The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-10-01

Dul MI. w AlSOh, Will vicar iO6iC dliu
with compelling eloquence, answered
to the entire satisfaction of Califor
MAS people every objection which
Senator Johnson had made to the
League. And thousands of the states
citizens deserted the Johnson stand
ard Immediately and rallied to the sup
port of the president. More than that
they came forward and said, 1--WE
were against you, Mr.. President. but
you have cleared everything up and
now we are with you heart and SOUL
Still more than that, they let Senator
Johnson know that they were nc
longer with him and thai they disap
proved of the speaking tour which he
himself was making in opposition tc
the League and SO powerful was the
volume of public opinion which reach
ed him, that the senator almost i'm
mediately abandoned his tour. The
Shan Tung question, because OF the
anti-Japanese feeling which undoubted
ly exists along the Pacific coast was
the most serious which the president
had to answer. He explained to the
people that he had been powerless to
prevent the rich peninsula from being
given to Japan. England and France
through secret treaty, had promised
1t to Japan for entering the war and
remaining In 1t. That treaty had to
be carried out. Anyway it was not
China that was losing Shan Tung, but
Germany, which had seized the terri
tory from China In 1898 and held IL
ever since. Japan had promised, the
president explained, to return Shan
Tung as soon as the peace treaty was
ratified and 1t was only through the
ratification of the treaty with the
League of Nations inclusion, that
China could ever expect to get her
former property back. And she surely
would get 1t back, he declared, through
the ratification of the League. There.
fore, through the same fundamentally
no other nation could again prey upon
the "Great, patient, dillgent, but help
less kingdom" AS 10 our being drawn
idont pointed out that no direct action
such as the sending of troops to any
part of the world TO maintain or re.
store order could be taken by the
Council of the Leagde without unani-
nous vote of the council members,
therefore our vote could at once mega
tive any such proposition as sending
our soldiers where we did not want
them sent. Besides, Mr.. Wilson argued,
"1f you have to quench fire in Cali.
iornia you don't send for the fire de-
partment of Utah." But, he argued
there probably never will be another
war. II the League Is established, for
the members promise either to arbi
trate their difference and accept the
decision of the arbitrator. lay the DIFF
ferences for discussion and publica.
ton before the Council of the League
for period of six months, and then.
II possible, accept the councils advice.
That failing, they agree to refrain from
war for further period OF three
months and nine months of cooling
off," the president commended, would
prevent any armed conflict. These clear
explanations satisfied every reasonable
nearer and destroyed the "Bugaboos"
which Senator Johnson and others had
raised against the League. Through
rugged Nevada into Utah. the land Of
Mormons. the president swept to find
that those fine people were heartily
with him for the League and . per-
manency Of peace. !.