Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-05-06
PRESIDENT TAFT
PLEADS FOR PEACE
Declares This Country waats No
More Territory and Hears HIS
Arbitration pact Praised.

Arbitration Pact Praised.
Baltimore. Md. May president
Taft opened the third National Peace
Congress here in the presence OF
crowd that packed the Lyric theater
to the doors.
| On the platform with the president
were Cardinal Gibbons. Secretary OF
| War Dickinson, Andrew Carnegie and
United States Senator Gore. OF Okla
homa
The speakers who preceded Mr,
Taft, Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton
Holt, of New York, president of the
congress, voiced the opinion that the
proposal for an arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain was the greatest step forward
in the direction of universal peace that
has ever been taken in the history or
the world
The president In his address ex-
! pressed the belief that all who under
stand the situation we're agreed that
the proposed arbitration treaty would
be a step in the direction Of universal
peace.
I'VE are dealing" he said, with a
world that is fallible. Reforms that
are worth having are brought about
little by little and not at one blow.
think that we will do better II we real
ize the difficulties there are to opening
the gate of universal peace with one
key and In one year"
The president declared he did not
wish to discuss specifically the pro-
posed treaty with England while 1t
was still in the process OF negotiation.
But in the peace societies that exist
throughout the country the president
found subject upon which he could
talk without treading on ground that
might be automatically dangerous. In
the consolidation of the peace socie-
ties, the president thought, lay one
means to the end for which they were
all seeking.
This government, the president said,
was hampere1 In any attempt it might
make to bring peace to this hemi-
sphere by the suspicious Of the other
nations on It,
v. 8. Wants No More Territory.
There isn't any desire for terri
torial ACKNOWLEDGMENT In this coun-
try" said the president. "The people
would not permit the government to
take any territory II 1t would or to in
terfere except to aid those foreign
governments and foreign people to
maintain peace and order within their
borders.
I'VE have had wars and we know
the horrors and burdens they bring
and would have none OF them and
need no more territory. But we have
attained great prosperity and have
been powerful in our community and
therefore on US Is the responsibility
for peace in our neighborhood and the
burden of helping the nations that
cannot help themselves. IL We can do
it effectively.
| ooh, Il England and America were
to enter into an alliance OF permanent
arbits alton with each other, such a
bond of friendship and amity would be
blessing not only to these two great
powers, but to all the nations of the
civilized world"
| Andrew Carnegie, who followed the
president, was introduced as "the
dreadnought of peace He praised the
president as the leader who has laid
the axe to the root of international
war"
ITO President Taft's appeal to the
world, in which both his heart and
head went forth. for the great nations
to join his country in proving their
sovereignty by agreeing to submit all
disputes to peaceful settlement, be-
hold there came such response across
the sea from the other branch OF our
English-speaking race as had never
been made to any appeal before. The
leaders of parties in Britain sunk the
partisan in the patriot, touched by the
presidents appeal The nation was
unanimous; all parties fused into one.
To-day the representatives of the
two lands are forming the treaty, and
here Britain knows nothing OF party,
for all parties cooperate. sublime
spectacle, proving that party issues
fade In the presence of the high moral
Issue which leads nations to peace.
Gentlemen. In an inspired moment
our leader saw the great light. How.
when, where. we know not. Probably
the message came to him in fash
and he was guided he knew not how,
but surely the angel of the lord ap
peared and entrusted to him tle d.
vine mission"