Arizona republican., 1911-08-24

IN FUTURE
President Believes National
Problems Will Be Solved
BUT NOT BY DEMAGOGUES
They Will be Conqured AS
Surely as the Greater
Problem of 81. His Ad-
dress to the National G. A.
R. Convention.
BUT NOT BY DEMAGOGUES

Rochester, \. Y, Aug. 25.-At his
last public appearance, before ne
swings around the circle on which he
| is expected to define the issues for
the 1912 campaign President Taft to-
night announced himself as unalter-
iably opposed to the 'nostrums' oil
reform which, he declared defha-
gogues and theoretical extremists had
advanced for a solution of the prob
lem of concentrated wealth in this
icountry.
| The president spoke to the veterans
OF the Grand Army of the Republic
and found in their struggle of fifty
years ago an analogy to the one
(which. he said, now confronts the
lpeople of this nation though the
struggle today, he said. viii be blood
less.
Higher aims for the betterment of
society and these new evils growing
out of the concentration of wealth
and these combinations which, prop
lerly controlled, are of great good in
the reduction of the cost of produc-
4
lthe active minded of today sug-
gestions of remedies that are so eX-
ltreme that the medicine to many Of
Jus seems worse than the disease.
Those of us who are charged with
Responsibilities and sobered with diff
lficulties. find ourselves in the middle
lof the road, resisting the tendency To
SOCIALISM on the one hand and the
Inertia of reactiOnary contentmcnt
with the present evils on the other
but we are gradually solving the
problem.
The present difficulties are not so
great as those of 81. 1t may be a
longer struggle because it involves no
Fighting, no bloodshed; but it will
he solved peacefully by the earnest
leffort of the level headed, practical
land courageous among us and by re-
ducing the influence of demagogues
land theoretical extremists on the one
lhand and reactionary ancient insti-
tuition of personal liberty and private
property under the constitution. The
message you bear with your expert
lence and your success to those of US
struggling now with problems, is, that
however dark at times the situation
lseems, so long as we retain in this
lcOuntry a God-fearing, sober, intelli-
gent people. we count in the long
run upon their working out safely
and sanely the problems set before
Them no matter how many mistakes
lin the form of 'nostrums" they may
be led into by the speciousness of
half baked theories of progress, no
matter how often they may be de-
Iporary success Of the undue and cor
trupt influence Of concentrated wealth
| Peace was really the text Of the
presidents speech tonight, but he
said he would not miss an opportun-
Iity to draw an analogy between the
lcontests of the past and those OF the
Ipresent and future. He discussed
briefly the arbitration treaties with
IEngland and France, which a part o.
the senate on foreign relations COM
lmittee had labelled breeders of war.
lin this connection the president said
l"I do not come before you in oppo-
lsition to the senate. | am only anX-
lious to promote as full a public dis
lcussion of the question now arising
with respect to the confirmation OF
1.-The treaties as possible, because
Ifeel confident that a public discus
tsion of. the matter followed by ex-
lpressions will aid to convince the
majority Of that body of the wisdom
Iof a prompt ratification of the treat
les as signed.
Those opposed to the treaties hav,
lsuggested that the organization OF
la high joint commission to which
either party may secure reference
of controversy for arbitration
Twill make it n breeder of war.
iconfess myself unable to follow th'
force of such an argument. Objection
lis made, that under the treaty, We
. might be called upon to submit to az
filtration the Monroe doctrine, oul
lcur right to exclude foreign people:
Ifrom our shores or the question o.
1.-The validity of southern bonds issueC
lin the days of reconstruction.
These suggestions have nothing il
Ithem. The Monroe doctrine is no
Unsuitable policy 1t is purely a gov
Iernmental policy which we have fol-
llowed for a century and which is ac
lcepted generally by the countries o
lEurope. Sir Edward Grey. British
minister of foreign affairs, announced