New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Churchnen Declare
That West Is for
Treaty and League
Visitors Filling New York
Pu1pits Say Backward
East and Senate Fossils
Alone Show Opposition

Clergymen from Western New Yorl
and Middle Western states wht
preached yesterday in New York pull
pits declared that the United State:
should subscribe to the treaty and t.
the league of nations without furthe,
qualifications. >They said they were
expressing the sentiment of their sec.
tions in urging such action.
The Rev. DR., William R. Taylor, pas.
tor of the Brick Church in Rochester
who preached at Central Pres sbyterian
Church, Madison Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street, was the onlv one Of
several visiting clergymen to point out
a single flaw in the treaty, and at that
ne urged its prompt Endorsement.
Inc one giarlng injustice of the
treaty" he said, 'is the article in which
Germany renounces in favor of Japan
all her rights, title and privileges
particularly those concerning the ter
rItory of kiao-chau, railways. mines
and submarine cables which she ac
CURED by virtue of the treaty con-
Guided by her with China on March s,
1918. In other words, Germany robs
China of immensely valuable posses
slons, and when she is captured with
the stolen property on her, the prop
erty is not restored to its rightful
owner, but is handed over to a neigh
bor"
Country for 1t. Says Bishop
There might be other serious faults
IN the treaty, DR.. Taylor said, but the
instrument contained within itself the
means of elf-perfection.
ut is only in the three back-number r
places IN the country, New York, Bos-
ton and the United States Senate"
SAID Bishop Charles D. Williams. of
Michigan, who spoke at Grace church.
broadway and Tenth Street, that the
league of nations is opposed in any
serious way. All the rest of the coun-
try favors 1t, not as a perfect docu-
ment or proposition, but as step
toward something better and nobler.
Yes, everybody in the West is for
the treaty and the league We will
welcome President Wilson in Detroit
and Michigan, but he does not need to
come. We are for his work and for
him without regard to partisan poll
tics"
Similar sentiments we're expressed
by the Rev. DR.. Elmer N. Owen. rector
of st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
church, Des Moines, who preached at
the Church of the Beloved Disciple in
this city
Out in the West he said, "every-
where ministers and people are for the
treaty and the league, and we don't
want any reservations that are going
to invalldate it in any manner. We
want peace at the earliest moment.
President Wilson says America holds
the moral leadership of the world, and
II Anne rica forfeits it we will break
the heart of the world.
Are With Wilson
Il speak for myself and report
actions taken by ministers associa-
tions in the West when l say we are
with Mr.. Wilson and for this treaty
and this league. Everybody out our
way, certainly every minister that
know of, favors both. There is no
The Rev. DR.. w. II. Main, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, of Chicago,
who spoke at the Madison Avenue Bap-
tist Church, said he spoke for the
clergymen and the body of the people
in Illinois in urging the. adoption of
the treaty with the league covenant as
it stands. Without the league, he said.
the treaty was scarcely scrap of
paper. .c
mean new burdens for America" he
said. "But. pray, when were we re-
lieved of burdens? Why do we want to
be relieved? What are our shoulders
for? Pshaw, what have we to fear?
Who's afraid except some old fossils
in and out of the United States Senate :?
Pres sident Wilson is right when he says
he has the people with him. He has"