The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-17
LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND TREATY
 IS CONDEMNED AND UPHELD BY2 2
 MEMBERS OF SENATE IN SPEECHES
Zen. Sherman Says Shan 'ung Settlement Super
 lative Treachery."
ASSERTS LAPS NEVER
 KEEP THEIR PLEDGES
Japan is Allowed by Treaty "the Sabre Rattler of the
 World" He Says.

Washington. July 17.---tFrging the Senate to refuse acceptance of the Shantung provisions In the peace treaty. Senator Sherman. Republican, Illinois declared today the section giving Japan control of ShantunS peninsula "so taints and poisons the professed altruism with which the League of Nations was heralded as to crown 1t the superlative treachery in the history of modern times"
 The provision, asserted the speaker, would aid Japan in becoming the sabre rattIer of the world" and strengthen her for the day when she might try, like Germany. for world empire. In such an eventuality, he continued. and with British and Jap anese interests in the Orient 'fien- dtcal," the United States might well look to the safety of the Philippine Islands.
 Why China should be exploited" he said. "her territory absorbed in the guise of lease holds, her port cities dominated by alien powers. her mining and railway rights seized by Japan. does not appear except under the rule of coveteous desire coupled with military force.
 "It is material to notice under the Japanese constitution the emperor
  army and navy, declares war. makes peace. and concludes treaties. The Kaiser could do no more in the days he menaced Europe and the world. II is as plain as the noon day sun that the government is autocratic and that 1t will add Chinese province upon province. concession upon concession until an Asiatic Kaiser will dominate the affairs of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
 The harshness of Japenese occu- patton, the cruelties inflicted on the helpless inhabitants. the seizure of property and the resulting footing, irresistibly turn one's thoughts to the moral conduct in Belgium. We do- nounce in measured terms. We ask ed to approve the other and declare 1t justified in a holy cause.
 Japan intends. we are told, in a limited time to withdraw from Shan fung and return that country to China. In every instance in which Japan has pledged herself upon the continent of Asia to occupy temper airly she has made that occupancy permanent.
 ''The United states exercises sov- ereiEnty in the Philippines. Japan's expansion is seaward as well as land- W cinc Ocean as well as the Asiatic mainland. With Germany in per petual intrigue 1t is no far inference that Q practical partition resulting from a union of those two powers in Europe and Asia is no impossible event.
 Japan assumes sovereign rights over Chinese territory. Mere refine ment of language or spacious inter pretation will not remove this i'm pending truth. Japan will not sur render this advantage so gained. Ar ticle ten and the portion of the treaty rela atinE to Shantuns are twin broth CTS of a common iniquity. They speak the language of a joint outrage and bear the evidence of deliberate prearranged conspiracy.
 Great Britain bore q large part in the war. The life blood of Great Brit ain Is her foreign trade. We are without adequate experience in for eign trade. We are upon the threshold of that experiment. Great Britain is keenIy observant of our course. She has been voff of sentiment and some times of humanity in breaking down and destroying the rivals.
 We have denied Japan the right of immigration for her subjects. It is a wound to their pride. We are vul- neraole in the Philippines. Our great friend lies beyond in the people of the Chinese republic. In our day of peril It must be remembered that the tn- terests of Great Britain and Japan in the Orient are identical
 We can defend ourselves. It will be O heavy price but it will be paid. We may lose the Philippines. Our greatest frienkt may then be the Chi nese people whom today we are asked to humfliate and dismernber."