Show WI W H. H H KING SAYS THAT PACT Will BE RATIFIED Utah Senator Just Home From Prom Washington Declares The The- League of Nations Favored by 80 Per Iter Cent People Declaring that failure to ratify the peace treaty would mean widespread disaster throughout Europe United States Senator William Wllliam H. H King just home In Salt Lake from WashIngton WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- Ington said that the tho document willbe will wll be ratified without textual amendments amendments amend amend- ments Senator King stated It as his belief that 80 per cent of the people of the country favor the league o of nations That President Wilson rendered China and the world a great grea service e by his efforts for the Shantung Shantung Shantung Shan Shan- tung provision of the treaty am and that his opponents deprecated his service for political reasons alone Is Senator Kings King's statement Article X he says provides against aggression aggression aggression sion of stronger nations against weaker ones and will thus assure assur peace He also referred to the safeguarding safeguarding safeguarding safe safe- guarding of the Monroe doctrine I Ithe In Inthe inthe the pact and declared that while th the league of nations is not perfect It provides a framework which may be added to as the course of time makes make necessary The treaty will be ratified with wit no textual amendments Senator King said It would be a a. calamity so great it cannot be comprehended if the treaty were rejected If Ifa a amendments to the text are lre made e A Ti v Ss J other ther signatories will ask for far amendments amendments amendments amend amend- ments and endless negotiation willbe will wll be Involved It would be ing for us to go to Germany and discuss discuss dis- dis cuss negotiations further with her Germany has already manifested opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position to the treaty and the unwise unwise unwise un un- wise and impolitic speeches of Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Knox and others who follow in his tracks lI like e sheep are encouraging her to oppose the treaty The hypocrisy of some of the opponents opponents opponents op op- of the treaty treaty is discovered when we remember that certain senators senators senators sen sen- and other opponents of peace denounced Mr Wilson when he went to Europe because they alleged he would make a soft treaty with the defeated nation and would not exact reparation and demands called for by justice Now they denounce what they call the harsh terms terras of the thet t treaty rep ty Some Republicans are making the treaty a partisan issue They are more moie interested In trying to help their party part than they are in the welfare of the country and the peace of tho the world A certain class of politicians politicians politicians poli poli- and partisans is pretending indignation because of the Shantung provision of the treaty yet et they know that under the treaty Chinas China's interests are preserved and the peace of the orient maintained They decline decline decline de de- cline to tell toll people that when the kaiser took from China anti an concessions In Shantung a Republican Republican Re Re- publican secretary of state Senator John Hay sent a congratulatory message to Germany and complimented complimented complimented her upon her fair and humane humane humane hu hu- hu- hu mane conduct in dealing with China Japan drove Germany out of China and after taking concessions she had extorted made a treaty I with China In 1915 Tins This treaty confirmed in Japan the right she had taken from Germany France and England by treaties executed before the entry of the United States into the war war stipulated that Japan should retain tho the concessions in and in Shantung Mr Wilson was the friend of China at the peace conference and earnestly contended for the abandonment abandonment abandonment abandon abandon- ment by Japan of the rights she had obtained England and France were in no position to oppose Japan It was imperative that Japan should bein bo be boIn boin in the tho league to secure the pe puce oe of the tho Orient and tho the good of the entire world Finally Mr 1 Wilson was able to secure an agreement by which I Japan would in fn a la short time after I tho the ratification of the treaty return I to China and concessions concessions In Shantung Mr Wilson rendered a signal service to humanity and the greatest service to China by his efforts I |