The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-09
BRITAIN RULES WORLD
WITH HELP OF WILSON
All Of Africa In Her Hands and Ire.
land Is No Nearer Self Determine.
ton Than Before,

Washington, July S.-President Will
sons request of the Democratic con-
vention for an unqualified endorse
ment of the British league Of nations
plan adopted by him and submitted to
the Senate with demand that 1t be ac-
cepted without the change of word,
has aroused. the ire of Republican
members of Congress here, who see in
II the great issue of the campaign.
1t is recollected that four years ago
the President made his appeal to the
voters on the statement that these
gentlemen tmeaning the Republicans
will not get us into war because they
will not have the opportunity" and
that Immediately after his Inaugural
tion he did the very thing he had
promised not to do and the very thing
Republican leaders had been urging
for some time that he do.
1t is also remembered that after the
armistice the President declared he
would insist upon self-determination
and freedom of the seas From this the
people of Ireland, India and other sub
ject dominions of Great Britain took
new hope. Republican Senators point
ed out when Mr.. Wilson returned from
the Versailles conference that Article
X of the league provided that the
strength of the United States should be
utilized to uphold in perpetuity terri
torial integrity of the British Empire,
Through their opposition the purpose
of the President was frustrated.
The President has defeated the Re-
publican efforts to repeal war legisla-
ton and end the war which no longer
exists, Ireland Is in the throes of civil
war, and Andre Fribourg, member of
the French Chamber of Deputies, sums
up the advantage with which Great
Britain has come out of the war with
the assistance of President Wilson at
the peace conference, Fribourg says:
Great Britains territorial gains in
the war are so startling that II is now
possible for an Englishman to travel
from Cape Town to Tasmania by way
of India and Singapore, a distance of
$4,000 miles, without once setting foot
o mother than British territory.
Before the war England possessed
four great territories in four corners
of the world-Australa, India, South
and North Africa and Canada.
Thanks to the war, almost the en-
tire continent of Africa has become
British or is under British domination,
while the Near East-Turkey, Persia,
Mesopotamia, Syria-is to all intents
and purposes British.
"The war has added to the British
empire
German Southwest Africa, $50 900
square miles, German West Africa,
$4,000 square miles, Togo and the
Cameroons, $4,000 square miles; New
Guinea and Bismarck, 100000 square
miles.
I'm addition the following colonies
and countries have passed under Brit
ish influence:
Portuguese colonies of Angola and
Mozambique, nearly 100000 square
miles.
Persia, with 100000 inhabitants
100000 square miles.
"Mesopotamia 100000 square miles
Great Britain herself has an area OF
only 100000 square miles, so that her
indian Ocean territories are almost
100 times larger than herself.
Quietly but surely England has en-
circled an entire ocean, organizing on
three continents the most gigantic as
scmbly of colonies, the most imposing
conglomeration Of dependent nations