The sun., 1919-07-13
SEEDS OF WAR SEEN
+ IN SHANTUNG GRAB
Major Seaman of China Society
Of America Gives a Warn
! ing as He Pleads.
"IS U. s. TO AID PERFIDY?"
Senate Is Told That Japan De-
mands Swag and COerces
Wilson and Allies.

the Peace Conference to helpless China
at the dictation of powerful Japan was
the topic Of an appeal made to United
States Senators yesterday by Major
Louis Livingston Seaman, president en-
eritus of the China Society of America,
who spent many years of his life in
China and Manchuria. Major Seaman
warns directly against the folly of trying
TO make and keep a peace founded on
robbery and spoliaton, and he suggests
also that the Chinese have long men,
cries for friend or foe. He inquiries
whether II is wise for America to make
an enemy of China Major Seaman
said:
from It's birth our republic has stood
for the rights OF the oppressed. Our
ideals have been for liberty and Justice.
Our great civil conflict removed the blot
of slavery from our land, our Spanish
campaign gave freedom and prosperity
and happiness to an enslaved people in
Cuba and in the Philippines, and our
compensation for the sacrifice was the
qualification OF our ideals.
1.-THE problem to-day is the ratification
OF the Peace Treaty and the creation Of
q League of Nations. Shall the Fourth
of July. 1919. pass into history as the
last anniversary of American indepen-
dence?
Shall We by agreeing to Article X. OF
the covenant Of the League of Nations
surrender our sovereignty to Great Brit
ain, who by a vote of 6 to 1 can i'm
pose upon us the incalculable obligation
of preserving the territorial integrity
and political independence of herself or
any member of the League of Nations in
any part of the globe?
"Are we prepared to submit our ira
ditional attitude regarding purely Amer
lean questions to a tribunal in which we
are in such hopeless minority or In
which the vote OF New Zealand could
count as equal to our own?
"U., 8. Dragged to the Depths"
"Shades OF Washington and Jefferson!
What would be their verdict II they could
witness the depths to which our land has
been dragged In order to crafty the
personal ambition and egotism of the
too proud to fight pacifst who in the
Peace Conference at Paris has been so
hopelessly outwitted by trained Euro
pean and Oriental diplomacy that to-
day he is the laughing stock of European
statesmen? :
''And poor Climate whose reprcsen-
tatives II was promised that IL their
country entered the war in 1917 their
territorial integrity would be preserved
where will China stand If this I'M
holy alliance Is consummated?
And Shantung-the birthplace of
Confucius. sacred to the Chinese-with
its forty million inhabitants turned over
TO the tender mercy of the japanese,
whose policy of territorial aggrandize-
ment rivals that of the European ma
tons as witnessed. In Corea,~ Manchu-
ria and the Pacific isles. and whose
threats of aggression. made at the point
OF the bayonet, prevented Chinas en-
trance In the war III its earliest days?
Where will Shantung stand?
'Now is Chinas opportunity to regain
her lost provinces and obtain justice, and
the people of the United States who are
familiar with the conditions and know
the truth demand that the United States
Senate shall secure this result.
ut was hoped that the carnival Of ter
ritorial lust which for centuries caused
untold bloodshed the world over had
eliminated in the partitioning of Africa
But look at China to-day-that grand
old country, with its great wall, which
for over twenty centuries protected 1,
from the hordes of Tatars and Mongols
on the north, while its Tibetan ranges
on the west and impenetrablc forests or
the south permitted II to live in peace
no fear of molestation from land or sea
And in this time the beautiful but
failacious philosophy of Confucius
which taught the rule OF moral sus s!or
rather than that by might, grew until III
essence was expressed in the proverb
Better have no child than one WHO Is a
soldier-this. too, In a land where il 4
considered a disgrace to die childless.
And what was the natural result? A
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ness, of inability to enforce the frs
law Of nature-self-protectio
which, when realized by the Occidental
nations, resulted in their seising Erea
sections of her domains upon trivial ex
cuses and wringing most valuable con
cessions from her rulers.
Boxer Rebellion AppIauded.
-As a direct result Of this spoiiatior
the worm at last turned, and the Boxel
uprising OF 1900 followed. having for II,
declared purpose the forcible expulsion
Of all foreigners from the country, an,
the recovery by China OF her despoile,
possessions. I say. without fear OF con
tradiction by those who are familiar
with that issue (and I was there). tina
that uprising was one OF the most splen
did exhibitions OF patriotism witnesse,
IN modern times.
hO puiSueu Dy the InlneEe
due to the ignorance Of their misgulde,
leaders. and the horrors that followed
have afforded the theme for many ,
tragic tale and numberless explanator-
theories. But the plain fact cannot b
gainsaid. nor too. strongly emphasized
that the essential motive of that propa
ganda was the freeing OF tho land from
the hated foreigners. who, In currsn
phrase. had robbed the people of thei
country
"Never shall forget that winter a
Ching Wan Tao. following tho wal
where detachments OF the allied arm
were gathered awaiting the fate q
China. reminded me OF a pack of hungr
wolves around tho carcass OF a dea
animal. each fearing TO set his fang
into the carcass lest while 80 engage
his neighbor might do the same wit
him, and so during the long negotiation
that finally led to the declaration, {
peace, the situation continued.
-Four years later I again visited ths
scene. and there. In smaller number
were found the troops Of many OF III
nations still waiting. ready 10 seize IN
first opportunity to partition the countr
and TO secure their share of the spoil
But moro pressing engagements wei
- then Imminent. involving the attention
some of the Powers. The Russo-Japs
nsse struggle was on and China got
temporary respite.
From that time until the outbreak
the revolution which led to the esta blisl
nent OF the republic China paid II
Boxer indemnity claims with such req
larity that no opportunity was found Il