Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-06

are more than midway between Homo
lulu and Japan. BY the obtaining of
these islands, Japan gains military
posts, Quitting stations and ports of
entry 1000 miles nearer the Pacific
coast than she ever had before, and a
belt Of them stretching between the
Philippine islands and this coast of
ours. That was given-when you read
the League Of Nations, read the German
peace treaty, you find it is said that
these islands are to be turned over to
the five great powers. but the secret
treaty, or this arrangement I speak of,
had been conSummated by Japan and
Great Britain by correspondence, which
can produce, months before, and
they reached this agreement the day
before the peace treaty was signed, so
that you now have the situation of this
island that was a hermit monarchy or
kingdom only few years ago now be.
coming a great war power and increas-
ed by virtue of this contract, so that
her population is almost equal to that
Of the United States, and you find her
reaching out and obtaining the islands
Of the Pacific ocean where she can mass
her vessels under the guns of her own
forts, where she can cut us off from
the Philippines. l want to know what
Californian there is who is in favor of
that sort of thing. And yet it has not
been discussed to speak of, and 1 ques-
ton whether the great stress of Cali
fornia has ever exposed that fearful sit
uation to the people of this coast.
say it is fearful, because while l do not
myself fear Japan, believing, as I al.
ways have believed, that America, stand
ing here upon her own shores, can take
care of herself against any power nev.
ertheless. it is world menace, and
may involve us in all kinds of dispute
with other nations in the future
My countrymen, I do not appeal tC
narrow prejudice; 1 am appealing fol
my country upon this. So far as 1 an
concerned, if I could have my way
there is no nation that would get anoth
er island in the Pacific ocean, not one
where she could fit her vessels out
where she could fortify; and all of this
Japan got because Japan had an army
Japan had a navy, and Japan said she
would fight. All of these things will be
taken from nations that do not fight OF
cannot fight, who either have no states
men who can see or warriors who car
defend. This nation of ours does not
belong in that class yet.
Now / call your attention to another
thing, very briefly.
a., Part 13 of Treaty
Hidden away in the German peace
treaty is part 13. Our League of Ma,
tions, so-called is part l of the German
treaty, but part 13 of the German treaty
has nothing to do with the peace with
Germany. 1t should have Deen made q
part of the league. If it had been, and
had been discussed from the first, think
our people would have been appalled,
What is the fundamental principle of
Sovietism and Bolshevism! 1t is not
that all the people of the country shall
controlsthe country, but that a class of
people shall control In this instance,
those who they are pleased to call labor
ers are to control. They are to take all
of the property, all of the civil rights, all
Of the offices, and they are, in fact, to
establish themselves as complete mas
ters of a nation. That is the principle
that you find today in Russia; that prin
ciple was not born in the brain of Mr..
Leon TrotZky; that principle originated
among the international socialists of
Europe. the anarchists, the Bolshevis$,
the so-called Socialists of that country
are very different from our Socialists,
although I have not a very high opin-
ion Of Socialists wherever you may find
them, myself. Uaughter).
Socialism Considered
For years they have been meeting
and have been developing a plan by
which the ordinary governments of the
world were to be controlled from within
by setting up a superior force that
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