Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-24
URGES QUICK SETTLEMENT OF
 DIFFERENCES OVER TREATY

New York. Nov. 23.-Settlement of differences over the treaty of peace to permit its ratification as soon as possible atfer the senate reconvenes is urged in a statement issued today by the League to Enforce Peace. at the conclusion of a special meeting of the executive committee.
 Former President William H. Taft president of the league, presided.
 The leagues statement follows:
 "The defeat of ratification has been received by the country with surprise and indignation. The people want peace. They want peace and they want a league of nations to guard the peace. Whose name it bears, which party brand it wears. they care not at all They longedtsfor and expected ratification before adjournment of the senate.
 'sThe 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 day of victory. With like unanimity they now stand behind the treaty.
 Shall the small minority who op- pose a league of nations in any form defeat ratification? Shall fifteen sen ators decide where America shall stand in this world crisis? Eighty senators have shown by their votes that they favor the great principle oi the league of nations. The fate of the treaty rests in their hands. They have the votes. They have the power Theirs is the responsibility. They must get together.
 The failure to ratify the peace l treaty has encouraged social unrest both at home and abroad. Europe must have supplies or it will face l starvation and anarchy this winter 1 Our farmers, cotton planters. live 1 stock raisers and manufacturers have l large surplus production which they can market only in Europe The rates i of exchange already demonstrate the 1 collapse of any national credits. These | credits, resting upon commerce ant 1 international securities, are the foun- dation of our continued prosperity anG are vital to the maintenance of ordei i and life in Europe.
 Men and women of America, this 1 is your problem. Your interests, youl welfare, the honor and the future o, your country are involved. Your vii i is the supreme command for the mel 1 in Washington entrusted by you votes with guiding the nation along 1 the paths of peace and victory.
 "The allied nations established dur. 1 ing the war a practical union whicl | is being succeeded by the League O
 Nations. To refuse to join this league l is to lose numberless benefits, and tt | invite the development of a league ! that will be hostile to us in feeling ant ! policy. The League of Nations give.
 the promise of 8 world cooperating fol
 the purposes of peace and protecting itself by concerted action against wa,
 and the threat of war. The ideal il American.
 'aThe men and women who gladl,
 dedicated their sons and their sub stance to the cause of obtaining peac, | through the defeat of the German menace refuse to believe that the,
 have made an empty sacrifice. The, demand that the senators harmoniz their differences. Refusal to do so vii
 defy and betray the people of thi country by whom they were electe.
 and to whom they must answer.
 The treaty should be ratified at tn earliest possible moment after tn
 senate reconvenes on December 1. Il 1 the name of thousands of American
 who have died to bring peace and en, war, and of millions of American who have toiled and sacrificed to tha end we call upon the senate to forge
 prejudices and partisanship and agre
 upon a resolution of ratificatio,
 couched in terms that will permit tn
 other signatories of the treaty to ac
 auiesce in the conditions of our rati f1cation"