The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-07-06
TAFT IS GUEST
. OF H0OS|ER STATE
President Makes Two Addresses
- at Marion.
TALKS FOR WORLDS PEACE
Speaks at Soldiers Home on ArbItra-
Cd. ton and Before Bankers and
Editors on Aldrich Currency
Reform Plan.

Marion, Ind, July 4.-President
Taft stopped at Marion on his way to
indianapolis and was the guest of the
city for several hours.
He made two speeches, one at the
Marion Soldiers home on arbitration
and another before the Marion bank
ers and editors in support of the
Aldrich currency reform plan.
In his arbitration speech President
Taft said in part:
Il am far from saying that war has
not in times past accomplished much
In the progress of the world. Whether
the same progress might have been
achieved In a more peaceful way it is
unnecessary to discuss, probably not.
Misguided Patriots Bring on Wars.
The truth is, the danger of war
between two great we'll established
countries with modern ornaments is
much less than that kind of war that
arises from bad government or from
the ambition of sinister men in a
weak government who overturn II.
lily armed countries under modern
conditions of war have been a great
deterrent of war, but the irresponsi-
bllity of men claiming to be patriots
and desiring to overturn existing gov
ernments where law and order are
not well established has led to great
deal of guerilla warfare and to the
suffering Of innocent people who find
no real principle involved in the two
contending parties except that of am
bition for power.
Much of this kind of work has oc-
Cured in South America, and in that
degree Of guardianship which the
United States must feel over the re-
publics of this hemisphere, in main
tanning their integrity against Euro
pean invasion, we ought to welcome
every opportunity which gives us a
legitimate instrument by which we
can make less probable such inter-
necine strife.
Envy No Power Its Territory.
In the assertion of that sort of
guardianship we have to be very
careful to avoid the charge. which is
always made by the suspicious, that
we are seeking our own aggrandize-
ment In our interference with the af-
fairs of other countries of this hem
lsphere: 1t Is an unfounded charge,
for we envy no power its territory.
We have enough. But we have been
able to fend off war in four or five
instances of late, because of our atti-
tude as an older brother of these
smaller governments. AS we look
back, 1t will not do to say that great
strides have not been made in the
direction of universal peace.
OF course the condition of Mexico
may we'll make us hesitate to proph-
esy too strongly as to the future; but
all the lovers of mankind hope that
the present condition of that country
may lead to the establishment of a
firm government and one In which
there may not be the occasion for
popular unrest as that which gave
rise to the recent collision.
NoN '"So FoWCTS 10 FOTm redty,
For the further securing of peace
and as an example to all the world of
the possibilities of the use of arbitra-
tion, we have invited England and
France and Germany to ask a treaty
for the arbitrament of all differences
of an international character that in
their nature can be adjudicated, and
we have left out In this treaty those
exceptions which have heretofore al
ways been excluded from arbitrable
controversies, to-wit: Questions of a
nations honor and of its vital inter
est
"Of course I cannot say with pos
itiveness that these treaties will all
be made and confirmed. l can only
say that the prospect of an agreement
with the executive of one of the
countries is reasonably sure, and we
have every hope as to the other two,
and that these three treaties will be
followed by many of the same tenor
with other countries II the original
three are agreed upOn and confirmed