Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-09-18
URGE SENATE To
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders in Forty States, Re.
gardiess of Party, S.gn
Ringing Appeal
TREAIYWITEcUI ! AMENDMENT
Say Every Day OF Delay Puts World
In lmminsnt Peril or New. War.
Point TO National
Unrest

SHFcsI
New York-(Spec.al.) 1.-TWO hundred
and fifty le.u.ns Americans, Repub
lcans and Den ocrats representing for
ty different states and every prominent
activity have joined in a non partisan
effort to bring aboat the ratification
OF tie Peace Treaty without amend
me4t and .tEout delay" Their names
are attached 10 an address to the
United States Senate, which was made
public today, through the League TO
Enforce Peace, ai.er it had been sent
to every member Of the Senate.
The signers. almost without excep
ton, are men and women OF national
reputation. iney include stCh proml
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
Wilmington. Del; President Samuel
of Labor; Harry A. Wheeler, Of Chica
20, retiring president of the Chamber
OF Commerce of the United States;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the National American Woman Suf
frage Association; Cyrus H. X. Curtis
the Philadelphia publisher; President
Herber J. Grant, Of the Mormon
Church, and Spdrgo, leader of the so
cialists, 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
tions has reported the treaty, the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme
diate ratification Of the treaty of peace
with Germany, and its amendment with
a reassembling OF the conference and
q reopening OF negotiations that would
bring great delay and prolonged un'
certainty in settling the great issues OF
the peace No partisan plea can be
made. Party lines are already broken.
Standing at a distance from the
conflict in the Senate chamber. we
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our hand requires it.
state of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists manfesting 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
iay. Dis ensions between US and our
former allies are being sown. We firmly
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 post
DOning ratification In this uncertain
period Of neither peace nor war has
resulted in indecison and doubt bred
strife ard 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 ratiflca'
hon which will not keep US longer IN
the shadows Of possible wars but give
he whole world the light Of peace.
reservations in the nature of clarlfl'
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 e ch united to win.
But there is no possibility of doubt
that amendment Of the treaty, as is
Low pronosed in the Senate Commit
lee on Foreign Relations, would re-
uuire negotiation and a reonening OF
all the questions decided at Paris.
Months of delay would follow. The
perls of the present would become
the deadly dangers Of the near future
All the doubt engendered would aid
the plots Tor violent rsNoiotloh III thi'
and other lands, The issues here and
elsewhere between capital ard labor
the cons piracy of speculator and prof
iteer, would all grow and become more
perilous.
This cannot be. The American peo'
ple cannot, after a victorious war
permit its government to petition Ger
many. which has accepted the treaty
for it's consent to changes in the treaty
Yet IL the United States should amend
The treaty for it's own purpose ana
policy Germany would have full right
70 ask for concessions. Germany has
| agreed to make no claim in regard to
enemy property seized in this country
to an amount Of seven hundred mil
lion dollars. Our recent foe could ask
for a reopening of this issue and OF
the Lusitania claims. u could raisa
every. question ope., before hoati..ties