The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-29
SHANTUNG QUESTION

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 Touching upon the Shantung pro vision of the treaty, Mir. Wilson sait he was not satisfied with the settle ment but that 1t was irrational" t propose to make the situation bettel by the treaty's amendment.
 "Neither the United States gov ernment nor the men now protesting against the Shantung award haC made any protest against the orig inal cession of rights there to Ger many Later, he continued, France Great Britain and other great pow CTS took territory without any ob jcction from this country.
 Every great European power" ht asserted, now enjoyed special priv ileges in China, in some cases at tho expense of China's sovereignty. Blu Japan had promised to return every thing that savored of sovereignty tt China.
 "The only way to get Shantunf away from Japan would be to go tf war The league offers for the frs time tribunal before which Chin can bring her complaint about tn; wrongs she had suffered for years.
 (Which of these gentlemen wht are now objecting to the cession O the German rights in Shantung 1T China were prominetenly protestinf against the original cession, or any one of those original sessions? I makes my heart burn when some arc so late in doing justice.
 Before we got into this war, bu after the war had begun, because they deemed the assistance of Japal in the Pacific absolutely indispens able. Great Britain and France botl agreed that if Japan enter the war she could do the same thing witt regard to Shantung that she het done with regard to Port Arthur that Is she would take what Germany had in Shantung she could keep ii She has it now, her troops are there as spells of war. Observe. my fe. low citizens, we are not taking this thing away from China, we are talk ing 1t from Germany China hat ceded 1t for 99 years, and if my reck oning is correct, there are IS oi those 99 years to run yet. It wa Germany's rights in Shantung anf not Chinese that we conceded b, the treaty to Japan. But with a coli dition. a condition which never oc cured in any of these other causes a condition which was not insisted upon at the cession of Port Arthur upon condition that no other na tion in doing similar things in China has ever yielded to, Japan is under solemn promise to forego all SOY ereign rights in the province of Shan tung, and to reaain only what private corporations have elsewhere in China the right of concessionaires 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 e us. to respect and protect the ter ritorial integrity of China along with the territorial integrity of other countries of the world And back o her promise is likewise the olmila' promise of every other nation. thai nowhere will there come disregard for the territorial integrity or thf political independence of that great helpless people, lying there hither. as an object of prey in the grea Orient.
 "It is the first time in the historl of the world that anything has beer done for China And. sitting arourt our council board in Paris. put thi' question: May expect that this vii be the beginning of the retrocessioi to China of the exceptional right which other governments have en loved there?' And other responsible representatives of the other grea governments said, Yes, you may ex pect it."