Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-15
SEES JAP CONTROL
(contjnued from paau ons)

will be in the future in regard to
Shantung," he continued. Japan Is
stepped In German ideas and regards
war as an industry. She means to
exploit China and build herself up
until she becomes a power formid-
able to all the world. She will use
ultimately the practically unlimited
man power Of China for military
purposes Just a. Germ lily and Aus
tria used in their armies the man
power of the 100000 6lavs. who
were utterly opposed to German
domination, to promote their schemes
Of conquest, Japan will be enabled
to construct in that way power
which will threaten the safety OF the
world. She is already advancing In
Siberia and with her control there
and China developed as she means
to develop it she will threaten Eu-
rope.
But the country that she would
menace most would be our own, and
unless we carefully maintain q very
superior navy in TIE Pacific the day
will come when the United States
will take the place Of France In
another great war to preserve civili-
zation.
But there is one other reason even
more decisive to my mind than this.
It Is a great wrong. this giving OF
Shantung over to the control of
Japan. Morally 1t Is indefensibie,
and 1t 10 no answer to say that we
failed to object to the German
seizure Of Shantung. AS a matter
of fact the open door policy of Mr..
Hay was the reply to the German
movement and for the time arrested
it. The President has gone out Of
his way to ray that just so we could
trade with these stolen territories
| we are willing to let them be stolen.
This attack upon the dead is the
most repulsive of all those attacks
which the President has seen fit to
make. If ever there was a disinter-
ested policy 1t was that of Mr.. Hay.
We got nothing from it whatever
| that all the world did not get. The
intention Of the policy was to save
China and prevent further extension
of foreign acquisitions of Chinese
territory. But even if it had been
otherwise it would be no answer to
| this treaty. to say that we should
have interfered in behalf of Korea in
1904. Two wrongs never made d
right"
Few realize the significance of
| ultimate effect Of the Shantung
award. Senator Lodge declared, pic
turing, as parallel to Japan's eco
nOmic rights the situation if Great
Britain had similar privileges in this
country. 1.-THE comparison that most
naturally springs to ones mind" he
said, lis the assumption that Great
Britain, with her control of Canada,
which Is a less rigorous control than
Japan exerts over Manchuria or
Eastern Inner Mongolia, were to hold
Under her control the port of New
York. ali the wharves, all railway
terminals also, including our two
principal railroads, the management
Of our central customshouse, post
office, cable terminals, telegraph
and telephone administrations, the
absolute ownership and control of the
Pennsylvania Railway through tc
Chicago, with the right to extend it
at least as far west as Kansas City;
the prior right to finance or build and
furnish supplies to all railroads; of
important mines, present and future,
In that territory; and any other i'm
prcvementS that our people, through
this government, might contemplate
in any OF that territory north Ct
Washington: and east OF Chicago,
provided Great Britain would per-
form this work for us as cheaply as
any other Responsible bidder.
Before acceding to this section of
the peace treaty the Senate should
carefully note what such q grip of
Great Britain wou1d mean not only to
the United states but to all other
nations Of the world wishing to do |
business with the United States"
Emphasizing that the principal az |
gument in defense Of the Shantung
award was that China would lose |
nothing as Japan merely secured |
rights formerly held by Germany,
Senator Lodge said:
People shut their eyes to the |
moral issue and the methods en-
pleyed by Japan to get this claim,
and do not realize it's economic and |
political significance. Attention is
frequently called to the fact that the
German concession does not include
the entire prov inee of ~Shantung,
some $4,000 square miles (about the
size OF Illinois,, with q population of |
some 40 millions, but only the terri
tory surrounding the bay of Kiao-
chow, some 200 square miles in ex-
tent, with a population of 10000;
and 1t is further added that Japan
has promised to restore to China the
political rights over even this terri
tory Of kiaochow. retaining only the
economic rights. The Japanese seem
to have scfupulously avoided calling
attention to the most significant
single fact; that Is, that in the agree-
fnent which hey forced China to ac-
cede to in cufinection< with this set
Element selected by themselves, to
remain under the absolute control
and direction Of Japan"
Japah's settlement rights, the ma
jority leader stated. include whafves.
railroad terminals. telegraph and
cable offices. postal facilities, Gus
toms houses and exclusive railroad
development rights into the heart OF
China and outside Of Shantung.
Certainly this Is no very small
hold on 100000 people," he argued.
After the outbreak Of the war the
Japanese. Mr. Lodge said, ''appar-
emily strengthened their methods d;
closing an omen door and Z . . have |