Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25

raised by the economic clauses of tho treaty, many of them vital to our in- dustries and our farms, as in dye patents, dye supplies and fertilizers, the working of the Preparation Com mission, which superintends the trade of all with Germany, could all he brought up by Berlin for readiust- ment by our negOtiators, acting for the United States alone and no longer associated with other victorious pow CTS or supported 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 a score of fighting fronts are continued hy 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 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 fighting international wrongs and meeting just claims created by the league between nations. China, after eighty years of oppressive trea- ties and despoiled rights, by which all the great powers have profited direct ly or indirectly, has for the first time, in this covenant and treaty, the means and method to secure justice and the removal of the oppressive economic in- terference Of stronger nations whose citizens are within her gates, protect ed by a long succession of interna- tional agreements. Moreover 1t should be remembered that the clause regeTd- ing Shantung was made upon tho 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 secured by the ratification of the cove nant and treaty without amendment Let the senate take no action that will give any party to the treaty, and espe- cially Germany, ground for maintain ing that the ratification of the United States is not complete and that changes requiring a resumption of conference and negotiations have been made in 1t.
 Among the signcrs in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are:
 Connecticut. Irving Bachelor, Author. Chauncey B. Brewster, Bishop. Charles k. Brown, Dean Yale School
 of Religion.
 Charles Cheney, Manufacturer. Harrison B. Freeman.
 Irving Fisher, Political Economist. Arthur R. Kimball, Publisher. William Howard Taft, ex-President
 United States.
 Isaac N. Ullman, President New Ha-
 ven Chamber of Commerce.
 New Jersey. ENeTelI SOlDy, Lawyer.
 Thomas A. Edison, Inventor. Macmillan Groszmann, Educator. Thomas W. Lamont, Banker. Henry van Dyke, formerly Minister 10
 the Netherlands.
 New York Lyman Abbott, Editor The Outlook. Arthur J. Brown, Secretary Presby-
 teri"n Board of Foreign Missions. John Burroughs, Naturalist. Irving T. Bush, President The Bush
 Terminal Company.
 Carrie Chapman Catt, President Ma
 tional American Woman Suffrage As
 sociatiOn.
 Miss Sara A. Conboy, Secretary United
 Textile Workers of America. Frank Crane, Editorial Writer AssocI-
 ated Newspapers.
 Henry P. Davison, Banker. Eugene Delano, Banker
 Melvil Dewey, President National Eff
 ciency Society.
 Homer Folks, Social Worker. OOiih NoidIily
 United Textile Workers of America. Hamilton Holt, Editor The Independ-
 ent.
 Herbert S. Houston, Publisher Worlds
 Work
 Charles E. Jefferson, Clergyman. Darwin P. Kingsley, President New
 York Life Insurance Company. S. Adolphus Knopf, Physician. Adolph Lewisohn, Banker Henry N. MacCracken, President Vas
 sar College.
 Charles s. Mcfarland, General Secre-
 tary Federal Council of the Churches
 of Christ in America.
 V. Everit Macy, Capitalist. John Mitchell, Chairman State Indus
 trial Commission.
 WiIIiorn EalInunS Mnruon praciIant