The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-01
DECLARES CHINA
IS BETRAYED
Veteran Missionary is Very
Much Displeased With
Treatment of Chinese
TREATY CONDONES
JAP. MILITARISM
Sure to Breed Discomfort and Lead to
Future War-Chinese Losing Con-
fidence in American Promises and
Methods.

fidence in American Promises and
Methods.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The Rev DIR.
| Gilbert Reid of Shanghai, who has spent
an average lifetime in China as mission
airy and editor, denounced the peace
treaty Sunday night before large audi
ence in the Fort George Presbyterian
church at St Nicholas avenue and lS6th
street. DIR. Reds denunciation particu-
Iary concerned what he termed the abso-
lutte betrayal of China by the big four in
the Shantung settlement.
MANY rejoice today that the treaty
of peace has been signed said DIR. Reid,
but | regret it, for the treaty is sure to
| breed discomfort, cause jealousies, pro-
woke internal revolutions and lead to fu-
ture war Some have seen fit to laugh
at the Chinese delegates for refusing to
sign the peace | do not laugh at them
| admire them as showing the courage Of
their convictions and for the national
spirit they displayed. The way China 8
rights have been thrust aside to satisfy
the military ambitions of Japan-an open
act of condoning militarism-is enough to
make the seeker after truth indignant
Woodrow Wilson may sign the treaty
and the senate may ratify it, but it is
not a treaty that Christians can accept.
1t is a treaty that comes from the slip
perry ways of expediency. 1t is a response
to the question, What does the crowd
say rather than the question, What is
the voice of conscience? A bad impress
sion is made on the 400000,000 people Of
China. They get bad idSa of the Chris
tian church, of American friendship ant
of western civilization. The way SO
called Christian nations INDUCED in wal
and killing and the way these same ma
tons called in to fight Moslems and Hin
dus, Buddhists and out and out heather
was big blow to Christian missions: bu
the way the great professions have beer
forgotten, the high standard of moral
lowered, self-righteousness and self-compa
cency allowed to expand, hate and vii
passions condoned-all this is even harde
Tor the good name and pure character Q
the Christian faith.
The Chinese people are ignorant of a
political manoeuvrings that have been &C
[ ing Oh, bNL they DeIeNo NOW lHdJ WpSl
ern diplomacy is a mass of inconsistency
and that they have not been treated fan
ly They find western promises, and es
pecially American promises, nothing bu
empty words The Chinese feel that the
have been deluded and hoodwinked, playe
with and shuffled about They were aC
yiscd to enter the war-advised by Amer
icans-so as to checkmate Japan, and We
hot he ;oI
plotting with Japan to assure to Japa
all she wanted. They were invited to tn
peace table but their presence there ha
no meaning. They were told that it wa
good thing to get rid of the German
but they are finding that japanese ma
tiers have been substituted merely fc
German masters. China gets nothing
any importance and Japan gets it al
Japan gets a sumptuous repast and til
allies then hand China few nickels
when all German rights and interes
in the great German province of Shal
tung in the home of Chinas sages, al
coded to japan and not to China, who.
historic soil that is, a shocking outral
is perpetrated upon helpless natio
The Chinese are told that Japan will har
Shantung back at the proper time Th
is mere camoufage for an ignorant pu
lie. The sovereignty of Shantung hs
never formed part of the German right
The province of Shantung had never bee
leased to Germany. Yet Japan will G
these rights, by the strange magnanimi
B of the big four
8 ''The wrath of the Chinese is even no
heing turned against the japanese.
big boycott AGAINST trade with japan
q starting in Chinese ports British al
Americans who got China into all of I'll
Y mess are now trying to get out wi
! cl"an skirts, leaving Japan alone to
v the goat That is scarcely fair to Japa
IT is pretty tcklish business to prefer
on the one hand that Chinese interes
will be protected and to guarantee on t
other that Japanese demands will be m
and confirmed by sacred treaty.
What does this mean? 1t means wa
1t means that some day this injustice W
be paid for in blood upon the BATTLEFIELD,
It means worse-that the very name
Christianity is shamed in the home
its friends