The Jasper news., 1919-09-25
leaders In Forty States, Re-
gardIess 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.

New York, Especially Two hundred
and fifty leading Americans, Repub-
licans and Democrats representing for
ty different states and every prominent
activity have joined in non-partisan
effort to bring about the ratification
OF the Peace Treaty without amend
ment and without delay" Their names
are attached TO an address to the
United Stotes senate, which was made
pubic today, through the League to
Enforce Peace, after 1t had been sent
to every member OF the senate.
The sjgnars, almost without excep-
tton, are men and women of national
reputation. They include such promi-
nsnt citizens as ex-PreSident Taft,
George w Wickersham, Attorney Gen
era. N the last Republican administra-
ton; A. Lawrence Lowell, president
of Harvard Charles C. Moore Of San
francisco, president Of the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Grey OF iii
mingtou, Del; President Samuel Com
pors of the American Federation of
Labor, Harry A. Wheeler OF Chicago.
retiring president Of the Chamber Of
Commeice Of the United States; Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president OF the
National american Woman Suffrage
Association; Cyrus II. K. Curtis, tho
Philadelphia publisher: President He
ber J. Grant Of the Mormon Church,
and Spsrgo. leader Of the Socialists
who supported the war.
The sisners declare that every day
OF delay in ratlfying the treaty puts
the world in Imminent peril of new
war"
Their statement follows:
In tho senate at Washington. now
that the committees on foreign reIA.
lions 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 reassembling OF the conference
and rscpsnins OF negotiations 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 already broken.
Standing at a distance from the
oonR1ict In the senate chamber, We
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires 1t. A
state OF nervous strain, tension and
unrest exiats manifesting itself In dis
turhances, which In some cases have
no self evident connection with the
war, but which are, In fact, It's after
aAth. The world 10 put In imminent
Vsxll of new wars by the lapse OF each
day. Dhsensions between US and ouI
former slltes are being sown. We
firmly believe and soaemniy declare
that the states and cities In which VIZ
dwell desire immediate peace.
The raging of war steadied AND
united the American people. Peace
will bring prosperity, and prosperity
content Delay in the senate postpou
Ing ratification in this uncertain pc
Rod OF neither peace nor war hst
resulted in indecision and doubt. bret
strife and quickenod the cupidity o.
those who sell the daily necessities o.
life and the fears Of those whose
daily ggage no longer fills the dali,
market basket
We Ueseech the senate to give thu
land p.aae and certainly by a ratifi
cation hich will not keep Us longel
in tho shadows of possible wars, bu
give tn whole world the light Of peace
Rese.yatiCaa in the nature OF clarifi
cations IN tho meaning OF the treaty
not I'M rs!stent with Its terms, will
not rec aire the reopening of the ne
gotiatit rs with Germany and with ou
associates in the war, which we al
and en- n. united to win.
But tnere is 70 possibility of doub
that al andment of the treaty, as /
now proposed in the Senate Commit
tee ON Foreign Relations, would re
quire negotiation and reopening o
all the questions decided at Paris
Months OF delay would follow. Th
perils CT the present would becom
the deaaly dangers of the near future
All the doubt cngerdered would al
the plo,s for Violent revolution in thi
and othe: lands. The issues here an
elsewhere between capital and labor
the conspiracy Of speculator and pro
itcer, wcGld all grow and become NOR
perilous.
This cannot be. The American PEE
pie cann0t, after a victorious wa
permit It's government to petition Ge
n