The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-11-16
URGES WOMEN TO
WORK FOR PEACE
Taft Appeals to Them to SUP.
port His Arbitration Treaties,
THEY SUFFER MORE IN WAR,
President In Magazine Article Over
His Own Signature Says He Will
Not Shirk Fight With Senate if
Necessary to Insure Success.

| Noe on'rk right with Senate If
! Necessary to Insure Success.
| President Taft over his own SIGMA.
ture in the Woman's Home Compan-
ion makes an appeal to the women of
the nation to come to the support of
the arbitration treaties. The presi-
dent declares that women are vitality
interested in questions of peace and
war and that in war they suffer even
more than men do. He urges, there
fore. that the voice Of the women of
this country shall speak for peace.
Ion the evil of war and what fol-
lows in its train I need not dwell"
says he. 1--WE could not have a higher
object than the adoption of any proper
| and honorable means which would
lessen the chance af armed conflicts.
Men endure great physical hardships
in camp and on the battlefield.
In our civil war the death roll in
the Union army alone reached the an
palling aggregate Of $4,000. But the
suffering and perils Of the men in the
field, distressing as they are to con-
| template. are slight in comparison
with the woes and anguish of the wo-
men who are left behind. The hope
| that husband. brother. father, son.
may be spared the tragic end which all
| soldiers risk when they respond to their
! countrys call buoys them up in their
privations and heartbreaking loneli-
ness, but theirs is the deepest pain, for
the most poignant suffering is mental
rather than physical. No pension COM
pensates for the loss of husband, son
or father The glory of death in bat
| tie does not feed the orphaned chill
dren, nor does the pomp and circum-
| stance Of war clothe them The voice
| of the women of America should speak
! for peace
Ready to Fight 1t Out.
Reciting the fact that majority of
the senate's committee on foreign re-
lations has concluded that the proposed
arbitration treaties with Great Britain
and France. as presented to the senate
for ratification, infringe in one respect
on its constitutional prerogatives, the
president says that this view is, in his
Judgment, erroneous. He contends
that the objection raised by the ma
jority has already been answered by
an able minority and expresses the
hope that reflection on the part of the
senators who are neutral or even hos
tile to the treaties will convince them
of their error.
But while the majority Of the COM
mlttee remains to be persuaded" says
he. the issue should be thoroughly
understood by the American people. to
whom both branches of the federal
government are accountable and
whose judgment in some effective and
uneQuivocal way will record ITSELF
The president points out that he is
not by any means seeking fight with
the senate. but he doesn't say he will
shirk one if necessary to the success
of the treaties. He continued
Il am far from desiring contest
with the senate. l am one of those
who appreciate most highly the plan
of government devised by our forefa-
theirs in the constitution. I think that
one of the most admirable features of
that framework is the senate with it's
various functions, and l should be the
last to seek to deprive it of any of
them
What New Treaties Mean.
1.-The executive has powers in re-
spect to treaties equal at least to those
OF the senate, and if these treaties de-
prlVe the senate Of any power it can
not delegate they deprive the execu-
! tive OF the same power. 1t is my duty
tC be as careful not to give up any
power intrusted to me by the constitu,
ton and not to yield to any encroach~
ment upon it as the senate ought to be
IN respect of its constitutional facul-
ties. Charged as l am with this duty
OF guarding executive power, | cannot
for the life of me see any improper
parting with any power in the max
ing of these treaties. They bind me
quite as much as the senate, but
tion'
In explaining what the new treaties
mean and the objections to them rails
| ed by the senate the president remarks
that the report of the joint high COM
mission created by the treaties is ad-
visory only and not binding on either
party except in one respect. and that
is where there is difference as to
whether the question at issue is sub
ject to arbitration under the first ar
| dcle of the treaties or not In such
case five of the six members Of the
commission may decide that it is, and
that decision is binding on both GOV
ernments.
| But the first article of the treaties
binds the governments to submit for
arbitration all "justifa BILE" differences.
and as the president conceives the OBJ
lection to the treaties to have arisen
over the scope of this term he pro.
ceeds to discuss it. He declares en-
phatically that the Monroe doctrine,