Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
NO DOUBT AS TO HIS MEANING
Intent of Executive to Refer to
Present Trouble.
NATIONS NATURALLY SUSPICIOUS
Look Upon United States, Wondering
at Each Move.
DUTY OF UNITED STATES TO HELP
Power of This Country Such that IL
ia Its Duty 20 Assist in Preserv-
ing Peace In It's Neishbor-
hood,

BALTIMORE, May s.-President Taft. IN
his speech at the opening OF the third
National Peace Conference here today, said
the United states would keep hands orc
and not seek to extend its domain or to
acquire foreign territory He made no
mention of Mexico, but TO those who heard
him It was evident the trouble in the situ-
alton there and the suspicion in the South
American republics as TO the intention Of
this nation. in regard to It's neighbors had
inspired him.
"One of the difficulties the United States
finds Is the natural suspicious that the
countries engaged have OF the motives
which tho United Statos has in rendering
it's good Offices" continued the president
'Asseveration Of good faith helps but lit.
tie where the suspicion is real. and yet I
like to avail myself of an opportunity In
such presence this to assert that there
is not in the length and breadth OF tho
United states among it's people any desire
for territorial aggrandlzement and that its
people n whole will not permit it's gov
ernment, II 1t would. to take any steps
in respect to foreign peoples looking to
forcible extension OF our; political power.
I'VE have had wars and we know what
they are. We know what 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 I'm pop
ular government and we need no more ter
ritory in which to show this.
Help other Nations.
But We have attained great prosperity
and great power. We have become a pow
erful member of the community of nations
| in which we live, and there is, therefore,
| thrust upon us necessarily a care and re-
| sponsibility of the peace of the world In
our neighborhood and a burden of helping
those nations that cannot help themselves,
II we may do that peacefully and effec-
| lively"
The president spoke to several thousand
persons in the Lyric theater. Cardinal
! Gibbons Secretary Dickinson, Senator
Gore OF Oklahoma and Andrew Carnegie
and more than a dozen men. leaders in the
movement for world peace, sat on the
platform with the president.
Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton Holt,
president of the conference who spoke be-
fore the president, voiced the opinion that
the negotiations of tn eproposed arbltra-
ton treaty between the United States and
Great Britain would mark the greatest step
toward universal peace that the world
has ever seen.
AN arbitration treaty between the two
great nations of tn eworld." said the presi-
dent, would be very important step In
securing the peace Of the world. l do not
claim any patent for new discovery in
that suggestion because l have no doubt
1t has often been made before
Arbitration Only n step.
'If such an arbitration treaty can be
concluded have no doubt an independent
step will have been taken, but 1t will not
bring an end of war. II is a step only
and we must not defeat our purposes by
enlarging the expectation Of the world as
; to what is to happen and by then disap-
pointing 1t.
1--WE must realize that we are dealing
with a world that is fallible and full Of
, weakness with somewhat OF wickedness in
it, and that the reforms that are worth
! having are brought about little by little
and not by one blow"
The president was particularly interested
In the speech by DR.. j. a. Macdonald
editor of the Toronto CCenada) Globe, a
warm advocate OF reciprocity.
III that arbitration treaty between your
country and England is ratified" said Or.
Macdonald. the name of William Howard
! Taft will be remembered in world history
4 so long as man loves peace.
, Above all other nations Canada has the
greatest stake in the proposed treaty; she
y has the most to gain by peace, the most
to lose by war
Canada desires the peace not for her
:, self alone, but for the sake of the whole
n world. The time to do II is at hand The
j. hour is trembling, ready to strike; the
/ tide is swelling to the flood. and II ever
+ had the right to speak for my country OF
i for the empire TO which belong It is now
and l ask that the Pparlament of Great