The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
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.

Marion, Ind, July with the tenn
perature in his private car up above
/ the 100 mark for hours at a time,
President Taft hurried through Ohio
and Indiana. He began speaking from
The rear platform of his car at Cleve-
land just after breakfast. and did not
get through until 6 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 arbitration-to the veterans.
70 the bankers and editors of the Elev-
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 owe 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
a lille ne 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 his country, except the war
OF the revolution, and possibly even
the civil war. coliG have been settled
without bloodsneG. through arbitra-
ton. No fewer than five times. said
the president, has the United States
interviewed between South and Central
American countries that felt belliger-
ent and by peaceful persuasion averted
war.
Treaties Only a Step.
Il am not a wild enthusiast or a
blind optimist," said the president
i 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
hrmlng of these treaties must be re-
garded as a step, but as a very long
step, toward the securing of peace in
the world
The speech to the bankers and ed
tiOn of his address to the New York
state bankers at Manhatten Beach.
Il do not know any Junction. 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 rights Of property. than
the duty of government to furnish
to the people a banking and currency
system which shall give them a con,
slant and unvaryin5 medium for the
measurement OF values and the inter
change OF products that shall enable
business to proceed in a normal way
Mr.. Taft is Inc first president to
visit Marion after his assumption OF
Office, and thousands of people turned
out to see him.
In mis- speech to the veterans the
president said, il 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 arbitra.
ton, we have invited England, France
and Germany to make a treaty for the
arbitrament OF all difference of ar
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
v~ersies, to wit. questions Of a nations
honor and of its vital interest. O
course, | cannot say with positivenes:
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 b!
many of the same tenor with othel
countries if the original three arr
agreed upon and confirmed"