The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-09-19

washington, sept. lD.-lne united
States Senate was called upon today
to bring about the ratification of the
peace treaty without amendment and
without delay" in statement sent to
every member and signed by $50
prominent Americans, both Republi-
cans and Democrats. The statement
says every day of delay in ratifying
the treaty puts the world gin immi-
nent peril of new war" Representa-
tives of forty States are united in the
non-partisCn effort.
: Missourians who signed the petit
ton are: Gov. Gardner, j. Lionberger
Davis, Charles NJ. Hay, William T.
Kemper, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, An
drew Steele, Bishop futile, former
Congressman W. d. Vandiver, Festus
J. Wade and former Mayor Rolla Wells
of st. Louis.
Other signers are men and women
of national reputation. They include
such prominent citizens as former
President Taft, Geo. w. Wickersham,
attorney general of the last Republic
can administration; A. Lawrence Low
ell, president of Harvard University;
Charles C. Moore of San Francisco,
president of the Panama Exposition;
Judge Geo. Gray Of Wilmington, Del;
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor; Har-
ry A. Wheeler of Chicago, retiring
president Of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States; Mrs. Carry
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION; Cyrus H. X. Curtis and John |
Spargo, leader of the Socialists who !
supported the president.
Text of Statement.
The statement follows:
an 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 amend /
ment, with re-assembling Of the con- |
ference and re-opeping of negotia-
tons 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
conflict in the Senate chamber, We
plead for immediate ratification with
out del2y. Our land requires it. The
state Of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists, manifesting itself in
disturbances which in some cases have
no self-evidcnt connection with the ;
war, but which are in FAT its after
math the world is put in imminent
peril Of new wars by the lapse Of each {
day. Discussions between us and our
former allies are being sown. We /
finally believe and solemnly declare
that the States and cities in which we
dwell desire immediate peace.
War United People
"The waging of war steadied and
united the American people. Peace !,
will bring prosperity, and prosperity :
content. Delay in the Senate, post
poning ratification in this uncertain
period of neither peace nor war, has
resulted in ihdiscretion and doubt, ::
bred strife and quickened the cupid
ity of those who sell the daily neces- !
saries of life and the fears of those !
whose daily wage no longer fills the !
daily market basket.
I'VE beseech the Senate to give the :
Idilu PSdCS anu Ctl LdlilLy ny Idtll-
cation which will not keep US longer
in the shadows of possible wars, but !,
give the whole world the light of
peace. Reservations in the nature Of 7
Qualifications in the meaning of the
treaty not inconsistent with its terms
will not require the re-opening of the
negotiations with Germany and with
our associates in the war, which we {
all and each united to 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 re-
quire negotiation and a re-opening of
all the questions decided at Pairs. I
Months of delay would follow. The {
perils of the present would become the {
deadly dangers of the near future. All
the doubt engendered would aid the :
plots for violent revolution in this and :
other lands. The issues here and else
where between capital and labor, the
of Spectator and profiteer,
would grow and become more peril
Gus.
OPENING for Germany /
"This cannot be. The American {
people cannot, after victorious war, s
permit its government to petition
Germany, which has accepted the I
treaty, for its consent to changes in '
the treaty. Yet, if the United States
should amend the treaty for its own 7