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Show URGE SENATE TO HASTEN PEACE Leaders in Forty States, Regardless Re-gardless of Party, Sign Ringing Appeal. TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT Say Every Day of Delay Puts World in Imminent Peril of New War Point to National JUnrcst. New York (Special) Two hundred mid fifty leading Americans, Republicans Repub-licans nkid Democrats representing forty for-ty dlffereut states and every pronil nent activity, have Joined In a nonpartisan non-partisan effort to bring about tlie rati-Mention rati-Mention of the Peace Treaty "without amendment and without delay.' Their name, aro attache! to an address to tho United State1' senate, which was mude public today, through the League to Enforce 1'eace, after It had been tent to every member of the senate. The signers, almost without exception, excep-tion, are men and women of national reputation. They Include such prominent promi-nent citizens as ox-1're-hlcnt Tuft, (ioorge W. Wlckershuin, Attorney (len-ernl (len-ernl In the last Republican administration; adminis-tration; A. Lawrence Lowell, president presi-dent of Harvard; Charles C. Moore of San Francisco, president of the l'mia-mu l'mia-mu Exposition; .ludge (ieorge (Sruy of Wilmington, Del.; President Samuel Sam-uel Ooinpers of th'e American Federation Fed-eration of Labor; Marry A, Wheeler of Chicago, retiring president of the Chamber of Commerce of ihe 1'utted Stntes; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cult, president ot the National American Woman Suffrage association; Cyrus II. K. Curtis, the Philadelphia publisher; President lleher J. (Irnnt of the Mormon Mor-mon church, and Spnrgo, leader ut the Socialists who supported the war. The signer declare Hint every day nf delay In ratifying the treaty puts tlie world In "lunnluent peril of uew war." Their statement follows: In the senate at Washington, now that the committee on foreign relations rela-tions bus reported the treaty, the lines are sharply drawn between the Innne-.dlato Innne-.dlato ratltlcntlon of the treaty of peace with normally, and Us amendment with .reassembling of the conference and a reopening o& negotiation that would bring grcnt delay and prolonged uncertainty un-certainty In settling the great Issues of the peace. No partisan plea can be made. Party lines nro already broken. ' Staudlng'nt a distance from the con-filet con-filet In the M'nute chamber, we plead for Immediate ratlllcatton without delay. de-lay. Our land require. II. A stiite of nervous strain, tension and unrest oNts niaulfl-stlug Itself In disturbance, disturban-ce, which In some nises have, no self evident conuec"ou with the war, but which nre. In fact. Its aftermath. Tim world Is put In Imminent peril of new wars by Ihe hipse ot each day. Dissensions between us and our former for-mer allies are being sown. We llrmly believe and solemnly declare that the states and cities In which we dwell desire Immediate peace. The waging of war steadied and milled tho American people. Peace will bring prosperity, and prosperity content. Delay In the senate postponing postpon-ing ratlllcatiou In this uncertain period of neither peace nor war has resulted In Indecision 'and douht, bred strife and quickened the cupidity of those who sell the dally necessities of life and the fears of those whose dally wage no louger-.lllls' tho dully market basket, - u ' ' We beseech the senate to give the land peace' and certainty by a ratltl-cntlon ratltl-cntlon which will not keep us longer In the shadows of pnslhle wars, but give the Whole world the light of peace. Reservations In the nature of clnrlllcatlons In the meaning of tho treaty, not" Inconsistent yvlth Its terms, will nut require the reopening ot the negotiations with ncrmnny and with our associates (In the wur, which we all and each united to win. Rut there ,1s no pusslulllty of doubt ;hat amendment of the treaty, as Is now proposed In the Senute Committee Commit-tee on Foreign Relations, would require re-quire negotiation and u reopening of alt the questions decided at Paris. Months of delay would follow. The perils of the present would beqonie tho deadly dangers of the nc.ir future. All the doubt engendeied would aid the plots for lolcnt revolution In Ibis nml other lands. The Issues here and eNewhere between capital and labor, the eoitsplrac of speculator and profiteer, would all glow and become more perilous. This cannot be. "The American people peo-ple eaunotf after a victorious war, permit per-mit Its government to petition Her-many, Her-many, which has accepted the treaty, for lis consent to changes In the treaty. trea-ty. Yet If tho United States should mucin! tho treaty for Its own purpose and policy, (ierumny would bine full right to nsk for com esslons. Her-many Her-many has agreed to make no claim In regard to enemy property seized In this counlry to an amount of seven hundred million dollars. Our recent foo could ask for a reopening of this Issue and of the Lusltanln claims. It could rnlfo every question open before hostilities In regard to submarine war-fure war-fure and the treatment of It nationals ' nil" I J In tl s country All tho provisions tor mir nde in Germany rnised by the , ecei ! tuuses of the treat), mini of it,, in Mini to dur Industries ami, our i .ims. us in de patents, dje sup- piles nml fertlllrers, the working of the Reparation Commission, which superintends the trade of all with (icruuin.v, could nil he1 brought up b Herlln for readjustment by our negotiators, ne-gotiators, acting Air the Culled States alone mid no lo;irter assoclnteil with mtber victorious powers or supported by n victorious Amerlcuti army on the (icrmitu border. Peace Itself, the peace of the world. Is delayed until ratlllcatlon comes. And an.v amendment postpones peace, ("iermmiy and Ihigland alone of tint principal powers have ratified. The ' other principals necessirll.v await our action. Influential ami powerful as wej are today In the world's affairs. The ravages of war on more limn a score of lighting fronts are couIIiiiiimI by an.v needless delay. Let ihe senute give the world peace by ratllliailon with nut iimmiitttiititf Even the amemluu'tit for which most can he said, the provision In regard to Shunning, will secure nothing which cannot he gained If China, baekis. by the powerful advocacy of the rutted States, addresses Itself to the machinery machin-ery for righting internal iuuul wrongs and meeting Just claims created hj the league between nations. Cliltiu. after eighty onrs of oppressive leva lies and despoiled rlghls b.v which all the great powers have profited directly di-rectly or ludlrcotlv. has for tlie first time, In tills covenant and treat.v, the means and method to secure Justice and the removal of tlie nppres.he economic Interference of stronger ua thins whose clllcns are within her gates, protected b. a long succession of iuleruatioiial agreements. Moreover, More-over, It should be remembered that the clause legardlng Sliuiituug vvns mude upon the statement by .lapiiu that she will return the territory tu China and, therefore, upon that cou-vlltlon, cou-vlltlon, compliance with which promise prom-ise the league can require. The peace of the present and the righteousness of the future can he best secured by the ratlllcatlon of the covenant cove-nant and treuty without ninenilnienl. Let the senale tuke no uctlon thnt will give any party to the treuty, und .especially .es-pecially ftermuuy, ground for iiuiln-talulng iiuiln-talulng that the ruUllcatlou of the Culled States Is not complete und that changes requiring u resumption of conference und negotiations have heen made In It, Among the signers in l.'lnli, Nevada, W.vomlng, Idahu, Colorado und Cnll-fornlu Cnll-fornlu nre: California Frank M, Angellottl, Chief Justice Supreme Court of California. Luther Iiurhauk, Naturalist. Mrs. Joseph Evans Cowle-. Silas Evans, President Occidental College. Col-lege. Lyiuuu J. fiiige, formerly Secretary of tho Treasury. It. II. Kale, Merchant. Charles C. Moore, Picsident Piiuamu Exposition. 'Warren Olney, Jr Associate Justice Supreme Court. Reujaialu Ida Wheeler, President University Uni-versity or California. Curtis D. Wilbur. Associate Justice Supreme Court. Colorado. Mrs. James II. Maker. Educator. L. Ward llalinlster, l.aw.ver. Mrs. Mury C C. llradford. Stale Sui eiinteuJent Public Institutions. c. A. Dunlway, President Coloradi College. Julius C. (lunter, ex-Uovernor. i.'r.niflu .1 1f(iiMiulL Methodist Rlshop. James 'II. Pershing, Law.ver. John Franklin Slmfrolh, ovU. S. Senator. Sen-ator. S. Harrison While, formerly Justice Supreme Court. Idaho. James II. Haw ley, evUovernor. Nevada. Emmet D. Iloyle, flovornor. Hugh II. Rrnwii, Lawyer. Utah. Simon Rumberger, (Sovcrnor. John C. Cutler, ex-(lovernor. Harden Ilenloii, Secretary of State. Heber J, Orant, President Church of Vhrlst of Latter Day Saints. . L. Rlter, Manager Itlter llrothers Drug Company. W. W. Rlter, Chairman Hoard of Regents, Re-gents, Unlversltj of I'tah. Wyomlnu. Harry W. Fox, President State Feneration Fen-eration of Labor. Duncan McLeod, International Eeiu-the Eeiu-the Rourd United Mine Workers of America. James Morgan. Secretary Miners' Organisation, Unique London Club. Of the many dulis In London, perhaps per-haps the newest and most exclusive Is the Thirteen Club, which meets at the -thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of every month. It owps its Inception to a lunch held to celebrate the nrm-Itftlco nrm-Itftlco during the world war. at which It was found that Rl were fait tiny down. The membership Is rps'rleted to 13, and at a recent lunch every member tnadu It u point to mijct tho salt. Condition to Avoid. Tlie dngorous moment In life comes when men begin to over-value Ihe past at the expense of the present. pres-ent. II Is tho moment of rellgloui controversies, for ancestor worship, for narrowing In, for exalting onp set of people and excluding another. When we reach It, It mrans that w are growing old. Rut wo need ntvei reach It. -Exchange. |