The sun., 1919-09-06

show me how they will keep out OF
war BY not protecting them. Let
them show me how they will prove
that having gone into an enterprise
they are not absolutely contemptible
cutters II they don't see the game
through.
What was the old formula OF pan
Germanism? From Bremen to Bag
dad wasn't IL? Well. look at the
map. What lies between Bremen
and Bagdad7 After you get past
the German territory there is Poland.
there Is Bohemia. which we have
made into Czecho-Slovakia; there Is
Hungary. which is now divided from
Austria and does not share Austria's
strength. There Is Rumanla. there 10
Jueoslavia, there Is broken Turkey
and then Persia and Bagdad. We
have undertaken to say this route is
closed.
Our own business? Is there
merchant present here or any manu-
facturer or any banker that can say
that our interests are separate from
the interests Of the rest of the world
commercially, industrially, flnan-
cially? And when he draws O pic
ture to himself, II he Is frank. Of
what some gentlemen propose. this Is
what he sees: America minding her
own business. and having no other.
Despised, suspected, disrrusted; and
on the other side of the water the
treaty and its operation Interrupted?
Not at all We are great nation.
my fellow citizens. but the treaty is
going to be applied Just the same
whether we take part in II or not.
The reparation commission created
by the treaty was created for the
purpose Of seeing that Germany pays
the reparation. Not only that. but
some Of you gentlemen know we used
to have trade with Germany. All Of
that trade is going to be in the hands
and under the control OF the repara-
ton commission.
Rebuked for Request.
I humbly asked leave to appoint n
member to look after our interests
and was rebuked for It. am look
ing after the Industrial interests OF
the United States; would like to
see the other men who are. They are
forgetting the Industrial interests of
the United States and they are doing
things that will cut us of and our
trade off from the normal channels.
because the reparations commission
can determine where Germany buys.
what Germany buys and how much
81 Germany buys.
Now. is It minding our business to
keep out of that? on the contrary
1t is handing our business over to
people who are not particularly in
terested in seeing that It prospers.
The broader aspects of this subject
are seldom brought to your atten-
ton; It is the little plcayune details
here and there.
beg that you will not conceive Of
the League OF Nations as a combina-
ton OF the world for war, for that is
exactly what IL is not. 1t Is n COM
bination OF the world for arbitration
and discussion.
Any member of the league which
breaks these promises with regard
to arbitration or discussion is to he
deemed thereby to have committed
an act of war against the other mem
bers of the league not merely to
have done any immoral thing. but by
refusing to obey those processes to
have committed an act of war.
And you know what then happens.
You say, Yes we form an army and
go to fight them" Not at all. We
shut our doors and lock out. we boy
colt them. Just SO soon as that is
done they cannot ship cargoes out
or receive them shipped in; they
cannot send telegrapbic message I:
they cannot send or receive a letter.
don't think that after that II will
be necessary to do any fighting at
all Now, that is the League of Ma
tions-an agreement to arbitrate and
discuss, and an agreement that IL
you do not arbitrate and discuss you
shall be absolutely boycotted and
starved out.
And there is added TO this this
very interesting thing: There can
hereafter be no secret treaties. The
provision OF the covenant is that
every treaty or International under
standing shall be registered, / be-
lieve the word is, with the general
secretary OF the league that the
general secretary shall publish II in
full just as soon as II is possible for
him to publish it: that no treaty
shall be valid which is not thus
registered.
shantung Settlement.
II was very embarrassing. my fell
low citizens. when you thought you
were approaching an ideal solution
or momentous question to find that
some of your principal colleagues
mad given the whole thing away. And
That leads me to speak Just in pass
ing OF what has given a great many
people unnatural distress 1 mean
the Shantung settlement; the set
tlement with regard to a portion OF
the province of Shantung in China.
Great Britain and others, as every-
body knows. in order to make 1t more
certain that japan would come into
the war and so assist to clear the
PACING of the German fleets, had
promised that any rights that Ger
many had In China should, In the
case of the victory of the Allies. pass
TO Japan. There was no qualification
in the promise. She was to get ex-
actly what Germany had. And SO
the only thing that was possible Was
to induce Japan to promise-and I
want to say in all fairness-for il
wouldn't be fair IL I didn't saw II.
that Japan did very handsomely
make the promises which were re-
quested Of her-that she would ro-
tain in Shantung none of the SOW
ereign rights which Germany had en-
Joyed there but would return the
sovereignty without qualification 70
China and retain in Shantung prov
ince only what other nationalities
had elsewhere economic rights with
q regard to development and admins
tration OF the railroad and of GER
tain mines which had become at.
tached to the railway. That is her
nroFniaa