The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-04
Among Them, Recipro-
city, Arbitration, Cur
rency and Sane 4tn.
TAFT MAKES NINE
PLATFORM TALKS
Despite Dust and Temperature
Well Above 1oo-Mark, Presi-
dent Spends Strenuous Day
and Addresses Thousands.
Makes Plea for Admin
istration Measures.

| Marion, Ind, July 3.-with the tenn.
! perature in his private car up above
/ the 100 mark for hours at time,
I President Taft hurried through Ohio
+, and Indiana to-day. He began speak
| ing from the rear platform of his car
| at Cleveland just after breakfast, and
! did not get through until after e
! o'clock.
| The President ended strenuous and
sticky day with two addresses at the
! National Home for Disabled Volunteer
! Soldiers, in Marion, he spoke some of
; war. but more of peace and arbitra-
| ton. to the veterans. To the bankers
| and editors OF the Eleventh Congress
sional District he talked about the
| Aldrich plan OF currency. Tomorrow
| at indianapolis he expects to talk OF
the third most important measure
| of the administration. namely. reel
| procity with Canada.
| On the way over from Cleveland, in
! spite OF the heat and the dust the
| President made nine platform talks
| Sometimes he talked about the heat
and at others he argued for y safe
and sane Fourth" Once in a while he
turned to prosperity and Canadian re
| ciprocity, which. he said, would bring
more prosperity.
Plea for Arbitration.
In the speech to the old soldiers
| the President declared. that all tho
| foreign wars waged by this country
except the Revolution, and possibly
| the Civil War. could have been settled
without hloodshed. through arbitration
No fewer than I'VE times. said the
! President, had the United States in
| tervened between South and Central
| American countries that felt belliger-
! ent. and by peaceful persuasion averted
| war.
; II am not a wild enthusiast or
/ Hind optimist," said the President. II
! 90 not look forward to q complete
! restoration of peace which cannot be
| disturbed In the world even IL these
| treaties of arbitration are adopted.
| Morality of nations improves only step
| by step. and so the making and con-
| frminE of these treaties must be re-
! garded not only as step. but as
! very long step toward the securing of
: peace In the world"
! Il do not know any function" said
the President in his speech to the
! bankers and editors. "of greater i'm
portance to the wage earner. the farm
er. the business man. the manufac-
turer. the banker and the capitalist
! exercised by the government. after the
preservation of law and order and
the maintenance OF liberty and rights
of property. than the duty of the gov
Il
banking and currency system which
shall give them constant and un-
varying medium for the measurement
of values and the interchange of pro-
ducts that shall enable business 10
! proceed in a normal way"
Mr.. Taft is the first President to
visit Marion after his assumption of
out to see him.
! In his sDeech to tine Veterans the
| President said in part:
Mny Have Aided ProErcsa.
I 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 n more peaceful way, IL
is unnecessary to discuss Probably
not. 1t was by war that this country
gained its independence Of Great Brit
| ain. If England had been better ad-
vised. probably war would not have
followed the declaration of indepen-
! dence. and we might now he. as in the
case OF Canada, caerishng attachment
/ to the mother country without exer-
cisng complete independence
THE War of 1872 might certainly
have been avoided by arbitration The
| questions there represented have all
been settled by the judgment OF man
kind in favor of our side Of the con-
! troversy.
The war with Mexico. though there
is some dispute over this. was one OF
| the questions capable of solution by
| an impartia tribunal
whether the Civil War could have
been avoided is very difficult ques-
ton to answer. When slavery has be-
come Embedded in the social fibre of
country. 1t Is possible that only an
excelsior by a war knife can remove
| tho cancer.
Nor shall ] attempt to answer a
similar question as TO the Spanish war.
1t is one OF those instances OF inter-
| nal dissension. like the Civil War:
and yet believe that the submission
! of the issues to n tribunal might have
affected Spain's treatment of Cuba in
such way that we could have avoided
resort to arms
The awful consequences to two
heavily armed countries under modern
conditions OF war have been a great
deterrent OF war; but the lrresponsi-
billy OF men claiming to be patriots
and desiring to overturn existing gov
ernrnents. where law and order are not
! we'll established. has led to a great
| deal OF guerrilla warfare and to the
suffering OF innocent people. who find
no real principle involved in the two
contending parties, except that OF am
billion for power. Much OF this kind
OF work has occurred in South Amer
lea and in Central America; and In
! the degree OF guardianship which the
[ United States must feel over the re.
publics in 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 interne-
cine strife.
An Unfounded Charge.