White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-24
ANSWERS
SENATE QUERIES
Says He Sees No Reasonable 0bjec-
ion to Reservations Concerning
League Of Nations.
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
Surrsnders No Powers and May
Withdraw at Will.

Washingiun.-President Wilson and
the member of the foreign relations
committee of the >rpate met nj the
White House Tuesday TO discuss the
peace treaty.
The president oplued tie discussion
by impressins oil The senators the ur-
gency of prompt ratification of the
treaty without amendments aud with
out reservations that would require
resubmission of the treaty 10 the other
signatcries. especially Germany.
The president said tina The interest
Of every lass of people, tlie farmers.
industrial workers and employers de
manded prompt ratification Ia the Ind
that stable conditions 81 industry. az
riculture aud employment be reestah-
liShed The presidents address which
was ia effect an address 10 the country
follows:
Il hope that this conference will
serve TO expedite YOU consideration
Of the treaty II peace. heg chat
you VIII PARTON ana indulge me il 1
again urge that practically the whole
task of bringing the country back TO
normal conditions OF life and industry
waits upon the decision OF the senate
with regard 10 the terms of the peace
| venture thus again to urge my advice
that the action of the senate with re-
gard TO the treaty be taken nj the
earliest practicable because
the problems with ~nich Ne arr face
Ia facr in The readJSs.ment Of our na-
tional Tile are ol the most pressing
and critical character. VIII require
Tor their proper solution, The most Ia
innate and disinterested cooperation
OF ali parties aud al interests. and
cannot b. postponed without manifest
peril Ia our people aud TO ali he ma
ienal advantages We hold masi dear.
The copper mincs Of Montana. Ari-
iona. and Alaska. for example. are be
ing kept open and in operation only
at a great eoSt and loss, IN par upon
borrowed luoney. ihe zine mines Of Mis-
sour Tennessee aud Wisconsin are
being Operated at about onc-half of
their capacity. The lead ~ Idaho III
in0ls and Missoui, reaches only = por-
ton OF lis former market. There ~
an immediate nee for cotton betting,
and also for lubricating oil which can
not be me-. All because the channels
VI trade are barred by war when there
il no war. The same is true OF raw
/ cotton. of which the central empires
alone formerly purchased nearly four
million bales, and these are only eN-
amples. There il hardly a single raw
material. a single important foodstuff.
OF "a single class of manufactured
goods which * not in the same case.
Our full, normal. profitable produc-
ton waits OF peace.
Our military plans of course wait
upon il. We anne intelligently or
wisely decide how large a naval or
military force we shall maintain or
what our policy with regard To military
training Is TO be until we have peace
not only, but also until we know how
peace is to be sustained whether by
the arms of single nations or b. the
concert OF all the great people. and
there II more than hat difficulty In
volved The vast surplus properties OF
the army include. not food and 10th
ing merely, whose sale will affect nor
NAL production. bur great manufactur-
ing establishments also. which should
be restored to their former uses great
stores of machine tools. and all sorts
OF merchandise which must lie Idle
until peace and military policy are def
initely determined.
The cations that ratify the treaty.
such as Great Britain. Belgium aud
France. will be IN a position 10 lay
their plans for controlling the markets
Of central Europe. without conpeti-
ton from US. " we do not presently
act. We have no consular agents nc
trade. representatives there 10 loos
after our interests.
There are large areas Of Europe
y nose future will lie uncertain and
Questionable until their people know
the final settlements Of peace and the
forces which are 10 administer aud
hs:stain IL. Without determinate mar
sets our production cannot proceed
1ith intelligence ~ confidence. There
csn be 60 easy ~ normal Industrial
credits because there can be no conf
dent or permanent revival OF business.
there can be no Sterilization of wages
hccause there can he no settled con
G.tion Of employment
Every element of normal life
amongst US depends upon aud awaits
the ratification OF the treaty Of peace.
aud we cannot afford TO lose a single
summers day by not doing all that
We can TO mitigate the winters suffer
ing, which. unless we FIND means 10
prevent it may prove disastrous to a
large portion Of the world, and may
o. its worst bring upon Europe condi-
tons even more terrible than those
brought by the war itself.
Nothing. | am led to believe. stands
ia the way of the ratification OF the