The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-31
PEACE FEAST
 IS PEACEFUL
THREATENED BY plssENsloN, n. TURNS OUT TO BE A REAL
 PEACEFUL AFFAIR AT LAST.
President Taft, the Principal Speak CT, Makes Strong Plea for Inter naticnai Peaee--Other Noted
 Speakers Present.

New York. Dec 30 Preceded by l dissensions which seemed for a time to threaten climax anything but pacific, the Citizens Peace Banquet tonight proved n realization every thing that it's name implied so far at least as concerned it's attendant conditions. President Taft. who was the guest of honor, and chief speak CT, while arguing for the pending ar bitration treaties between the United Z ates and Great Britain and France, as he has dcle previously at similar gatherings. went further tonight than in former addresses and replied spe- officially to some criticisms recently made against the principles embodied in those treaties. He also made a9a. swer to the charge of inconsistency lodged against advocates of the ar bitration treaties. MO did not favor arbitration in the controversy be- tweoa tEe United States and Russia.
 Those of us who are in favor Of trsties have been criticised as in- consistent because We did not invoke arbitration in the recent difference with Russia said Mr. Tau l am not entirely wiling Go speak as frank ly as might af that because my tongue is tied in slieht way by i tiat we hope for in future negotia- | tions. All that 1 can say is that if you will read the argdms:.t O. Eihu Root on the question of why the treaty should be terminated and why arbi- tration would not do, am content to stand on his exhibit and explanation os thag.
 "T7he truth is that the treaty itself contains constructual obligaticns oil the part of the United States to rec ognize the doctrine of non-expatration and recognize the right of Russia to say ahe naturalized Russian citizens in the United States snoSld not lose their allegiance to Russia and could be punished for becoming naturalized citizens.
 Now that was in accordance with he doctrine that prevailed In the United States and that prevailed in Russia In 1892 The doctr'as had been departed from by statute in the United States, but it remained in the treaty and We cannot so far as a foreign country is concerned in con. structural dealing with her repeal treaty by statute.
 Hence it was stated in the notice of the termination of the treaty, made in accordance with the terms of the treaty, that the treaty was so old that 1t was not responsive to the views of the two nations.
 Now why, therefore, should we arbitrare a treaty Of that sort in which we were met first and foremost by the proposition that twenty or thir- ty or forty years ago we repudiated | as an International maiter7
 Therefore, say the inconsistency that is supposed to exist in our fail- ure to invoke arbitration there does not exist and | commend to those who think it does close perusal of MT Roots argument and for the treaty itself"
 Among other criticisms of the treaties, the president continued: "There are certain questions ccn- corning which 1t is said we would have to arbitrate under this treaty; We would have to arbitrate the Mon roe doctrine. l say if is not iusti ciabe question under the treaty. Professor Bassett Moore, who is per haps the greatest International an- thority we have in this country, says the very same thing. Sir Edward Gray said on the floor of parliament. iiS things af5 safe oii that tiiiiSs- i % tion. Then a question is whether we should arbitrate the right of anybody to come into this country against our will Of course if we make treaty letting a man in, why we are bound to respond to the treaty. but if we don't the question of letting anybody in is a question of national policy and not international policy and can not be arbitrated. Ii is question of the !iberality of the nation that owns it's own territory It is all" The possibility of some tribunal be-