The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-24
president TAFT'S
LOGAN SPEECH
GIVEN IN FULL

to think that over, and tell me II
you can discover any difference be.
tween that method of settling contro
versies between individuals and our
present method of settling interna
tional controversies between nations
When nations honor Is infringed
and war is declared and they go out
and fight it out, IL the nation whose
honor it thinks II infringed, wins.
they all go home and say the Lord
was on their side and everything is
as ii ought to be. But If they tackle
nation with better troops and a
better disciplined army and they are
wiped off the face OF the earth, what
do you think about that way of wip.
ing out the stain on the honor? Is
IL not great deal better to submit
the question to a board of honest
judges, made up of impartial men
men who decide that question &C.
Cording to law and Justice and right.
eousness? Is not the decision one
that we would rather have even than
if you won on the field of battle?
What does that decide except that
you have stronger battalions, you
have the better diciplined army?
II does not decide anything on the
basis of right.
1t only settles II on the basis of
might Therefore | say If we can
get rid of war. let us settle all ques-
tions of vital interest and national
honor in that way and so we have
tried to do so. We have made two
treaties, one with England and one
with France, and we are very anx-
ious to have them confirmed by the
senate
Objections OF Senate.
The senate committee on foreign
relations objects-the majority of the
committee does, the minority does
to the form of this
treat. II you will bear with me
little while | would like to tell you
what the treaty is. The first clause
provides that we shall submit to ar.
duration. to The Hague tribunal, or
to some other board to be agreed
upon, every justicable question that
may arise between two nations of an
character i'm which one |
nation makes claim against thel
ether. and then II defines what JUST.
ciable means. II means any question
that may be settled by the applica-
ton of the rules of law and equality.
The second provides that We shall
have joint high commission to cor
sist Of three Americans and three
to whom before the ques
tiOn goes to arbitration at all, in
order to prevent its going to arbitra.
ton, the question arising shall be
submitted for their recommendation,
and they shall take year at this
business They shall hear evidence
and they will make recommendation
no matter what the question is so
long as it has not been settled by
diplomacy Some people object to
that clause on the ground that 1t is
Il breeder of war rather than an
ender of it. don't agree with that
at all. If there is anything that
stays passion, il there is anything
that prevents hasty action under the
effect of anger, it is delay. it is
time. suppose you gentlemen
now speak to the men, are like 9th
ers of us, you sometimes get angry
at home and make yourself dis
agreeable to your entire family, and
your wife tiptoes around and says
papa is not feeling very we'll to-
night, and thereforeeyou better not
bother him, and you after a little
while begin to realize what an inef-
that you have no right to get angry
under those conditions and that you
ought to apologize to everybody for
doing so.
Delay Stops Passion,
That is just the way that nations
viii ac iii individuals act in that way
There is nothing like delay to stop
passion Delay teaches common