The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-24

III regard TO enemy property seized |
IN this country to an amount of seven
hundred million dollars. Our recent /:
foe could ask for a re-opening Of
this issue and of the Lusitania claims.
1t could raise every question open
before hostilities in regard to sub
marine warfare and the treatment of
It's nationals in this country. All the
provisions for our trade in Germany
raised by the economic clanses Of
the treaty, many of them vital to our
industries, and our farms, as in dye
patents, dye 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 our negotiators acting for the Unit
ed States alone and no longer associ-'
ated with other victorious powers nor
supported by 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 Eng
land alone Of the principal pow
ers have ratified. The, other prin
cipals necessarily await our &C
ton, Influential and powerful as we
are today in the worlds affairs. The
ravages of war on more than q
score of fighting fronts are continued
by any needless delay Let the Sen
ate give the world peace, by ratifca-
'tion without amendment.
Even the amendment for which
| most can be said, the provision
| in regard to Shantung, will secure
nothing which cannot be gained if
China, backed by the powerful advo
cacy of the United States, addressed
itself to the machinery for Fighting
International wrongs and meeting
| just claims created by the league
between nations. China, after 80
years of oppressive treaties and
despoiled rights by which all the
great powers have, profitted directly
or indirectly, has for the first time in
this covenant and treaty the means
and method to secure justice and the
removal of the oppressive economic
interference Of stronger nations
whose citizens 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 statement 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 fol
maintaining that the ratification o.
The United States is not complete and
that changes requiring a resumption
!, Of conference and negotiations have
been made in It.
Among the dgners in Maine, New
Hampshire. Massachusetts, Rhod,
Island, Vermont and Connection
! are:
Connecticut.
Irving Bachelor, Author.
Chauncey B. Brewster, Bishop.
, Charles Cheney, Manufacturer.
, Harrison B. Freeman.
Irving Fisher, Political Economist
, Charles R. Brown, Dean Yale Schoo
of Religion
Arthur R. Kimball, Publisher.
, William Howard Taft, ex-Presiden
United States.
Isaac n. Ullman, President New Ha
, ven Chamber of Commerce.
Maine.
Robert T. Whitehouse, Lawyer.
Massachusetts
4 Roger w. Babson. President Babson'
Statistical Association.
kenyon L. Butterfeld, President Mas
| sachusetts Agricultural College.
E Francis E. Clark. Founder United So
:, ciety Christian Endeavor
Edward Cummings. General Secretar
a World Peace Foundation.
s w. L. Douglas, Ex-Governor.
!. James Duncan, President Grant,
: Cutters International Associate
: of America
e Mrs. Augustus Hemenway Forbe
@ Philanthropist
Albert Parker Fitch, Professor An
g herst College.
: Mrs. j. Malcolm Forbes, PhilanthroI
Il list.
u Harry A. Garf1eld,U. S. Fuel Admin.
q TRAITOR
Charles G. Jackson, Broker.
. A. Lawrence Lowell, President Ha
t ward University.
Q Herbert Myrick, President Orans
IS Judd Company
: Ellen F. Pendleton, President Welle
o ley College.
# Daniel A Polling, Associate Preside
n United Society Christian Endeavc
W Ellery Sedgwick, President Atlant
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