Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-09

tocracy
= President Wilson himself, admit
ting that he did not favor the trans
fer of those rights to Japan, YET
asked a month ago in San francisco
ii the principle involved was worth
war with Japan. A women's meet
ing, which he was addressing at the
time. replied in the negative, and
supposing for the moment, tha. such
momentous eyentualities were in
volved in placing ourselves on rec
ord, the senate seems to have given
most faithful echo.
THE most that we can say today
is that we have put ourselves back
/ of President Wilson, who went to
Paris on his own initiative and fin
/ ally placed his signature on docu.
ment that embodies in it conces-
/ sion to secret agreements of our al
/ lies which violated both his own and
our sense of justice.
The sad feature of the matter is
not that we have compromised with
our allies, but that we have coupro-
missed with our own conscience"
The above editorial is, IN the
opinion of most Americans, not
strong enough for the situation.
President Wilson asked in that
women's meeting if the turning over
of some forty millions of Chinese to
the tender mercies of Japan was suf-
ficient cause for trouble VIII: ia
pan. Naturally the women said
No" But did Mr. Wilson add that
the turning over of Shantung to Ja-
pan would only delay the day when
we will have to fight, not for China,
but for our very existence against
the same Orientals that were just
about ready to join in with Germany
when the United States entered the
war and made Toxic decide that her
bread was buttered on the side of
the allies. Did our president men
ton that Japan was working "a
hours out of every day, and 365 days
out of the year, organizing her Chi
nese, Korean, Manchurian and other
possessions, circulating literature of
any nature that would make the CHI.
nese, the Siberians. and our other
friends turn against us? was any
mention made of this program, the
thoroughness of which is rivalling.
il not surprising, the ante-war pro-
German propaganda We think not.
Was anything said about how China
is regarding the treachery of the
to come in and run things? Did he
mention that our actions in this
Shantung matter are slowly embit-
tering China, with her 400,000,000
against us? | use the word slowly
with deliberation, for such a trans
| formation in the character of the
Chinese can not come about sudden
ly. China has always considered us
her friend, and she can. with diff
Guilty, conceive of our desertion in
/ her time of need. But though long
suffering, she is not blind, and the
| time is coming when instead of
! throwing her strength in with her
| former friend, the United States, all
1 OF her millions will be placed at the
hands of her present conqueror
One word more, before we leave
this subject. | have said that China
is not blind. Neither is Japan fool.
Japan knows that if America at this
moment insisted she give up Shan
tung she would have to do it. Why?
Because she knows that alone, and
alone. she could not any more de.
feat the United States than coulc
the Philippines. But she does know
that if she plays a strong enough
hand OF bluff she can get away with
it. She also knows that five years
from now she will be proportionately
! 10 times stronger than the United
States, and if we let her alone foi
ten years she has an even chance
And personally think she will have
AT present We could defeat her with
out a doubt. and defeat her thor
oughly; 10 years from now. wheI
> she has reorganized China, a lare,
part of Siberia, all of Manchuria. al
OF Korea. probably the Philippines
Tor they will undoubtedly have theil
independence long ere then. and in
dependence means a possession O
Japan. all of these backing her W,
might still win. but il would TAX,
every fighting man in the United
; States. every boy, and every woman
and the war would be a harder on,