Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-23
|RATIFY TREATY,
HOOVER WARNS
ALL SENATORS
Calls on Factions to Support
Plans of Mild Reserva-
tiOniStS.
AGAINST POLL FIGHT

BALTIMORE. Feb. Warning
against the judgment of police court
minds Herbert Hoover. speaking at
Johns Hopkins university today. called
upon senate factions to ratify the peace
treaty on the basis of mild reservationist
proposals.
ut appears to many of US" Hoover
said, that the most practical hope OF
immediate ratification lies in the lesser
reservationists'' accepting the proposals
of the mild reservationists For my
part, if the league can not prove its
value under the latest proposals of the
mild reservationists' it will never prove
them under the proposals of the lesser
reservationists.
In addition to speaking for treaty
ratification. Hoover called attention to
me necessity for an immediate raise In
the salaries of teachers and professors.
AGAINST TREATY
As CAMPAIGN ISSUE.
Hoover declared against injecting the
treaty into the coming campaign and
pointed out that our policy under the
league. if it is finally accepted, must still
be worked out. There areSmany. he said,
who believe this country should stay out
of purely European affairs.
"The treaty. as distinguished from the
covenant (of the league of nationsl was
born in fire and suffering. a sense of
wrong the passions of revenge and fear
that grow from them he said. al
ready many of its signatories are
acknowledging it must he revised
Hoover said that if the new European
states would survive they must reintes-
rate much of their former economic Teia
tionships and free themselves from bur
dening ornaments
Not only the economic questions. but
the problem of getting the maximum
reparations. depend on the coming Of
real peace" Hoover said and added:
1T will be delayed as long as we hang
the treaty in the air, for we are part
Of it,
WORLD HELD
IN SUSPENSE.
Il do not believe the adherence of the
American people to the league requires
any demonstration. l believe that the
majority of our people are convinced of
the necessity of reservations with the
league Both parties to the conflict ap-
pear to concede this. The conflicting
groups over the character of the reserva-
tiOns have gradually abandoned their
extreme ground and have come closer 70
a common mind. 1t would appear to
an outsider that both sides were in agree
ment on all the great major ideas of the
league and the major ideas of reservations.
but that they are in disagreement mostly
over secondary question in the reser-
vations.
lin the meantime the world is held
in suspense. Infinite misery goes on
accumulating Already the distrust and
undermining of confidence and credit in
the world have crippled our export mar
ket. Our farmers are the first to suffer.
The prices of our farm products are
rapidly falling below the cost Of pro
duction. If we are TO have economic
stability at home. il can be maintained
only through stability in our agricultural
population"
Hoover then launched into an attack
on the injection of the treaty into the
coming elections.
DELAY TO BRING
NO PARTY CREDIT.
There seems to be a notion that ad-
vantage could he gained by presidential
election upon the minor differences as to
reservations. he said. Il can not believe
that such a notion is sincerely held by the
dominant groups in the senate. Such Il
thing means that We shall continue this
accumulation OF danger for another year.
1t Is my impression that there'is no party
credit in this position"
Hoover then outlined his suggestions
as to what he believed is the only imme-
diate solution Of ratification.
EXTREME VIEWS
POINTED OUT.
Declaring the war has brought us new
relationships which we can not escape.
Hoover said:
Our old relations will be expanded
L
league. We have two extreme views
among pur peoples upon the policies we
should adopt in all these matters. One
contends the ideal is isolation-leave
Europe to herself-and the other con-
tends for at least moral domination as
mission of International Justice. Many
Of MS want neither extreme.
Assuming that some day it will be
ratified in some form, the nature of
our policies under the league has yet
10 be developerd. We all hope for its
immediate energies in the reduction Of
armament, the development of engines of
Cancellation OF arbitration and codes and
courts Of International justice. We hope
for its influence in the destruction of the
economic barriers set up before and
since the war, which stihe the recupera-
ton and the free entry of our own COM
merce over the world.
Some of us hope that the league will
not interpose in international differences
except at the last stage necessary to miti-
gate the growth Of conflict and some of
MS have no liking for mandates of any
European state"
Time and encouragement are needed to
develop the treaty constructively under
the league, he said.
URGES FOOD
FOR EUROPE
We have great responsibilities of sym
pathetic character to some of our sister
democracies in Europe he said. They
Involve no political commitment. They
spring from the human heart. Had we
not interviewed, Europe today would be
governed by autocracies from the Baltic
to the Mediterranean
Some of the cities Of Poland. FINLAND
Czecho SlOvskia and Austria TODAY IRE
struggling with starvation among their
men, women and children. Their re-
cuperation has not proceeded far enough
TO enable them to find food throuph
private credits. We have no right 10
deny them the small amount Of food
credit pending their recuperation. II we
fail to do this we are not true to orr
sons who lie buried on the continent Of
Europe"
WilIVS-OVerIand