Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-10-10

But Mr.. Wilson, with clear logic and
.ith compelling, eioquence, answered
the entire satisfaction of Califor.
as people every objection which
nator Johnson had made to the
.ague. And thousands of the states
liens deserted the Johnson stand:
a Immediately and rallied to the sup
It CT the president More than that,
Y came forward and said, 1--WE
e agrinst you, Mr.. President, but
have cleared everything up and
we are with you heart and soul"
!! mors than that, they let Senator
.inson know that they were no
.,ger with him and that they disap
Jved Of the speaking tour which he
nsclf was making in opposition te
e League and so powerful was the
.u:ne Of public opinion which reach
him. that the senator almost i'm
,diateIy abandoned his tour. The
an Tung question, because OF the
!-.Japarese feeling which undoubted'
exists along the Pacific coast was
se most serious which the president
4 to answer. He explained to the
,n,e that he had been powerless to
event the rick peninsula from being
~ TO Japan. England and France
rough secret treaty, had promised
to Japan for entering the war and
.emaining in it. That treaty had to
e carried out. Anyway 1t was not
China that was losing Shan Tung, but
Germany, which had seized the terri
tory from China if>1SsS and held 1t
,ver since. Japan had promised, the
..sIoent explained, to return Shan
rung as soon as the peace treaty was
ratified and it was only through the
~at:Gcation of the treaty with the
League Of Nations inclusion, that.
China could ever, expect to get mel
,rmer property back. And she surely
would get it back, he declared, through
he ratification of the League. There
,ore. through the same instrumentallty
10 other nation could again prey upon
he Great, patient, diligent, but help
.ss kingdom" AS to our being drawn
nto any European conflict. The pres
}ient pointed out that no direct action
.ucil as the lending of troops to any
part of the world to maintain or re-
store order could be taken by tne
Council CT the League without unani
NOUS vote of the council members,
therefore our vote could at once mega
tive any such proposition as sending
our soldiers where we did not want
them sent. Besides, Mr.. Wilson argued
1If you have,to quench a fire in Cali
fornia you don't send for the fire de-
partment OF Utah" But, he argued,
there probably never will be another
war, if the League Is established, for
the members promise either to arbi'
trate their difference and accept the
Lecisicn CT the arbitrator lay the diff.
terences for discussion and publica'
ton before tile Council of the League
fer p .riod of six months, and then,
Il possible, accept the councils advice.
That failing, they agree to refrain from
war for a further period OF three
and nine months of cooling
off," the president contended, would
prevent any armed conflict. These clear
explanations satisfied every reasonable
hearer and destroyed the "Bugaboos'
which Senator Johnson and others had
raised against the League. Through
rugged Nevada into Utah, the land OF
Mormons, the president swept to find
that those, fine people were heartily
With him for the League and a per-
mansnnv OF peacs.