Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
|GET TOGETHER, CRY
PEACE LEAGUERS
Committee Says Command of
People, Winners of War,
Is Supreme.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 24.-Settle-
ment of differences over the peace
treaty to permit it's ratification as
! soon as possible after the Senate re-
convenes is urged in a statement is
sued by the League to Enforce Peace,
at the close of a special meeting Of
the executive committee.
Former President William H. Taft,
president of the league. presided.
Others at the meeting included Ed
ward A. Filene, Henry W. Taft. H
bert 8. Houston, Oscar s. Stratus and
Herbert c. Hoover The leagues
statement follows:
| "The defeat of ratification has been
received by the country with sur
prise and Indignation. The people
want peace. They want peace and
! they want league of nations tt
guard the peace. Whose name it
! bears, which party brand it wears
| they care not at all. They longed
for and expected ratification before
adjournment of the Senate.
THE making of peace is no more a
party question than was the making
| of war. The American people. with
out regard to party, stood behind the
war until the dawn OF victory. With
like unanimity they now stand be-
|
"Have the Votes and the Power"
Shall the small minority who op-
pose League of nations in any form
defeat ratification? Shall fifteen sena-
tors decide where America shall stand
IN this world crisis? Eighty senators
nave shown by their votes that they
IaFor the great principle of the league
OF nations, The fate Of the treaty rests
l
They have the power. Theirs is the re-
spnrsibil'ty They must get together.
The failure to ratify the peace
| treaty has encouraged social unrest
both at home and abroad. Europe
| must nave supplies or it will face
starvatlon and anarchy this winter
Our farmers, cotton planters, livestock
| ralsers and manufacturers have large
! surplus production which they can
market only in Europe. The rates of
exchange already demonstrate the
collapse OF any national credits These
International securities, are the
foundation of our continued prosper
lty and are vital to the maintenance
or order and life in Europe.
men and women of America, this is
your problem. Your interests your
welfare, the honor and the future Of
your country are involved. Your will
| Is the supreme command for the men
in Washington intrusted by your
votes with guiding the nation along
the paths of peace and victory.
The allied nations established dur
,, ing the war a practical union which
Is being succeeded by the league of
nations. To refuse to join this league
is 10 lose numberless benefits and to
invite the development Of a league
that will be hostile to US in feeling
and policy. The league of nations
gives the promise of a world cooper
ating for the purpose of peace and
against war and the threat of war.
The ideal is American.
Demand for Harmony.
'"Ihe men and women who gladly
stance to the cause Of obtaining peace
through the defeat of the German
menace refuse to believe that they
have made an empty sacrifice. They
demand that the senator's harmonize
their differences. Refusal to do 80
win defy and betray the people of
this country Thy whom they were
swer.
1.-THE treaty should be ratified at the
earliest possible moment after the
Senate reconenes on December /. In
the name of thousands of Americans
who have died to hiring peace and
end war; and of millions of Ameri-
cans who have toiled and sacrificed
to forget prejudice and parttsanshdn
and agree upon resolution of ratifi-
cation couched in terms that will
permit the other signatories Of the
treaty to asauiesce in the conditions
of our ratification"