The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-08
TAFT TALKS PEACE
AND ARBITRATION
Thousands Listen to Presi.
dents Address to Christian
Endeay0r Association.
Continued From Page One.

use the valuable furs that such seals
furnish
at is the beginning, ] hope. of the
adoption of useful game laws for the
open ocean which has heretofore been
subject TO the wanton and irresponsible
use OF men Of every nation. III is the
settlement by treaty Of controversy
that has troubled these four nations for
several generations, and 1T ought to be
the cause Of great congratulation.
Every movement which tends to
discourage war, and to furnish a means
of avoiding it. ought to receive and
does receive the earnest support of an
organization that has the purposes and
principles that actuate the society of
the Christian Endeavor.
''The treaty, in one sense. instead Of
making arbitration necessary. inter
poses mediation of year between the
happening Of the differences and the
bringing of the matter to arbitration.
with the growing probability that the
ruffled feelings OF the nation may be
smoothed ont by time. that the. differ.
ences may be adjusted by mediation, IN.
stead of judicial action, but holding
judicial action as the ultimate resort TO
prevent war.
Hopes Others Will Join.
81 am exceedingly hopeful that other
countries besides Great Britain Will ac-
cept the form Of the treaty, or one like
1t, and that we may have half dozen
of the treaties with the European coun-
tries looking toward arbitration of in
ternational differences. This will not
abolish war, but it will provide most
effective and forcible instrument for
avoiding IL in many cases.
''Of course war between Great Brit
France and the United States and be.
tween Germany and the United States
is quite remote; but the adoption by
these great countries of arbitration and
mediation as means of meeting all
controversies must have the most
healthy moral effect upon the world at
large and must assist all the friends Of
peace in their effort to make it perma-
nent.
"To this audience and this great So
ciety with its world wide influence.
tremendous weight of its support to
such cause
Judge Lindsey's Address.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver fol.
lowed President Taft, speaking on ''The
CHRISTIAN 10 Politics. - The most strik,
ing sentences in his address were:
"The most dangerous citizen in any
city is the man who affects indifference
and considers himself above politics.
some of the pillars of the present
day churches are the same hypocrites
IN spirit as those of the early periods
Christ in facing the multitude in
the market place was only protesting
the formation Of the first trust and
granting of corrupt franchises"
Judge Edgar NJ. Warner, superinten-
dent OF the prison department of the
Connecticut State Christian Endeavor
union, declared in an address this after.
noon that fines and cost and few davs
IN jail never punished or reformed anv-
oody. The system debases and cor
rMpts the victim, he said Booker It.
Washington spoke before the big gath,
erIng this afternoon giving statistics
and a general resume of the work and
advance of his race and of the outlook
of the future,
Live rallies about the booths of Los
Angeles, Dallas and INDIANAPOLIS. fore.
most contenders for the next conveu-
tion, were among the features following
the night session.