The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1919-09-27

this country TO an amount VI oSNOf
hundred million dollars. Our recent
foe could ask for a reopening Of TINS
issue and OF the Lusitania claims. II
could raise every question open be-
fore hostllltios in regard 70 submarine
warfare and the treatment of its ma
tionals in this country, All the pro
visions for our trade in Germany
raised by the economic clauses OF the
trenty, many Of Thorn vital TO eur in
dustries and ogr farms, ~ in dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working OF the RcpaIatisn Com
mission, which superntcnds the trade
of an with Germany coul6 Az be
brought UP by Berlin for reaajssEisn'
by or negotiators, acting Tor the
United States alone and no longer as
sociatcd with other victorious powers
or supported by a victorious American
army on the German border
Peace itself, the peace Of the world,
IS delayed until ratification comes.
and any amendment postpones peace
Germany ana England alone Of Che
principal powers have ratified The
other principals necessarily await our
action Influential and powerful as we
are today in the worlds affairs The
ravages Of war on more thaA a score
If fighting fronts are continued by any
needless delay. Let the Senate give
the world peace by ratification with
ont amendment.
Nven the amendment for which most
can be said, the provision in regard to
Shantung, will secure nothing which
cannot be gained if China, backed by
The powerful advocacy Of the United
States, addresses itself to the machin-
svy for rlghting international wrongs
ana meeting just claims created by the
league between nations China, after
eighty years of oppressive treaties and
despoiled rights, by which oil the great
powers have profited directly or indi-
rectly, has for the first time, in this
covenant and treaty, the means and
method to secure justice and the re-
moval of the oppressive economic in
reference of stronger nations whose
citizens are within her gates, protected
by q long succession of International
agreements. Moreover, 1t should be
remembered that the clause regarding
Shantung was made upon the state
ment by Japan that she will return the
territory to China and, therefore, upon
that condition, compliance with which
promise the league can require.
The peace of the present and the
righteousness Of the future can be best
secured by the ratification of the cove
nant and treaty without amendment.
Let the Senate take no action that viii
give any party to the treaty, and espe-
cially Germany, ground for maintain
ing that the ratification Of the United
States Is not complete and that
changes requiring a resumption Of
conference and negotiations have been
made in it.
Among the signers in Colorado, New
Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas and WyO-
ming:
Colorado.
Mrs James II. Baker, Educator.
L. Ward Bannister, Lawyer.
Mrs. Mary c. G. Bradford, State Su-
perintendent Public Instruction.
G. A. Duniway, President Colorado
College.
Julius c. Gunter, Ex-Governor.
Francis ]. Mcconnell, Methodist
Bishop.
James IT, Pershing, Lawyer.
John Franklin Shafroth, ex-U. S.
Senator.
$. Harrison White, formerly Justice
Supreme Court
New Mexico.
Neili B. Field, Lawyer.
Nebraska.
Norris Brown, ex-senator.
G. N. Dietz, Lumber Merchant.
Gould Dietz, Lumber Merchant.
W. A. Fraser, Sovereign Commander
WOodmen Of the World.
Jeremiah J. Harty, Archbishop.
Edward P. Smith, Mayor of Omaha.
Homer G. Stuntz, Bishop
G. W. Wattles, Banker.
Kansas.
G. Q. Chandler, Banker.
A. A. Hyde, Manufacturer.
Chester l. Long, ex-senator.
Charles f. Scott, ex-COngressman.
Frank Strong, President Kansas
University.
William Allen White, Publicist.
Wyoming.
Harry w. Fox, President State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Duncan Mcleod, International Ex-
ccutive Board United Mine Workers of
America.
James Morgan, Secretary Miners
Organization.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH