The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-14
SENATOR LODGE Tells COLLEAGUES THAT
JAPAN WILL BECOME peril TO AMERICA"

WASHINGTON, Oct 14-Japan is
building Far East Empire which will
become "a peril to America" and
threaten the safety Of the world, Sen
ator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Re-
publican leader, declared today in the
senate in urging adoption of his
amendments to the peace treaty under
which German rights in Shantung
would be returned to China instead OF
being awarded to Japan.
Steadily and relentlessly Japan is
gaining control of China, Senator
Lodge said, and he predicted that she
would use China's vast man-power to
endanger the safety Of both America
and Europe.
ut is impossible to see." said Sen
ator Lodge, how any conscientious
| American can consent to any act or
treaty that will extend the power of
such nation as Japan over country
like China, especially when the United
States deliberately drew China into
the war with at least an implied II
not expressed promise to give assist
! ance and protection at the peace con-
! ference.
The principal argument made by
those who sustained the delivery of
control Of Shantung to Japan :.
is that Japan has promised at different
times to return 1t to China. Whatever
promises she has made were
all marked by one vital omission. In
! no instance do l find that Japan ever
fixed time when she would actually
return the province to its rightful
owners. To determine what Japan is
| likely to do it is necessary to consider
what she has done for 25 years"
Charges Broken Pledges.
Japan was charged by Senator
Lodge with breaking innumerable
pledges regarding her course in China
and Korea; with violating the open
door" policy; destroying foreign COM
! merce in Manchuria and Korea. Her
fundamental policy, he said, had been
steady, relentless aiming to get ulti-
mate control of the vast population
and great territory of China
AS it has been in the past, so it
Will be in the future in regard to
shantung," he continued. Japan is
stepped in German ideas and regards
war as an industry. She means to
exploit China and build herself up IN
| til she becomes a power formidable
to all the world. She will use ulti-
mately the practically unlimited man
power of China for military purposes
] Just as Germany and Austria used in
! their armies the man power of the
| 26,0OO,0O0 Slavs, who were utterly op-
posed to German domination, to pro-
mote their schemes OF conquest. ia
pan viii be enabled to construct in
that way a power which will threaten
The safety OF the world. She is already
! advancing in Siberia and with her con-
/ trol there and China developed as she
/ means to develop it she will threaten
| Europe.
] But the country that she would
menace most would be our own, and
unless We carefully maintain a very
superior navy in the Pacific the day
| tal<e he place Of France in another
Sreat war. to preserve civilization.
at Is Great WronG."
: But there is one other reason even
more decisive to my mind that this.
( II ia q great wrong, this giving of
Shantung over 20 the control of Japan.
Morally it is indefensible, and it is no
answer to say that We failed to object
to the German seizure Of Shantung.
\" 4 matter Of fact the open door pol
lcy OF Nj Hay was the reply to the
German movement and for the time
arrested ii. The President had gone
out OF MS way to say that just so we
could trade with these stolen territor-
les We are willing 10 let them be
stolen. This attack upon the dead is
the most Tepulsive of all those attacks
which the President has seen fit to
make. If ever there was a disinterest-
Il policy il was that of Mr.. Hay. We
i got nothing from il whatever that all
the world did not get. The intention
rF no p1Jli ND
prevent further extension of foreign
acquisitions Of Chinese territory. But
even If it had been otherwise it would
be no answer 10 what it is now pro-
POSED to do by this treaty, to say that
We should have interfered in behalf Of
Korea in 1904. The wrongs never
made a right"
Few realize the significance of ul-
innate effect of the Shantung award,
Senator Lodge declared, picturing, az
a parallel to Japan's economic rights,
the situation if Great Britain had sim.
liar privileges in this country. The
comparison that most naturally
springs to ones mind he said, lis
the assumption that Great Britain.
with her control Of Canada, which is
a less rigorous control than Japan ex-
erts over Manchuria or Eastern Inner
Mongolia, were to hold under her con.
troll the port of New York, all the
wharves, all railway terminals also
including our two principal railroads,
.. the management of our central Gus.
tomshouse, post office, cable termi
, nails, telegraph and telephone admin.
istrations, the absolute ownership and
control of the Pennsylvania Railway
through to Chicago, with the right to
extend it at east as far west as Kan.
sas City: the prior right to finance OF
; build and furnish supplies to all rail
! roads; OF important mines, present
and future, in that territory; and any
, other Improvements that our people
through this government, might con
template making in any of that terri.
tory north of Washington and east OF
Chicago, provided Great Britain would
, perform this work for US as cheaply
as any other responsible bidder.
Before acceding to this section OF
the peace treaty the Senate should
, carefully note what such a grip OF
: Great Britain would mean not only tc
:, the United States but to all other ma
tons of the world wishing to do bust