Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-23
URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN TREATY
LEADERS IN FORTY STATES, RE.
CARELESS OF PARTY, SIGN
RINGING APPEAL.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts World
In Imminent Peril of New War.
Point to National Unrest

W QlHerent states and every DrOmi.
nent activity have Joined in a non.
| partisan effort to bring about the rat.
| iication of the Peace Treaty without
amendment and without delay" Their
names are attached to an address to
| the United States senate, which was
made public today, thru 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 promi.
nent citizens as ex-President Taft.
George w. Wickersham, Attorney
General in the last Republican admin
istration; A. Lawrence Lowell, presi,
dent of Harvard; Charles C. Moore
Of San Francisco, president of ethe
Panama Exposition; Judge George
Gray of Wilmington. Dell; President
Samuel Gompers Of the American Fed
Grafton 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. X. Curtis, the Philadelphia pub
Usher; President Heber ]. Grant, of
the Mormon church, and Spargo, lead
er of the Socialists who supported the
war.
The signers declare that every day
Of delay in ratifying the treaty puts
| tha world in Imminent paril of - or,
war" III ,s.-.
Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington. now
that the committee on foreign rela-
tons has reported the treaty. the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme-
date ratification of the treaty of
peace with Germany, and its amend
ment with reassembling of the con-
ference and reopening of negotia-
| tons that would bring great delay
and prolonged uncertainty in settling
the great issues of the peace. No
| partisan plea can be made. Party
| lines are already broken.
Standing at distance from the
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires it. A
state Of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists manifesting itself In dis
turbances. which In some cases have
no self-evident connection with the
war, but which are, in fact, its after
math. The world is put in imminent
peril Of new wars by the lapse of each
| day. Discussions between US and our
| former allies are being sown. We
firmly believe and solemnly declare
| 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 cupidity of
those who sell the daily necessities OF
| life and the fears Of those whose daily
| wage no longer fills the daily market
basket.
We beseech the senate to give the
land peace and certainty by ratifica-
ton which will not keep us longer in
| the shadows of possible wars, but
| give the whole world the light of
peace. Reservations in the nature of
| Qualifications in the meaning of the
treaty not inconsistent with it's
terms. will not require the reopening
Of the negotiations with Germany and
with our associates in the war, which
| we all and each united to win.
But there is no possibility of doubt
| that amendment of the treaty, as is
| now proposed in the Senate Commit
| tee on Foreign Relations, would re-
| quire negotiation and a reopening Of
| all the questions decided at Paris.
| Months of delay would follow. The
perils Of the present would become
| the deadly dangers of the near future.
| All the doubt engendered. would aid
| the plots for violent revolution in this
| and other lands. The issues here and
elsewhere between capital and labor,
| the conspiracy of Spectator and prof
| lteer, would all grow and become more
| Derilous.
| This cannot be. The American peo-
| pie cannot, after victorious war.
| permit its government to petition Ger
many. which has accepted the treaty,
| for its consent to changes In the
| treaty. Yet If the United States
should amend the treaty for its own
purpose and policy, Germany would
| have full right to ask for concessions.
| Germany has agreed to make no claim
| in regard to enemy property seized In
| this country to an amount of seven
| hundred million. dollars. Our recent
foe could ask for reopening of this
Issue and of the Lusitania claims. II
could raise every question open be-
fore hostilities In regard to subma-
| rine warfare and the treatment of it's
nationals in this country. All the
provisions for our trade In Germany
raised by the economic clauses OF the
treaty. many o. them vital to our tn-
dustries and car farms, as in dye nat
ents. dye supplies and fertilizers thu
working OF the PREPARATION Commits
SION. which superintends the trade OF
all with Germany; could all be brought
up by Berlin for REIMBURSEMENT by our
negotiators. acting for the United
States alone and no longer associated
with other victorious powers or sup
ported 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 and England alone of the
principal powers have ratified. The
other principals necessarily await onr
action. influential and powerful "a wa
are today In the worlds affairs. The
rsvages OF war on more than a seara
of lighting fronts are continued nv
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