The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-24
TAFT DOES NOT
OPPOSE SENATE
President Declares His Arbitration
Treaties With Great Britain And
France Should Be Ratified By
Next Congress.
BEGINS 40 DAYS SWING
Republican Leader Believe Series Of
Addresses, Begun at G. A. R. Meet
Will Define Issues Of Campaign Of
1912.

VIII Dennc issues OF campaign OF
1919.
Rochester. New York. Aug. %
On the eve. of his forty days swing
around the circle in which the Re-
publican leaders expect him to de-
fine the issues for the campaign of
1919, President Taft tonight an
nonnced himself unalterably oppos-
ed to the ,"nostpm" OF reform which.
he declared demogogic, and the
remedies. extremists have advanced
for, the solution of the problem of
concentrated wealth. in this country.
The president spoke to the vet
Grams of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public and he found in the struggle
which they went through fifty years
ago and the one he says now con-
fronts this nation, a striking and
orgy although the struggle of today,
he declared would be bloodless.
In the end the president said the
peace loving. straight thinking peo-
nile Of the country would be victor
ious and the fight itself would be
shorter. because it would be fought
to the end without bloodshed and the
red Of the Battlefield. (
Combinations Are Good.
Higher aims for the betterment
of society, these new evils growing
out of the concentration of wealth
and these combinations, which prop
|erly controlled, are a great good in
the reduction of the cost of produc-
tion" said the president.
Peace was really the subject ol
the presidents speech to the vet
erans tonight. but he said he coult
| hot miss an opportunity to draw ar
analogy between the contest of the
past and those of the present anC
near future.
He also discussed briefly the gen
eral arbitration treaty with Grea'
Britain and France, which the sen
ate foreign relations committet
sought to amend and which part o
that committee labeled breeders o
war"
In part he said:
Describes Treaties.
II do not come before you IL
opposition to the senate and d.
not wish TO criticise the majority o
the committee that has reported al
| amendment. M t4ySxf
''Those who have objected to TIL
| treaty at first suggested that the or
tganization of the joint high com
mission with the power given t.
either party to secure reference o
a controversy to it for consideration
for year makesit breeder of war
II confess myself unable to follow
the force of such an argument. Tn
| difficulties connected with tn
motion of proceedings under an
treaty and the appointment of si
commissioners with the expense an
worry attendant upon-it are all like
ly to prevent an invitation to cum
bersom negotiation like this whe
the ordinary channels of diplomac
are open.
Monroe Policies Safe.
objections has been made to thi
treaty that under the first section
| might be claimed that we would b
called upon tosub1nit for arbitratio
the Monroe Doctrine. This suggei
| tion has nothing In It,. we have TO
lowed fora century and which th
countries Of Europe have generall
acduiesced lin. Certainly with ri
spect to this very matter Sir. FL
ward Grey, secretary of state fc
foreign affairs, has announced pul
licly that the Monroe policy coul
not be disputed with them under tn
treaty and would not come With
its terms.
May Reject Immigrants.
with respect to- the exclusion II
immigrants II is a principal for ii
ternational Law that each countl
! nigh allow these to- come to /
shores whom 1t chooses to have a,
mitted to the country and may r
jcct others, and that is a subject
democratic policy which foreie
countries can interfere in unless 1t
covered by treaty and then 1t ms
come properly question of trea
construction. But in the absence
a treaty it is not an arbitrable que
tion.
with reference to the right to Il
volve the United States in n. contr
versy over the obligation of certa
southern states to pay bonds isse,