Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-05
TAFT SPEAKS FORPEACE AND
 ARBITRATION
Asserts That Few Wars in Which We Have Engaged Were Necessary to
 Gain Justice
RECIPROCITY WILL
 BRING US PROSPERITY
President SweIterS in Heat As He HurrieS 10 Deliver Fourth of July Address
 Today

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 | MARION. Ind. July 3.-witt the
 temperature in his private ear above | the 100 mark for hours today l'Tesi-
 dent Taft hurried through Ohio and
 Indiana. He began speaking from the rear platform at Cleveland after 1 breakfast and did not get through Gn- | til 6 o'clock
 He ended with. two addresses at the National Home for Dissble' Vnldn- I teers here. To the bankers and editors of the Eleventh Congressional district | he talked about the Aldrich plan co- l currency reform At Indianapolis 70 1 morrow he expects to talk for Che third most important measure" or the administTation-reci with Canada.
 Win Bring Prosperity. ' On the way over from Cleveland the ! president made rear platform talks 1 Some times he talked about the heat and at other times he argued for a ' safe and sane" fourth. occasionally ! i turning to Canadian reciprocity. which [ he said would bring prosperity. In the speech 10 the old soldiers the presi- ' AAtAAA ANFDA4A NA AAAsAA eAAA Dt AAaE AD4 iAtsA wars waged by this country except l the war Of the revolution and possibly ! even the civil war, could have been settled without bloodshed. Not Dreamer.
 No less than five times. said the president, has the United States in tervened between South and Central ] American countries and by peaceful ? -n wild enthusiast or a blind optimist,
 said The president T do not look for ward to a complete restoration Of a 1 peace which cannot be disturbed in the world even if these treaties are adopted
 The morality Of nations improves I only step by step. and so the making and confirming of these treaties must ! be regarded as only a step. but long step. toward the securing Of world peace.
 ! Wars Benefits ] T am far from saying that war mas not in times past accomplished much | in the progress of the world. Whether the same progress might have been achieved iB a more peaceful way. it l is unnecessary to discuss, probably not It was by waE that this country ! gained it's independence of Great Brit | ain. If England had been better ad | vised probably war would not have i ensued and we might now be as in the case of Canada. cherishing an attach ment to the mother country without ! exercising complete independence | Certain it is that the lesson we taught 1 England she took to heart and, in her | colonial policy she continued to light
 en the bonds which she had laid upon
 her colonies until now they have no
 weight and are merely nerves or ar I lection from a mother to her chli-
 dren.
 One War Unnecessary. ..
 The war of 1872 might certainly I have been avoided by arbitration. The
 questions there presented were ques-
 tions all of which have been satlIed by the judgment of mankind in favor of
 our side of the controversy. The war with Mexico. though there is some dis pute over this. was one of the ques-
 tioDs capable of solution by an i'm , partial tribunal
 The Civil War.
 Whether the civil war could have
 been avoided is a very difficult ques-
 ton to answer. When slavery has be-
 come embedded in the social fabric os
 the country, it is possible that only all excision by a war knife can remove , the cspcerous growth Nor shall I at-
 tempt to answer a similar question as I to the Spanish war. Yet I believe rh,.
 submission of the issues to a tribunal
 might have affected Spain's treatment { of Cuba !n such a way that we could
 have avoided resort to arms. 2 Ambition Is Scored.
 @The irresponsibiiity Of men claim , ing to be patriots and desiring to over. ] turn the exsting governments where ! law and order are well established 7 has led to a great deal of guerilla war. . fare and 70 the suffering of innoceur ] people who found no real principle IT, . volved except that of ambition for power Much of this kind of work has occurred sn South and Central Ame--
 ica and in the degree of guardianship , which the United States must feel
 over the republics of this hemisphere , in maintaining their integrity against , European invasion we ought 70 wei ] come every opportunity which gives as a legitimate instrument by which we can make less probable such fnterne-
 cine strife.
 Suspicion Possible. Tn the assertion of that sort Of ] guardianship we have to be careful to , avoid the charge which Is always i made by the suspicious that We are
 seeking our own aggrandizement. It Is
 an unfounded charge. for we envy no ' part of its territory. We have enough 5 but we have been able to fend oa var in five or more instances Of rerent ? date because of our attitude as sn old l CT brother 70 these small govern meats.
 For the further serving of peace,