Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — ANOTHER “ANTI” BUBBLE IS BURSTED [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER “ANTI” BUBBLE IS BURSTED

While the country has been con 'fidently awaiting the pleasure of the senate in ratifying the treaty of peace and the league of nations covenant with nothing more than minor reservations, it has been Interesting to follow the tactics of \be “bitter-enders” in their effort? ’•to magnify some alleged flaw in •the documents. The main features •of the pact have proved satisfactory so that the objectors have been forced to exploit their self-styled of whole-hearted Americanism on some alleged weak links. ’They first decided that the Shantung provision offered hope of the /greatest returns and proceeded to gmlnt with graphic touch the enormity of the crime perpetrated against China, the treachery oi Japan and the bad faith of the United States in inducing China to enter the war and then to be tray her into the hands of hei rival. There is no doubt that the Shan%ung provision was not pleasing tc 4he great body of the American ■people nor to the peace, delegation at Paris. The president 1/imsell

admitted that he had experienced deep regret in consenting to the bargain but he declared that under the circumstances it was the best arrangement that could be made. He also showed how China under the league of nations provision would have the opportunity to come into court for* a settlement of any alleged wrongs whereas without the league the United States alone would not care to compel Japan to relinquish the province by force cf arms. The president defined the issue clearly and the argument proved convincing to the country as a whole. The treaty opponents turned to the “6 to 1” slogan, contending that Great Britain would! be enabled to outvote the United States 6 to 1, by reason of her ability to< count on the votes of dependencies such as Canada and Australia, represented in the assembly of the league. The irreconcilables figured that such an appeal to the antiBritish and latent pro-German sentiment in the United States would evoke a response that would /suffice to wreck the entire covenant. Their argument was answered by the president’s plain elucidation of the facts. With the main grist of the Fall amendments discarded the country may rest assured that the senate has sensed public opinion In the nation sufficiently to insure a similar fate for other radical provisions. No determined objection has been raised to mild reservations but the country is in no mood to permit action necessitating the reopening of the Paris conference. — Sunday’? Indianapolis Star (Rep.)