The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-11
Suffrage Leader Declares
Middle of the Road People
Are for 1t
WANTS SHANTUNG
DEAL RECTIFIED
Adopts Resolution Asking That Unit
ed States Demand It-Germany
Should Enter League.


NEW YORK, July 1l.-That the peace
treaty viii be ratified by the United
States senate, and that the league of ma
tons is the "most momentous forward
clared by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
speaking on a resolution passed by the
members Of the League of Free Nations
association. This resolution called upon
''all forward looking citizens to urge the
United States senate to ratify without
reservations the treaty with Germany, in
Guiding the league of nations covenant :
Tie resolution further requested the
senate to accompany its ratification, il
possible with 4 resolution declaring 1t
to be the purpose of the United States
TO press for the immediate restoration of
klaochow and the German concessions
IN Shantung to the Chinese republic, call
Tor the Inclusion of Germany in the coun-
ell of the league soon as she has en-
tered in good faith upon the carrying out
OF the treaty provisions and the inclusion
OF Russia as soon as the Russian people
have established a stable government and
Tor the full participation of both Ger
many and Russia on equal footing in all
economic intercourse as the best insur-
ance against any reversion to the old
scheme of balance of power, economic
privilege, and wars also, to press for
the progressive reduction Of ornaments
by all nations
Other recommendations pointed out the
tact that hIpfr IN ha
| nant authorized the leagues interference
| in internal revolutions or readjustment,
/, and that the senate throw its whole
weight in behalf of such constitutional
changes as would make tie league ian
instrument Of growth, invigoated and
nodded by the active democratic forces
| Of the progressive nations
Those who say that they believe in
| a league OF nations. but not in 'the'
league of nations, arc taking an easy
and exceedingly slippery way Of eyadimg
the question. said Mrs. Gait, speaking
to the motion. In TACT there is no
| question possible, it is either the league
Of nations or no league Of nations add
ing that no group Of people in the world
could draw mp a covenant which would
please all people.
MS - the most m0mGnt0US forward
| step ever taken by the human race. but
there ~ in it scarcely a thing that APP
peals to me IS Just the right adjustment
tf the matter'. however 1t is Something
to begin on. Tie treaty can be amended.
/ 1t IS something to start with and it means
| immediate peace It has enemies.
| know, the Socialists anarchists, extreme
| pacticsts. l. w. w, and other radicals
Who all have programs Of their own and
| 10 not find their own ideals embodied In
! It. but there is no unity among the radi-
! Gals. they all disagree. There are con-
Servatives Of many degrees who are also
| opposed It is the middle-of-the-road PEG
pie, not too radical and not too conscrva-
! tive whom Lincoln said he knew God
1 loved because he made 50 many Of them,
who find in the league of nations covenant
i beginning Of something better
rs FOR the peace treaty, | am certain
that il will be ratified without amend
! ment by our senate. for while the con-
servatives and radicals are divided, the
middle-of-theroad people are united.