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Show i Hj ' NO NEED FOR HURRY B' There will be found in the column dv B voted to the "Safety Valve" contribution"; Hj : a letter from James G. Blaine Jr. which Bj seems conclusively to dispose of the Pres-Bl Pres-Bl ( ident's contention that it is essential tl.at B! 'l the United States sign immediately to B! bring about the desired peace with Ger- B many. B j Mr. Blaine points out that the treaty B itself expressly provides in article 440 Bi that "a first proces verbal of the deposit: B J of ratifications will beclrawn up as soon B as the treaty has been ratified by Ger- B many on the one hand and by three of the BJ principal and allied and associated pow- Hfl ers on the other hand. From the date of Hf this proces verbal the treaty will come ih- Bl to force between the high contracting HKH ))arties who have ratified it." Dl There are three principal powers in Hra Europe1 who have infinitely more at stako H than 'the United States, and who, if thr- BBL. . . ..... . .,. .. . ....j-i..., , .i. reasons for haste urged by the President exist, can dispose of the matter promptly. They have already done so and the attempt at-tempt to make it appear that this is not the case is due to the desire to force the United States into an alliance which our traditions and common sense wain us to avoid. When the President seeks to convey the impression that the business of this country coun-try is halting because of the failure of the Senate to approve, sight unseen, a convention by which the United States stands to win nothing and may possibly imperil its sovereignty, he is wittingly or unwittingly misleading the people. No such condition as he intimates exists. The contrary is the case. The industries of the country are in excellent shape. Labor is generally employed and its compensa tion is greater both relatively and absolutely abso-lutely than ever before in the history of the country. While this is the case now the condition may easily be changed by a resort to misdirected mis-directed policies and the failure to concentrate con-centrate attention upon the necessity 01 producing taxation. Urgent appeals are being made by the paper consuming bureaus bur-eaus of the government to practice economy, econ-omy, but there is not the slightest evidence evi-dence of a disposition in any of the departments de-partments to offect substantial reductions of expenditures. If the President( instead of seeking to force through under the lash a project which he himself a few years ago denounced, de-nounced, would devote himself to study-ing-the taxation problem with the view of making, recommendations, to, Congress, he . Would go far toward allaying the outcry against the high cost .of living, which of-fers of-fers a greater menace to American institutions insti-tutions Jhan the danger of a future collision colli-sion with some other nation. San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle. I tt |