The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-09-25
URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE
LEADERS IN FORTY STATES, RE.
CARELESS OF PARTY. SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
TREATYwITHOuT AMENDMENT
Gay Evsry Day Of Delay Puts World
In imminent Peril OF New War
Point to National
Unrest.

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dred and fifty leading Americans. Re-
publicans and Democrats representing
forty different states and every prom.
inent activity have joined In non
partisan effort TO hiring about the
ratification Of the Peace Treaty with
out amendment and without delay"
Their names are attached to an sd.
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-
ton. are men and women of national
reputation. They include such pronii.
nent citizens as ex-Prcsidens Taft,
George w. Wickersham. attorney gen.
eral In the last republican administra-
tion; A. Lawrence Lowell. president of
Harvard; Charles Z. Moore Of San
Francisco. president OF the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray OF VII
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
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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 ratifyins 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 rea
lions 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,
lions 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 pu; In imminent
peril of new wars by the lapse of eac,
day. Discussions 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 postpon-
ing ratification In this uncertain period
of neither peace nor war has resulted
in indecision 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 beseech the senate to give the
land peace and certainty by ratifica-
ton which will not keep us longer III
the shadows of possible wars. but give
the. whole world the light of peace.
Reservations in the nature of clarifi-
catioys in the meaning of the treaty,
not inconsistent with its terms. will
not require the reopening of the he
got atoms with Germany and with ouf
associates in the war, which we all
aLd each united 10 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