The sun., 1919-10-14

power TO secure cession to japan of
everything Germany had In the Pacific
'At salt Lake City September 20 the
President said: AT the beginning of
the war and during the war Great
Britain and France engaged in n solemn
treaty with Japan that II she would
come into the war she should have, pro-
vided she in the meantime took Il by
force Of arms, what Germany had in
China
AT Cheyenne September "a the Presi-
dent said: Before we got into the
war Great Britain and France had en-
tered into a solemn covenant by treaty
with Japan that II she would take what
Germany had in Shantung by force OF
arms and also the islands lying north
Of the equator which had been under
German dominion in the Pacific she
should keep them when peace came and
It's settlements were made.
Seas Long Cleared of Germnns.
II have already shown that Japan had
been in the war for two and a half years.
There was not free German ship in the
Pacific, armed or unarmed, at the time
that secret agreement was made. 1t is
not with any comfort that call the at
tention of the Senate to these facts. l
assumed, Of course. that when the Presi-
dent sent this telegram he. of course.
would not repeat Il. 1t seemed to me
that II he wanted to be really fair with
the American people he would have told
them he had made mistake at st.
Louis 1t is hardly conceivable that he
made mistake at st. Louis even, be-
cause he knew the facts were not what
he said they were but not only has he
withheld the facts from the people, but
after he has acknowledged in a private
way the errors he has gone on and re-
peated the statement over and over
again to the people.
The truth probably will never over
take the lie, because wide circulation
was given particularly to the st Louis
speech but can hardly conceive how
any man--oh, I cannot conceive how
the President OF the United States
should deliberately state and restate
again and again, something that he not
only knows but has acknowledged to be
wrong, on an extreme and very impor-
tant matter pertaining to the treaty"
The production Of the evidence of the
misstatements by the President carried
CONSERVATION to the few Democrats who
remained in the Senate to hear the
blast from the Nebraskan. Heads
gravely wagged and there was much Sc
rious whispering. Then Senator Norris
shifted his point of attack and dis
cussed the menace to the freedom of
China which Japanese control conveyed.
He used the experience of the moribund
Empire of Corea for his example.
German System in Corca.
Many of the atrocities perpetrated In
Belgium have been duplicated in Corea
in the last six months" said Senator
Norris. THE policy system Is German
to the core. The entire Japanese colon
ial system is based on German model
rather than on the Anglo-Saxon. The
sword is the emblem of authority.
Every one who occupies any official
capacity under the Japanese Government
in Corea carries the sword even the
school teacher wields it.
"In the courts the Coreans have no
chance whatever as against Japanese
Such thing as habeas corpus is I'M
known. No crime need be- charged
against a Corean when he is hailed To
court. He may be held in confinement
as long as the officials desire without
semblance Of a trial. The official rec
ords of the Japanese Government itself
show that in one year there were $4,000
arrests. Out of the 10000 only thirty
succeeded in proving their innocence
Flogging was the penalty imposed OH
thousands. Commercalized prostitution
Is used as the means to demoralize the
youth of the country
There is ar organized attempt to
drive the Corean population from the
fertile land of the south to be replaced
by Japanese colonlsts."
Senator Norris asserted the documents