The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-27
URGE SENATE TO
HASTEN PEACE.
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donals 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
industries and our farms, as in dye
patents, d~ye-supplies and fertilizers,
the working of the reparation COM
mission which superintends the trade
of all with Germany, could all be
brought up by Berlin for readjustment
by u negotiators acting for the
United States alone and no longer as
ISOLATED with other victorious powers
or supported by a victorious American
army on the German border.
Peace itself, the peace of the
world, is delayed until ratification
comes. And any amendment post
pones peace. Germany and England
alone of the principal powers have
ratified. The other principals neces-
sarily await our action, influential
and powerful as we are to-day in
the worlds affairs. The ravages
of war on more than "a score of
fighting fronts are continued by any
needless delay. Let the senate give
the world peace. by ratification with
out amendment
Even the amendment, for which
most can be said, the provision in
regard to Shantung, will secure moth
Ing which cannot be gained If China,
backed by the powerful advocacy of
the United States, addresses itself to
the machinery for righting interna-
tional wrongs and meeting just claims
created by the league between ma
tons. China, after eighty years of
oppressive treaties and despoiled
rights by which all the great pow
ers have profted directly or Indirect
~, has for the first time In this cove
nant and treaty the means and meth
cd to secure justice and the removal
Of the oppressive economic interfer-
ence OF stronger nations whose citi-
zens are within her gates, protected
by a long succession of international
agreements. Moreover, 1t should be
remembered that the clause regarding
Shantung was 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 secured 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
maintaining 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 signers In Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania are:
Delaware.
George Gray, judge.
Samuel G. Mitchell, president Della
ware College.
Maryland.
William F. Cochran, philanthropist.
Henry D. Harlan, judge.
Emerson G. Harrington, governor.
Theodore Marburg, formerly United
States minister to Belgium.
Edwin Warield, ex-governor.
Daniel Willard, president Baltimore
& Ohio Railway.
Henry w. Williams, lawyer.
New Jersey.
Everett Colby, lawyer.
Thomas A. Edison, inventor.
Macmillan Groszmann, educator.
Thomas w. Lamont, banker.
Henry Vandyke, formerly minister to
the Netherlands.
PennsyIvanla.
George Burnham, Jr., president Civil
Service Reform Association.
R. n. Conwell, president Temple Uni
versity.
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher.
Samuel Harden Church, president Of
board Carnegie Institute.
A. B. Farquhar, president A. B. Far
quhar Company.
Samuel Fels, manufacturer.
William Finn, f1nancier.
Richard Gilbert, secretary-treasurer
Miners State Union.
Vance G. Mccormick, chairman War
Trade Board.
Benjamin Thaw, financier.
John A. Vol, president Glass Bottle
Blowers Association.
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