Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-10
URGE SENATE To
HASTEN PEACE
LEADERS IN FORTY STATES RE-
; CARELESS or PARTY, SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Imminent Peril of New
E, War-Point to the Ma
tional Unrest.

New York. N 1.-TWO hundred
/ and fifty leading Americans. Repub-
! leans and Democrats, representing 40
/ different states and every prominent
activity, have joined in a 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 States senate. which was made
| public through the League to Enforce
| Peace, after 1t had been sent to ev-
cry member of the senate.
| The signers, almost without excep-
ton, are men and women of national
/ nent citizens as ex-President Taft,
/ George w WickeTsham. Attorney Gen
eral in the last Republican administra-
| ton; A Lawrence Lowell. president of
/ Harvard: Charles G. Moore of San
| Francisco. president OF the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray of VIII
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 II. X. Curtis. the
Philadelphia publisher; President He
bert 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-
| tions has reported the treaty. the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme-
date ratification Of the treaty Of peace
| with Germany, and its amendment with
. rsaessmb,ins OF the conference and
. rsopsnins 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 llnss are already broken.
Standing at . distance from the
| conflict In the senate chamber. we
| plead for Immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires IL. A
state Of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists, manifsstlns itself In
disturbances. which. in some cases,
have no self-eyident connection with
the war. but which are. in fact. its
aftermath The world Is put in Inn
mlnent peril Of. new wars by the lapse
OF each day Dissension between us
and our former allies are being sown.
| We ar 'ly believe and solemnly de
| clare that the states and cities in
which we dwell desire immediate
/ peace.
| J The waging of war steadied and
united the American people. Peace
/ will bring prosperity. and prosperity
content Delay in the senate postpon-
/ Ing ratification 10 this uncertain period
OF neither. peace nor war has resulted
/ IN indeclSon and doubt. bred strife
/ ana Qulckened the cupidity Of those
I who sell the daily necessities of life
and the fears Of those whose daily
wage no longer fills the daily market
/ basket
We beseach the senate 70 give the
/ land peace and certainty by a ratiAca.
+ ton which vii no, seep Us longer In
tie shadows Of possible wars. but give
+ the whole world the light OF peace
/ HeseryaG in the nature Of clarih.
cations ia the meaning OF the treaty
/ re- Inconsistent with rs terms, VII.
noi require The re-opening Of the ne.
gotiadons With Germany and with on.
+ associates ia the war, which we all
+ Gnd each united TO win.
Buf there is no possibility of doubt
/ thai amendment OF the treaty, as is
now proposed in the senate committee
on foreign relations. would require
negotiation and re-opening OF all the
/ questions decided az Paris. Months
of delay would follow Tie perils OF
i the present would become the deadly
/ dangers OF the near future. All The
i doubt eu&endered would aid the plots
+ fer violent revolution in this and other
/ LANDS. The issues here and elsewhere
between capital and labor, the con.
/ spiracy OF speeulator and prohteer
would all grow ana become more per
ilous
4 This cannot be. The American peo-
pie cannot, after victorious war, per
/ nit its government TO petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty
i for IFS consent to changes in the trea
/ ~. Yet If the United States should
amend the treaty for it's own purpose
| and policy Germany would have full
! right TO ask for concessions. Germany
has agreed to make no claim in re
/ gard to alien property seized in this
country to an amount of seven hundred
million dollars Our recent foe could
ask for re-opening OF this issue and
of the Lusitania claims. II could raise
every question open before hostiIities
in regard to submarine warfare and
| the treatment OF nationals In this
country. All the provisions for our