Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-14
PERIL
TO U, S. AND
WORLD;LODGE
Leader Depicts
Threat of Far East in
Appeal to Senate.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Japan is
building a far eastern empire
which will become a peril to
America" and threaten the safety
of the world, Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, the Republican
leader, declared today in the senate
in urging adoption of his amend
ments to the peace treaty under
which German rights in Shantung
would be returned to China instead
of being awarded to Japan.
Steadily and relentlessly, Japan
is gaining control Of China. Senator
Lodge said, and he predicted that
she would use China's vast man
power to endanger the safety of
both America and Europe.
"ImpOsslbIe to See."
"It is impossible to see," said
Senator Lodge, how any con-
scientious American can consent
to any act or treaty that will ex-
tend the power of such a nation as
Japan over a country like China,
especially when the United States
deliberately drew China into the
war with at least an implied, if not
an express promise to give assist
ance and protection at the peace
conference.
The principal argument made
by those who sustained the delivery
Of control of Shantung to Japan,
is that Japan has prom
ised at different times to return 1t
to China Whatever promises she
has made, were all
marked with one vital omission. In
no instance do I find that Japan
ever fixed a time when she actually
would return the province to Its
rightful owners To determine
what Japan is likely to do it is
has done for 25 years"
Pledges Broken, Charge.
Japan was charged by Senator
Lodge with breaking innumerable
pledges regarding her course in
China and Korean; with violating
the open door policy; destroying
foreign commerce in Manchuria and
Korean. Her fundamental policy,
he said, had been STEADY, relent-
less aiming to get ultimate control
of the vast population and great
territory of Chicago"
"As 1t has been in the past, so It
will be in the future in regard to
Shantung." he continued. Japan
is stepped in German ideas and re-
CARDS war as an industry. She
means to exploit China and build
herself up until she becomes a
power formidable to all the world.
VIII Threaten World.
"She will use ultimately the
of China for military purposes just
as Germany and Austria used ii
their armies the man-power of the
26,000,000 slaves, who were utter
ly opposed to German domination,
to promote their schemes of con-
quest. Japan will be enabled to
construct in that way a power
which will threaten the safety OF
the world. She is already advanc-
ing in Siberia and with her control
there and China developed as she
means to develop it she will threat
en- Europe.
Greatest Peril to e. S.
But the country that she would
menace most would be our own,
and unless we carefully maintain a
very superior navy in the Pacific
the day will come when the United
States will take the place of France
in another great war to preserve
civilization.
But there is one other reason
even more decisive to my mind than
this. 1t is that a great wrong, this
giving Of Shantung over to the con-
troll of Japan. Morally it is indie
fensible. and it is no answer to say
that we failed to object to the Ger
man seizure of Shantung. AS a
matter of fact the open door policy
of Mr.. Hayes was the reply to the
German movement and for the time
arrested it."
Emphasizing that the principal
argument in defense of the Shan
tung award was that China would
lose nothing as Japan merely Sc
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