The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-03
PEACE, PEACE

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Hitchcock. johnson IS. Dak.), Jones
IN. Mex.), Jones (Wash). Kellogg.
Kendrick. kenyon Keyes. King, Kirby,
McNary. NIcKellar, Myers, Nelson,
New, Newberry, Nugent, Overman,
Owen, Page, Penrose, Phelan, Phipps,
Pittman, Pomerene, Ransdell. Robin
son, Sheppard, Shields, Simmons,
Smith (Ariz.), Smith (Md.), Smith
(Ga.). Smith Is. c.. Smoot Spencer.
Stanley, Sterling, Sutherland, Swanson,
Thomas, Trammell, Townsend, Under
wood, Wadsworth, Walsh (Mass.),
Walsh (Mont), Warren, Watson, Will
These fifteen senators oppose ratifi-
cation of the treaty with or without
reservations:
Borah, Brandegee, Fall, Fernald,
France, Gronna, Johnson (CaL), Knox,
LaFoilette, Mccormick, Moses, Norris,
Poindexter, sReed. Sherman.
Don't Let 1t Fail.
The league has issued the following
statement signed by many prominent
men of different politics:
Supported in its essentials by eighty
of our nfnety-five senators and by the
great majority of Americans, the
treaty of peace has nevertheless failed
to be ratified
All the nations trusted America
year ago. And to America the other
powers offered the leadership of the
world.
Our recognized unselfishness and
deep sense of justice won Us a posi-
ton that power alone could never
have secured.
Europe looked to US to lead the
way to a. peace that would be more
than a. cessation of war. And this the
men and women of America under
took to do. Not one of US but was proud
of our country's part in this enter
prise.
Today the world is waiting for US to
act. By an agreement on mere de-
tails we can finish the splendid task
We undertook. VIII we fail? VIII we
desert those who trusted us? Forget
them in the hour of their greatest
need?
Some Common Ground.
Please remember, however, that~we
and our next door neighbors do not
expect to see a treaty of peace con-
cluded which will suit US all in every
particular But we do expect, we do
insist, that you shall find some just
and equitable common ground upon
which we can all stand as fellow citi-
zens and confront the world in friend
liness without surrendering the liberty
which has become so dear to US all as
Americans.
Now that congress has convened, is
the peace treaty to be wrecked or rati-
fled.
That will depend on the spirit of
81 men. the president and the sem
ators of the United States. If their
spirit is one of cooperation and
compromise the treaty will be rati-
fled. If their spirit is one of parti-
sanship and unyielding defiance the
treaty will fail-and America will turn
her back on her allies and her face
toward Berlin for a new and inde-
pendent treaty with Germany.
The treaty failed in the senate on
November 19 because there was no
spirit of compromise-and this with
so senators voting for the treaty
either with or without reservations,
and but fifteen against it. In all our
history that is no such shocking ex-
ample of minority control. If such
control can again defeat the treaty
this American democracy is gagged
and bound in the sight of the world
"a giant in strength, bending to the
tyranny of the few.
To Senator'S of United States.
The representatives OF the allied ma
tions at Versailles drew up a treaty
of peace and prepared a League of
Nations to enforce it. The senate has
rejected the proposition.
The matter grew into a partisan dis
pute and resulted in a deadlock.
The time has come to end this folly
As eighty senators favor some kind of
a treaty and league with reservations,
the problem should be solved imme-
diately.
Senators of the United States. you
WOMEN I'M RTTCTNECC