The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-14
8lames Hun Ideas,

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las it has been in the past so it
will be in the future in regard to Shan
Lung" he continued. Japan is stepped
n German ideas and regards war as
an industry. She means to exploit
hina n build herself up until she
becomes a power formidable to all the
world. She viii use ultimately the prac-
ically unlimited man power of China
or military purposes Just as Germany
and Austria used in their armies the
nan power Of the $4,000, 900 Slavs, who
Nwere utterly opposed to German domi-
nation, to promote their schemes of
conquest. Japan will be enabled to con-
struct in that way a power which will
Threaten the safety of the world. She
bis already advancing in Siberia and
with her control there and China de-
Hveloped as she means to develop it
she will threaten Europe.
But the country that she would men
5ace most would be our own, and unless
1--we carefully maintain a very superior
navy in the Pacific, the day will corne
Nwhen the United States will take the
Nplace of France in another great war
Ito preserve civilization.
But there is one other reason even
Hmore decisive to my mind than this.
lit is a great wrong, this giving Shan
tung over to the control of Japan.
Morally it is indefensible and it is no
NanSwer to say that we failed to OBJ
ject to the German seizure of Shan
flung. AS a matter of fact the open
door policy of Mr.. Hay was the reply
Ito the German. movement and for the
time arrested it. The president has
gone out of his way to say that. just
so we could trade with these stolen
territories we were willing to let them
be stolen. This attack upon the dead
is the most repulsive of all those at
tacks which the president has seen fit
to make. If ever there was a disin-
terested policy it was that of Mr.. Hay,
1--WE got nothing from 1t whatever that
all the world did NOT get. The inten-
ton of the policy was to save China
\ eign acquisitions of Chinese territory.
But even If it had been otherwise II
would be nj answer to what 1t is now
proposed to do by this treaty, to say
that we should have interfered in be-
half of Korea in 1904. Two wrongs
never a a right"
Calls It Insolence.
After the outbreak of the war the
Japanese, Mr.. Lodge said, apparently
strengthened their methods of closing
aggressive, if not to say insolent in
their treatment of the Chinese"
In an effort to obtain control of China,
Japan has almost forced loans on her,
Mr.. Lodge declared.
1T is the deliberate opinion of both
foreign and other observers he said,
that threats and bribery were DELHI
erately used. The purpose clearly was
to tie up in Japanese hands the best
of the resources of China at a time
when other nations were so occupied
that they could not interfere Unless
some change is made in these records,
China will be seen to be largely mort
gagged to the Japanese in such a way
and TO such an extent that the already
acquired rights CT other nations will
be seriously infriuged."
In conclusion the Republican leader
urged adoption Of the amendments
transferring to China the rights in
n Shantung given Japan by the treaty,
The award of those rights to Japan,
he said, was "a wrong to mar and Ia
the cause of freedom and justice"