Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-28
New Outbreak in Chicago Race War
SAYS ARTICLE x
rs ONLY BAR TO
EXTERNAL WAR
Revolutions Not Effected
By League Clause SEN
ator Asserts.

! Washington, July 2S.-Denial
that Article x of the League of Ma
tions covenant would handicap the
cause of Irish freedom or fix ex-
ternally the boundaries of nations
was made in the senate today by
| Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mon
tana, who said no language could
be clearer than the articles stipu-
lation that members are to protect
one another from external aggres-
sion"
Beyond cavil and beyond con-
troversy," he said, this limits our
obligation to the case of war by
one nation against another. 1t is
perfectly gratuitous assumption
that the political map of the world
can never undergo any change un-
less nations are permitted to wage
aggressive warfare against one
another. \
No Effect on Revolutions.
"All South and Central America
revolted and the independent gov
ernments thereof established them
selves within the domain belonging
to Spain and Portugal. Article X
would have offered no obstacle to
the transformation. Florida passed
by peaceful purchase from Spain
to the United States. Louisiana,
out of which have been carved 10
great states of the union, was not
acquired by conquest but by pur-
hcase.
After centuries of vain effort by
England to subjugate Scotland, the
two countries coalesced. Sweden
and Norway, becoming united
through the Napoleanic wars,
peaceab1y separated in 1905.
Changes will continue to be
wrought by peaceful negotiation
and internal commotion and revo-
luton. Siberia may separate it.
self from Russia, Ireland or Egypt
may revolt"
Clears Up Misunderstanding.
Referring to the assertion that
outside aid in revolution such as
France gave the American colonies
would be precluded under the ar
ticle, Mr. Walsh continued:
The twentieth century is not the
eighteenth. If present day notions
prevalent in England were domi-
nant in the eighteenth century.
there probably would never have
been any American revolution But
/ deny that but for, the aid of
France we would never have
achieved independence. Under the
league it would have been impos-
sible for England to have employed
10000 mercenary Hessians to re-
duce the colonies
Senator Walsh said the senti-
ment in the United States for Irish
freedom was almost unanimous,
but that the same senators who
said Article X closed the way to
American aid in an Irish revolu-
tion always added in the same
breath, that we must keep out of !
the quarrels of Europe"
Throws Light on Shantung.
Taking up the Shantung proyi- |
sion, he continued:
President Wilson eventually |
yielded that Japan might be in |
duced to come into the League of /
Nations. But if the treaty is re-
jected, Shantung remains with /
Japan and will remain with Japan
until she restores it to China of /
her own free will or until she is
compelled to do so by force of
arms. Are senators prepared to
make war upon Japan to compel
he evacuation of Shantung? China
.oses no territory by the treaty:
she simply does not get back what
she lost to Germany 21 years ago.
But what does China gain by
Article X? Germany has not been
he only aggressor against China.
England and France have despoiled
Ter. Russia and Japan fought over
danchuria, Chinese province"
Replies to Reed Claim.
Replying to an assertion by Sen
tor Reed. Democrat, of Missouri,
hat should Bulgaria invade Ru-
mania under the article, American
oldiers would have to help repel
he invader. Mr. Walsh said:
sit apparently never occurred to
i'm that the boys of Great Britain
qually would have to go-indeed ,
he boys of every part of the far j
ung empire-as we'll as the boys ;
t France and Italy and Spain and ]
Srazil and those of a half hundred ,
ther nations, and that Bulgaria, in !
hat situation, would probably take
ounsel with herself and decide I
hat after all it would be more
rofitable to submit whatever diff (
srnces she may have with Ru- 6
lania to the executive council of &
be league I