Republican farmer., 1919-07-18
LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND TREATY
 IS CONDEMNED AND UPHELD By2
 MEMBERS OF SE NATE IN SPEECHES
Sen. Sherman Says Shan tung Settlement Super
 lative Treachery."
ASSRETS LAPS NEVER
 KEEP THEIR PLEDGES
Japan is Allowed by Treaty "the Sabre Rattler of the
 World" He Says.

Washington, July 17.---UrginS the Senate to refuse acceptance of the Shantung provisions in the peace treaty. Senator Sherman, Republican. Illinois. declaredl today the section giving Japan control of Shantung peninsula 50 taints and poisons the professed altruism with which the League of Nations was heralded as to crown it the superlative treachery in | the history of modern times.' The provision. asserted the speaker, would aid Japan in becoming the sabre rattler of the world" and | strengthen her for the day when she
 might try. like Germany, for world empire. In such an eventualfty, he continued, and with British and Jap anese interests in the Orient ''iden- dical," the United States might well look to the safety of the Philippine Islands.
 "Why China should be exploited" | he said, "her territory absorbed in l the guise of lease holds, her port | cities dominated by alien powers, her
 mining and railway rights seized by | Japan, does not appear except under | the rule of coveteous desire coupled | with military force.
 1 ''It is material to notice under the
 
 | has the supreme command of the ! army and navy, declares war. makes peace and concludes treaties. The l Kaiser could do no more in the days | he menaced Europe and the world. It i is as plain as the noon day sun that | the government is autOcratic and that l it will add Chinese province upon 1 province, concession upon concession until an Asiatic Kaiser will dominate | the affairs of Asia and the Pacific 1 ocean.
 "The harshness of Japenese occu- | patton, the cruelties inflicted on the | helpless inhabitants, the seizure of | property and the resulting footing, | irresistibly turn ones thoughts to the i moral conduct in Belgium. We do-
 nounce in measured terms. We ask 1 ed to approve the other and declare 1 it justified in holy cause. | Japan intends we are told, in a 1 limited time to withdraw from Shan ] tung and return that country to | China In every instance in which | Japan has pledged herself upon the | continent of Asia to occupy tempor-
 airly she has made that occupancy 1 permanent.
 The United States exercises sov- ereignty in the Philippines. Japan's |
 ward. Her ambition covers the Pa i cifc Ocean as well as the Asiatic mainland. With Germany in per | petual intrigue it is no far inference i that Q ractical partition resulting | from a union of those two powers in | Europe and Asia is no impossible | event
 Japan assumes sovereign rights l over Chinese territory. Mere refine
 ment of language or spacious inter i pretation will not remove this inn 1 pending truth. Japan will not sur l render this advantage so gained. Ar ] ticle ten and the portion of the treaty | relating to Shantung are twin broth CTS of a common iniquity. They | speak the language of a joint outra ge and bear the evidence of deliberate | prearranged conspiracy.
 ! Great Britain bore a large part in
 the war. The life blood of Great Brit ain is her foreign trade. We are without adequate experience in for etgn trade. We are upon the threshold of that experiment. Great Britain is keenly observant of our course. She has been void of sentiment and some times of humanity in breaking down
 and destroying the rivals.
 1 We have denied Japan the right of
 immigration for her subjects. It is
 a wound to their pride. We are vul- nerable in the Philippines Our great friend lies beyond in the people of the Chinese republic. In our day of peril
 1t must be remembered that the in- terests of Great Britain and Japan in the Orient are identical.
 | We can defend ourselves. It will
 be a heavy price but it will be paid We may lose the Philippines. Our
 greatest friend may then be the Chi
 nese people whom today we are asked to humiliate and dismember."