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THE COAST TO COAST U. S. FOR LEAGUE HERMISTON HERALD, OREGON. senate TO HASTEN PEACE to enemy property seized in this coun- try to an amount of seven hundred million dollars. Our recent foe could ask for a reopening of this issue and of the Lusitania claims. It could raise every question open before hostilities in regard to submarine warfare and MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AS LEADERS IN FORTY STATES, RE the treatment of its nationals in this HE SPEEDS ACROSS GARDLESS OF PARTY, SIGN country. All the provisions for our THE LAND. trade in Germany raised by the eco RINGING APPEAL. nomic clauses of the treaty, many of them vital to our industries and our TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT farms, as in dye patents, dye supplies and fertilizers, the working of the reparation commission, which super Say Every Day of Delay Puts World Majority Feel That President’s Guid intends the trade of all with Germany, in Imminent Peril of New War ance Should Be Held—He Regarda could all be brought up by Berlin for —Point to National Pact Aa Sure to Come Soon. readjustment by our negotiators, act ing for the United States alone and no Unrest. longer associated with other victorious (By Mt. Clemens News Bureau) New York. —(Special.)-Two hun powers or supported by a victorious Aboard President Wilson’s Special dred and fifty leading Americans. Re American army oh the German border. Train—From the Capital at Washing Peace itself, the peace of the world, publicans and Democrats representing ton to the far Pacific coast the Presi is delayed until ratification comes. forty different states and every prom dent of the United States has jour And any amendment postpones peace. neyed on the most unusual expedition inent activity have joined in a non- Germany and England alone of the partisan effort to luring about the ever undertaken by a chief executive ratification of the Peace Treaty “with principal powers have ratified. The of the nation. other principals necessarily await our To discuss national questions, many out amendment and without delay.” presidents have toured the land; but Their names are attached to an ad action. Influential and powerful as we Mr. Wilson Is laying before America dress to the United States senate, are today in the world’s affairs. The n question which affects the whole which was made public today, through ravages of war on more than a score world—the question of whether or not the League to Enforce Peace, after it of fighting fronts are continued by we are to join in the League of Na had been sent to every member of the any needless delay. Let the senate give the world peace by ratification tions; whether we are to forget our senate. without amendment. former isolation and share with the The signers, almost without excep Even the amendment for which most other peoples of the earth the respon tion, are men and women of national sibilities of maintaining civilization reputation. They include such promi can be said, the provision in regard to Shantung, will secure nothing which and preventing, as he says we can do, nent citizens as ex-President Taft, future warfare. cannot be gained if China, backed by George W. Wickersham, attorney gen Between the capital and the coast the powerful advocacy of the United eral in the last republican administra the president made fifteen speeches States, addresses itself to the machin tion; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of and half a dozen brief talks. All of ery for righting international wrongs 100,000 fellow citizens listened to him. Harvard; Charles C. Moore of San and meeting just claims created by Several millions had the chance to see Francisco, president of the Panama the league between nations. China, him, and apparently everyone wanted Exposition; Judge George Gray of Wil after eighty years of oppressive trea to see him, from those who thronged mington, Del.; President Samuel Gom ties and despoiled rights, by which all the streets of the cities and towns pers of the American Federation of the great powers have profited direct where he stopped, to those who came Labor, Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago, ly or indirectly, has for the first time, to the railside or stood at little flag retiring president of the chamber of in this covenant and treaty, the means stations in remote places, knowing commerce of the United States; Mrs. and method to secure Justice and the their only reward could be a fleeting Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the removal of the oppressive economic in glimpse and a wave of the hand. National American Woman Suffrage terference of stronger nations whose He has met and talked to all types association; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the of citizens— to men big in the busi- Philadelphia publisher; President He citizens are within her gates, protect less, financial and professional worlds, ber J. Grant of the Mormon church, ed by a long succession of interna to farmers and mechanical workers, and Spargo, leader of the socialists tional agreements. Moreover, it should be remembered that the clause regard to Indians and cowboys and foreign- who supported the war. ing Shantung was made upon the state born herders and rangers, to soldiers The signers declare that every day ment by Japan that she will return and to mothers who lost soldier-sons of delay in ratifying the treaty puts the territory to China and, therefore, in the late war. the world in "imminent peril of new upon that condition, compliance With What do they all tell him? unani which promise the league can require. mously they say they want peace Their statement follows: definitely settled, they want no more The peace of the present and the In the senate at Washington, now righteousness of the future can be best wars, they want the League of Na tions, and most of the American peo that the committee on foreign rela secured by the ratification of the cove pie. It may be fairly said, tell the tions has reported the treaty, the lines nant and treaty without amendment. President they want the League just are sharply drawn between the Imme Let the senate take no action that will as It is, without the reservations or diate ratification of the treaty of give any party to the treaty, and espe amendments which certain senators peace with Germany, and its amend cially Germany, ground for maintain bave insisted upon. The majority of ment with a reassembling of the con ing that the ratification of the United citizens say to those who interview ference and a reopening of negotla States is not complete and that them on this tour: tions that would bring great delay and changes requiring a resumption of con "Woodrow Wilson guided us rightly prolonged uncertainly in settling the ference and negotiations have been before and during the war with Ger- great issues of the peace. No partisan made in it. nany. We entered that war, every- plea can be made. Party lines are al Among the signers in Idaho, Oregon me agrees, to end all wars. He says ready broken. and Washington are: he league can do that We want to Standing at a distance from the Idaho. lo that, so let us keep on trusting him conflict in the senate chamber, we James H. Hawley, ex-Governor. md get the league into operation as plead for immediate ratification with Oregon. oon as possible. Forget politics.” Most Americans encountered on the out delay. Our land requires it. A Charles H. Carey, Judge. pur have forgotten politics. Repub. state of nervous strain, tension and Richard W. Montague, Lawyer. lean Governors and Mayors have in- unrest exists manifesting itself in dis Walter Taylor Sumner, Bishop. reduced the President to his audi- turbances, which in some cases have William D. Wheelwright, Lumber Mer nce; the Major part of the local com- no self evident connection with the chant nittees which have met him have war, but which are, in fact, its after Washington. eon Republicans. They have all said: math. The world is put in imminent N. B. Coffman, President Washington We are nothing but Americans, Mr. peril of new wars by the lapse of each Bankers' Association. resident." . day. Dissensions between us and our Charles W. Fassett, Mayor of Spokane Mr. Wilson’s arguments for the former allies are being sown. We Frederic W. Keator, Bishop. ague, briefly summarized, are those: firmly believe and solemnly declare Josephine Corliss Preston, President There can be no peace, either now that the states and cities in which we National Education Association. r In the future, without it. There dwell desire immediate «peace. an only be a regrouping of nations The waging of war steadied and Prehistoric Birds. nd a new “Balance of Power,” which The diatryma of the Rocky moun i certain to lead to war. There can united the American people. Peace • no war in the future, with the will bring prosperity, and prosperity tain region,’ a fossil ostrichlike bird, ague in existence, because no single content. Delay in the senate postpon of which the American Museum of Natural History has recovered bones ation would defy the united rest of ing ratification in thia uncertain period enough to complete restoration of the lankind, and if it did. It could be of neither peace nor war has resulted skeleton. Is shown to have been nearly ought to terms by an economic in indecision and doubt, bred strife seven feet tall, with a massive neck, a ocott, and without the use of arms. and quickened the cupidity of those head 17 inches long and wings too There can be no reduction In the who sell the daily necessities of life small for flight. Its powerful beak Is ”t of living until the league is es- and the fears of those whose daily believed to have served in procuring iblished, for nations will not go | wage no longer fills the daily market Its chief food from fresh water clams. lead with peace time production un. The bones were obtained from the bad basket. 1 they know that peace is definitely We beseech the senate to giva the lands of the Big Horn basin. Wyoming, ssured and that production of war land peace and certainty by a ratifica where some 3,000,000 years ago, in the raterial is no longer necessary. Eocene period, this giant of North There can be wonderful prosperity. tion which will not keep us longer in American birds must have been a the shadows of possible wars, but give contemporary of the eohlppus, the ith league In existence, for rel- ions of labor and capital all over the whole world the light of peace. pigmy four-toed horse. • world will be made closer and Reservations in the nature of clarifi ‘ore friendly, and the worker will re- cations in the meaning of the treaty, Simple Courtship. tive a fairer share of what he pro- not Inconsistent with Its terms, will When a New Guinea woman falls not require the reopening of the ne in love with a man she sends a piece These declaration of the president, gotiations with Germany and with our of string to his sister, or, If he has sically and eloquently put, have left associates in the war, which we all no sister, to his mother or another of 8 hearers thinking and thinking and each united to win. his lady relatives. Then the lady who reply. And then Mr. Wilson has But there is no possibility of doubt receives the string tells the favored binted out, the people themselves, as that amendment of the treaty, as is man that the particular woman Is In Cerent fated from senators and politi- now proposed by the senate commit love with him. No courting follows, ans, seem to want just what the tee on foreign relations, would require however, for It is considered beneath Aident wants, which is America for negotiation and a reopening of all the a New Guinea man’s dignity to waste "dership time In such a pursuit. If the man Quite as unusual as the purpose of questions decided at Paris. Months of thinks he would like to wed the lady, delay would follow. The perils of the * eros? country tour Is the manner j he meets her alone, and they decide 1 which ft is being carried out and | present would become the deadly dan whether to marry or drop the Idea. * completeness of the arrange- gers of the near future. All the doubt ‘nts on the nine car train which is engendered would aid the plots for Icelandic History. violent revolution in this and other “ring the party. For 400 years Iceland was an aristo- At the rear is the private car May- lands The issues here and elsewhere cratic republic, ruled by the great fam er, occupied by the President and between capital and labor, the con ilies of the early settlers, among whom " Wilson. Next is a compartment spiracy of speculator and profiteer. was a Norse queen of Dublin. A 14 r for the secretary Tumulty, Ad would all grow and become more per days’ open air parliament of all Ice- land met annually in June at Thing- al Grayson, Mr. Wilson’s Phys! ilous. vellir, and the speaker of the law “ four stenographers, the chief peo- This eannot be. The American (log-soguman) used to recite from kutive clerk and Leven secret ser- | pie cannot, after a victorious war. per memory the whole of the unwritten, 9 men. Byond are three compart mit its government to petition Ger elaborate laws of the country to the " cars which house twenty-one many, which has accepted the treaty. | assembly. In 1262-1264 Ireland was respondents, five movie men, and . _______ , , z..... 4. th a fens telegraphic and a railroad expert for its consent to changes in the trea united to Norway, and In 1380 with Yet If the United States should Norway to Denmark. The Danish rule there is a dinner, a club car, and amend the treaty for Its own purpose ruined the Island economically, but baggage cars, one off them con. the granting of into a business office. The and policy, Germany w ould have full since and the reestablishment of the old was exactly on time at every right to ask for concessions. Germany parliament, in 1874, at Reykjavik, between Washington and the haa agreed to make no claim in regard crest progress has been made.—Na tional Geographile Society Bulletin. LTS - THAT’S WHAT HERALD WANT ADS BRING. Try it. 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