Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-09-26
LEADERS IN FORTY STATES, RE
CARELESS OF. PARTY, SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
TREATY WlTHOUTAMENDM ENT
Gay Every Day of Delay Puts World
In imminent Peril of New War
Point to National
Unrest.

forty different states and every prom
inent activity have Joined in a non
partisan effort to bring 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 it
had been sent to every member OF the
senate.
The signers, almost without excep-
tion, 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 States Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association; Cyrus H. 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 peril of new
war"
Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela
tons has reported the treaty, the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme-
date ratification of the treaty OF
peace with Germany, and its amend
ment with reassembling of the con-
ference 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 distance from the
conflict in the senate chamber. we
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires it. 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
nrmly 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-
ing ratification in this uncertain period
OF neither peace nor war has resulted
IN INDIGESTION 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 beseeeh the senate to give the
land peace and certainty by ratifica.
ton 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 it's 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 20 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 REQUIRE
negotiation and reopening of all the
questions decided at Paris. Months of
delay would follow. The perils of the
present would become the deadly dan,
gers 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 con
spiracy of Spectator and profiteer,
would all grow aAd become more per,
1ous
This cannot be. The American peo-
pie cannot. after = victorious war, per.
nit its government to petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty
Tor its consent to changes In the trea
y. Yet II the United States should
amend the treaty for it's own purpose
ana policy, Germany would have full
risnt 70 ask for concessions. German,
mas agreed to make no claim in reear,