Samuel Colcord, Edmund Dwight, Herbert Sherman Houston and Hamilton Holt to Jane Addams, March 13, 1920

SAMUEL COLCORD
500 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK

March 13, 1920

Dear Sir:

Telegrams and letters from nationally important men authorize the signing of their names to the enclosed appeal. The point and object of the moves we are making is to make a partisan political referendum on ratification of the Treaty impossible, and thus secure immediately ratification of the Treaty through whatever compromises may be necessary to achieve it.

We plan two blows with this appeal. The first, the launching of the "appeal" signed with a thousand names.

Second. On the next day, the giving of wide publicity to the enclosed address signed by a few of the foremost names in the country.

We are writing to ask, first, if you will permit us to attach your name to the appeal, and second, (what is more important) that you will permit your name to be among the few to be signed to the following:

"We heartily endorse and commend to the President, to the members of the Senate, the newspaper press and the public, the following exegesis and application of the "Appeal to the President and to the Senators," today made public. The value of the appeal is to give wide publicity to this idea or suggestion, which once it enters the mind of the patriotic public, will, we hope, settle once for all the question of immediate ratification of the Treaty."

To this will be attached a copy of "The Address."

We will be very much gratified if you will permit us to attach your name to it.

Sincerely yours,

Samuel Colcord [signed]