The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-09-04
GOD SAVE China
FROM FRIENDS"
Senator McCumb r Protests in
Senate Against Shantung
Amendment TO Treaty
AGAINST INTEREST OF CHINA
Republican Senator Asserts That Op-
ponents of the Peace Treaty
in Senate Are Trying
to XIII X

Washington, Aug Ex-senator Nc
Cumber. for twenty years Republican
senator from North Dakota, in a
speech in the Senate today, charged
that the majority of the foreign re-
lations committee is trying to kill
the Peace Treaty and the League of
Nations. Senator McCumber spoke
after his second breach with the
opponents of the Treaty on the Sen
ate committee on foreign relations,
In the present breach, Senator Nc
Cumber voted alone with the sup
porters of the Treaty and against
the majority of the committee which
voted to strike out Japan" and in
sert China" in the three sections
awarding the Shantung Peninsula.
why did the majority of this com
mittee pause in the midst of their
hearings to make this particular
amendments" said Senator McCum-
Der The purpose is apparent. 1t
is to signify to the country that the
Senate is hostile to this treaty. 1t
is to put Japan in a position where
she cannot without an appearance of
being coerced do what she has prom
ised to do 1t Is to create trouble
between this country and Japan and
thereby send the first dagger thrust
into the body of this Treaty.
Il am satisfied that no greater
blow could ever be struck against
l1 jpr &c Of
such an amendment
is it an act of true friendship
toward China or mere political
move to defeat the Treaty, If its
sponsors now fail to come forward
and openly pledge that if Japan is
driven out of this Treaty then the
United States will proceed single
handed and alone to drive Japan out
of China. will renew this World War
and send cur soldiers INTO the Orient
to fight for her then by this act
they are betraying China with a false
kiss
Il on the other hand, they declare
they will make waT to drive Japan
out Of China, to prevent Japan re
ceiving only those rights which the
other great nations of the world have
received then they are proclaiming
policy which they have assailed
as being the most wicked part of
the League of Nations, policy of
interference with the quarrels of the
old world Worse than that, while
they violently condemn a Joint agree
ment with the other great white ma
tions of the world to shield the
greater white races from humiliation
they would send our sons to death
to defend the inferior yellow races
whom We claim to be so inferior as
to be unfit to associate with US.
Either We will bring both Japan
and China into this League of Ma
rions which bv the very terms of
lis provisions VIII compel japan to
return TO China all the German rights
ACQUIRED bv Japar, not only by
conquest but bv tn solemn agree
ment made bv her with China her
self. or YOU will drive japan out of
this Treaty. wherein she will not
be bound BY the OBLIGATIONS which
she would assume by Joining The
T,aague and where s7e will he hold
ing the German territory and all the
German in .erests nv the right of
conquest and with the broken word
of China. she can work her way
TO the very limit O. s11biugation of
all the Chinese TERRITORY not now