New Britain herald., 1919-08-05

~F7aNeht IN " fiiiIS to -hohc 'ItdI
 Sacrifices of Foreign Rights or
 American Independence in Order
 That His Dream May Be Realized, \ and Japan Has Taken Advantage.
 Washington. Aug. 5.--Declaring the history on German and Japanese ac- quisitions n Shantung had been one wrong heaped upon another, Senator . Watson, republican, of Indiana, asked , the senate today to reject that pro- vision of the Versailles treaty which sv gives Japan control in Shantung l'sninsula.
 The original Shantung rights, Sen t ator Watson said, were taken from ' China by Germany in 1898 through . e# demand enforced by fleet of battle a&khips and had been expanded to em- brace "comp1ete economic possession of Shantung" through supplemental treaties in 1899, 1900 and 1905 { These expanded rights, he said, had been taken from Germany in the present war by Japan, who had sought to reinforce her position by a treaty ''obtained by force" from China in 1915 and by secret agree ments established on fraud" consum- mated with the Allies in 1917
 Says Faint Vitiatcs Title.
 - Can it be said that taint no longer vitiates title?" asked the Indiana senator Does wrong ever become right; can duress piled upon duress, can force added to force, make up- righteousness holy; can the German wrong in China, plus the Japanese wrong in China, plus the Japanese wrong with the Allies, ever come to the full ruition of a perfect right? We went to war, in parts @to a,lnSlt, tho wrong wrought by Germany, and surely. here is one that enlists the . sympathy and challenges the atten- ton of our country; aye, and of civ ilization; for it seeks to perpetuate one of the most fragrant wrongs ever Acommltted by the agents of the kaiser Nupon a helpless and unoffending speople."
 36,000,00O People Affected # Replying to declarations that the ! German concessions seized by Japan . concerned only narrow strip of ter ritory, Senator Watson said that, nevertheless, Japan had sent a mili- tarys force entirely through the prov ince of Shantung," had established sfailroads, mines and garrisons every '~Where, and now was in "complete military and economic possession" of the whole province with it's popula- ! tion of 36,000,000 Chinese.
 The president recently has stated" he continued, that Japan intends to return Shantung to China If that be true, why is it not so written in the contract? Japan waged two wars With the announced purpose of in surlng the independence of Korea. And yet having won in both wars, she very speedily annexed Korea and in 1910 made her a part of the Jap anesc empire. One of Japan's al ;, ,1c2ed reasons for waging war with Russia was that she wanted to save MGnchura for China. Manchuria is to all intents and purposes a Japanese colony
 Docs Not Believe Japan.
 The whole story of the treatm ent of China by Japan furnishes ample illustration of the fact that Japan intends to cling to Shantung and that her protestations of good faith are not to be believed. Why was so nonstrous a wrong thus recognized? S1nply because It naQ to De done to save the league.
 President Wilson wanted the league. It was the sole object of his going to France, and for it he was and is willing to make great sacri- , fees of either foreign rights or Am erican independence. Japan, seeing his attitude, took advantage of him and forced him to endorse this wrong to China by the threat that, if it were not done she would withdraw from the conference and would decline to rltify the league. And he yielded and is now endeavoring to have our nation ratify this treaty and condone this wrong. Japan coerced him into that concession. That country sold her signature for the liberties of 36.- 600 900 of human beings, and Wilson, Tloy6 George, and Clemenceau ap- proved the bargain and ratified the sale.
 U $. Aids in SpOIiation. The most remarka ble, the most in Gefensible feature of this entire tran sa ction is that. as a result of a war said to have been Waged to make the 1 world safe for democracy, we en- l force the spoliation of the only re- rllblic in the Orient, we ratify the 1 prcvfous robbery of q friendly people l bv the nation to war to overthrow for just such acts and we turn the | rtsu1t of the larceny over to the l raost autocratic government that now | - (Continued on NiEsh Pags)