The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-04
GOD SAVE CHINA
FROM FRIENDS"
SEN. M'CUM5ER PROTESTS IN
SENATE AGAINST sHANTUNG
AMENDMENT TO TREATY.
AGAINST INTEREST OF CHINA
Republican Senator Asserts That op-
ponents of the Peace Treaty
in the Senate Are Trying
to Kill II.

washing ION, August ~ -- otudlOl
McCumber, for twenty years republi-
can senator from North Dakota, in
speech in the senate today charged
that the majority of the foreign rela-
lions committee Is trying to kill the
Peace treaty and the League of Ma
lions. 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 McCum
Der. The purpose is apparent 1t is
to signify to the country that the SEN
ate is hostile TO this treaty. 1t is to
put Japan in a position where she can
not without an appearance of being
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.
Il am satisfied that no greater blow
could ever be struck against the real
interests of China than by such an
amendment.
is it an act of true friendship to-
ward China or mere political move
to defeat the treaty? If its 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.
IF, on the other hand, they declare
they will make war to drive Japan
out of China, to prevent Japan receiv-
ing only those rights which the other
great nations of the world have re-
ceived, then they are proclaiming a
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
Jiolently condemn a joint agreement
With the other great white nations Of
he world to shield the greater white
aces from humiliation they would
END our sons TO death to defend the
Inferior yellow races whom we claim
10 be so inferior as to be unfit to as
3ociate with us.
Either we will bring both Japan
md China into this League of Ma
ions, which by the very terms of its
provisions will compel japan to return
China all the German rights &C
uired by Japan, not only by conquest
ut by the solemn agreement made by
.er with China herself, or you will
rive Japan out of this treaty wherein
he will not be bound by the obliga.
ions which she should assume by
dining the league and where she Will
,e holding the German territory and
III the German interests by the right
If conquest and with the broken word
If China, she can work her way to the
cry limit of subjugation of all the
Chinese loyaltry not now within the
phere of influence of other powers.
with this League of Nations China
obtains an assurance which is tanta.
mount to a guaranty by all the world
that not only will Japan return to
China what Germany wrested from
her in 1898, but henceforth and 80 long
as this league shall last no other ma.
ton shall rob China OF one inch o.
her territory or exercise any control
over her people insistent with the
claims of complete independence and
sovereignty"
Senator McCumber then recited 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 cannot be trusted to keep ga
cred her word, given not only TO
China alone but also given to the
United States and every other impor-
tant nation by reiterated declarations.
"There is but one honorable, upright
and proper course to be pursued by all
the great nations Of the world, includ
ing China and Japan. Let China keep
her treaty; give Japan an opportu
nifty to do what she has pledged her
national honor to do; cease this at
tempt to juggle this country into war
with Japan; defeat this proposed
amendment which arrogates to our
selves the right to annul a treaty be
ween China and Japan and sets at nRught
rcaty nnde apfnq the stress Of battle be.
ween our cobelhgerenta and Japan before We
inferred into the wa: bring Japan and Chine
ntn this world leaRu, and az sure the
hail rise tomorrow Japan will keep he
sighted faith, China will receive complei'
present Justice and assured future protection
ION the other hand force this breach Of
.ontract by China drive Japan out Of this
eaRue BY insulting her honor relieve her
| rom her treaty by first breakng II your
| elves and thereby installing her In her i'm
pregnable position Of right Of conquest and
| nina Is doomed. The other European ma.
| ions cannot help her because they are tied BY
heir own treaties. and you will not make war
| IN Japan 10 help China after she has broken
aer treaty.
''If these be friends q China, than God
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