The Irish standard., 1919-10-25

issues, economics, politics and reli-
gions of the world.
II hope to discuss here what you
have not yet heard discussed, and l
consider this by far the most in
iquitous provision in the League of
Nations, namely, that in the council
of the League of Nations the vote up
on all questions must be unanimous
Which provision makes the govern
ment of Japan, through its yellow dele
gate to that council, the master over
all the world.
Japan. is no small counry. 1t pro-
duces everything produced in Amer
lea. The islands are $50 miles in
length. They produce in manufactured
articles everything produced in the
United States. The scale of wages is
but Oneseventh the union scale, and
as the government of the Mikado is
autocratic, they prevent the organiza-
tion of workmen or the unionizing of
Japanese labor
Jap Population Greater Than
Americas.
when Shantung is given over to
Japan she has in that Province all
the raw material that is necessary for
her to compete against America; coal
enough to last one thousand years,
four extensive iron mines and the val
leys are filled with cotton in cultiva-
tion. The population of Japan.
through the annexation of Manchuria
and Korea, has been raised to ninety
millions, and with the further control
of Shantung, it is lifted to one hun
dred and. thirty millions, or popula
tion greater than this country's and
equal to the middle Empires that held
off the. world for four years. AS an
economic unit, therefore, Japan, as she
now stands, will be able to crush the
labor of the world, or bring it down
toward her level when ships are pro-
cured to transport her cheaply-wrought
products to foreign lands.
This treaty that we are offered
makes great protestations of benefits
that may come to labor through the
League of Nations, but when produc-
tion again becomes normal and com.
petition becomes keen from the East,
and when labor seeks it's adjustment
at the council board of the League of
Nations and the roll is called on the
destiny of white labor the yellow man
sitting at the table, who by his advan-
tages of unorganized labor, low wages,
limitless raw material and ability to
produce whatever the white man pro-
duces, votes NO." then and there the
cause of labor is lost. 1t is sent from
the highest court of the world to fight
out it's battles against the yellow
peril at the factory door of civiliza
ton.
Labor and Democracy to Suffer.
But democracy shares the same
fate as labor. Nine hundred millions
Of the human race are now governed
by alien natiOns-nations outside of
their own borders. Great countries
like Egypt, Africa, India are expect
ing the day of liberty to dawn, the
hour of emancipation to strike.
Japan is purely autocratic. Her
religious belief, fostered and changed
through the last twenty years. has so
welded her religion and her political
power that the two are one. The
autOcracy of Japan cannot endure if
Republican form Of government takes
real hold in the far East. 1t is only
by sustaining monarchies and thrones
in the Asiatfc lands, that she can hope
to perpetuate the despotic sway of the
Mikado. COncede Republican form of
government untrammeled and devel-
oped throughout Asia and you mark
the day of the fall of Japanese autoc-
racy. But the world meets in the coun-
Gil of the League of Nations, and In
dia, with her teeming millions, asks
that she may return to self-rule as in
the long centuries gone by. Another
Republic at the door of Japan! The
Jap votes mo-; India goes back into
the endless night of slavery.
Egypt may come from among the
monuments of her ancient glory and
ask that she may re-establish her own
national life and rebuild her former
national magnificence. But it would
be ahother Republic to teach the world
the wrongs of autocracy, and that les
son must not be given and the yellow
man or a king of Europe would vote
mo-" and Egypt would return to re-
main a slave amid the ruins of her
former greatness.
Japs Can't Stop the Irish.
ireland, too, would come to the
League of Nations and the yellow man