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Cylvan Valley News, January 1,1917.
M. L. SHIPMAN* Editor
C. B. OSBORNE, Manasriiig
Editor and Publisher. "
GERTttUDE R. ZACHARY
City Editor
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER lOtb, 1919.
OUR POSITION
A (n*eat may of our friends, it
aeems, have not been able to under-
stand that we were not, in a way, re-
‘ sponsible for the arguments against
the League of Nations which have
ben appearing in the full page adver
tisement under the camaflauge? of
“The Baptist 75 Million Dollar Cam
paign.”
We would just like to state our po
sition. As stated in the first of these
advertisements Mr. Duckwortlf, As-
sociational Director of the Campaign,
contracted with the publisher of this
paper for a page ad to appear cach
week for a period of three months
and agreed to stand personally re
sponsible for the bill. The under-
■tandingr however, was that the space
would be used for the promotion of
the “75 Million Dollar Campaign;”
•and when Mr. Duckworth began using
it for another purpose we immediate
ly began hunting some way 10 can
cel the contract. We W'ere told by
our legal adviser that we- would be
compelled to publish whatever was
sent in so long as it was not of a
ftisnderess or fraudlent nature.
When the copy for this week’s ad
came we were advised that the con
tract was null and void. I
And now for the bene'it of the
**buB7 body^’ who deemed it necessary^
to ‘*but in** and try to intei^^r with
the ma»a|^ment of this paper we
would i^dviae^that fr* are running this
paper and if you have anyt>dng to
sas;. come to us in an unprejucticed,
gentlemanly way and we will listen
to you. And don’t get it into your
head that your sneaking efforts are
the cause of the termination of the
above mentioned contract.
'u matter of fact, tiie rights retained
by Japan in Shantnng are only such
econmic rights as other notions hold
and the professed sympathy for China
by opponents of the League are made
pnly because they want the treaty to
fail, for the reason that a democratic
president played the leading role in
its construction.
Senate republicans feign deep con
cern about getting our country mixed
up in foreign aifairs. Yet they would
have us start in before peace is de
clared interferring with the affairs
SHANTUNG AND ARTICLE X.
Republican opponents of the
Leaitue of Nations have been loudly j „, (,hina and Jaoan by notifying the
protesting the rights, accorded to Ja- «,li„quid, a tem-
pan in Shantung. In his recent tour of
the Country President Wilson called
atention to the fact that President
McKinley did not protest when Ger
many acquired the rights nov^ given
to Japan over that territory. If this
country did not worry over the pos
session of Shantung by Germany to
the extent of driving her away, why
manifest so much concern because of
the action of Japan in wresting this
porary claim on territory that the
former has not held for a long term
of years. If the United States is to
form a protectorate over China we
may as well begin preparations for
another season of hostilities.
Article X has been singled, out as
another target for republican spell
binders and a few misguided demo
crats. This is the heart of the Lea
gue, according to the President, and
territory from the enemy of civiliza-1 statesmen and diplomats of
tion? Japan took the Shantung rights
from Germany and now holds more
than Germany held. For this ‘’crime”,
if you please, a few republicans in
the United States Senate would in
volve the American people in a con
troversy with Japan. To undertake
to deprive Japan of possessions she
wrested from Germany would be
equivalent to a declaration of war and
the “light is not worth the candle.”
President Wilson jvas spokesman
for the American people at the Ver
sailles conference. Jle says the settle
ment of the Shantung affair provided
in the treaty was unavoidable and
that the League of Nations offers
France has already ratified the doc
ument with Arti'ile X included. The
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other European countries will follow
the French lead, while the American
Senate quibbles over technicalities
in a studied effort to discredit, if pos
sible, the one man who has done more
than any other to bring order out of
chaos, because he is the back-bone of
a party which the majority members
of that body are seeking to destroy.
President Wilson is convinced that
if Article X shall be omitted from the
treaty the United States will be ex
cluded from the League, a condition
which would please Germany as noth
China her best chance for the recov- ^ jng else could. He says, further, that
ery of her lost province; that there
was no precedent in international af
fairs for even protesting against Ja
pan’s acquisition of the Shantung
rights. The President says, however,
that under Article XI of the League
covenant the United States would
have the friendly right of protesting
against any situation which endanger
ed peace. ^ It could then become an
effective friend of China and would
do so at the first opportunity. As
“reservation of this article means re
jection of the treaty. It means that
the United States could take away
its support, I know there are some
men who are in favor of this that are
learned; but I do not think that they
realize that the United States would
be excluded from the League entire
ly. We should consider seriously
what the rejection of the treaty
would mean to the people of Great
Britian and the people of our own
eoimtey. fitninnly !■ wl»t «ntioiis fqfr
United States to Im among ths meiB^
bers of the League. It would mean
a separate treaty with Germany and
this^ would be against the United
States. It would simply mean that
this country would be left to **paddle
its own canoe.’* We cannot afford to
be placed in such an unviable p6si-
tion.
President Wilson is one of the cas
ualties of the great world war. He
is as much a hero as the soldier who
assisted in breaking the Hindenburg
line, for he has put something in its
place. He has not endured the hard
ships of active service in"the trenches.
Nor has he become the victim of Ger
man schrapnel. But his great heart
has been hovering between , life and
death for days as the result of acti
vities, for a lasting peace, which have
over-taxed his strength. Millions of
petitions ascend a throng of grace
daily pleading for his recovery. No
greater calamity could befall the civ
ilization of the world today than the
passing of this eminent istatesman and
diplomat. May he be spared the ser
vice which no living man could ren
der the people of the United States
during this -trying period of the coun
try’s history. The good news which
comes from his bedside is, inde
heartening and complete recovery
may not be long delayed. Let us
hope so.
France has not only ratified the
Peace Treaty with Germany, League
of Nation Covenant and all, but the
Premier of the French Nation, held
by many to be Europe’s greatest
statesman, openly urges that the first
meetingly of the League of Nations
be held, at Washington in November
with Woodrow Wilson as President.
Premier Clemenceau says that he will
be glad to “second” Mr. Wilson in
his task as President of the Society
of Nations and that he has v^-jtten
Lloyd George to that effect. Still the
Senate of the United States hangs
back, thus refusing to permit Americft
to take its place at the head of the
table around which all the nations of
the earth will sit to fashion the des-
tiny^ of humanity.
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determined
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