Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-09-04
Senator McCumber Protests
Against Shantung Amend
ment to Treaty.
AGAINST INTEREST OF CHINA
Republican Senator Asserts That op-
ponents Of the Peace Treaty In
the Senate Are Trying
TO Kill II. 49,,

Washington, Aug. 2.-Senator Nc
Cumber, for twenty years Republican
senator from North Dakota,y in q
speech in the senate today, charsh;l
that the majority Of the foreign rela-
lions 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 senate committee on
foreign relations. In the present
breach Senator MslcCNpmb.ssr voted 9 alone
with the supporters 9f The treaty and
against the majority of the e0mlliln9itt!ee
which voted to strike out aJapan" annd
insert "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
amendment?' asked Senator AlcCum-
Der. "The purpose is apparent. 1t;is
to signify to the country that the sen
ate is hostile to this treaty. 1t is to
put Japan in q position where she can
not without an appearance Of being
coerced do what she has promised Ito
do. It is to create trouble between
this country and japan and thereby
send the first dagger thrust into the
body of this treaty. III
II nm satisfied that no greater blow
could ever he struck against the real
interests of China than by such I'm
amendment. u:
els it nm act of true friendship to.
ward China or mere political move
to defeat the treaty? If it's 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. ito
drive Japan out of China-will renew
this world-wnr and send our soldiers
into the orient to fight TOR her. then by
this act they are betraying China with
q false kiss. N.
'If, on the other hand. they declare
they will make war to drive Japan out
of China. to prevent Japan receiving
only those rights which the other
great nations of the wovld have 70.
ceived, then they are proclaimingIIa,
policy which they have asxailed a.
being the most wicked part of the
lenglie Of natiOns-a policy of inter.
1BrellCp WIZ SNO yN0AASsS "a liz Wv
world. Worse than that, while they;
violently condemn a Joint agreement
Will, the other great white nations ,Of
the world to shield the greater white
rnces from annihilntlOn they would
| send our sons to death to defend the
inferior yellow races whom we claim
II be so inferior as to he unfit to asso-i
"Either wo will bring both Japan
and China into this league Of nations
which by the very terms Of Its pro-
visions will compel Japan to returltto
China all the German rights aealispd
by Japan. not only by conquest but
BY the solemn agreement made by hsF
with China herself. or you will drive
Japan out of this treaty wherein she
will no. be bound by the obligations
which she should assume by joining
the league, md where she will be hold.
ling the German territory and all the
German interests by the right Of con-
quest and with. the broken word Of
China. she, can work her way to the
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