The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-15

United States deliberately drew China
into the war with at least an implied
if not an express promise tot give as |
sistance 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 promised at different
times to return it to Chiua. Whatever
o m sc s h e has made were allj
marked by one vital omission. In no
instance do I find that Japan ever
fixed time when she would actually
return the province to it's rightful
owners. To determine what. Japan isl
likely to do it is necessary to consider
what she has done for Is years.
Japan was charged by! Eenator
Lodge with breaking innumerable
pledges regarding her course in China
and Korea; with violating the OPEN
door" policy; destroying foreign COM
merce in Manchuria and Korea. Her
fundamental policy, he saidl had been
STEADY, relentless aiming to get ulti-
mate control of the vast population
and great territory of Chiua.
"As it has been in the past SO it will
be in the future in regard to Shan
tung," he continued. Japan is stepped
in German ideas, and regards war as
an industry She means to exploit
China and build herself up until she
becomes a power formidable to all the
world. She will use ultimately the
practically unlimited man power of
China for military PURPOSES, just as
Germany and Austria useu in their
armies the man power of the 100000
Siavs, who We're utterly Opposed .oI
German domination, to pro mote their
schemes of conquest. 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 developer as she
means to develop it, she will threaten
Europe.
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 Estates will
take the place of France lin another
| great war to preserve civilization.
But there is one other reason even
| more decisive to my mind than this.
4 1t is great wrong, this giving Shan
tung over to the control of Japan.
Morally it is indefensible, and it is no
| answer to say that we failed to object
| to the German seizure of Shantung
| As mates of fact the open door pol
4 ley of Mr.. Hay was the reply to the
| German movement and for the time
i arrested it. The President has gone
| out of his way to say that just so we
| could trade with these stolen terrific
| ries we are willing to let them be sto-
len. This attack upon the dead is the
most repulsive of all those attacks
| which the President has seen fit to
make. If ever there was al disinterest-
! ed policy it was that of MIR. Hay. We
| got nothing from it whatever that all
| the world did not get. The intention
| of the policy was to save China and
| prevent further extension OF foreign ac-
| questions of Chinese territory. But
| even if it had been otherwise it would
| be no answer to what it lis now pro-
| posed go do by this treaty. to say that
we should have interfer4d in behaI,
of Korea in 1904. Two Wrongs never
made right
| Few realize the Significance or ulti-
| mate effect of the ShanIune ava r1
Senator Lodge declared, bicturing. as
parallel. to Japan's ecoHomic rights
.he SITUATION IL Great Britain had SIM
] liar privileges in this COUNTRY. THE
comparison that mosE naturally
| springs to ones mind, he isaid, lis the
| assumption that Great Britain. witt
her control of Canada, which is a less
rigorous control than japan exerts
over Manchuria or Eastern Inner
| Mongolia, were to hold under her cn,
troll the port of New York. all tbs
wharyes, all railway TERMINALS also
including our two principal railroads
the mana gement of our central Gus
| tomhouse, post office, cable terminals
telegraph and telephone iadministra-
tions, the absolute ownership anu
control of The Pennsylvania RaiIwa,
| through TO Chicago, with the right tc
extend it at least as far west as Kan
sas City; the prior right to finance OF
build and furnish cuppliesi to all rail-
| roads; of important mines, presea!
and future, in that territory; and any
other improvements that our people
through this government, might con-
template making in any of that terri
tory north of Washington and east 81
Chicago, provided Great Britain woui6
perform this work for us as cheaply
as any other responsible bidder.
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