The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-24


Democrats representing forty differ
ent states and every prominent activ-
ity, 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 State 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 promin-
ent citizens as ex-President Taft, Geo.
w Wickersham, Attorney General in
the last Repu blican administration; A.
Lawrence Lowell, president of Har-
ward Charles C. Moore of San Fran
cisco, President of the Panama Ex-
position; Judge George Gray of Will
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 H. K. Curtis. the
Philadelphia publisher; President
Heber j. Grant of the Mormon
church, and John 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
| immediate ratification Of the treaty
/ of peace with Germany, and its
! amendment with reassembling of
! the conference and reopening of
/ negotiations that would bring great
/ delay and. prolonged uncert ainty in
/ settling the great issues of the peace.
4 No partisan plea can be made. Party
L lines are already broken.
Il Standing at a distance from the
conflict in the Senate Chamber. we
I plead for immediate ratification with
H out delay. Our land requires It. A state
4 of nervous strain, tension and unrest
\ exists. manifesting itself in disturb
ances which in some cases have no
/ scff-evident connection with the war
but which are in fact it's aftermath
| The world is put in imminent peril
of new wars by the lapse Of each
day. Dissentions between us and
| our former allies are being sown
/ We firmly believe and solemnly de-
clare 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 post.
poning ratification in this uncertain
period of neither peace nor war has
resulted in indecision and doubt
Bred strife and quickened the cupid
| ity of those who sell the daily neces
stiles of life and the fears of those
whose daily wage no longer fills the
daily market basket.
We beseech the Senate to give tn,
| land peace and certainty by an i'm
| mediate ratification which will no
keep US longer in the shadows 0
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world the light Of peace. Reservation
| in the nature of Qualifications in tn
meaning of the treaty not inconsisten
with its terms win not requir
the re-opening of the negotiation
with Germany and with our as
associates in the war, which W
all and each united to win. Blu
there is no possibility of doubt tina
D amendment of the treaty. as is no,
f proposed in the Senate committee o
foreign relations, would require nego
y tiation, and re-opening of all III
/ questions decided al Paris. Month
of delay would follow. The per
ills of the present would becom
the deadly dangers of the nea
future. All the doubt, engendere
would aid the plots for violer
2, revolution in this and other land
D. the issues here and elsewher
l. between capital and labor, the cor
II spiracy of Spectator and profitee
would all grow and become nor
perilous.
This cannot be. The America
. peopIe cannot after a victorjouc W.,
permit its government to petite
Germany which has accepted II
treaty, for its consent to changes
the treaty. Yet. if the United State
should amend the t--eaty, for its ow
purpose and policy. Germany wou
e | have full right 20 ask for concession