The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
GOD SAVE CHINA
 FROM FRIENDS"
Senator MCCumber Protests in Senate Against Shantung
 Amendment.
AGAINST INTEREST OF CHINA.
Republican Senator Asserts That Op- ponents of the Peace Treaty In the Senate Are Trying
 to XIII It.

Washington, D. C.-Senator McCum- Der, for 20 years Republican senator from North Dakota, in a speech in the senate today, charged that the major ity of the Foreign Relations Commit tee is trying to kill the peace treaty and the League of Nations. Senator McCumber spoke after his second breach with the opponents of the treaty on the senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In the present breach Senator McCumber voted alone with the supporters of the treaty and against the majority of the committee, which voted to strike out Japan" and insert China" in the three sections awarding the Shantung Peninsula. "Why did the majority of this com mittee pause in the midst of their hearings to make this particular amendment7" Senator AcCumber said. "7'he purpose is apparent. It is to sig nifty to the country that the senate is hostile to this treaty. IL is to put Japan in position where she cannot, without an appearance of being CO., creed, do what she has promised to do. It Is to create trouble between this country and Japan and thereby send the first dagger thrust into the body of this treaty. am satisfied that no great CT blow could ever be struck against the real interests Of China than by such an amendment. Is 1t an act of true friendship toward China or mere political move toS defeat the treaty? If its sponsors now fall to come forward and openly pledge that if Japan is driven out of this treaty then the United States will proceed single-handed and alone to drive Japan out of China-will renew this world war and send our soldiers into the Orient to fight for her, then by this act they are betraying China with false kiss.
 "If, on the other hand, they declare they will make war to drive Japan out of China, to prevent Japan re- ceiving only those rights which the other greas nations of the world have received. theE they are proclaiming a policy which they have assailed as be- ing the most wicked part of the League of Nations-a policy of intei ference with the quarrels of the old world Worse than that, while they violently condemn a joint agreement with the other great white nations of the world to shield the greater white races from annihilation, they would send our sons to death to defend the infeHor yellow races whom we claim to be so inferior as to be unfit to associate with us.
 Either we will bring both Japan and China into this League of Nations, which by the very terms of its pro visions will compel Japan to return to China all the German rights ac- quired by Japan, not only by con- quest but by the solemn agreement made by her with China herself. or you will drive Japan out of this treaty wherein she will not be bound by the obligations which she would assume by joining the League, and where she will be holding the German territory and all the German interests by the right of conquest and with the broken word of China, she can work her W to the very limit of subjuga- ton of all the Chinese territory not now within the sphere of inhue-ce O. other powers.
 With this league of nations China obtains an assurance which is tanta- mount to guaranty by all the world that not only will Japan return to China what Germany ~rested from her in 1898, but hencefortA and so long as this League shall last no other nation shall rob China of one inch of her ter ritory or exercise any control over her people inconsistent with the claims of complete independence and sov- ereignty."