The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-04
BUSY DAY AHEAD.
Not an Idle Moment for Taft at
Indianapolis.
The Guest Of Fairbanks While
in the City.
HAVK ON RENTDROCTTV
TALK ON RECIPROCITY
Is Scheduled for the Marion Club
BANQUET.
He Made Nine Platform Speeches
During Trip Out.

hours rest at the home of former VICE
President Charles W. Fairbanks. 1892
North Meridian street, President Taft
arose this morning with the most
strenuous day of his western trip be-
fore him. From the time scheduled
for him to leave the Fairbanks home,
the president will not have an idle
moment.
indianapolis is gaily decorated with
the presidential and American flags
and bunting. The residents of the
city were bestir early along the line q
march of the big sane Fourth
parade, one of the features of the ce!e-
/ bration. Mr. Taft will review the
parade in Monument place.
Following the parade, the presiden-
tial party will go to the Marion clup
for an informal reception to the mem
bers and at noon the president VIII
be the guest of the Columbia club at
luncheon.
At 1880 he will be escorted to the
\ American association ball park for the
athletic contests and will award the
prizes to the winners in the morning
parade.
Railway trainmen will become the
| hosts of the president after the bal
park exercises and will escort him 10
the state fair grounds to witness the
head-on collision between two locomo-
tives. The president will return 10
the Fairbanks home at 5 o'clock and
i ~'AC
! Marion club banquet and make the
principal speech of the trip.
President Taft has chosen Reel
procity'' as the subject of his banquet
| address. In the address it is said the
president will defend his Republican
ism in making the agreement with
Canada.
Going direct from the banquet. for
| which 500 plates will be placed and
which will be attended by leaders of
the Republican party from all over the
| state, the president and his party VIII
board Pennsylvania train for Wash
ington at 1O:45 O'Clock tonight
Nine Platform Speeches.
With the temperature in his private
car above the 100 mark for hours at
time, President Taft hurried through
Ohio and Indiana yesterday He be-
4 gan speaking from the reaEr- platform
at Cleveland after breakfast and did
not get through until o'clock
He ended with two addresses at the
National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers at Marion. The president
arbitration to the veterans. To the
| bankers and editors of the Eleventh
congressional district he talked about
the Aldrich plan of currency.
On the way over from Cleveland the
president made nine platform talks
Sometimes he talked about The hea
and at others he argued for SAT-
and sane Fourth and once in a while
turned to prosperity and Canadian -ecl-
procity, which. he said, would brlne
more prosperity
In the speech to the old soldiers the
president declared that all of the for
eign wars waged by this country eX-
cent the war of the revolution ant
possibly the civil war, could have beer
settled without bloodshed, through ar
bitration. No fewer than five times
said the president has the United
states interviewed between South anI
Central American countries ana oN
peaceful persuasion averted war
ssI am not a wild enthusiast or
blind optimist'' said the president. -
do not look forward to complete re-
storation Of peace which can not ot
disturbed in the world even If these
treaties (of arbitration) are adopted
Morality of nations improves onty steI
bv STEP and so the making ana con-
firming of these treaties must be re-
garded only as a step. but as long
step. toward the securing Oh peace IL
| the world"
The speech to the bankers and cdi-
| tors was in the nature of a reiteratlon
| of his address to the New York state
| bankers at Manhattan Beach
Mr.. Taft is the first president TO
visit Marion after his assumption OF
! office. and thousands of people turned
| out to see him
Peace and War.
| In his speech to the veterans the
| president said, in part:
ssI am far from saying that war has
| NOT in times past accomplished more
| in the progress of the world. Wnether
| the same progress might have been
achieved in a more peaceIul way, II IS
| ,,pnecessary to discuss. Probably not.
/ "Tt was by war that this country
| GAINED its independence of Great Bri-
! tain If England had been better ID
vised probably war would not nave en-
! sued and we might now be, as In the
/ case of Canada, cherishing attachment
! to the mother country without exercls-
/ ing complete independence Certain 1t
/ Is that the lesson we taught Eng land
! sba took TO her heart and in her colon
iaI nolicv she continued to tighten the
| bonds which she had LAID upon her
| colonies until now they have no weight
| and are merely nerves OF af1ectioa from
| a mother to children, evinclng an suth-
| in fact in the wisdom of the mother
| country one of only nominal restric-
The war Of 1872 might certainly
have been avoided by arbitration. The
questions there presented were Ques-
tfons all of which have been settled by
the Judgment of mankind in favor of
our side Of the controversy
1.-THE war with Nexico-though there
is some dispute over thls-was one OF
the questions capable of solution by an
imnartiaI tribunal. Whether the civil
war could have been avoided is a very
| difficult question to answer. When
slavery has become embedded in the
social fiber of a country it is possible
| that only an eXcision by a war knife can
| remove the cancer.
Nor shall I attempt to answer a
similar question as to the Spanish war
It is one of those instances of internal
dissension like the civil war; and yet l
believe the submission of the issues to
a tribunal might have affected Spain 5
| treatment Of Cuba in such a way that