Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — WHAT THEIR CONSTITUENTS THINK [ARTICLE]

WHAT THEIR CONSTITUENTS THINK

The Baptist ministers of Chicago in convention assembled, adopted the following resolutions: 1. That we express our great Joy in the thought of the world being leagued together against war and for peace in international relations. 2. That the covenant for a league of nations as part of the peace treaty is the beginning of a new and powerful fellowship of the nations, which will bind the earth for peace and ,m|Ur tual good will. 3. That we urgently request the senators from Illinois and their fellow members of the United States senate to agree to this new covenant as part of the peace treaty and to do so without amendment or reservation ■ which would make it necessary to resubmit the treaty of peace to the peace conference and thus dangerously delay the making of peace among the nations. 4. That we are not opposed to such interpretations of the various provisions of the treaty and the covenant as shall make clear our own understanding of the ooilgations we thus assume, and that these interpretations become a part of the record of ratification. 5. That we urge our Baptist people to use every proper effort to bring our senate to an early vote oiv ratification of the peace treaty and the consequent creation of the league of nations. It might be well for Senators McCormick and Sherman to heed this courteous but emphatic reminder. The constitutents of these gentlemen want the peace treaty ratified and the league of nations started in business. Is it not about time for Messrs. McCormick and Sherman) to begin to take cognizance of the wishes of the people whotna they are presumed to represent?— Chicago Journal.