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Show SHERMAN' ASSAILS; TREATY; Shantung Treaty Superlative Super-lative Treachery of Modern Times. JAPAN COVETOUS Would Soon Become as Autocratic as German Overlords. WASHINGTON, July 17. Urging the senate to refuse compliance of th? Shantung provision in the peace treaty, Senator Sherman. Illinois, declared to-daj to-daj that the section giving Japan control con-trol of Shantung peninsula, "so taints and poisons the professed altruism 'with which the league of nations was , heralded as to crown if the superlative superla-tive treachery in the history of modern mod-ern times " I The provision, asserted the speaker, would aid Japan in becoming "the sa Ibre rattler of the world." and strengthen strength-en her for the day when she might i try. like Germany, for world empire. , In such an eventuality, he continued, and with British and Japanese inter ests in the orient identical, me i unea States might well look to the safely oi the Philippines Japan Covets Chinese Territory. Why China should be exploited," he said, "her territory' absorbed In the , guise of lease holds, her port cities dominated by alien powers, her mining and railway rights seized by Japan, does not appear except under the rule of covetous eyes coupled with military force. "It Is material to notice under the Japanese constitution the emperor has the supreme command of the armv and navy, declares war. makes peace and concludes treaties. The kaiser could do no more in the days he menaced men-aced Europe and the world. It is as plain as tne noon aay sun iuc m-government m-government is autocratic and that it will add Chinese province upon prov-inc-e. rone . .nn upon ( oncesion, until un-til an Asiatic kaiser will dominate he afafirs of Asia and the Pacific ocean. Germany's Notorious Acts. ' In 1807 Germany, professing to be exasperated by the murder of two exiled German missionaries by ignoL-ant ignoL-ant fanatics in Shantung, sent Germany's Ger-many's warships to the bay, bombarded bombard-ed the ports, landed troops and occu- j pled 'he territory In settlement Bho compelled the Chinese government toj sign a 99-year least- with concessions for railway building and mining. A mere lease of property by one govern men! to another does not divest the lessor government of sovereignty qv I the territory' so leased Japan entered; the war for the express purpose of iliivinr; lh' Germans out of the leased territory The expulsion of Germany cave Japan no sovereign rights there which she has since assumed. "The Japanese occupation, the cruel-tlos cruel-tlos inflicted on the helpless inhabitants, inhabi-tants, the seizure of property and the; resulting looting irresistibly turn one's thoughts to the German conduct in I Belgium. We denounce one In un-, measured terms We are asked to ap prove the other and declare it Justi-j Ued in a holy cause. Japan Fails to Keep Pledge. "Japan intends, we are told, 'in a limited time to withdraw from Shantung Shan-tung and return that country to the ( hinese. In every instance in which Japan has pledged herself ou the continent con-tinent of Asia to occupy temporarily she has made occupaupy permanent "The United States exercises sovereignty sov-ereignty in the Philippines. Japan's i xpansion is seaward as well as land ward. Her ambition covers the Pacific Pa-cific ocean as well as the Asiatic main Hand. With Germany in perpetual in llrigue it is no far inference that a practical partition resulting from a union of those two powers in Europe and Asia as no impossible event. Assumes Sovereign Right. "Japan assumes sovereign right3 over Chinese territory. Mere reflne-meni reflne-meni of language or specious inter-Ipretation inter-Ipretation will not remove this impending impend-ing iruth. Japan will not surrender this, advantage so gained. Article 10 I and the portion of the treaty relating in Shantung are twin brothers of a common iniquity. They speak ihe language Of a joint outrage and bear the evidence of deliberate pre-arranged conspiracy Great Britain bore a large part in the war The life blood of Gra F,ritain is her foreign trade. We aM without adequate experience in foreiMl trade. We are upon the threshold hi that experiment Great Britain la y keenly observant of our course Sic has been void of sentiment and some- f times of humanity in breaking down j and destroying her rivals. II Vulnerable in Philippines. "We have denied Japan the right t of immigration for her subject It li a wound to their pride. We are vul-nerable vul-nerable in the Philippines, our greau jj friend lives beyond in the people of j the Chinese republic. In our day of peril it must be remembered that the interests of Great Britain and Japun J in the orient are Identical. I "We can defend ourselves, lt will ; be a heavy price to pay, but it wtij I be paid We may lose the Phillppin- I, Our greatest friend may then be the i Chinese people whom today we are asked to humiliate and dismember." f 4 I |