Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-11-13

| duStries and our farms, as in dye pat
ents, dye supplies and fertilizers. the
| working of the Reparation Commits
sion, which superintends the trade Of
all with Germany, could all be brought
up by Berlin for readjustment by our
negotiators, acting for the United
States alone and no longer associated
with other victorious powers or sup
ported by 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 and England alone of the
| 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 than score
! of fighting fronts are continued by
any needless delay. Let the senate
! give the world peace by ratification
without amendment.
Even the amendment for which
most can be said the provision in re-
! gard to Shantung, will secure nothing
which cannot be gained if China back
| ed by the powerful advocacy Of the
| United States, addresses itself to the
machinery for Fighting international
wrongs and meeting just claims crea-
! ted by the league between nations
| China, after eighty years of oppres-
sive treaties and despoiled rights, by
which all the great powers have prof
| tied directly or indirectly, has for the
! first time, in this covenant and treaty,
! the means and method to secure jus
| tice and the removal of the oppressive
| economic interference of stronger ma
| tions whose citizens are within her
| gates, protected by long succession
! of international agreements. More
over, it should be remembered tina
! the clause regarding Shantung wa.
| made upon the statement by japan
| that she will return the territory t
! China, and, therefore, upon that con
| dition, compliance with which promis
| thI league can require.
The peace Of the present and tn
secured by the ratification of the cove
nant and treaty without amendment
| Let the senate take no action tina
! will give any party to the treaty, an
| especially Germany, ground for main
tanning that the ratification of the
! United States is not complete and
! that changes requiring a resumption
i of conference and negotiations have
| been made in it.
cio IN,
gan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are:
Wisconsin.
! Melvin A Brannon, President Beloit
College.
! A. M. Brayton, Editor
| c. E. Broughton, Editor
| George w. Burton, Banker.
Richard T. Ely, Political Economist.
Edward Evans, Physician.
w L. Evans, Lawyer.
| w. S. Goodland Editor.
| Albert Hougen, Lawyer.
John Kline, Editor.
| George W. Mead, Manufacturer.
r. E. Minahan, Physician.
| Thomas Morris, formerly Lieutenant
| Governor.
| John M. Olln, Lawyer
Samuel Plantz, President Lawrence
University
| John Schuette, Merchant.
| Gilbert g. Seaman, Physician.
James A. Stone, Lawyer.
| George Wits, Manufacturer.
August Vogel, Manufacturer.
| w. P. Welch, Editor.
John M Whitehead, Lawyer.
Roy p Wilcox, State Senator.
John B. Winslow, Chief Justice Su
preme Court
Michigan.
Caroline Bartlett Crane, Minister.
Loren D. Dickinson, Lieutenant-Gol
ernOr.
! Woodbridge N. Ferris, Ex-Governor.
Clay H HOLSTER, Banker.
Harry B. Hutchins, President Unive-
sity of Michigan.
w. D. Mahon, President Amalgamate
| Association Of Street and Electri
Railway Employees of America
| Dudley E. Waters, Banker.
Charles D. Williams, Bishop.
A. w. Wishart, Clergyman.
Illinois.
John R. Alpine, Vice-President Amer
can Federation of Labor.
| Edgar A. Bancroft, Lawyer.
Anita Mccormick Blaine, Philanthro
pist.
Louise De Koven Bowen, Socia
Worker.
Jacob M. Dickinson, ex-Secretar1
War.
John V. Farwell, Merchant.
Anna A Gordon, President Nationa
Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
Edmund D. Hubert, President Mer
chants Loan and Trust Company.
Edward N. Hurley, formerly Chairman
U. S. Shipping Board.
| Charles Cheney Hyde, Lawyer.
| David B. Jones, Mineral Point Zinc
Company.
Thomas D. Jones, President Mineral
Point Zinc Company.
Ira Landrith, formerly Moderator
Presbyterian General Assembly
Cyrus H. Mccormick, Manufacturer.
Mary E. Mcdowell, Settlement Work
er.
Smaller Mathews, Educator, Editor.
T. A. Rickert, President international
Garment Workers of America.
Graham Taylor, Sociologist.
John H Walker, formerly President