The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-23
Calls Upon Senate Factions to Get Together
and Ratify Treaty of Peace on Line of
Mild Reservations.
SAYS WHOLE WORLD is IN SUSPENSE
Can See No Credit to Any Party Which Will
Delay Matters and Put Treaty Into
Campaign.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BALTIMORE. Md, Feb. 23.-Warn
ing against the judgment of police
court minds" Herbert Hoover, speak
ing at Johns HopkinS university to
rattfy the peace treaty on the basis OF
mild reservationist proposals.
1T appears to many of us" Hoover
said, that the most practical hope OF
immediate ratification lies in the les
ser reservationists' accepting the pro-
posafs of the mild reservationists.
For my part. If the league cannot
prove its value under the latest pro
posals of the mild reservationists' it
will never prove them under the pro
pOsals of the lesser reservationists.'
In addition to speaking for treaty
ratification, Hoover called attention to
the necessity for an immediate raise
in the salaries of teachers and profes
sors.
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 are
many, he said who believe this coun,
try should stay out of purely European
affairs.
"The treaty as distinguished from
the covenant (of the league OF ma
tions) was born in fire and suffering
a sense of wrong, the passions of re-
venge and fear that grow from them
Already many of its signatories are
acknowledging it must be revised
Hoover said that If the new Europ'
can states would survive, they must
reintegrate much of their former eco.
nomic relationships and free them
selves from the burdening armaments.
This population is still in vast
ferment of misery and social aglta
ton" Hoover said. "It will go on and
on and continue to infect our shores
until production can be restored
Not only the economic questions but
the problem of getting maximum rep
arations depend on the coming OF
real peace" Hoover said, and added:
ut will be delayed as long as We
hang the treaty in the air, for we are
part of it.
II do not believe the adherence OF
the American people to the league re
uuires any demonstration. l believe
that the majority of our people are
convinced of the necessity Of reserva
tions with the league. Both parties
to the conflict appear to concede this
The conflicting groups over the char
acter of the reservations have grad
rally abandoned their extreme ground
and have come closer to common
mind. 1t would appear to an outsider
that both sides were in agreement on
all the great major ideas Of the league
and the major ideas of reservations
but that they are in disagreement
mostly over secondary questions il
the reservations. In the meantime
the world is held in suspense. Inf
mite 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 suHer. The
prices of our farm products are rep
idly falling below the cost of produc
ton. If We are to have economic sta
bility at home, it can be maintained
only through stability in our agricul
tural population"
Hoover then launched into an at