Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-06 | Page 4 | Other Points of View

I Other Points of View I CHINESE couE COMMENT ON ox LEAGUE The American Senate after adopting a number c of reser reser- In the peace treaty treat and league of or nations covenant including ono on the Shantung matter mater finally finaly b by a large majority rejected the thc treaty altogether and adjourned Thus on tho the face tace at leas lea least t t. t the thic work of or President Wilson at Paris has becil nullified A Reuter dispatch of or exactly four lines brought this significant S neis nei's news to the tho millions of oC living In Asia Asia this week Thus hus hiis America finds heri herself her- her herself self in much the i tuB as China She has reuse refused to sign a n document In iii which she does not believe Chinas China's representatives es at Paris Parts and Chinas China's officials at Peking dared lared not sign tho the peace tr treaty aty because it ratified Peking d an Immoral act act act-a a theft of or Chinese territory b territory territory-by by a n countr country that had posed as an al ally To have havo signed would woul have provoked a revolution rc In fn China that would have hae o ho been worse than the Boxer uprising magnified a the thousand times In America S where tho the people are aro articulate the they have pre prevented d their officials from signing the treat treaty because 0 they did not believe In It Th The e belc I. I Shantung reservation the tho treat treaty treat by tho the United States Senate was but reser aton to one of or the tho details but it I typified all that was al WIS wrong and rotten In the tho Bc secret ret bargaining and trading that went roten on behind closet closed doers at t Paris There nr are those who will the Senates Senate's action wil ascribe to It to Internal pro others will 1 ascribe I politics politico warming up for an nn approaching tonal election electon while still others will na nn- sa that ful people have havo wl say an Ungrateful thrown over a leader teader that almost f life lre for a cause JUard Review nc Shanghai gave his