The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-25
Leaders in Forty States, Re-
CARELESS 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.

! leans and Democrats representing for
| ~ different states and every promi
nent activity, have joined In non
partisan effort To bring about the rau-
| licntion of the Peace Treaty without
amendment and without delay" Their
names are attached To an address "a
| the United States senate, which was
made public today, through the League
to Enforce Peace, after 1t had been
sent to every member of the senate.
The signers, almost without eNccp-
| ton, are men and women of national
reputation. They include such proml-
nent citizens as eX-preSident Taft,
| George W. Wickersham, Attorney Gen
eral in the last Republican admins
tration; A. Lawrence Lowell, presi-
| dent Of Harvard; Charles G.. Moore of
San Francisco, president of the Pnna-
ma Exposition Judge George Gray
OF Wilmington, Del. President Sam
| uel Gonpers Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor; Harry \. 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 II.
X. Curtis, the Philadelphia publisher;
President Heber J. Grant OF the Nor
mon church. and Spargo, leader Of the
Socialists who supported the war.
The slgners declare that every day
of delay in ratifying the treaty puts
| the world In Imminent peril oi new
| war"
Their statement follows:
Z, In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela-
lions has reported the treaty, the lines
IRE sharply drawn between the lmme-
4 .liate ratification of the treaty of peace
with Germany. and Its amendment with
reassembling of the conference and
Il reopening of negotiations that would
bring great delay and prolonged I'M
certainty in settling the great issues
of the peace No partisan plea can
be made. Party lines are already
broken.
Standing at distance from the con
flict in the senate chamber, we plead
for immediate ratification without de-
lay. Our land requires 1t, \ state
of nervous strain. tension and unrest
exists manlftsting itself In dIsturban-
eos. which in some cases have no self
evident connection with the war, but
which are, in fact, It's aftermath. The
world Is put in imminent peril of
new wars by the lapse of each day.
Discussions between us and our for
mer allies are being sown. We firmly
believe and solemnly declare that the
states aud cities in which we dwell
desire immediate peace.
The waging of war stendled and
united the American people. Peace
will bring prosperity, and prosperity
content Delay In the senate postp0n-
ing ratification in this uncertain period
Of neither peace nor war has resulted
! In indeclsion and doubt, bred strife
and qulckened the cupldlty of those
who sell the daily necessities Of life
aud the fears of those whose daily
wnge no longer fills the daily market
basket. a
We beseech the senate to give the
land peace and certainty by ratlti
cation which will not keep us longer
IN the shadows of possible wars, but
give the whole world the light oI
peace. Reservations IN the nature ot
Qualifications in the meaning Of the
} treaty, not Inconsistent with Its terms
will not require the reopenlng Of tn,
negotiations with Germany and viii
our associates in the war, which W.
all and each united 20 win.
But there Is no possibility OF doub
that amendment of the treaty as i
now proposed In the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, would re
quire negotiation and n reopen!ng 81
all the Questions decided nj Paris
Months OF delay would follow. Thu
perils of the present would becOm'
the deadly dangers OF the near future
All the doubt engcndered would ni'
the plots for violent revolution In Til
and other lands. The issues here
and elsewhere between capital ant
labor, the conspiracy Of Spectator AM
! proflteer would all grow and become
. more perilous
This cannot be. .The American PEG
pie cannot, after victorious war per
u mlt It's government 10 petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty
+ for It's consent 10 changes IN the trea
q ~. Yet IL the United States shoul
amend the treaty for It's own purpos
; and policy, Germany would have fuI
right to ask for concessions Gel
many has agreed TO make no claim i
regard To enemy property seized !
r this country to an amount ~ seye
! hundred million dollars. our recen
I foe could ask for Il reopening of thI
= issue and Of the Lusltania claims,
4 could raise every question open befor
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