Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-13
CHAPTER XXXVI.
(Continued)
To Be Historian


It is agreed by everybody who
has expressed an opinion that if
Germany had known that Eng
land would go in, she never
would have started. What do you
suppose she would have done
if she had known that every
body else would have gone in?
OF course, she would never have
started. If she had known that
the whole world would have
been against her, this war
would not have occurred; and
the League of Nations gives no.
tice that if anything Of that sort
is tried again, the world will be-
against the nation that tries it,
and with that assurance given
that such a nation will have to
fight the world, you may be sure
that whatever illicit ambitions
a nation may have, it cannot
and will not attempt to realize
them.
Now / have sometimes a very
cheering thought. On the fifth
of March, 1921, / am going to
begin to be an historian again
instead of an active public man,
and / am going to have the priv
ilege of writing about these
gentlemen without any restraints
of prOpriety. The president, if
my experience is a standard, is
liable some day to bust by mere
ly containing restrained gases.
Anybody in the senate or house
can say any abusive thing he
pleases about the president, but
it shocks the sense of prOpriety
OF the whole country If the
president says what he thinks
about them. And that makes it
very fortunate that the term of
the president is limited, because
no president could stand it for q
number of years. But when the
lid is off, / am going to resume
my study of the dictionary to
find adequate terms in which to
describe the faulty of these
gentlemen with their poor little
minds that never get anywhere
but run around in q circle and
think they are going somewhere.
L cannot express my contempt
for their intelligence, but be-
cause / think I know the peo-
pie of the United States, / can
predict their future with abso-
lutte certainty. I am not con-
cerned as to the ultimate out
come of this thing at all, not for
a moment, but / am concerned
that the outcome should be
brought about Immediately. just
as promptly as possible. So my
hope is that we will all put on
our war paint. not as democrats,
but as Americans, get the
true American pattern of
war paint and real hatchet and
go out on the war path and get
a collection of scalps that has
never been excelled in the his
tory of American warfare.
CHAPTER XXXVII
Japan-Shantung
One of the settlements embodie
n the Versailles treaty upon whic
he enemies Of the president in thi
country concentrated their fires G
wrath and hatred against the pres
lent was the so-called Shantung sci
cement. The partisan enemies O
he president, realizing the irrecor
,ilable antagonism of certain of GU
people to the Japanese, did every
hing they could to intensity thi
picturing the presiden
Is one who had conceded somethin
o Japan at the expense of helpless
China.
Not love Of China, but hatred @
Woodrow Wilson led partisan RI
without careful invest
cation Of the actual situation, t
'eize on the Shantung affair as a.
to embarass the pres
lent. The ignorances and prejudice
# many of our people on the sui
ect of China played into the hand
# those Republicans, whose mai
object was to injure the presiden
md defeat the treaty. Very fey
fought to understand the settlement
n to ascertain the facts that form
ID the historic background of it.
These facts were clearly set fort,
delivered at Los Angeles, Cal, o.
September 80, 1919. The presiden
aid:
"Let me recall some circumstance
which probably most Of you hav
'orgotton. I have to go back t
he year 1898, for it was in Marc
# that year that these cession
which formerly belonged to Ger
many were transferred to her b.
he government of China. What ha
was that two Germa
in China had been mu1
Tered. The central government a
oekin had done everything that wa
n it's power to do to quiet the loca
to allay the local. pre-.
ldice against foreigners which lie
o the murders, but had been unabl
o do so, and the German govern
nent held them responsible, never
heless, for the murder of the mis-
ionaries. It was not the mission
Lries that the German government
vas interested in.
Praises Mckinley
"That was a pretext. German.
that, because this thing ha
for which the Pekin gov
rnment could not really with jus
ice be held responsible, very larg
md important part Of one Of tn
ichest provinces of China shoul
70 ceded to her for sovereign con
rol, for a period of ninety-nin
years, that she should have tn
light to penetrate the interior o
hat province with a railway, AM
hat she should have the right t
Exploit any ores that lay within
hirty miles either side Of that rail
way. She forced the Pekin govern
aent to say that they did it in graf