The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-12
GOD Save CHINA
FROM FRIENDS"
Senator McCumber Protests
/ In Senate Against Shantung
Amendment to Treaty
AGAINST INTEREST OF CHINA
Republican Senators Asserts That
Opponents of the Peace Treaty in
the Senate Are Trying To XIII 1t.

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Washington, Aug. Ex-senator Nc
Cumber, for twenty years Republican
senator from North Dakota, in a
speech in the senate today, charged
that the majority of the foreign rela-
tions committee is trying to kill the
peace treaty and the League of M
tions. Senator McCumber spoke after
his second breach with the opponents
of the treaty on the senate committee
on foreign relations. In the present
breach Senator McCumber voted alone
with the supporters of the treaty and
against the majority Of the committee
which voted to strike out Japan" and
insert "China" in the three sections
awarding the Shantung peninsula.
"Why did the majority of this COM
mittee pause in the midst of their
hearings to make this particular
amendment?" asked Senator Nc
T'umber. '9rhe purpose is apparent.
1t is to signify to the country that the
senate Is hostile to this treaty. 1t is
to put Japan in a position where she
can not without an appearance of be-
ing coerced do what she has promised
to do. 1t is to create trouble between
this country and Japan and thereby
send the first dagger thrust into the
body of this treaty.
8 II am satisfied that no greater blow
could ever be struck against the real
Interests of China than by such an
amendment.
'.IS 1t an act of true friendship to-
ward China or a mere political move
to defeat the treaty? If It's sponsors
now fail to come forward and openly
pledge that if Japan is driven out of
this treaty then the United States will
proceed single-handed and alone to
drive Japan out of China-will renew
this world war and send our soldiers
into the Orient to fight for her. then
by this act they are betraying China
with false kiss.
'Tf, on the other hand, they declare
they will make war to drive Japan out
Of China, to prevent Japan receiving
only those rights which the other
great nations Of the world have re-
ceived, then they are proclaiming
policy which they have assailed as be-
ing the most wicked part of the
League Of Nations-a policy Of inter
ference with the quarrels of the old
world. Worse than that, while they
Violently condemn Joint agreement
with the other great white nations OF
Az 10 Chi io1d ho toI Nxhito
races from annihilatiOn they would
send our sons to death to defend the
inferior yellow races whom we claim
to be so inferior as to be unfit to aSSo-
ciate with us.
"Either we will bring both Japan
and China into this league Of nations,
which by the very terms of its provi-
siOns will compel Japan to return to
China all the German rights acquired
by Japan, not only by conquest but by
the solemn agreement made by her
with China herself, or you will drive
! japan out of this treaty wherein she will
not be bound by the obligations which
she would assume by Joining the
league, and where she will be holding
the German territory and all the Ger
man interests by the right of conquest
and with the broken word Of China,
she can work her way to the very
limit of subjugatIon of all the Chinese
territory not now within the sphere Of
influence of other powers. With this
League Of Nations China obtains an
assurance which Is tantamount to
guarantee by all the world that not
only will Japan return to China what
Germany wrested from her In 1898.
but hencefOrth and so long as this
league shall last no other nation shall
rob China of one inch of her territory
or exercise and control over her people
inconsistent with the claims OF conf
nlete independence and sovereignty"
Senator McCumber then reclted the
history of the several treaties under
which Japan took over the German
rights in Shantung, promising to re-
>store them to China. He then said
"By this amendment you declare
that japan can not be trusted to keep
sacred her word. Given not only TO
China alone but also given TO the
United States and every other I'm
oortant nation by reiterated declara-
tiOns. ~-