The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-09-17

to make no claim In regard to enemy
property seized In this country to an
amount Of 500, 0OO, 900. Our recent
foe could ask for . reopening Of this
Issue and Of the Lusitania claims. e
could raise every question open be-
fore hostilities in regard to suhmar-
Inc warfare, and the treatment Of ito
nationals, in this country. All the
provisions for our trade in Germany
raised by the economic clauses OF
the treaty, many Of them vital to our
industries and our farms, as in dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working Of the reparation com.
mission, which superintends tho
trade of all with Germany so as TO-
meet the debts OF Germany to AZ
each clause reluctantly granted by
Germany, could all be brought up by
Berlin for readjustment by our ne"
gotiators acting for the United
States alone and no longer associated
with other victorious powers nor sup
ported by a victorious American army
on the German border. -,
Peace itself, the peace OF the
world, is halted until ratification
comes. And any amendment post
pones peace to negotiations. Ger
many and England alone OF the prin-
cipal powers have ratified. The 9TH
er principals necessarily await our
action, influential and powerful as
we are today in the worlds affairs.
The ravages of war on more than a
score of fighting fronts are contin-
ued' by any needless delay. Let the
Senate give the world peace, by rati-
fication without amendment.
Even the amendment for which most
can be said, on the provision in regard
to Shantung, will secure nothing which
cannot be gained if China, backed by
the powerful advocacy of the United
States, addresses itself to the machin-
cry for righting international wrongs
and meeting just claims created by
the covenant between nations. China,
after eighty years of oppressive trea-
ties and despoiled rights by which all
the greater powers have profited df.
rectly or indirectly, has for the first
time in this covenant and treaty the
method to secure justice and the re-
moval of the oppressive economic in
reference of stronger nations whose
citizens are within her gates protected
by long succession of intercontinen-
tai agreements. Moreover, it should
be remembered that the clause regard
ing Shantung is made upon the state
ment by Japan that she will return
the territory to China and, therefore,
upon that condition, compliance with
which promise the league can require.
The peace of the present and the
righteousness of the future can be
best met by the ratification of the
covenant and treaty without amend
ment. Let the senate take no action
that will give any party to the treaty,
and especially Germany, ground for
claiming that the ratification of the
United States is not complete, and
that changes requiring a resumption
Of conference and negotiations have
been made in it.
Among the signers in Minnesota,
Wisconsin,, South Dakota, North Da-
kota, Iowa and Montana are:
Minnesota.
E. J. Copper, Manufacturer.
G. B. Elliott, Jurist.
John Lind, Ex-Governor.
Wisconsin.
Mo1vin Rrannon Prasidont Reloih
College.
A. M. Brayton, Editor.
c. E. Broughton, Editor.
George w. Burton, Banker.
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. Olin, Lawyer.
Samuel Plantz, President Lawrence
University.
John Schuette, Merchant.
Gilbert E. Seaman, Physician.
James A. Stone, Lawyer.
George Wits, Manufacturer.
August Vogel, Manufacturer.
w. P. WEIGH, Editor.
John M. Whitehead, Lawyer. ~.
Roy P. Wilcox, State Senator.
John B. Winslow, Chief Justice SUI
preme Court
South Dakota.
Willis C. Cook, Member National Rail.
ways Commission.
Coe Isaac Crawford, Ex-Governor and
ex-U. S. Senator
Thomas O'Gorman, Bishop of Sioux
Falls.
w. K. Warren, President Yankton Col.
lege.
George w. Clarke Ex-Governor.
]. H. T. Main, President Iowa College.
E. T. Meredith, Editor Successful
Farming.
Wallace M. Short, Mayor of Sioux City.
Lafayette Young, Ex-Governor.