Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-24
WILSON ON COAST
TALKS OF JAPAN
eHANTUNG ARRANGEMENT DOES
NOT PLEASE HIM, HE SAYS,
BUT WILL WORK OUT.
LEAGUE WILL RIGHT AFFAIR
Our Representative Will Have Power
to Call Case to Attention of All
Powers-Cordial Greeting at the
Pacific.

(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
Aboard President Wilson'S Special
Train.-The most serious opposition
that he has encountered anywhere on
bis Atlantic to Pacific tour presented
itself to President Wilson in San Fran
cisco, the metropolis of the State rep
Johnson. But once again, as has al
ways been the case, the logic of the
Chief Executive and his forceful el0-
quence won the plain people, regard
less of how their political chieftain
stands. The ordinary citizenry of
that part Of California is for the
League of Nations, and for the quick
ratification of the peace treaty with
the League inclusion. Many think that
Woodrow Wilson and Hiram Johnson
will be the contestants in 1920 for the
presidency of the United States, but
a majority Of those who are forward
ing the candidacy Of CALIFORNIA; favor
lite son wish that he had not made the
League his issue, or, now that he has
done so, they wish he would drop 1t.
People Want Peace.
Here on the Pacific Coast, just the
same as in the Middle West and the
East, the people want peace right
now. A peace that Wl! be permanent
and they want to get things settled
and start IN doing business. Because
The Pacific coast is more interested in
Japan than in any other section which
the President has T.sited, he devoted
the greater part of his early address
es in California to the question of
Shantung. He admitted that the set
Element in regard to that peninsula
was not to his liking, but asserted it
was the best settlement that could
be effected when he was dealing with
the other great powers in Paris.
81 said to my Japanese colleagues
on the other side Of the sea, and there
fore am at liberty to say to you, that
! am not satisfied with this settle
ment," the President told two audi
ences on his first day in San Francisco.
~ think it ought to be different. But
when gentlemen propose to cure it by
striking that clause out of the treaty
on by ourselves Withholding adher-
erce to the treaty, they propose an
irrational thing"
Explains Shantuns Incident.
The President told some of the his
tory of the Shantung incident in 1898.
He explained, China coded the terri
tory to Germany upon the demand of
that empire because some German
missionaries had been killed there.
They made an excuse of religion"
he declared. Then Russia took port
and then England and then France.
PnsSn- la do
veloped, Japan conquered Port Arthur.
America might have had one of the
Chinese ports also, Mr.. Wilson ex-
planned, but President Mckinley be-
lieved that inasmuch as their doors
were open to our commerce, we did
not want one and at the same time we
need not object to the other powers
having theirs. When the great war of
1914 came, the President said, 1t was
imperative that the Pacific ocean be
kept clear of German shipping and
that the German possessions in the
Far East he conquered. 1t was up to
Japan, he said, to do these things and
Japan did She took Stantung and
kept it, that being her reward-by
reason of treaty she had with Eng
land and France-for her share in the
war; "Observe this" the President
said, in explaining the incident.
Taking Shantung From Germany.
We are not taking this territory
away from China, as some gentlemen
have asserted, "but we are taking ii
away from Germany. Germany, not
China, held Stantung before this war;
1t was German rights, not Chinese
rights, that were coded to Japan by
the treaty with England and France.
Shantung will be returned, in due
time, to China. Japan has given lis
her solemn promise that this will be
done. Japan will retain only what
private corporations have elsewhere
in Climatic right of concessionaires
with regard to the operation of the
railroads and mines" The President
repeated that he did not approve Of
this secret treaty, but he was unable to
overcome. Then he pointed out that
with the League of Nations in effect,
the representative Of the United
States might rise and say, "This Is
against the covenant Of peace 1t can.
not be DONE" Then he went on: "An9
II occasion arises, we can say, 1T shah
not be DONE"
The rest Of Mr.. Wilson's address
was devoted to the benefits Of the
league TO the weak nations Of the
world, and the unliklihood that there
would ever be war If the powers dis
cussed and arbitrated their difference
es. San Francisco gave the President
n cordial, though scarcely a stirring
reception. The greeting did not have
the warmth Of Seattle, st. Paul or st.
Louis although there was generous
applause for the distinguished guest
wherever he moved. More than 100,-
600 persons lined the streets leading
from the Sausalito Ferry as he arriv-
ed. Then about 1900 women attended
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