The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-08
EXECUTIVE FEARS
DELAY IN SENATE
Urges People of the United
States to Use Their Moral
Influence in Behalf
of Treaties.

wi eled 400 miles through Mary
land and West Virginia today
by special train to appeal to the people
of the United States to use their
moral influence to have the senate
ratify The British and French arbiIra.
tion treaties and the trearies with
Nicaragua and Honduras. HIS appeal
vas r-ade direct to the Moun5ain Lake
Park Chautuaqua Of the Methodist
Episcopal church. but in ii the presi-
dap5 included the rest of the nation as
well
~ observe said the president,
that there is some suggestion that by
ratifying this treaty the senate may in
some way abdicate its func1lon Of
treatymaking. I confess myself un~
able TO perceive the substance In any
such point.
'sTo have these treaties not ratified
by the senate, or TO have any hesitation
ana discussion Of a serious character in
respect to them would halt the move.
ment toward general peace, which has
made substantial advance in thu last
ten years. To secure the ratification
Of the treaties. therefore, appeal mast
be made to the moral sense OF the ma
rion- and while that is not entirely IN
they may exert powerful influence in
the promotion Of any effective instIu~
mentality to secure permanent peace. I"
Object Is Peace.
Leaving the arbitration treaties be-
hind, the president asked for the same
sort of popular support of the treaties
with Honduras and Nicaragua
There is no issue before the senate
so acute in respect 10 the cause of
peace as the confirmation of these Cen
trail American treaties, said the presi-
dent ''While admit the greater im-
portance of universal treaties Of arbi-
tTation in the long run, and as af-
fecting the world at large, yet in re-
spect of American interests. in respect
OF peace IN this hemisphere, they are
not equal IN Importance to the con
frmation of these Central American
treaties. -
In making his plea for the Central
American conventions, Mr.. Taft highly
praised former President Roosevelt. He
spoke of the tendency of the United
States 10 extend d helping hand TO less
powerful peoples, and iustauced Mr..
Roosevelt s Intervention In Cuba That
tendency was evidenced also, he said
by the wonderful successful interven-
tion by Theodore Roosevelt. as presi-
dent of the United States, in securing
peace berween Japan and Russia.
The. president left Washington at 8
o'clock with carload Of Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad officials along 10 help run
the special He spent Just an hour In
Mountain Lake park. leaving for Wash
ington at 4 o'clock, The address was
made to several thousand people.
Presidents Address.
rree3dcpt A..
have been surprised to note with
nation welcome the proposal of universal
arbitration. not because their real In
terest In the practical adoption OF the
plan lis not greater than all other classes
somewhat abstruse case, in the success
OF which they might NOT be expected 10
take an immediate interest. or course
IN war, II is the common people that
have 10 bear most OF the suffering They
have TO pay most OF The taxes they have
10 do most Of the fighting and they Sc
cure the least benefit and least glory"
SAT reSes hat hs prssden usSn wsns on to
JustiGiable nature should be submitted to
2 tribunal of arbitration and that they
defined what Justiciable means.
,h,tt Is any Issue between the nations
principles of law and equity as these
are understood In law and in interna-
tional law, There are. OF course. ques-
tions OF policy with respect To which each
nation must use It's own discretion and
doing so is entirely within its legal right,
and however It's action may affect tho
other nations it is not the proper sub
tect OF controversy. The machinery pro-
vided will practically dispose OF every
question so far as 1t is a war-inducing
Issue,
The treaty may be called almost a
treaty. not only to avoid war. but even