Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-18

The New York state fair impressed
the President deeply. He declared that
il was appropriate that the great en-
pire state should have such splen-
did exposition.
You are rich he said, and yeu
are able to do lot of things i'll order
that by example you may show what
can be done to aid the people by a
friendly. but an earnest government
Observe that I say aid the people.
and by that | do not mean that the
state shall take the place of individual
effort. but I mean that the aid which
that state gives should be limited 20
the impulse. TO the assistance and en-
courageinent and the stimulus of in
dividual effort
..Foi / am an individualist first. last
and all the time. and I am utterly OPP
posed TO the theory of Socialisrn-that
is. to transfer the object of individual
effort to state control and state STU
perfision.
speaking of the science of farming.
he said:
The farmer is becoming more and
more important and we have got to
recognize it. l am not one of those
who agree altogether with some of the
alarmist addresses that my friend
Jim Hill Of the Great Northern emits
III times. in which he says we VIII be
starving IN the course of 30 years.
But certain it is that tine statistics are
enough TO put us on guard to the nc
cessity of developing all our energies
10 making the ground produce double
what it produced now. They do II
abroad and there is no reason why we
SHOULD not do so here"
In his Erie speech on arbitration the
President said that the advance made in
TWO treaties negotiated at his instance
by Secretary Knox with England and
France was noteworthy in agreeing to
afhitrate all questions except those which
affected the vital interest or the honor Of
either country. These treaties provide
that all justieiable questions should be
arbitrated between the two countries, and
that justiciable was to be understood 70
mean any question oil an International
character arising between the two coun-
tries in which one country made a claim
against the other and which could be de-
cided by the application of the principles
of law or equity.
Everyone will agree" said the Presi-
dent, that this is a long step forward
| toward the settlement of all questions
arising between the two countries. The
| objection to the limitation in the exist
ing treaty is that there are very few
| questions of importance, of an lnterna-
| tional character, arising between two
countries that in one phase or another
in the opinion of one or the other party
does not involve either its vital interest
or its national honor.
THE words are so broad and capable
of being made so much broader by con-
struction and argument that they really
leave very little for arbitration. 1t car
hardly be said that such treaty makes
a very large step toward peace and it is
| in respect of this feature that the pro-
posed treaties make a decided advance
upon existing treaties. because they dc
not leave it to the decision of either party
to say whether the question is a justici-
able one under the first section of the
treaty, but they leave il 4. TO a joint high
commission, to consist of three nationals
of one party and three nationals of ths
other-that is, three subjects or. citizens
/. of one party and three subjects or citi
zens of the other--to decide by vote
either unanimous or five TO one, whether
! the question arising is ,jnsticiable or NOT
and if they decide that il Is justiciable
, then the executive and the Senate are IL
duty bound and In treaty bound to TAX,
) the steps necessary to proper submits
\ sion of the question To a board of arbi
i tration.
Now IL the Senate, or II Congress de
sires, there is no reason why the thre