The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-04
NO DESIGN
 ON MEXICO
PRESIDENT TAFT SETS AT REST ALL RUMoR OF TERRITORIAL
 EXTENSION.
Saws Stronger Nation Should Use Kindly Influences in Maintainance of Internal Peace in the
 Weaker.

Baltimore. May 3.-President Taft in his speech at the opening of the third National Peace Conference to- day declared the United States would keep hands off and not seek to ex- tend its domain or to acquire foreign territory
 The president made no mention specifically of ldexico, but by what he said it seemed that the troubled situation there and the suspicion in the South American republics as to the intention of this nation in regard to it's southern neighbors had inspired him.
 The president had been speaking of the recurrence of internal disturb ances in comtr es not so well able as the United States to maintain order and peace, and had said that it was incumbent upon the great nations of this hemisphere to exercise their kindly and peaceful influence as much as possible
 One of the difficulties that the United States finds is the natural sus- Bicions that the countries engaged have of the motives which the United States has in rendering its good of iices,' continued the president AS seryation of good faith helps but lit tie where the suspicion is real, and yet l like to avail myself of an op- portunity in such presence as this to assert that there is not in the whole length and breadth of the United States among its people any desire for territorial aggrandizement, and that it's people as whole will not permit it's government if it would, to take any steps in respect to foreign peoples looking to forcible exten- sion of our political power
 We have had wars and we know what they are. We know what re- responsibilities they entail, the burdens and losses and horrors and We would have none of them.
 We have a magnificent domain of our own in which We are attempting to work out and show to the world success in popular government. and we need no more territory in which to show this. But We have attained great prosperity and great power. We have become af powerful member of the community of nations in which we live, and there is therefore thrust upon us necessarily a care and re- sponsibility for the peace of the world in our neighborhood and a burden of helping those nations that cannot help themselves, if we may do that peace. fully and effectively"
 The president spoke to several thou sand persons in the Lyric theater. Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary of War Dickinson. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma Andrew Carnegie and more than a dozen other men prominent in the movement for world peace sat on the platform with the president. Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton Holt president of the conference. who spoke before the president voiced the opinion that the negotiation of the proposed arbi- traitor treaty between the United fe4 Ir,.tf ,r the greatest step toward universal peace that the world had ever seen. '1Ah arbitration treaty between two great nations of the world" said the president would be a very import ant step in securing the peace of the world, I don't claim any patent for a new discovery in that suggestion, be- cause I have no doubt that it has often been made before. If such an arbitration treaty can be concluded. have no doubt that an important step will have been taken, but it win not be an end of war. It will be a step only and we must not defeat our purposes by enlarging the expecta- ton of the world as to what is to happen and then disappointing it.
 We must realize that we are deal ing with world that is fallible and full of weakness, with somewhat oi w'ckedness in it., and that the re- forms that are worth having are brought about little by little and not Dy one blow I think that we are like'y to make more progress if WIG express our hope with moderation and realize the difficulties that are to he overcome. than if We proclaim thai E we haye opened the gate to eternal