The Natchitoches enterprise., 1919-12-11

DuC HtI w llSUu, Win clcdr lC3!C ana
with compelling eloquence, answered
to the entire satisfaction of Califor.
MAS people every. objection which
Senator Johnson mad made to tho
League. and Thousands of the states
citizens deserted the johnson stand.
ard Immediately and rallied 70 the sup.
port Of the president. More than that,
they came forward and said We
were against you, Mr. President, but
you have cleared everything up and
/ now we are with you heart and soul"
Still moro than that, they let So-ltor
johnson know that they were no
longer with him and that they disaD-
proved CT the speaking tour which he
! ahimsaaf wAs1 sAAkin<s ACKNOWLEDGMENT
the League and 50 npweTsa ~ the
, soia4iio u yaoiic opl14,v,i "..4o-- Zach. |
ed him, that the senator almost ira.
mediately abandoned his tour The |
Shan Tung question, because CT the |
antiJapanese feeling which undoabted.
ly exists along the Pacific coast was
the most serious which the president
had to answer. He explained to the
people that he had been powerless to
prevent the rich peninsula frar, being
given to Japan. England and France,
through secret treaty, had promised
1t to Japan for entering the war aad
remaining in 1t. That treaty had to
be carried out. Anyway it was not
China that was losing Shan Tung, but
Germany, which had seized the terri.
tory from China in 1898 and held il
ever since. Japan had promised, the
president explained, to return Shan
Tu1g as soon as the peace treaty was
ratified and it was only through the
ratification Of the treaty with the
League Of Nations inclusion, that
China could ever expect to get her
former property back. And she surely
would get it back, he declared, through
the ratification Of the League. There.
fore, through the same instrumentality
no other nation could again prey upon
the Great, patient, diligent, but help
:css kingdom" AS to our being drawn
into any European conflict. The pres.
dent pointed out that no direct action
such as the sending of troops to any
part OF the world to maintain or re.
store order could be taken by the
Council of the League without unani-
nous vots Of the council members,
therefore, our vote could at once mega.
i've sny such proposition as sending
ur Sewers where we did not want
hem sent Besides, Mr.. Wilson argued,
II you have to quench a fire in Cali.
ornia you don't send for the fire de.
artment Of Utah." But, he argued,
lere probably never will be another
ar, II the League is established, for
lie members promise either to arbi.
ate their difference and accept the
scision of the arbitrator, lay the diff.
rences for discussion and publica.
On before the Council of the League
r a period Of six months, and then,
possible, accept the councils advice.
lat failing, they agree to refrain from
ar for further period of three
onths and nine months of cooling
;" the president contended, would
event any armed conflict. These clear
plantations satisfied every reasonable
arer and destroyed the "Bugaboos"
lich Senator Johnson. and others had
sed against the League. Through
eyed Nevada into Utah, the land OF
'rmons, the president swept to find
It those fine people were heartily
h him fer the League and a per
nency Of peace.