The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-03

name O1 the cOVendnLerS. luey met in church yard and on the top of Hat tombstone they signed an i'm ..lortal document called the solemn league and covenant, which meant that they were going to stand by their religious principles in spite of the crown of England and the force of England and every other influence, as any of them lived.
 Now l have seen men of all na- tions sit around table in Paris and sign a solemn league and covenant fhey have become covenanters and remain covenanter.
 We are going to see this job thru no matter what influences oi evil withstand it.
 Thru misrepresentation and every other vile thing, 1 shall fight my way to that goal.'
 SHANTUNG QUESTION:.
 Touching upon the Shantung pro vision of the treaty, MT. Wilson said ne was not satitied with the settle ment but that it was irrational to propose to make the situation better Dy the treaty's amendment.
 Neither the United States gov ernment nor the men now protesting against the Shantung award had made any protest against the orig inal cession of rights there to Ger many. Later, France, Great Brita n and other great powers LOOK territory without any objection from this coun- try.
 Every great European power," he asserted, now enjoyed special priv. nses in China, in some cases at the expense of China's sovereignty. But Japan had promised to return every thing that savored of sovereignty to Ahina.
 The only way to get Shantunl
 
 away from Japan would be to go to ,a.. The league offers for the first time d tribunal before which China can bring her complaints about the "lonSs sne mad suffered for years.
 Which ot these gentlemen who are now Objecting to the cession oi the German rights in Shantung in China were prominently protesting against the original cession, or any one of those original sessions? Il makes my heart burn when some are 50 late in doing justice.
 Before We got into this war, but after the war had begun, because they deemed the assistance of Japan ill the Pacific absolutely indispens- able, Great Britain and France both agreed that if Japan enter the wal she could do the same thing with regard to Slantung that She had done with regard to Port Arthur that is she would take what Germany had in Shantung, and could keep it She has it now, her troops are there as spoils Ot war. Observe, my fel- low citizens, we are not taking this thing away from China, we are talk ing 1t from Germany. China had ceded it for 99 years, and if my reck- oning is correct, there are 7S ol those 99 years to run yet. IL was Germany's rights in Shantung anC not Chinese that we conceded by the treaty to Japan. But with d con dition, a condition which never oc- cured in any Oi these other causes B condition which was not insisted lpon at the cession Of Forth Arthur upon condition that no other na- ton in doing similar things in China has ever yielded to, Japan is undel ereign rights in the province of Shan. tung, and to regain only what private corporations have elsewhere in China the right of concessionaries with re. gard to the operation of the railway and to exploitation of the mines Scores of foreign corporations have that right in other parts of China.
 But it doesn't stop there. Coupled with this arrangement is the league of nations, under which Japan sol emnly undertakes, with the rest ol us, to respect and protect the ter. ritorial integrity of China along with the territorial integrity of other countries of the world. And back ol her promise is likewise the similar promise of every other nation, thai nowhere will there come a disregard for the territorial integrity or the political independence of that great helpless people, lying there hitherto as an object of prey in the grea Orient.
 Tt is the first time in the history of the world that anything has beer done for China. And, sitting around our council board in Paris, put this question: May I expect that this vii be the beginning of the retrocessiol to China of the exceptional rights which other governments have en joyed there?' And other responsibl,