Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-08
URGES PEACE PACT
Taft Pleads at Connecticut
Fair for Treaties.
AUDIENCE NUMBERS $4,000
President Declares the Whole World
Looks to United States
for Lead.

HARTFORD, September S-President
Taft had rousinc reception when he
came to Hartford yesterday as the guest
of Gov Baldwin and the state officials
and of the Connecticut Fair Society.
There was no trace of sulkiness from the
grangers because of the reciprocity issue,
and the President was greeted with a
laugh and cheer when he praised Con
necticut.
The President in an address to an audi
ence of .oGtn persons pleaded clouuently
for the adoption If the arbitration treaties
with France and Great Britain. He said ::
II is well known that Norway and
Sweden have made an agreement to set
tie all differences except those of vital
interest and national honor by submits
sion TO The Hague tribunal, and they
have further agreed that when they diff
fer as to whether the controversy arising
is arbitrable under the treaty to submit
that question To the board of arbitration.
Scores Attitude of Senate.
The attitude of the majority Of the
Senate committee on foreign relations Is
that they have no power. and therefore
the government has no power, to enter
into a treaty by which we shall agree to
submit to a third person the question
whether we are bound under treaty to
abide the Judgment of the tribunal as
70 q particular issue.
The treaty making power under the
Constitution. it has been decided by
the Supreme Court, hardly knows deh-
milton or limit 1t is one of the broad
est powers conferred by the Constltu-
ton and it is conferred upon the eN-
ecutive and the Senate.
Il cannot exaggerate the Importance
of escaping from the limited and mar
row view the majority of the Senate
committee takes.
The ideal toward which we are all
working with these treaties Is the
ultimate establishment of an arbltral
court to which we shall submit our in
terna tional controversies with the
same freedom as in case of domestic
courts.
Il call your attention to the unfor-
funate consequences not only to our
selves. but to the whole civilized world.
not only for today, but for ages to
come, if the final adoption of this
reasoning by the Senate committee is
to prevail
u S. the Hope of the World.
steadily throughout the world the
burden of the creation of armies and
fleets has grown heavier and heavier:
steadily the competition has grown
more tierce-that is, crushing the life
and the hopes of the peoples. But
steadily, too and of late even more
rapidly, has grown the hope that an
escape from these burdens may be
found; that in some measure at least
the peaceful methods of settling dis
puteS among individual men may OBJ
tain among the nations.
In this great movement We are the
hope of the world. These hopes. by
the proposed narrow construction of
the Senate's power to make a treaty,
We are now to strike down.
For, remember. IL the Senate cannot
now bind us to abide the judgment of
an arbitral court as to whether
question is judiciable. it can never
bind us. and if the Senate cannot bind
us the nation cannot bind us. and this
peace-loving people is forever incap-
able of taking a step along the great
path which all the world wishes to
tread. and along which all the world
thinks America best fitted to lead"