Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-09-25
Leaders In Forty States, Re.
gardIess Of Party, Sign
Ringing Appeal.
TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day Of Delay Puts
World in Imminent Peril Of
New War-P0int to
National Unrest.

.ud fifty leading Americans, Repub.
leans and Democrats representing. for
ty different states and every prominent
activity ha we joined in q uOn-partisan
,ffort to bring about the ratification
# the Peace Treaty without amend
nent and without delay" Their names
are attached tO an address to the
United States senate, which was made
public today, through the League to
enforce Peace. after It had been sent
% every member Of the senate.
The zig ne.s, almost without excep-
lion, are men and women of national
equation. They include such promi.
cent citizens as ex-president Taft,
gorge w. Wickersham, Attorney Gen
raj in the last Republican administra.
ion; A. Lawrence Lowell, president
If Harvard; Charles Z. Moore Of San
francisco, president Of the Panama
Aposition; Judge George Grey Of ..h.
.ington, Del: President Samuel Com
srs Of the American Federation OF
.abor, Harry A. Wheeler Of Chicago.
etiring president Of the Chamber OF
mmerce OF the United States: Mrs,
,arris Chapman Catt. president OF the
.ational American Woman Suffrage
association: Cyrus II. X. Curtis. the
Philadelphia publisher: President He.
,er ]. Grant Of the Mormon Church.
nd Sparyo, leader Of the Socialists
.ho supported the war.
The signers declare that every day
Il delay in ratifying the treaty puts
he world in Imminent peril Of new
var"
Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela-
ions has reported the treaty, the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme-
diats ratification Of the treaty Of peace
with Germany, and it, amendment
with u r~eassembling Of the conference
and q rsOpening Of negotiations 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 4 distance from the
conflict in the senate chamber. We
plead for immediate ratification with.
out delay. Our land requires It. A
state Of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists m%anifesting itself In dis.
turbances, which In some cases have
no self evident connection with the
war, bat which are. In fact. its after.
msth. The world il put in imminent
peril Of new vars 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 postpon.
Ing ratification in this uncertain Pc
riod 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 bessech the senate to give the
land peace and certainly BY 9 ratifi.
| cation 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 clarifi.
cations In the meaning Of the treaty,
not inconsistent with its terms, will
not require the reopening Of the ne
sotiations with Germany and with our
associates In the war, which We oil
and each united to win.
But there is no possibility Of doubt
| that amendment of the treaty, as ID
now proposed in the Senate Commit
tee ON Foreign Relations, would re.
Quire negotiation and = reopening of
all the questions decided at Paris.
Months of delay would follow. The
perils Of the present would become
the desdly dangers Of the near future.
All the doubt e~ngendered 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.
iteer, would all grow and become more
perilous.
This cannot be. The American PEG.
pie cannot, after a victorious war.
permit Its government to petition Ger.
many, which has accepted the treaty
for It's consent to changes in the tres
ty. Yet II the United States should
amend the treaty for its own purpose
and policy, Germany would have full
right to ask for concessions. Germany
has sgrssd to make no claim In re-
gard to enemy property seized in this
country to an amount Of sevsn hun.
drsd million dollars. Our recent foe
could ask. for . r%sOpening Of this
issue and Of the Lusitania claims. n
could raise every question open b.
fore hostilitiss in regard to submarine
warfare ssd the treatment Of ~ ns'
tionals In this country. All the pro.
visions for our trade In Germany
raised by the economic clauses Of the
treaty. many Of them vital to our In
dustries and our farms. as In dye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers.
the working Of the Reparation Com.
mission. which superintends the trade
VI all with Germany, could all Be
brought up by Berlin for readjustment
by our nsgotiators, acting for the
United States alone and no longaf
associated with other victorious pow.
srs or supported by victorious Amer.