The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-23
HOOVER FOR PACT
Declares Senate Must Ratify
Now to Save Situation.
Further Delay Means DisasteD
for L. $. and World.
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MUST NOT Be 1920 ISSUE
Mild ReservatiOnists Program
Advised by Food Chief.
In Speech at Johns Hopkins
L. Warns the Senate.

Baltimore, Nd, Feb. 23.-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
3 reservationist proposals.
1T 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 reseFvatiOnists.'
For my part, if the league cannot
prove its value under the latest propo-
sails of the mild reserVationiStS' 1t viii
never prove them under the proposals
OF the lesser reservationists.'
Should Not BE 1920 Issue.
Hoover declared against injecting
the treaty in the coming campaign
and pointed out our policy under the
league. If i. is finally accepted, must
still be worked out. There are many,
he said who believe this country
should stay out Of purely European
affairs.
THE treaty as distinguished from
the covenant of the League of Nations
was born in fire.and suffering, a sense
of wrong. the passions of revenge and
fear that grow from them. Already
many of its sigma tories are acknowl-
edging it must be revised"
Hoover SdlO LIldL IL the new ASoi
pean states would survive, they must
re-integrate much of their former
economic relationships and free them
selves from burdening ornaments.
Need Real Peace Now.
Not only the economic questions,
but the problem of getting the maxi
mum reparations depend on the com
ing of real peace" Hoover said, and
added:
1T Will be delayed as long as we
hang the treaty in the air. for we are
a part of it. l don't believe tfrH adj
herence of the American people to
the league requires any demonstration.
I believe that the majority of our
people are convinced ZOE the necessity
Of reservations with the league. Both
.Darties to the conflict appear to con-
cede this. The conflicting groups over
the character OF the reservations have
gradually abandoned their extreme
ground and have come closer to
common mind. 1t would appear to an
outsider that both sides were in agree
ment on all the great major ideas or
the league and the major ideas of
reservations but thar they are in dis
agreement mostly over secondary
questions in the reservations.
In the meantime, the world IS held
in suspense. Infinite misery goes on
accommodating. Already the distrust
and undermining of confidence and
credit in the world has crippled our
export market. Our farmers are the
first to suffer The prices of our farm
products are rapidly falling below the
cost of production. If we are to have
economic stability at home. it can be
maintained only thru stability in our
agricultural population
Delay Means Danger.
IIoover. then launched into an at
tack on the injection of the treaty into
the elections.
There seems to be a notion that
advantage could be gained by presi
dental election upon the minor differ
ences a q TO reservations" he said Il
cannot believe that such a notion is
sincerely held by the dominant groups
in the senate. Such a thing means
that we shall continue this accumula-
ton 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 believes is the only inn
mediate solution of ratification.