Arizona republican., 1919-09-19
"eREAT EXPECTATIONS"

It is the first time in the history ot the
 world that anything has been done for China And, sitting around our council board in Paris,
 put this question: May l expect that thls
 will be the beginning of the retrocesson to I China of the exceptional rights which other governments have enjoyed there?" And the responsible representatives of the other great |i. governments said, "Yes, you may expect it
 If the crowd in the great hall at San Francisco on Wednesday night had been less disorderiy and more attentive it would have perceived in the fore going bit of humor something alone worth the price of admission Of course, the president might ex- pect it. The permission to expect it. granted by the responsible representatives of tbe great gov ernments was granted freely and promptly; they never winked an eye turned hair. The per mission came from the bottom of their hearts With equal graciousness. if the president had asked it. the responsible representatives of the great ernments there assembled, would have granted the president permission go the front porch of the Hotel Crlon every morning and whistle the Star spangled Banner" There was nothing narrow and small about the responsible representatives of 1.-the great governments there assembled Expectation is the thing in this world without definite bounds Whatever limits there may be, exist in the mind of the expector One may expect as much as he pleases Children of all periods have expected to find the pot of gold the extremity of the rain bows arch and. notwithstanding it has not yet been found children of all future periods will expect to find it.
 The main point is that there is absolutely nothing in the treaty providing for realization of these ex |,cctations. There is a general popular misunder- standing relative to Shantung. The treaty conveys 10 the Japanese only the concessions in the province Of shantung which the Germans had forced from China These included the limited territory of Kia- . cahle cer- tain rights in the Tsingao Tsinanfu railway and the German state cables from Tsingtao to Shanghai and from Tsingtao to Chefoo. There is nothing else trans ferred by the treaty to Japan under the terms of the German concession. it would expire in 1898.
 But this is not all that Japan has, It is in ab solute possession of the whole province of Shantung, with it's 4O 900 inhabitants something that Ger many never had and never claimed. This seizure made by Japan during the It is not subject to ihe terms of the German concession Japan may 4cupy it as long it is able to do so long st chooses.
 N The treaty contains not word with reference to tbe "retrocesson" at any time of the holdings under the acquired German concessions Everything is left at the pleasure of Japan. The silence of the treaty gives to the seizure by the Japanese Nof the sole supreme control of the whole of shan flung This consent seems to be recognized by the president who never in interview, address lin his explanations to The members of the senate oreign relations committee differentiated between the lholdngs of Germany under the concession and the vast territory seized by force and threats while the hyar was in progress.
 California is unfavorable ground for the pres- ident 10 choose for defense Of Japan; for him to .speak of its good and honorable intentions, for the carrying out of which the treaty contains even fhe vestige of pledge II is wonder that there "a tumutuous, disordery inattentve audience in the civc Auditorium at San Francisco Wednesday night
 What ironical feeling must have welled up when Ahe president declared concerning the treaty: "lt is ths first time in the history of the world that any thing has been done for China" It must have sug-
 csted to the audience that more peace confer
 nee and China, the ally. would be done for