New Britain herald., 1919-10-14

Co'mtry's Vast Man-Powcr to Ell "a danger the Safety of Both America SS and Europe.
 < Washington, Oct. 14.-Japan is 8#nlldlng a Far Eastern empire which A#lll become ' peril to America" and 1reaten the safety of the wOrld #enator Lodge, of MaSsac chusotts, the i 4publican leader, declared today in A#ae senate in urging adoption of his 8nendments to tho peace treaty under S8hich German rights in ShantunG SRould be returned to China instead 8# being awarded to Japan. Steadily BAhd relentlessly, Japan is gaining con- H8sol of China, Senator Lodge said, End he predicted that she would use #8hina'S vast man-poWer to endanger 881e safety of both America and Eu- bpe.
 | T.. s. Is Responsible. 8A Tt is impossible to see" said Sen KMtor Lodge, "hoW any conscientious B#me erican can consent to any act or 8eaty that will extend the power of s8ach nation as Japau over a COun- I#y like China. especially when the Emitted States deliberately drew China 8hto the war with at least an implied 2# not an express promise to give as XFtancc and protection at the peace 8onfcrence.
 S@ Doubts Japan's Intentions. s8 The principal argument made by #1osc who sustained the delivery of #cntrol of Shantung to Japan #$ that Japan has promised at differ Nnt times to return it 10 China. What Ever promises she has made
 ere all marked by one vital omis- @on. In no instance do I find that Map@n ever fixed d time when she Msnuld actually return the province to MI ni@htful owners. To determine @hat Japan is likely to do it is nee NSsn'y 10 consider what she has done S@lr 2 years."
 H8 Charges Broken Pledges. Iapa" was charged by Senator H# odgo with breaking innum mcrable #$ ndgcs regarding her course in #8hi0l and Korea; with violating the
 8cpen door, policy; destroying foreign 889mmcrce in Manchuria and Korea. SA Ter fundamental policy, he said, had 2a zen ''steady. releptless aiming to- get H8ltimatc control of the vast popuIa- Zion and great territory of Chna.' #8 JapS All Like War. H8 "As it has been in the past, so 1t 8vill be in tho future in regard to Rhantung," he continued. Japan is S8teeped in German ideas and regards 8var as an industry. She means 10 Exploit China and build herself up 8ntil she becomes a power formidable H#o all the world. She will use ulti- @nately the practically unlimited man oF 8#nst as Germany and Austria used 88n their armies the man power of the @6,000,00O SlaVs, who were utterly HA pposed to German domination, to S8 romotc their schemes of conquest. %apan will be enabled to construct \ M, that way a power which will E8 hreaten the safety of the world. She S8@ already advancing in Siberia and B&Vith Hher control there and China 8&ieveloped as she means to develop ~ she will threaten Europe. II. s. Mcnaccd Most. But the country that she would Hmenace most would be our own.- and &Rnless we carefully maintain a very 8uperiOr navy in the Pacific the day SMill come when the United States s3will take the place of France in an Bother great war to preserve civiliza-
 tfon.
 China Entitled to Shantung. sS But there is one other reason sSeyen more decisive to my mind than 8this. It is a great wrong, this eiv- Hing of Shantung over to the control S8of Japan. Morally it is indefensible, sABnd it is no answer to say that we #afailed to object to the German seizure sscf Shantung. As matter of fact H8the open door policy of MT. Hay was @Ihe reply to the German movement and #8for the time arrested it. The prCsi- #Adent has gone out of his way to say @ that just so we could trade with these N stolen territories we arc willing to let #tlem be stolen This attack upon 1.-the dead is the most repulsive of @all those attacks which the president x has seen fit to make. If ever there was a disinterested policy it was 6 that of Mr. Hay. We got nothing #lrom it whatever that all the world saCid not get. The intention of the SApolicy was to save China and pre- N Event further extension of foreign ac- S8 1uisitiOns of Chinese territory. But NR ven if it had been otherwise it would $a be no answer to what it is now pro- posed to do by this treaty, to Hsay that we should have interfered in be- N half of Korea in 1904. Two wrongs never made a right"
 Significance of Award
 Few realize the significance of ul- < innate effect of the Shantung award s Senator Lodge declared, picturing, as \ D parallel to Japan's economic rights. the situation if Great Britain had < similar privileges in this country. < rThe comparison that most naturally springs to ones, mind," he said lis the assumption that Great Britain,