The Washington times., 1920-05-23
.RAT|FY PEACE,
BRYAN URGES
Commoner viii Oppose At.
tempts to Make Reservations
Campaign Issue.
AGAINST RULE BY MINORITY
Americas Domestic Problems
Demand Acceptance OF
League, He Says.
BY WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
Former Secretary Of State In Presi.
dent Wilson's Cabinet and Dele.
gate to the San Francisco
Convention.
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AGAINST RULE BY MINORITY

gate to the San Francisco
Convention.
Specially Written for Universal
Service.
NEW YORK, May 23.-'T am in
favor of the immediate and final
ratification Of the peace treaty, with
the reservations already agreed
upon by a decisive majority Of the
entire Senate and by more than two
thirds of those favoring ratification.
Any needed changes can be made in
the league. l shall oppose any and
every attempt to make the reserva-
tions a campaign issue.
No party, least Of all the Demo-
cratic party, can afford to claim for
q minority Of the Senate the right
to declare the policy of the nation.
Pleads for Brotherhood.
To deny ratification and make the
treaty q partisan issue would be q
crime against our own nation, which
has pressing domestic problems to
meet, and against the world that
needs our counsel and advice in the
league to save civilization from the
horrors of another war.
arm in favor of electing our rep
resentatives to the league by popular
vote. and believe they should be in
structed to favor the Immediate ad-
mission of Germany to the league,
the immediate reduction of arma-
ments in all nations, and q referen-
DUN on war. except in case of actual
invasion. World peace Is possible
only on the basis OF brotherhood.
Does President Wilson know that
while the Senate wranRles over the
phraseology OF reservations. newly
established republics are threatened
on one side with returning monarchy
and on the other with the chaos of
bolshevism?
own country and the reasons for it.?
ProAteers Bleeding U. 3.
Does he know that the profiteer,
with an appetite stimulated by glut-
tony. " bleeding our nation white?
Does he know to what extent the
pense of the taxpayers?
Does he know that big business IL
| attempting to transfer the burdens OF
| the Government from the shoulders Of
| the rich to the backs OF the poor?
Does he know that the beneficiaries
| of private monopoly are massing for a
| combined attack upon the right of the
people to use their own Government
| for their own protection?
Does he know that the antagonisms
between capital and labor are grow
| ing, and that the failure of the old
parties to grapple successfully with
| this menace to industrial peace Ia
| swelling the ranks OF socialism?
! Does he know that the governor OF
his own State Ia leading a revolt
against an amendment to the Consti-
tuition, ratined by forty-fve States OF
the Union, including every Demo
cratic Slater
Treaty should Re Ratised.
| Does he know that his own State
and a number OF other states are de.
liberateIy trying to nullify the prohi-
billion enforcement law placed upon
the statute books by the vote OF more
than two-thirds of the members oil
| both houses. He cannot be Indifferent
to this attempt to overthrow the ma
| tons greatest moral reform.
| II he were physically able to con-
fer with his follow officials at Wash
inRton and learn the views OF his
Fellow patriots throughout the coun-
try, he would not ask the members OF
the Democratic party to drag tho
treaty. into politics. and make the
| reservations a partisan issue.
| The treaty should be ratified imme'
d,ately with the reservations already
| agreed upon, leaving the nation to
| secure afterward. in the league, such
changes as may be deemed necessary
The Democratic party cannot die, II
must help solve the problems OF to-
day; Democratic friends OF the
| League OF Nations should join Repub-
Iican friends OF the league. and by
doing no, take the issue out OF the
campaign and speak peace to war
distracted Europe.