The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1911-06-08
SPEAKS OF PEACE AND WAR.
Taft Pays Tribute to Dead Heroes at
Arlington Cemetery.

Taft Pays Tribute to Dead Heroes {
Arlington Cemetery.
Washington - Under the shade
arches of the Washington Nations
Cemetery Tuesday, President Tai
spoke not 80 much as the friend 0
peace, but as the enemy of war
Thousands of veterans tramped the no
asphalt Of the street, crossed the Pc
tomac and trudged dusty roads to Ar
lington to hear the president speak.
Thousands of others came in auto
mobiles and by street cars, and Presi
dent Taft, with Secretary of Wal
Stimson, came up TO the vine covered
amphitheater and saw fully 10000
persons crowded about the speakers
stand 1t probably was the most
largely attended Memorial day cere-
mony Washington has seen.
Far be it from me-" said the
president, ito minimize in any way
the debt. we owe to the men buried
here who carried on the successful
struggle that resulted in the abolition
of the cancer of slavery, which SEEM
ed ineradicable save by such an awful
slaughter of the brightest and bravest
and best of the Nations youth and
manhood.
81 shall not discuss whether it
might have been possible to accom-
plish the same reform by milder meth
DDS. Whether that be true or not, the
supreme sacrifice of these men who lie
about us, in the cause of advancing
cannot be lessened or OBJ
scured by such suggestion.
"But the thought at which would
but hint this morning, is that, even
the hallowed presence of these dead,
whose ideals of patriotism and love of
their countrymen it needed war to
make everlastingly evident, we should
abate no effort and strain every nerve
and avail ourselves of every honorable
ievice to avoid war in the future.
81 am not blind to the aid in Great
ng sturdy manhood that the military |
discipline we see in the standing armies |
f Europe and in the regular army of
his country, nor do deny the incl
entail benefits that may grow out of
he exigencies and sequelae of war.
,ut when the books are balanced, the
wful horrors of either international
r internal strife far outweigh the
enefits that may be attained in it. F."
Washington, May 80. - The house |
vas in session 10 minutes today. A |
andful of members who had not been |
RATED for memorial day addresses
,ere present. After routine business
djournment was taken until Friday. |
A resolution was introduced by Rep
sentative Harrison of New York,
Erecting the secretary of state to in
)rm the house whether Russia has
rdered any overtures looking to its
odification of the discrimination
yainst the American passport in the
ands of the American Jew.
My fear u.s." said Mr.. Harrison,
that the reported policy at St. Pc
is put forth only to quiet the
list indignation of the American peo-
lie at Russia's treatment of our Jew
III citizens.
That congress will not conduct an
into the arrest and ex-
addition to California, in connection ,
it'll the Los Angeles dynamiting case, !
j. j. Mcnamara, the indianapolis !
Dor leader, was indicated today when :
e house committee on rules decided 5
take no action on the Berger reso- :,
ton providing for such an inquiry. !
Washington, May 31.-Bryan's de-
lnce today of the party leaders in the
use, his warning to the Democratic
embers that the voters are yet to
ISIS on the wool schedules they are to
fifty and his appeal to them not to
Id hypocrisy to the sin of voting for
revenue on wool, have caused in
nse feeling in the party.
Notwithstanding, Underwood, as {
airman of the house committee on I
avs and means, tonight was insistent 8
the prediction that the revenue bill |
Ill be approved by big majority.
~ ny JuhBulCul, O0ueTWOOQ SAID
answer to Bryan, "his statement {
unjust and unfair to the members of !
e ways and means committee and to ]
e Democratic representatives in con- {
'ess who will support the bill.
The ways and means committee
IS cut in half the whole wool
hedule. They have reduced the du-
es on manufactured goods as low as
icy were under the Wilson bill that
r. Bryan voted for when raw wool
as placed on the free list In that
duction they have fallen short of the
10, 900, 900 now raised by wool by
%, 900, 900, and it is necessary in or
sr to secure this revenue to place
venue tax on raw wool imported into
lie United States"
Hours of Service Laws Good.
Washington, d. C.-''The hours of |
a 80. L..