The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-13
JAPAN A PERIL
TO AMERICA
Senator Lodge Warns Amer.
leans Against Japanese
Policy in China
UNITED STATES DREW
CHINA INTO WAR
Practically Promised 20 Protect Her
Interests at Peace Conference -
Japan Breaks Pledges shantung
Steal Morally Iudefensible.

Japan Breaks Pledges - shantung
Steal Morally Indefensible.
/ WASHINGTON. Oet II Japan !
building np Far Eastern Etupire which
vii become "A peril to America and
threaten the safety oi Tie world. Sena
tor Lodge, 81 Massachusetts tie Kepah
licau leader, declared today in the sen
ate in urging the adoption u H. amend
meuts 10 the peace treaty under which
German rights in Sbantuue would H. 81
turned q China instead of beiug award
cd TO Japan
I Steadily and releu,le,sly, Japan i
gaining control of China. Senator Ledge
said and be predicted thar .he would
u-e hina vast man power IL rnssa niger
the safety of both America ami Eufnf.e
it = impOs.lbls - see. SAID senator
tSoaEc. how ans conscientious American
cAh consent to any ast or treaty that
VIII extend the power II such a nation
81 Japan over country like china. -
leclat.Y when the United States tgeiIher.
af"ly dreW China into &h. war With at
least ~ implied il net an express prors
ise - gye assistance and protection al
the peace conference.
TIC principal argument made hy those
who sustained the delivery ii ~hantung
20 Japan j that Japan las promised III
, different times IL return il to China
Whatever promises she has made were
all marked b. one. vital omission. ii
= no instance do I find That IapAn t,ey
fixed 4 time when 4he would actually rs
turn the province to it- ri1httul owners
10 determine What Japan i likely L. al
4 j. necessary to consider what she dons
+ for p years
2 Japan was charged by senator Lode,
i with breaking innnmerahle pledges ~
# gardng her course IN China and Korea
e with violating the epen door policy
T destroying foreign commerce in Alanchn
Y ria aud Korea iipr fundamental policy
2 be- said. had been steady. relentless
2 aiming 10 get ultimate control of III
e vast population and great territory 0
u China
As if has been in The past. - it vii
be in the future in regard To Shantunr.
he continued Japan i stepped in Ter
man ideas and regards war a. an indus
r try. She means t. exploit China an
build herself up until she becomes i pow
or formidable u all the world She wi
use ultimately the practically unlimte
- man power Of China for military pm
poses just a. Germany and Austria use
IN their armies the man power Of ti
2G000000 @ays who were utterly oI
.f posed To German domination. to promot
nj their schemes OF conquest Japan wi
,rs be enabled II construct. in that way
AZ power which viii threaten the safety
ut the world She i already advancing
mr. Siberia and with her control there Al
to China developed as she means To dcNeh
,x- it she will threaten Europe
nv "But the country that she would me
Of ace most would be our own. and unle
lse we carefully maintain a very supcri
sts navy in the Pacific the day win cor
nv when the United States will take I
place of France in another great war
preserve civilization
ore "But there is one other reason ev
more decisive to. my mind than this.
il a great wrong this giving Of Sha
. tung over to the control Of Japi
Morally il is indefensible. and it j.
answer to say that we failed to obj,
to the German seizure Of Shantung.
ock matter OF fact the open door policy
ige MIR. Hay was the reply to the Germ
rec. movement and for the time arrested
will The President has gone ont of his way
pie say that just we could trade "
nsh- these stolen territories we are willing
let them be stolen. This attack upon
- dead is the most repuIsive Of all tn
attacks which the President has seen
to make II ever there was a disint
ested policy it was that of Mr.. Hay.
Spe got nothing from it whatever that
No. the world did not get. The intention
am. the policy was to save China and prev
fort further extension Of foreign acquisiti
Of Chinese territory. But even if it
- been otherwise it would be no ans
To what it is now proposed to do by
treaty. to say that we should have I'M
fered in behalf of Korea in las4.
n wrongs never made right
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