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TAFT SAYS NO
MORE TERRITORY
Opens National Peace Con-
gress at Baltimore.
MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS
The President, Cardinal Gibbons and
Andrew Carnegie Plead For World

The President, Cardinal Gibbons and
Andrew Carnegie Plead For World
Peace.
Baltimore, Md, May 4. - President
Taft in his speech at the opening of
the third National Peace Conference
here declared that the United States
would keep hands off and not seek to
extend it's domain or to acquire for
eign territory.
The president made no mention
specifically of Mexico, but to those
who heard him it was evident that the
troubled situation there and the suspi-
as to the intention of this nation in
regard to it's southern neighbor had
inspired him.
On the platform with the president
were Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary of
War Dickinson, Andrew Carnegie and
United States Senator Gore, of Okla
homa.
The speakers who preceded Mr.
Taft, Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton
Holt, of New York, president Of the
congress, voiced the opinion that the
proposal for an arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain was the greatest step forward
in the direction of universal peace that
has ever been taken in the history of
the world. =
The president in his address ex-7
pressed the belief that all who under
stand the situation were agreed that
the proposed arbitration treaty would
be step in the direction of universal
peace.
I'VE are dealing" he said, with a
world that is fallible. Reforms that
are worth having are brought about
little by little and not at one blow.
think that we will do better if we real
ize the difficulties there are to opening
the gate of universal peace with one
key and in one year."
The president declared he did not
wish to discuss specifically the pro-
posed treaty with England while it
was still in the process of negotiation.
But in the peace societies that exist
throughout the country the president
found a subject upon which he ccrld
talk without treading on ground hat
might be automatically dangerou In
the consolidation of the peace )cie-
ties, the president thought, u}aS suers
means to the end for which they were;
all seeking.
This government, the president said,
was hampered in any attempt it might
make to bring peace to this hemi-
sphere by the suspicious OF the other
nations on it.
U. S. Wants No More Territory.
There isn't any desire for terri
torial aggrandizement in this coun-
try" said the president. THE people
would not permit the government to
take any territory if it would or to in
terfere except to aid those foreign
governments and foreign people to
maintain peace and order within their
borders.
1--WE have had wars and we know
the horrors and burdens they bring
and would have none of them and
need no more territory. But we have
attained great prosperity and have
been powerful in our community and
therefore on us is the responsibility
for peace in our neighborhood and the
burden of helping the nations that
cannot help themselves, if we can do
1t effectively.
"Oh, if England and America were
to enter into an alliance of permanent
arbitration with each other, such a j
bond of friendship and amity would be
q blessing not only to these two great |
powers, but to all the nations of the |
civilized world"
Andrew Carnegie, who followed the
president, was introduced as "the |
dreadnought of peace" He praised the |
president as the leader who has laid |
the axe to the root of international
war"
ITO President Taft's appeal to the
world, in which both his heart and
head went forth, for the great nations
to join his country in proving their
sovereignty by agreeing to submit all
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