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Show LOOK OUT FOR THE I MISLEADING. Being distrustful of the Hearst "International "In-ternational Service," because at tho opening of the war the Hearst papers leaned strongly to the German side, The Standard doubts the statement carried by that news service that President Wilson has sent a note to Japan protesting against an invasion of Siberia. According to the "International Service," the President's objections are as follows: To use armed forces on Russian territory without the consent of Russia Is a violation of Russian sovereignty. To consent to such intervention would be to violate every principle of democracy for which wo are fighting. The possibility of the conversion of supplies at Vladivostok to Teuton Teu-ton uses Is held too remote to be considered. The possibility of German ag-I ag-I gression against Japan is thought equally remote. I Intervention might be justified ! if human life were at stake. It is not justified for the defense of property, no matter how valuable The United States In everything the president has said, has beon pictured as entering this war for an ideal. The dominant note of this ideal has been the right of free peoples to pursue their own destinies. Were it possible to secure the consent con-sent of Russia to operations designed de-signed to protect supplies consigned con-signed to her, no doubt Is expressed ex-pressed but that such an operation would meet with Washington's approval. ap-proval. But, it is pointed out, there is no voice in Russia today which can either approve or disapprove such action. The presidont has insisted insist-ed that the Russian people must be permitted to work out their own destinies. He has promised them every aid in that efforL Information at hand here is that the Russian will deeply resent the landing of armed forces at their eastern seaport. That resentment will be cleverly fanned by tho Gorman Gor-man agents, with whom the country coun-try Is sown. It will add another element of confusion to the maze of internal and foreign politics in which the newly liberal Russians are struggling. The government of the United States, it Is understood, to consider consid-er to approve this action would be false to every promise that the United States has made to Russia. It would, according to opinion here, justify, the Bolshevik! in their stand that all government are only rapacious capitalists. The foregoing is, in our opinion, i German propaganda, which persists in trying to picture Japan as an enemy - to this country and a constant peril in I the Far East. The article opens with false pre-, pre-, tense. Why should the using of armed - forces in Siberia bo considered a viO' r, latlon of Russian sovereignty when t Russia has no sovereignty and is a na-l na-l tlon without power in fact is not n nation? i' It is well recognized by every one i except pro -Germans that tho invasion - of Siberia is not for the purpose of at a tacking or humiliating the Russiar. 3 people, but Is aimed to prevent Ger i- man Influenco from extending acros i Siberia to Vladivostok and eatablishinj a submarine baso on the Pacific. We do not believe the Russians will deeply resent tho landing of armed forces in eastern Siberia. They havo no resentment left. They are lifeless as a nation, a3 Is proved by their almost complete failure to resist tho German invasion. If there is any hope of a rallying force to stop the German sweep over Russian lands, that hopo must rest on the presence of a Japanese army, or other troops of the allies around which the people can gather In self-protection. If tho Japanese go into Siberia tnolr primary mission will be to deprive de-prive the Germans of war supplies at Vladivostok and, therefore, to help strengthen the hands of those Russians Rus-sians who are opposed to Germany's conquering legions now possessing themselves of everything of value In that part of Russia which has been beaten down. For the Russians to yield to tho al-, al-, lies surely Is not more offensive to the Russians than to give up their , country to the Germans, their avowed t enemy, and now their brutal task . master. |