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4 SPEECH OF SENATOR THOS. E. WATSON AGAINST FOUR POWER PACT. (Continued from Page Three.) whether I am not right in the statement that from day the first Christian perished on the bioody sands of a Roman arena, until the last Christian gave his life rather than burn incense before the altars of Diana, in one year, in a single 12-month, Great Britain ha# caused the death of more Christians by Turkish bri gauds and Turkish jannisarles than ever fell before all the powers of all the Neroes and all the Dominions and a'l the Tiberluses that ever made war upon the Chris¬ tian faith throughout the whole history of the Roman Empire? Mr. WATSON of Georgia. That is true, Mr. Pros ident, and a comparatively recent illustration of it is this: That the Crimean War was fought for the pur¬ pose of maintaining the rule of the Turks who had com¬ mitted all sorts of atrocities against the Christians in the Balkan Peninsular and against the Christians in Armenia. Mr. STANLEY. At that point, not to interrupt the Senator, I often wondered why—>— The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky will address the Chair first to determine whether the Senator having the floor will yield. That is the procedure which must be followed. Mr. WATSON of Georgia. I gladly yield. Mr. STANLEY. I anticipated no trouble there. The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is not a question of anticipation; it is a question of a rule of this body. Mr. STANLEY. If I hijvo stepped incontinently on the toes of the Presiding Officer I most humbly apologize; it was not intentional. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is no apology needed. It is only a question of following the rule. Does the Senator from Georgia yield to the Senator from Kentucky? Mr. WATSON of Georgia. With pleasure, Mr. President. Mr. STANLEY. Mr. President, may 1 Interrupt the Senator from Georgia? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia yields. Mr. STANLEY. We are as highly technical as this treaty. I often wondered why, at the foot of that heautlfu! poem now quoted in all our textbooks, “The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava,'' where Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered, Whiie the Six Hundred went to death and to immor¬ tality, they did not write, “Not one of them fought or one of them fell, not one of them gave his red and heroic blood, in order that a pagan Turk might murder a Christian -with impunity in Armenia, under the aegis of that Christian and canonized nation, Great Britain.” Mr. WATSON of Georgia. Mr. President, that is quite true. The net result of the Crimean War was to continue the power of Turkey; but we need not be surprised at anything done by Great Britain; and when I say that, I mean the governing powers there, the oligarchy. I do not mean the people, because by blood T am an Englishman myself. Mr. STANLEY. So am I. Mr. WATSON of Georgia. But the governing power there Is like it is in so many other countries— it represents caste and privileged and organized wealth, disregarding the rights of the masses and the true in¬ terests of civilization. I was about to refer to Russia when my friend the Senator from Missouri, got in. How does anybody know that Russia will not come back within 11 years? How docs anybody know that her armies will not be marching toward the Arctic Circle, within the next week or the next month, to hurl the Japanese away from what is really the Russian mainland, not only in Siberia but in the island of Sakhalin, which, for a lie rt of the year at least, is connected with the Russian mainland, and which is as much the property of Rus¬ sia as Alaska is ours? In that case, then, we will he bound to raise another expeditionary force, and again have American blood reddening the snows of Siberia. We may have again another blockade of the Russian coast, reducing noncombatants—men, women, and children—to the agonies of starvation. Stranger things have happened. We did not think we would get into this World War, hut we did, and we are not out of it yet. I wish to Gou I could see before me far enough to fix the time ■when we will be out of it, and out of its direct and dire consequences. Senator on the other side say that there are no words in this treaty which bind us to an alliance and commit us to sending military and naval aid to repel the aggressions which some fifth power may make on one of • these four. No, the words are not there. Eiihu I Root and Arthur Balfour were too shrewd to show their! cards, They dared not. write those words expressly in j the treaty. They wanted the American people to bo duped. They wanted the American people to believe that this treaty meant peace, the end of war. Therefore, with the cunning of a shrewd lawyer who had been cunning enough to keep out of the penitentiary some of the worst criminals that ever trod the American con¬ tinent. this shrewd lawyer wrote words which, while 'I think they convey his meaning, are not so very plain ss to catch the attention of the ordinary American reader, who suspects no guile, because, as a rule, the American is not a man of guile. Going to another point, American missionaries, American Bible women, American school-teachers, j American surgeons, financed by the money given in our churches by consecrated Christians, had turned Korea into a Christian land, which led our great Georgia Methodist missionary, Warren Candler, to say that St. Paul never had such an opportunity in his life as we had in Korea. At Seoul the Christians hud one of the! most magnificent universities on (lie globe. They had thousands of schools, thousands of churches, millions o devoted converts. The Buddhist Japanese have been burning those schoolhouses, burning those churches, burning the worshipers In the churches, butchering the converts, torturing the girls, torturing the boys, tor¬ turing the men, torturing iho women until the horrors of the Dark Ages have been excelled; and we are be¬ coming partners to it. It was going on while these con fere,es were sitting as guests of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Was there any protest, any re¬ monstrance* any expostulation? Not a word. On the contrary we were so tender of the feelings of these Buddhists that the Chaplain, the Christian chaplain who opened the session with prayer, was not allowed to THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. THOMSON, GEORGIA. mention the name of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Surely we must be very much afraid of Japan, Do not Senators argue here, on both sides of the aisle, that there was a great emergency upon us, a great danger from the Anglo-Japanese alliance? Do they intend to go before their constituents in the fall elections Mr. STANLEY. Mr. President The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Georgia yield to the Senator from Kentucky? Mr, WATSON of Georgia. With pleasure Mr. STANDBY. The Senator from Georgia, with perfect respect to both! Again invoking the pro¬ found knowledge of history of the Senator from Geor¬ gia, does he know of another instance in the history of the world except the opening of this conference where God Almighty was ever insulted by a doctored prayer? Mr. WATSON of Georgia. Mr. President, I do not know of any such instance. If somebody w'anted to censor the prayer of our Chaplain, the worthy Doc¬ tor Muir, there would be a riot on the floor of the Senate. I wish to know what line of defense the senior Senator from Ohio (Mr. Pomefene), who is poon to go to the judgment bar of public opinion la his State, wll! take, able lawyer that he is, when he is asked to explain why ho virtually Indorsed the striking out of the name of Jesus Christ from a Christian prayer. I would like to know upon what line of reac soning he is going to defend himself before the brave people of Ohio after having stated here that we must vote for this abomination, this surrender of our per¬ fect, unfettered freedom, because we are afraid of Japan. I, for one, would not dare to go back to the State which I have the honor in part to represent here and tell my people there that I made the plea of a coward, in behalf of cow rds, and based my action upon craven cowardice. The very women would beat me oif the hustings with their house brooms. But that is the attitude taken on the other side of the Chamber, and the atti¬ tude taken on tills side by those who advocate this abominable departure from historic American policy which has made our country the most powerful in the world. The PRESIDING OFFICER (at 9 o’clock and 1 minute p. m.). The Chair is obliged to state to the Senator from Georgia that his hour has expired. Mr. WATSON of Georgia. • Have I 30 minutes more? The Senator has 30 minutes on the pending amend¬ ment. Mr. WATSON of Georgia. I will address myself to that, at once.. As I was saying a moment ago, they have told us that this an alliance or agreement or compact to con¬ fer, as the junior Senator from Missouri (Mr. Spen¬ cer) said, “an agreement to get together and talk." Why was any agreement needed for that? Men can always tali so can women. Why was any agreement necessary .for that? If the propagandists put this over, they will have 11 years in which to perpetuate its life by similar methods, if what the people said at the polls in November, 1920; can be so soon forgotten, what will be forgotten before the 11 years are up? The propagandists, the invisible powers, the irresistible force that can put this thing over, can put anything over,, including a life term for the President, which will be a thinly veiled monarchy—and that is the goal toward which we arc lending. 'The Senator from California (Mr. Shortridge) de¬ clared his belief that the Japanese question on the Pacific coast would not be affected by this treaty. Why, Mr. President, ibis treaty throws the case into the ju¬ risdiction of a court where Japan will have greater influence than ourselves, because she is a member of the League of Nations, into which she could drag us to try that ease, and the league does not. love us, for wc did not join it. Her case will virtually be tried by herself. She will be the judge of her own case. Is not this a Pacific question? The treaty expressly states: that Pacific questions shall be the subject of conference and of adjustment. See need not try it in the con¬ ference composed of the United States, France, Eng¬ land, and Japan. She can summon the United States to plead before the bar of the council of the League of Nations, and if the United States refuses to answer I he summons to obey tlip process our refusal will be an act of war, and every one of the 50 nations in the League of Nations will at once become, our enemy un¬ der the covenant of the League. The junior Senator from California said that the treaty binds u to no more than to respect the inter national rights of other nations. International law does that much, To trample upon the rights of an other nation is, a cause of war under international ‘law, and it was that which caused President Wilson in his address to Congress to ask for the declaration of war tlrat led us into the European conflict That is inter national law. ■ They need not to juggle fcehind closed doors, whispering to one another, week after week, to reach that point, international law does it. We do not need four powers to agree on that, That is the 'aw applying to all the powers, The junior Senator from California, who was' elected as an opponent of the League of Nations, said that international la vt allows the State of California freedom of legislation against the Japanese. I dispute that proposition. 1 know he is an able lawyer, a gen¬ tleman for whom personally 1 have the greatest re¬ spect and with whom I live upon the most cordial terms here jji the Senate. But, Mr. President, the Interna¬ tional law, l)o will find It in the standard authority of Hall, sixth edition, pages 211 and 212, says that no State of this Union, nor can the whole Union, under international law pass any Statute which discriminates against any one country. The law must be uniform, 11 must apply alike to all. That is in international law. In the case of a question arising aa to whether Japan's nationals are being treated on an equality with the nationals of France, England, Germany, or any other country, Japan deckles that question for herself. That is me principle of international law. See what dangers there are in the California question, a Pacific question under international law and under this com pact. As 1 have iid once or twice previously, th° old fight, so arduous, so long, and so self-sacrificing,* that our forefather* pi ado to win our prtieut freedom thrills me with its memories and inspires me to make one more effort to arouse public sentiment against this abject surrender to Great Britain and Japan. I would like to see our country always free, worthy of the struggles of forefathers. " In the old our country a man of my name, of my family and my blood, refused to take office under King George III until he had prom¬ ised to allow' his Prime Minister to recognize the inde¬ pendence of these struggling Colonies. At the same time that he was doing that in the old country my im¬ mediate ancestors in name, in family, and in blood were giving their lives to win the independence which has been our proud heritage. Liberty lighting the world! And now we league ourselves with those who are trampling out the liber¬ ties of the world in India, in Korea, in China, in Si¬ beria, )n Syria, and In Mesopotamia. When the time femes that we can no longer sing the Star-Spangied Banner, when the flag no longer waves In the sunlight or in the evening’s glory, when this no longer fs “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” I for one w-ould rather be at the bottom of the narrow home where some day my bones must rest. In the beauty of the lillles Christ was born across the sea. The glory of His bosom transfigures you and me. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. Has that old Bplrit died out? Is the spirit of seventy-six gone? Is it all over, this dream of a free Republic? Is it all over? It seems so, Mr. President; it seems so! We are going into an alliance with the greatest enemy of human freedom that ever built an empire. Think of their hiring East Indian negroes to burn, and ravish day after day and night after night the coast, and towns of Virginia. Think of their hiring savage redrnen to burn_ to slave, to scalp, to tomahawk men, women, and children in the South and on the north¬ western frontier. Think of their burning this Capitol, burning the White House, stopping our ships on the high seas, seizing American sailors and driving them into involuntary servitude on the battleships of Eng¬ land. Think of the wgy they murdered millions of Chinese to force the opium trade on them. Mr. STANLEY. Mr. President The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Georgia yield to the Senator from Kentucky? Mr. WATSQN of Georgia. I yield with pleasure. Mr. STANLEY. While the Senator is recounting the Interesting history of the employment of negro slaves to turn rapists and murderers in Virginia, of red savages to massacre women and children, and of the hiring of the Prussian hordes, I w'Ould like to re¬ mind the Senator, just to make his picture complete, that the only reason why we did not suffer the horrors of 20.000 Russian Cossacks at the same time -was be¬ cause Catherine II—yes, even Catherine II—had too much decency to sell them to George 111. Mr. WATSON of Georgia. 1 accept with great pleasure that addition to whaW was saying. Would that I had the time to give the Senate and the country something of the public morality of Japan, it is the only country on earth where a candidate for high office publishes the fact that he has been in¬ dorsed by the lawyers, by the merchants, by the hank¬ ers and by the prostitutes. I can see where the law¬ yers might come in and the bankers and the merchants, but how the prostitutes got in I do not know. Japan is the only country on earth where a candidate publish¬ es the testimonial of the head woman of the guild of prostitutes, because they are organized in a guild, these gilded women. It is the only country on earth where a man near to the Emperor published a defense of the foul, cowardly assassination of the Queen of Korea. Ho had no conception of the moral turpitude of that deed. We could form an idea of the character of such a defense if we could suppose that some Ameri¬ can lawyer had published a defense of the assassination of President Lincoln Oh, I suppose we are going in. Politics make strange bedfellows, but it never made a stranger one than when we took in a country where they elect the man vouched by the prostitutes. 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Before me a Notary Public In and for the District of Columbia, personally appeared Alice Louise Lytle, who be¬ ing duly sworn according to law, deposes and say's that she is the Business Manager of The Columbia Sentinel and that the following Is, to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore¬ said publication for the date shown In the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied In section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are: Publisher The Columbia Sentinel, Thomson, Ga. Editor Thos. E. Watson, Washington, D. C., and Thom¬ son, Ga. Managing Editor Alice Louise Lytle, Washington, D. C„ and Thomson, Ga. Business Manager, Alice Louise Lytle, Washington, D. C., and Thomson, Ga. 2. That the 1 * owners are: (Give names and addresses of Individual owners, or, If a corporation, give Its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more nf the total amount of stock.) Thos. E. Watson, Washington, D. C.. and Thomson, Ga. Alice Louise Lytle, Washington, D. C., and Thomson, Ga. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securi¬ ties are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, If any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of tho company as trustee or in Any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements em¬ bracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the cir¬ cumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upjon the books of the company as^trustees, hold stock and securities in a capaci¬ ty other than that of a bonafide owner; and tills affiant lias no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect In tho said stuck, bond*, or other securities than as so stated by him. ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Sworn to and subscribed before "me this 22 day of March, 1922. (SEAL) EL'GENE COLWELL, Notary Public U. S. Senate, My Commission expires Doc. 2, 1929. Washington, D, C
