Baxter Springs news., 1919-07-25
'JAPINESE ARE THE
!. PRUsSANS Of. ORIENT.
,Shantung Award Characterized
as the Superlative Treachery
Of Modern Times by
Illinois Man
From the Kansas City Star:

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Shantung. provision in the peace
treaty, Senator Sherman, Republican,
Of Illinois, said today that the section
giving Japan control Of Shantung
peninsula, $50 taints and poisons the
professed altruism with which the
League Of Nations was heralded as to
crown It the superlative treachery in
the history Of modern times"
The provision, asserted the speaker,
would aid Japan in becoming "the
saber-rattler 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 .'identi-
CAL" the United States might well
look to the safety of the Philippines.
"Why China should be exploited"
he. said, "her territory absorbed in
the guise of leaseholds, her port cities
dominated by alien powers, her min
ing and railway rights seized by Jap
an, does not appear except under the
rule of covetous desire coupled with
military force.
MikadO More Powerful Than Kaiser
at is material to notice under the
Japanese constitution the emperor has
the supreme command of the army
and navy, declares war, makes peace,
and concludes treaties. The kaiser
could do no more in the days he men-
aced Europe and the world. 1t is as
plain as the monday sun that the gov
ernment is autocratic and that it will
add Chinese province upon province,
concession upon concession until an
Asiatic kaiser will dominate the af-
fairs of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
an 1897, Germany protesting exas-
peration by the murder of two exiled
German missionaries by ignorant
fanatics in Shantung, sent Germany's
warships to the bay, bombarded the
ports, landed troops and occupied the
territory. In settlement she COM
PEELED the Chinese government to sign
a 99-year lease with concessions for
railway building and mining. A mere
lease of property by one government
to another does not divest the lessor
government of sovereignty over the
territory so leased. Japan entered the
war for the express purpose OF driv-
ing the Germans out Of the leased
territory. The expulsion of Germany
did not give Japan the sovereign
rights there which she has since as
sumed.
Worse Than Huns in Belgium
"The harshness of Japanese occupa-
ton, the cruelties inflicted on the help
less inhabitants, the seizure Of prop
erty and the resulting looting irresis-
tibility turn ones thoughts to the
German conduct in Belgium. We de-
nounce one in measured terms. We
are asked to approve the other and
declare it justified in holy cause.
Japan intends, we are told, in
limited time to withdraw from Shan
tung and return that country to the
Chinese. In every instance in which
Japan has pledged herself on the con-
tinent of Asia to occupy temporarily
she has made occupancy permanent.
The United States exercises sover-
eighty in the PHILIPPINES. Japan's ex-
pansion is seaward as well as land
ward. Her ambition covers the Pacific
ocean as well as the Asiatic mainland.
With Germany in perpetual intrigue,
it is no far inference that a practical
partition resulting from a union Of
these two powers in Europe and Asia
is no impossible event.
Japan assumes sovereign rights
Chinese territory. More refinement of
language or speciOus Interpretation
will not remove this impending truth.
Japan will not surrender this advan-
tage so gained. Article 10 and the
portion of the treaty relating to Shan
tung are twin brothers of common
iniquity. They speak the language of
q joint outrage and bear the evidence
of deliberate prearranged conspiracy.
China Always Our Friend
"Great Britain bore large part in
the war. The lifebloOd of Great Brit
ian is her foreign trade. We are with
out adequate experience in foreign
trade. We are upon the Threshold Of
that experiment. Great Britain is