The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-10
TAFT At
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK
Carries Message Of International
Peace TO Chautauqua.


| Park and the residents of Garrett cOun-
ty last Monday.
With the exception of one hour spent
there where a crowd of 5000 heard and
| applauded his sentiments, the President
! spent the entire day on the train and
was hard at work from the moment he
left Washington at a. m. until his re-
turn at O'Clock at night
international peace and the necessity
of establishing boards of arbitration
was the theme of his entire speech, and
his references to the British and French
treaties now before the Senate were
applauded to the echo. His allusion to
the suggestion of Discrimination on the
part Of the Senate to ratify treaties
through fear of abdicating its time
hOnored share in the treaty-making
power was accepted as an appeal to
public opinion to shoulder the RESPONSE
bility and urge the upper House to rati-
fly the measure.
Il invoke your aid" said the Presi-
dent, las branch of the great MethO-
dist church, to bring all the influence
you can exert to secure the confirmation
of the treaties now made, and of those
which may be made hereafter with other
countries. | am surprised to note with
what fervor the plain people of every
nation welcome the proposaliof univer-
sal arbitration, not because, their real
interest in the practical adoption of the
plan is not greater than all other classes
in the community, but because it is
somewhat abstruse cause in the success
of which they might not be expected to
take an immediate interest.
'Of course, IN war 1t is the common,
plain people that have to bear most of
the suffering. They have to pay most
of the taxes; they have to do most of
the fighting and they secure the least
benefit and the least glory.
TO have these treaties not ratified
by the Senate of the United States or
to have any hesitation and discussion of
a serious character IN respect to them, "
said Mr.. Taft, would halt the move
ment toward general peace, which has
made substantial progress in the last 10
years, To secure the ratification of the
treaties, therefore, appeal must be made
to the moral sense of the nation, and
while that is not entirely in the keeping
of the churches. certainly they NAV ex-
ert powerful influence in the promo
ton of any effective instrumentality to
secure permanent peace.
Leaving the arbitration treaties be-
hind the President asked for the same
sort OF popular support of the treaties
with Honduras and Nicaragua.
There is no issue before the Senate
so acute in respect to the cause of peace
as the confirmation of these Central
American treaties, said the President.
While | admit the greater Importance
OF universal treaties of arbitration in
the long run and as affecting the world
at large, yet IN respect Of American in
terests, IN respect Of peace in this hem
Isphere, they are not equal in Importance
to the confirmation Of these Central
American treaties.
In making his plea for the Central
American convention MIR. Taft highly
praised former President Roosevelt
lie spoke Of the tendency Of the United
States 10 extend the helping hand TO
less powerful people and instanced MIR
RoOse|eItS Intervention in Cuba.
That tendency was evidenced also, ~
he SAID, by the wonderfully success
full Intervention by Theodore Roosevelt,
as President Of the United States, IN
securing peace between Russia and
Japan.
The arbitration treaties, - the Pres
dent proceeded to say, provided that
every question of a Judicial nature
should be submitted TO a tribunal Of ar
bltration, and that they defined what
Justiclable means
1T Is any issue between the nations
that can be properly settled upon the
principles of law and equity, as those
are understood in law and IN interna-
tlonal law" he said. There are. Of
course, questions of policy with respect
to which each nation must exercise its
own discretion, and in doing so is entire
lY within its legal and equitable right,
and however its action may affect the
other nation it is not the proper subject
OF controversy. The machinery pro-
vlded will practically dispose of every
question so far as it is a war-inducing
issue.
''The treaty may be called almost a
treaty not only to avoid war but even
to avoid arbitration, for it is only in the
last instance, after the commission
shall have failed in years time to sug-
gest satisfactory solution, that even
arbitration is TO be resorted to.
The special of three cars was in
charge of s. b. Hege. of Washington;
j. T. Olhausen and 0. H. Hobbs, Off
Gals of the Baltimore and Ohio. The
train ran on practically a nonstop
schedule all the way to Mountain Lake
Park. 1t was the first long journey the
President had made in a special train in
two years. He chartered the special
so as to have an opportunity to work
throughout the l2-hour ride, going and
coming.
The first stop was at Cherry Run, w.
Va. 81 miles from Washington. Mr..
Taft plugged away at his work and this
disappointed the crowd at the station.
The special pulled INTO Mountain Lake
Park on schedule time at 80 o'clock.
When the President stepped from the
train with ex-senator Scott, of West
Virginia, his only guest on the trip,
they were greeted cordially by Rev. DR..
G. w. Baldwin, of the chautauqua com
mittee; DR.. Charles Z. Shelton, super
intendent; State Senator II. }. Speicher.
and others. They escorted the Presi-
dental party to the huge auditorium in
automobiles after a delightful spin
around the pretty mountain lake and
through portions of Oakland in Senator
Specher's automobile.
DR.. Baldwin was master of cere-
monies and presented Senator Harvey
J. Speicher, of Garrett county, who in
troduced Mr.. Taft. This aroused an
ovation which continued Savaral y,o;,