The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-26

name Dl the CO\tudnltIS. lItN Ilti in a church yard and on the top of flat tombstone they signed an im- ao.m document called the solemn league and covenant. which meant that they were going to stand by their religious principles in spite of the crown of England and the force .or England and every other influence. whether of men or the devil so long as any of them lived.
 f Now have seen men of all na- tionS sit around a table in Paris and sign solemn league and covenant. ! They have become coyenanters and I remain a covenanter
 We are going to see this job thru no matter what influences of icvil withstand it.
 Thru misrepresentation and every other vile thing | shall fight my way to that goal"
 SHANTUNG QUESTION.
 Touching upon the Shantung pro vision of the treaty. Mir Wilson said he was not satifed with the settle ment but that it was irrational" 10 propose 10 make the situation better by the reaty's amendment
 Neither the United States gov ernment nor the men now protesting against the Shantung award had made any protest against the orig final cession of rights there to Ger many. Later, France Great Britan and other great powers took territory without any objection from this coun- .try.
 Every great European power" he asserted, now enjoyed special priv Iges in China, in some cases at the expense of China's sovereignty But ]afan had promised to return every thing that savored of sovereignty to ! China.
 The only way to get shantuns away from Japan would be to go to
 d.. The league offers for the first time tribunal before which China can bring her complaints about the wrongs she had suffered for years.
 Which of these gentlemen who are now objecting to the cession of l the German rights in Shantung in China were prominently protesting against the original cession, or any one of those original sessions? It makes my heart burn when some are so late in doing justice.
 Before we got into this war, but they deemed the assistance of Japan i'll the Pacific absolutely indispens- able, Great Britain and France both agreed that if Japan enter the war she could do the same thing with regard to Shantung that she had done with regard to Port Arthur that is she would take what Germany had in Shantung, and could keep it. | She has il now, her troops are there as spells of wal. Observe, my Iel- ! low citizens, we are not taking this ! thing away from China, We are talk ing il from Germany. China had | ceded it for 99 years, and II my reck- oning Is correct, there are IS ot those 99 years to run yet. It was | Gemany's rights ill ShantunS and not Chinese that we conceded by | the treaty to Japan. But with d con dition, condition which never oc- cured in any of these other causes, x condition which was not insisted IpOn al the CessiOn O1 Forth Arthur upon d condition that no other na- | Lion in doing similar things in China solemn promise to torego all soy ereign rights in the province ot Shan lung, and to regain only what private corporations have elsewhere in China the right Ot conCessiOnaries with re gard to tha operation of the railway and to exploitation Of the mines. 'OCOI co O4 lOA C4oL tO4 pO4 dIlO41o A4elf C that right in other parts of China.
 But it doesn't stop there. Coupled with this arrangement is the league of nations, under which Japan sol emnly undertakes, with the rest of us, to respect and protect the ter ritorial integrity of China along with the territorial integrity of other countries of the world. And back of her promise is likewise the similar promise of every other nation, that nowhere will there come a disregard for the territorial integrity or the political independence Of that great, helpless people, lying there hitherto as an object of prey in the great Orient.
 Tt is the first time in the history of the world that anything has been done for China. And, sitting around our council board in Paris, l put this question: May l expect that this will be the beginning of the retrocession to. China of the exceptional rights which other governments have en- joyed there? And other responsible