The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-19
President Wilson Says Great
Powers at Paris Promised
Him as Much
TREATY A BOOM TO CHINA
No Other way to Secure The
Return of Shantung BY Japan
Entire Treaty Defend
ed.

San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 1S-Dis-
cussing at length the Shantung pro-
vision of the peace treaty. Presiden
Wilson said in an address here yes
terday that he had been assured by
the great powers that under the lea
que of nations there would be a new
international policy for the protec-
tion Of Chinese intgrity.
These powers. said Mr.. Wilson. had
Japan's promise to return Shantung To
China and intended to see that il was
fulfilled under the league. He said he
had asked the colleagues at Versail.
les specifically whether they meant
under the league, to inaugurate a
new policy toward China, and they
told him they did.
Far from being detrimental TO
China's interests, declared Mr.. Wilson
the treaty really was the first in the
worlds history to do something for
thinas benefit. In all previous in
stances of acquisition of Chinese ter
ritory. he said, the United States had
not even protested.
The Presidents declarations were
received with applause and cheers bv
the 1000 women present at the wo.
mans luncheon at which he spoke
There were cries of mo. no" when
he asked whether il would be wise to
go to war over Shantung. There is no
other way, he said, to secure the i'm
mediate return Of the province To
Clina.
Our One Vote"
Mr.. Wilson also discussed the Mon
roe doctrine, article X and the right
of withdrawal from the league. re-.
peating previous arguments against
reservations on those points and de-
ciaring some or the changes proposed
involved merely question of literary
style.
Turning to the objection that
Great Britain has six votes in the
league assembly," Mr.. Wilson said
il so happened that "our one vote is
just as powerful as their six" There
Is no case in which the assembly could
vote on any important subject except
admission of new members without n
decision first having been made by the
council in which there was an equal
ity Of votes
Denouncing "hyphenated" Amer!-
cans, the President repeated MS
charge that pro-German propaganda
again was spreading in the United
States. He said opponents OF the
treaty were desiring the same ends
Germany was desiring, but asserted
his confidence that the treaty would
be accepted.
Two addresses were on the Prtsi-
dents program for the first day OF
his ::5y in San Francisco He spoke
arSt at the wJ"pn's lunch 81 given
+" "rlous wumcr : organizations -
ca !ornia ami "a. ;pplaud2i I again
and again when he declared il was
in the interest of the wome" OF the
country that the treaty was accepted
The President was introduced by
Mrs. K. j. Mott, president of the col
legiate alumnae, and the 1900 We
men in the room stood up and cheer
ed for two minutes few hours
earlier he had been welcomed to the
city by crowds which kept up a wave
of cheering as he passed through the
downtown streets.
World Trusts America.
The President told the luncheon
guests that there were no words
strong enough to picture properly the
extent to which the world was trust.
ing to the leadership of America.
I'VE cannot desert humanity" he
said. 1--WE are the trustees OF human
ity. / cannot conceive motive ade-
quate to hold men of from this
great enterprise"
Mr.. Wilson said he was not satis-
fed with the Shantung settlement.
but that it was irrational to pro
pose to make the situation better by
the treaty's amendment.
He traced at length the growth OF
Japanese power in Shantung, declar-
ing the original grant of the Shantung
Fights to Germany was the result of