The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-09

us. and wanted iis to como I'M but
we are going to ut here and try this
door every once In while and see ~
isn't locked and just as soon as we
see anything we don't like wo are GO
in TO scuttie." daughter and APP
piause.1
Now. what IL the tronble7 ! want
you TO put this 70 every man you
know, who makes this objection.
What 10 he afraid of Is he afraid
that when the United states wishes
10 Withdraw, II will not have fulfilled
its international obligationsf Is ne
willing to bring that indictment
against this beloved country?
My fellow citizens, we never have
failed 10 fuihl any obligations we have
made. And with God to. guide and
help US, we never will. And l. for one,
am not going TO admit In any con-
nection the slightest doubt that II
we ever choose to withdraw we will
then have fulfilled our obligations.
Because II we make reservations, as
they are called, about this, what do
We DOT This covenant does not set
UP any tribunal to Judge whether we
have fulfilled our obligations at that
time or not. There Is only one thing
to restrain us and that Is the opin-
ion of mankind. Are these gentle-
men such poor patriots that they are
afraid the United States will cut
poor figure in the opinion Of mankind,
and do they think that thcy can bring
this great people to withdraw from
that league. II at that time. their
withdrawal would be condemned by
the opinion Of mankind7
Must Retain worlds Respect.
We always have been at pains to
earn The respect of mankind, and we
snail always be at pains to retain
t. I for one, am too proud as an
American, to say that any doubt will
ever hang upon our right TO withdraw
upon the conditions of the fulflment'
of our international obligations
We cannot live without taking
Sides We devoted ourselves to JUS
tice and liberty when we were born
and we are not going to get senile
and forget It
Are there any patriotic Americans
that desire the method changed?
. (Cries Of "Nor)
Do they want me to ask the Ger
mans IL may read the treaty to
them expressed in the words the
United States Senate thinks II ought
to have been written in? So, you
see, the reservations come down to
this. that they want to change the
language OF the treaty without chang
ing its meaning, and let me say,
there are Indications am not judg-
ing from official dispatches, but from
the newspapers-that people are not
IN as good a hufnor over in France
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and Il ia going to more difficult to get
A new agreement from now on than It
was before. and after dealing with
some Of these gentlemen, 1 found
that they were as ingenious as any
Americans in attaching unexpected
meanings to plain words. I do not
want, therefore, having gone through
the mill on the existing language, to
go through Il again on changed lam
guaRe.
But I must not turn AWAY from
this great subject without attention
TO the Shant,,ng clause. the pro-
vision with regard to the transfer of
certain German rights in that prov
ince of Shantung, China, to Japan.
/ frankly said to my japanese col
leagues at the Observation-Disclosures.
/ can without improperly say it
here-that I was very deeply dig
satisfied with that part Of the treaty.
But. my fellow citizens, Japan agreed
at that very time and as part Of the
understanding upon which these
clauses were put into the treaty that
she would reliquish every item of SOW
erelgnty that Germany had enjoyed.
to China, and she would retain what
other nations have elsewhere in
CHINA, certain economic concessions
with regard TO the railways ana the
mines which she was 10 operate un-
under corporation ana subject TO
the laws OF CHINA. AS say, wish
she could have done more bnt sup
pose, as some have suggested, that
we dissent from that clause In the
treaty. You can't sign all OF treaty
but one part, my fellow citizens
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III 1 felt that 1 personally In any
way stood In the way of this settle
ment would be glad to die that il
might be consummated, because I
have vision, my fellow citizens. that
II this thing should by some mishap
not be accomplished there would