The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-26
ACTION
BY SENATE ON
LEAGUE URGED

A merchant in a middle western
town recently said to me that the
senator's will soon discover something
serious is likely to happen to business
unless action is had on the peace
treaty. His statement recalls the old
negro woman who, when told of the
sudden death of her husband. ex-
claimed: My Gawd! Dere must "a
been sumpin' serious de matter wild
him.
There is something seriously the
matter with the whole world. No one
knows it better than the American
Business Man. He knows that the
Senate of the United States is playing
with fire every day it delays the rati-
fication of the peace settlement
The Business Man knows that al
most all of Europe and Asia is in a
state Of upheaval, evolution and revo-
luton. He knows that right here in
America a fire is being famed by a
large, unassimilated and un-Amer-
icanized foreign population.
Industrial Reconstruction Waits
The Business Man knows that capt.
tai. ever timid, hesitates to pour its
money into industrial reconstruction
through fear of political disturbance
or revolutionary changes in industrial
methods He knows that credit and
currency and living costs are inflated
and that the public generally is rest
Jess and clamoring for reduced prices
Tor necessities and all manufactured
goods. He knows that operating costs
and wage levels are sky-rocketiug and
production decreasing
The Business Man knows that The
country over merchants report an
orgy Of consumers buying luxuries
aoth in rural and urban sections with
a tendency to expand individual cred
IT, He knows that the country banks
though bulging with deposits, are
loaned almost to the limit of their ca
uacity.
The Business Man knows that inter
national problems do have a far
reaching effect upon the prosperity
Of this nation and the happiness OF
It's people. Ditto. domestic problems
ike the seemingly forgotten transpor-
tation situation in which even the
babes in arms of our land have q
vital interest.
The Business Man knows there IL
important work to be done by the
Congress of the United States anc
shat the Senate ought to facilitate
that work by ratifying the Treat.
Of Peace now-and without amend
ment or destructive reservations tina
would require renegotiation or sub
mission to another conference of ma.
lions, thus holding in allegiance tn,
sci lzszzs-x-ss=--a<-s~-a 49, of--tne war
90 -'--svnrfe the Senate Talks.
Knowing these things. ought not tn,
Business Man to tell the Senate VIVA
he knows in forceful and unmistakabl,
language? And. to purloin a Waiter
sonian phrase, in America every mar
who il not a policeman or a dude
the banker, the minister, the lawyer
the doctor, the farmer,-is a bushes
Man.
While the Senate consumes precious
time gas-attacking parts of the Treat,
which il knows it cannot re-writ
without the consent of other signator,
nations, Germany is modifying 70
war! oh, no. not in a military sense
for the Treaty will force her to bea
her swords into plough shares once i
gets into effect. Already Germany i
consolidating her positions" indus
trially speaking. and her horde o
commercial soldiers are invading Rus
STA and Scandinavia and all the res
of the world where she may be abb
TO obtain passports for them. Thu.
while our Senate talks, talks. talk.
our chief enemy consolidates her in
dustrial forces for team work to at
tempt to commercially Germanize til
markets of the world. Now Grea
Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium
have ratified the settlement made ;