The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-24
TAFT SWINGS
 THE CIRCLE
' Ielaa
HN FOLLOWS TIME HONOREu LuS- TOMS OF NATIONAL ExECu-
 TivES OF PAST YEARS.
Republican Leaders Expect Him 10 Sound the 1912 c. Q. p. War Cry and Define Issues of
 the Campaign. |


 Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 23S 23S..-on the eve of his forty day swing around Itne circle" on which republican lead lers expect him to define the issues of the campaign of 1912 President Iafs tonight announced himself unalteraDiy lopposed to the "nostrums, of reform, (which he declared "demagogues" ana l"theoretical extremists' have advance ed for the solution of the problem of concentrated wealth in this country. | The president tonight spoke to the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the struggle in which they went through fifty Years ago and the one which, he said, now confronts this nation, he found a striking anal- ogy although the struggle of today would be bloodless. In the end. the president said, the peace loving. straight thinking people Of the coun- ltry will be victorious, but the fight itself may be the longer because It will be fought out to the end without oloodsned and the roar Of the pat | tlefieid.
 Higher aims for the betterment of society. these new evils growing out Iof the concentration of wealth ana these comDinations winch property controlled, are great good in the rs- lduction of the cost of production" lsaid the president, have invited from the active minded of today sugges- ltions of remedies that are so extreme that the medicine to many or us app Ipears worse than the disease.
 These who are charged with the responsibility and sobered with tne Iditficulties find ourselves in the mid- ldle of the road resisting the tendency to socialism on the one hand ana ltne inertia of reactionary contentmenr with present evils and ambition tor greater concentration of financial power on the other: but we are grad ualIy solving the problem.
 The present does not bring diffi. culties so great as you had to meet and overcome in '61. It may be a longer fight because it will not rn- volve violence or the shedding or blood, but 1t must and will be solved peacefully and by the earnest efEar. of the level headed, the practical ana the courageous among us and by re- lducing the influence of the dema- gogue and the theoretical extremists on the one hand and the reactionary influence of combinations of wealth on politics and progress on the otn- Ter. It's solution will be consistent lwith the preservation of our ancien. institutions of personal liberty ana private property under the constitu- ltion.
 The message you bear wycn your lexperience and your success to those
 of us struggling now with the proD-
 lem is that. however dark at this
 time the situation seems, so long as ] I've retain in this country God fear
 ing, sober, intelligent people, We can count in the long run upon their ! working out safely and sanely the problems set before them, no mat { ter how many mistakes in the form | of 'nostrums' they may have been led
 into by the speciousness of half pax l led theories of progress, no matter how
 often they may have been defeated fn 1 their purpose by the temporary suc- cess of undue and corrupt influence of concentrated wealth.
 From the moment he reached Ro- chester about 9:00 o'clock this morn
 ing until g o'clock when he left for . Beverly, the president was surrounu. : ed by veterans. He stood on a reviewing stand for more than two : hours in the morning while thousands of old soldiers. many of them just tottering along with the aid of friends.
 filed slowly by. Major General Freu-
 erick D. Grant. Mayor Edgerton ana
 Commander in Chief Gilman of the lG. A. K. stood with the president. Peace really was the subject of the rresiuents speetm to tne svte.aaas Tonight. but said he could not mlss 
 an opportunity to draw an analogy between the contests of the past ana these of the present and the nsar
 future. !