Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-15
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WASHINGTON. Oct. li.-Japan is
! building Far Eastern empire which
Will become n peril TO America" and
| threaten the safety of the world, Sena-
/ tor Lodge. OF massachusetts. the Re
( publican leader, declared today in the
/ Senate in urging adoption OF his
| amendments to the peace treaty under
, wniGa German rights in Shantuns
OF being awarded to Japan.
Steadily and reieniieksiy. Japan is
gaining control OF China. Senator
! Lodge said. and he predicted that she
would use Ch;na's vast man power to
endanger the safety of both America
and Europe.
tor Lodge. how any conscientious
American can consent 10 any act or
treaty that Will extend the power OF
such nation as Japan over country
States deliberately drew China into
the war with at least an implied. If
not an express promise, to give as
sistarce and protection at the peace
conference.
Never Fixed Time for Return.
The principal argument made by
those who sustained the delivery OF
control OF ShantunG to japan :.
is that japan has promised. At diff
ferent times. TO return ii TO China.
Whatever promises she has made
were all marked by one vital omis
sion. In no instance do find tina,
Japan ever fixed 4 time when She
would actually return the province
TO its riEhtiul owners. To determine
what Japan is likely to do ii is ncccs-
sary TO consider what she has done
for twenty-five years"
japan was charged by Senator
Lodge with breaking innumcrablc
pledges regarding her course in China
and Korea; with violating the open
door policy; destroying foreign COM
mercc in Manchuria and Korea. Her
fundamental policy, he said. had been
rrlp n f-nt II j.
mate control of the vast population
and great territory OF China"
As ii has been in the past. so il
Will be in the future in regard to
Shantung." he continued. Japan is
STEPPED in German ideas and regards
war as an industry. She means TO
exploit China and build herself up un-
iii shc becomes power formidable
to all the world. She will use ulti-
matcly the practically unlimited man
power of China for military purposes
their armies the man power OF the &c
000. 600 Slavs. who were utterly OPP
posed 10 German domination. TO pro-
mote their schemes of conquest. Japan
way power which will threaten the
safety Of the world. She is already
advancing in Siberia and with her CON
troll there and China developed as she
means 10 develop it she viii threaten
Europe.
Will Menace America.
But the country that She would |
menace most would bc our own, and /
unless We carefully maintain very
superior navy in the Pacific the day
viii come when the United States Will
take the place of France in another
great war TO nreserle civilization.
more decisive to my mind than this:
1t is a great wrong, this giving OF
shantung over 10 the control Of Japan. !
Morally, it is ndefenSibie. and II is no
fl.a f.sIe Nt.,..
10 the German seizure OF Shantung.
AS a matter or fact, tho open-,,oor
policy, of Mr.. Hay was the, reply TO
the German movement, and for the
gone on; Of his way to say that. just
so We could trade with these stolen
be stolen. This attack upon the dead
is the most repuisive OF all those at
,acks which the Preslden, has seen lit
to maxi II eyer ihers was d;Sin-
We got nothing from ii whatever That
all the. world did not get. The !nten-
ton OF the policy VAS TO save China /
and proven; further extension Of for
cign acquisitions Of Chinese territory
But even II ii had been otherwise. il
You'd be no ans"en9o What il is nov
Una, We should have interfersd in be
half OF Korea in 1904. Two wrongs
never made q right"
Ultimate Effect of Award
Few realize the significance Of ulti-
mate effect OF the >Shantung award, !
senator Lodge declared picturinE. as
a parallel TO Japan's economic rights. |
The situation If Great Britain had simi-
lar privileges in this country The
comparison that most naturally springs
70 ones mind he added, is the as
sumption that Great Britain with her
control OF Canada, which is n less rig
orous control than Japan cXerts over
ManchuTsa or Eastern Inner Mongolia
we're 10 hold under her control the
port Of New York. all the wharves. all
railway terminals also. including our
Two princ.pa! railroads, the manage
ihenl OF our central custom house.
post office, cable terminals, telegram
and telephone administrations. the alb