Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-24
Houe for Solution Of Present
Day Problems Lies in Middle
Course Avoiding Perils of
Both Socialism and Inertia,
EVENING ADDRESS
DEVOTED TO PEACE
President Makes Powerful Plea
for Support of Country inI
Securing Ratification Of Arbi-
tratiOn Treaties Unamended,

tration Treaties Unamended,
IN, Morning Journal specfaI Leased wircl
Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-On the
eye Of his forty-day swing around the
circle on which republican leaders ex-
meet him to define the issues for the
campaign of 1912, President Taft to-
night announced himself upalterably
opposed to the "nostrums" of reform
which he declared demagogues and
theoretical extremists have advanced
for the solution of the problem of
concentrated wealth in this country.
The president spoke to the veterans
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
and he found in the struggle which
they went through years ago and one
which he said now confronts this ma
ton, striking analogy, although the
struggle of today he declared would
be bloodless.
Higher aims for the betterment of
society, these new evils, growing out
of the concentration of wealth and
those com binations, which. properly
controlled, are a great good in the
reduction of the cost of production,
said the president, have invited
from the active minded of today sug-
gestions of remedies that are so eX-
treme, that the medicine to many of
us seems worse than the disease.
Those who are charged with the
responsibility and sobered with the
difficulties find ourselves in the mid
die Of the. road, resisting the tendency
to socialism on the one hand, and the
intertia of reactionary contentment
with present evils and ambition for
the great concentration of financial
rover on the other. but We are grad
uay solving the problem.
"The present does not bring diff
cuties so great as you had to meet
and overcome in 1861. 1t may be
longer fight. because ii will not in
yolye violence, or the shedding of
blood: but it must and will be solved
peacefully and by the earnest effort
Of the level headed. the practical and
the courageous among us, and by re-
dueing the influence of the dema-
gogue and the theoretical extremists
on the one hand, and the reactionary
influence of combinations of wealth
in politics and business on the other.
Its solution will be consistent with the
reservation of our ancient institu-
tons of personal liberty and private
property under the constitution.
THE message that you bear, with
your experience and your success. to
those of us struggling now with the
problem, is that, however, dark at
times the situation seems, so long as
we retain in this country a Godfear-
ing, sober, intelligent people, we can
count in the long run upon their
working out safely and sanely the
problems before them, no matter how
many mistakes in the form of nos
trums' they may have been led into
by the suspiciousness of halt-baked
theories of progress, no matter how
often they may have been defeated
in their purpose by the temporary
success of undue and corrupt influ-
ence of concentrated wealth"
From the moment he reached
Rochester about O'Clock this morn
ing until o'clock tonight, when he
lelt for Beverly, the president was
surrounded by veterans. He stood on
reviewing stand for more than two
hours in the morning while thousands
OF Old soldiers, many of them totter-
Ing along with the aid of friends, filed
slowly by. Major General Frederick
d Grant, Mayor Edgarton and Com
manderin- Chief Gilman of the Grand
Army of the Republic, stood with the
president.
Peace was really the subject of
residents Taft speech to the veter-
ans tonight, but he said he could not
mss an opportunity to draw an anal
osy between the contests of the past
ana those of the present and future.
he discarded briefly the arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and
france which the senate foreign re-
"llohs committee seeks to amend and
winch part of that committee labelled
breeders of War" In part the presi
dent said:
do not come before you in oppo-
slloh to the senate and | do not wish
70 eritieise the majority of the com
mi'tee that has reported an amend
lnent' ! am only anxious to promote
% tuli a public discussion on the
uuestlons now arising in respect to
we confirmation of the treaties as
posSlole, because / feel confident that
puollc discussion of the matter fol-
O"ea by popular expression will aid
n'och IN the Qualification of the sub
~ IN the senate itself, and will lead
W convincing a majority of that body
1"u perhaps ali, of the wisdom of
e present ratification of the treaties
N uhey We're signed.
;. lhose who have objected to the
n.a'F nave suggested that the organi.
.'iioh oil the high commission with
s"c power given to either party to
eufe a reference of a controversy
w. " Tor consideration for a year
A'ahes IL a breeder of war. confess