The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-07-07
TAFT TALKS PEACE
ON JULY FOURTH
DELIVERS SEVERAL ADDRESSES
WHILE TRAVERSING OHIO AND
INDIANA.
VISITS VETERANS NATIONAL HOME
Says Arbitration Treaties Are De.
signed as Step Forward-Ex-
plains Reciprocity to Old
Soldiers.

Soldiers.
Marion, Ind. July with the tenn
9er3ture in his private car up above
the 100 mark for hours at a time.
President Taft hurried through Ohio
md Indiana. He began speaking from
he rear platform of his car at Cleve-
land just after breakfast. and did not
get through until o'clock. He ended
a strenuous and sticky day with two
addresses at the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers here. The
president spoke OF war-but more of
peace and arbitra iOn-tO the veterans
To the bankers and editors of the Eiev.
enth congressional district he talked
about the Aldrich plan of currency.
At indianapolis he talked of the third
most important measure" of the ad-
ministration, reciprocity with Canada.
On the way over from Cleveland, in
spite Of the heat and the dust, the
president made nine rear platform
talks. Sometimes he talked about the
heat and at others he argued for a
safe and sane Fourth" and once in
while he turned to prosperity and
Canadian reciprocity, which, he said,
would bring more prosperity. In the
speech TO the old soldiers the president
declared that all Of the foreign wars
Waged by this country, except the war
of the revolution, and possibly even
the civil war, coL,d have been settled
without bloodsheG, through arbitra-
ton. No fewer than five times. said
the president, he's the United States
interviewed between South and Central
American countries that felt belliger-
ent and by peaceful persuasion averted
war
Treaties Only Step.
Il am not via enthusiast or a
blind Optimist," said the president
Il do not look forward to a complete
restoration of peace which cannot be
disturbed in the world even if these
treaties of arbitration are adopted
Morality of nations improves only step
by step, and so the making and CON
firming of these treaties must be re-
garded as step, but as a very long
step, toward the securing of peace in
the world"
The speech to the bankers and ed
itors was in the nature of reitera-
tion OF his address to the New York
state bankers at Manhatten Beach.
Il do not know any function" said
the president, &C greater Importance
to the wage Garner, the farmer, the
business man, the manufacturer. the
| banker and the capitalist. exercised by
the government, after the preservation
of law and order and the maintenance
of liberty and rign of property. than
the duty of government to furnish
to the people banking and currency
system which shall give them a con
Stant and unvaryinS medium for the
measurement OF values and the inter
change of products that shall enable
business 10 proceed in q normal way"
Mr.. Taft is the first president to
visit Marion after his assumption of
OiiiCt, anu iUOuSdiiuS Vi people tuTUeQ
out to see him.
In mis- speech to the veterans the
president said in part:
Discusses Anglican Pact.
For the further securing of peace
aned as an example to all the world of
the possibilities Of the use of arbtra-
ton, we have invited England, France
and Germany TO make treaty for the
arbitrament Of all difference of an
international character that in their
nature can be adJudicated, and we
have 1T out in this treaty those ex-
ceptiOnS which heretofore always have
been excluded from arbitratal contro-
versies, to wit, questions of a nations
honor and of its vital interest OF
course. | cannot say with positiveness
that these treaties will all be made
and confirmed. ! can only say that the
prospect of an agreement with the ex-
ecutive Of one of the countries is rea.
sonably sure, and we have every hope
as to the other two, and that these
three treaties will be followed by
many of the same tenor with other
countries if the original three are
agreed upon and confirmed