Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-11
THE SLAUGHTER.
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they can get the Presidency and the
Senate next year, there is no question
about what their program will be.
While President Taft is not high
tariff man. he is firm against such a
slaughter of manufacturing industries
as the Democratic tariff bills seem to
presage. 81
All the August turmoil in other gov
ornamental quarters at Washington has
not availed to obscure the White
House in recent days. When the noise
and the shouting have subsidized, the
scenes. in which the President has
been a central figure during the past
week. will be most remembered. As
the story is told in history, tariff
maneuverings of current date will be
reeited in paragraph as against the
bright page of the signing of the in
ternational arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France. And as
years roll by the eyes of future gen
erations, reading the story of Admiral
Togo, hero of the battle of the sea of
Japan. will linger on the recital of his
visit to Washington and of the splen-
did reception which the President and
officials of the administration gave
him
There is a great hula baloo about
tariff schedules. to be sure. but this
is not lettering the President from
progress in achievement 1t may even
happen that before the next campaign
is over. the people may be more in
terested in the splendid work the Pres
ident has been doing toward abolish
ing war and armament than they will
he in all things else in connection with
his administration. 1t would seem as
though tariff and Congressional DELHI
erations are occupying a secondary
place in the Presidents mind as com
pared with arbitration Just now Ger
tainly, the hundreds of letters and tel
egrams that come to the White House
offices daily are in large part about his
efforts with the Arbitration treaties.
All possible publicity has attended
the negotiation of those treaties and
it has been done by the Presidents ex-
press direction The text of the two
treaties was given to the public as
soon as they had been presented to the
Senate and that was a very unusual
thing to do It was done because the
President relies upon a militant public
fly at an early date. There can be no
contain and this win make Senatorial
opposition more difficult While the
President is thus pressing for the rati-
fication of the two pending treaties he
is blazing the way for the negotia ton
OF more While Togo was his guest
at the White House, il will be remem-
bered that the President utilized the
opportunity 10 encourage an arhtra-
ton treaty between Japan and the
United States
The visit of the Japanese Admiral
now touring New England and Can
ada. prior to the resumption of his
journey home, made an excellent inn
preston at WASHINGTON He was
much interested in all that he saw at
the seat of Government and Washing
ton was much interested in him. AL
though famous the world over as a
silent man. he talked a deal while in
Washington. During the dinner and
reception at the White House in his
honor. he and the President had OPP
portunity for considerable converse
ton While their talk was informal ,
it will have a bearing upon the friend
ly relations of the two governments
in the Pacific They were so much in
terested in this conversation that after
the guests had been received at the
White House. the President and the
Admiral took chairs in corner under
the japanese lanterns and for quite
a while We're absorbed in hearing each
what fhe other had TO say.
Admiral Togo visited the United