the promise of a world coop
Grating for the purposes of peace and
action against war and the threat of
war. The ideal is American.
Harmony Their Demand.
"The men and women who gladly
dedicated their sons and their sub
stance to the cause of obtaining peace
through the defeat of the German
menace refuse to believe that they
have made an empty sacrifice. They
demand that the senators harmonic
their differences. Refusal to do so
will defy and betray the people of
this country by whom they were elect
ed and to whom they must answer.
"The treaty should be ratified at
the earliest possible moment after the
senate reconvenes on December l. In
the name of thousands of Americans
who have died to bring peace and end
war. and of millions of Americans
who have toiled and sacrificed to that
end. we call upon the senate to forget
prejudice and partisanship and agree
upon resolution of ratification
couched in terms that will permit the
other signatories of the treaty to ac-
ouiesce in the conditions of our rati-
fcation"