Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-17

Secretary Of State Ehu Root and other leading American
thinkers The problem then becomes what reservations
Our two chief for the conclusion stated that
Of Nations fail at his hands and the United States Senate
republican, not afford to have peace fail at it's hands
will be the as with other great treaty Of peace
throughout history of the world series Of compromises
have heard psV the beginning Of the debate which
absorb the attention of the Senate as well as of the public in
speakers behalf of the League of Nations presented this
city practically all the fundamental arguments that will be
United States Senator of California and Ferguson
stated in Burlington the principal objections to the conces
covenant well in the provisions dealing with the trans
errg of Chna province of Shantng to Japan and other
terms
The fact that the discussion this city conducted
pa e a
cans are concerned On the other hand practically all
Missouri and Senator Gore of Oklahoma are supporting the
treaty of stands including the league covenant
Under these circumstances we are PREPARED to ACCEPT
the statement made by David Lawrence the Washington
Mr. Lawrence has long been recognized the chief
paper Interpreter of the Wilson administration in Washing
house of Morgan Co., is actively supporting Mr. Wilson's
efforts to the ratification of the treaty and league
mo one really takes s" literally Mr. Wilson'S remarks
against reservations Both sides in the controversy have
fact is the disinereted Observers the great majority of the
in the gallery who have looked disinerestedy
League Nations included to ratified with certain
reservations tackled on BY the republican leaders.
What makes it possible to report confidence in early
agreement the informal not the formal comment of the
Senators Mr. Wilson talked to many of them and explained
President tells the Senators that nothing in the covenant
takes away the warmakng powers OF Con-
up but that the final decision to employ military
of Who ave eppsed to the
of Article would like to explicitly in the
ratfying resolution the President it in informal
According all indications those favor of
legion both political parties although in the
Senate would naturally be constrained to support their
President. Apparently the struggle will the
incorporating in the resolution Of ratification of reservations
of Article of the involving the of army
and navy to support every government in the world as all
Doctrine.
Senator Fall of New Mexico discovers that most SUBJ
jects which have been considered coming under the
jurisdiction of the League of Nations not put there all
under the treaty but under the principal allied and
throughout the treaty interpreted by the document itself
as meaning the Big Five"-Britain the United States
France, Italy and Japan
eae The Su na Ss R S Are not sd under n e
German Notifications in island possessions left to the big
Five" In the original text of the league there
ref enc to the League in connection with the sasr valley
question could not have been left in the same way The
refused to accept Mr. Wilson'S league PROPOSITION in too
this concession had not been made.
AS a practical propoSltlOn, Shantung IS the chlef
stumbling block outside of the league Britain has
host of yellow peril problems similar to but the
eXigencies of old world politics such that the British
must stand behind Japan to marked degree If the 49,
100000 Chinese Shantung to be saved from fate
similar to that Of the Koreans at this time manifesy
America must bear the brunt Of the burden to
fight anywhere later under league for humanity mani
testify Shantung is good place to begin here and
Under the circumstances large degree of interest is
attached the proposition to the protest against the
giving of shantung to Japan drawn by Colonel House,
Secretary of State Lansing and former Ambassador White
President Wilson's colleagues in Paris. those Americans
standing for the rights of China copy of this
protest they will turn neat trick those who willing
to trade Chinese rights for territory personal prestige IT,
the other hand the administration refuses to produce this
resolution will violate the chief of the fourteen points
concerning public diplomacy and "open covenants of
openly arrived at"
The opinion that if the President accepts
reservations interpretations made in the Senates
resolution of ratification, the allied powers will also accept
the Indeed they not well do otherwise for if they
to challenge reservations of purely American rights
they would disclose anmus and mper all they them
selves hope gain through the treaty That have right
expect reservations also indicated by President Wilson's
previous acceptance of notifications we'll by the
cedent established connection with ratification of the
treaty with France 1899 with reservations If in