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DECLARES THE SAFETY OF A1EI

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raising these sunken vessels, adding
them to their navy, and he replied, first,
that he did not know exactly, but he
would look out and find out, and so
few days later he wrote me this letter.
German ships Raised.
81 want to read 1t and put 1t in the
record:
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, September H.
my DEAR SENATOR REED-Referring
again to your letter of September 4 re-
gardng the German ships sunk at Scapa
Flow, I now learn from a telegram just
received from Ambassador Davis that he
has been advised of the floating of the
battleship Baden, of three light cruisers,
the Emden, the Nurenburg and the
Frankfort and of fifteen destroyers.
Ambassador Davis has also been advised
that in regard to three additional de-
stroyers work is proceeding and that
the condition of the other ships sunk at
Scapa Flow is such that no effort to
raise them will be feasible.
civilian PHILLIPS,
Assistant Secretary Of State
Now. that is the difference between
a stupid Englishman and smart Amer
lean Secretary.
you remember something about some
of these ships There were three of
those shops that probably made it i'm
possible to capture the Dardanelles yet
Josephus Daniels thought 1t would be a
fine thing to see them sunk instead of
adding them to the American Navy.
"Oh, something has got to be done
for me, l have either got to get an in
splraton SO / can understand these
things. or / have got to divorce myself
from public life
Now let us observe little further
how this dreamland of ours has been
transmogrified. They told us. to begin
with. that everything should be done in
the open. There were to be open
covenants openly arrived a. The cards
were to be upon the table. face up ;
everybody was to know what everybody
else did. But the President got over to
Paris and they closed the doors and
they locked them. They didn't cut the
cables, but they seized the cables, and
the news that filtered over here was a
censored news and now the very records
and memoranda made al that meeting
are refused to your representatives in
the Senate of the United States by the
President, who requested that they
should be kept secret from the world.
Europe and Asia Plotting.
open covenants openly arrived at {.
While we were talking about this, Eng
land and France and Japan were plan
ming the division of China. the rape of
that country, the taking over by Japan
OF territory as large as the State Of
Illinois, containing 36,000.000 pure
blooded Chinese; and this was done
secretly, and 1t was done at a time
war, having entered at the request of
the United States, and while Chinese
laborers, 100000 of them, were dying
under the German guns, where they were
digging trenches and erecting fortresses
Cor the protection of our allied troops.
And now that infamy, the blacklist
that has ever stained the records of
any nation in the last thousand years.
is written into the League OF Nations
or into the German treaty. and all this
property Is turned over to Japan
against the protest OF these people; and
this. gentlemen, while the President
stands and blandly faces the American
people. yet talks to us about the con-
rent OF the governed and the right Of
J self- determination
And, slrs, while this is going on,
while' these pretenses are still being
made, the question comes to the United
States Senate and II is asked to sanction
this inequty and to put up an agreement
by which we will bind ourselves to de-
fend Japan in the possession of this
property, to defend her if she is ever at
talked from without by China and an
amendment under the lash and whip of
the Administration, and because OF the
opinions of certain Senators, was re-
jccted which proposed to turn this land
back to China in this treaty.
Now they propose to put in a reserva-
ton by which we say that we won't
have anything to do with 1t, but II can
go on Just the same. Without thought
they are going to copy n historic Incl
dent. There He stood, with the light of
Heaven on his brow, with the glory of
God in his countenance before Pontius
PLATE, and Pontius plate put in a reser-
vation He said, 1 won't cruelty Him,
but take ye Him and cruelty Him.
And so we are TO say to poor China,
by n reservation: We refuse to be a
party TO the bargain, but Japan, you
take her and cruelty her. And Japan
is going to do it, don't worry about that.
"Self-determination! There was an
| other country that England had entered
under mere preteNt, and when she did
! enter. Gladstone. the greatest Britisher
who has lived in a century, said to all
the world that England's honor and
England's fate forbade her ever holding
| possession of Egypt. But they did hold
possession; and now in the closing days
of this war, at a time when we are &c
have self-determiuation, eleven million
of the people OF Egypt are delivered
! over, bound hand and foot, their Gov
eminent annihilated. and their repre-
! sentatives refused a hearing at the peac,
table.
MY friends, why am I dwelling oil
these things? l want to show you tina
this dream has vanished and that we ar
creating a monster of power and not al
evangel of peace and good will.
The Case of Ireland.
There is another land that lifted he
eyes with hope. She, too, had hear
these words about the right of people t
self-determination. about the end O
brutal power. A thousand years ago
when the rest OF Europe was clothin
itself or great part OF 1t in the skin
of wild beasts, these men had cultur,
When the rest of Europe was bowin
before Wotan and the gods OF the Mort
these people lifted their eyes in adora
ton TO the cross of Christ.
while other nations were Ignorant
unlettered, these people had seminafie
OF learning, to which the intelligen
! from all lands came They were he