The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-14
ROOSEVELT R|D|CULES
'TAFT'S WORK FOR PEACE
Points to His Own Winning Of the
Nobel Prize as Proof of
His Activity.
TALKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Will Be in New York Tonight.
Then Off for Nebraska
on Monday.

Manchester. y. H., April is--Co !.
Roosevelt to-day pictured his own atti-
t,ide toward international peace as one
of sincerity and effective action and
President Taft's as talk and inaction.
The Colonel reviewed his Administ ration
and what it had accomplished for inter-
national peace in Armenia. the settle
ment Of the Russian Japanese war. in
CuLm and Santo Domingo. and held this
up as "a greater guarantee OF real world
peac effort than the Presidents arbitra-
tion treaties. that ne condemned as laying
the nations honor open to the decision
Of an outside court.
Look back to the seven and one-half
years when I was President and compare
what said with what did," he declared.
The only promise that IL valuanDle is
the promise that can be kept. said
just what | intended to do about pea 81
and did il.
Il said I never would consent to la vim z
the United States not act toward other
nations with tho same scrupulous action
a. regards Justice between indi vidual,
I had John Hay and Elihu Root in my
Cabinet. There was no, one act in the
tVioiu w 'i' uCSihie WIN o'nVi uh'phN
save such as you aud | would expect
our sons To do toward others. I did
not intend To have the nation submit to
wrongdoing as between nations There
was not thing done by the United States
during my Administration that was NOT
jIstfiable 10y tho highest standards Of
ethics
Il would not then consent to the sub
mitting Of til. national honor to jeop-
ardy. Tha, I didn't do. | would not
do il now and never shall do it,
Every foreign nation knew that in
every word that ! said they could exact
its face val,ie
"lnder my administration. We ma de ,he
Hague court, that had become morihund
a live instrument tor peace. Every act
that | could have submitted to arbiira-
ton was submitted and with he intention
that the decision reached would be- carried
out"
The question as to who made the over
lures to end the war between Russia and
ia pan whether these nations came 10 the
Colonel ar the Colonel Went to them. Mr..
Roosevelt settled to-day.
Il wa. asked 10y Russia and Japan tn
he the means Of bringing them together
Do yoIl snplose that they would have
come to this nation il they had though,
that We were "A nation Of Weaklinxs " ith
u weakling at the head of IL Never!
Every step ! took. from Panama on.
! was scrupriously careful to heed the
real moral needs of each situation as il
aros~. A nd 10y the way. ] wish TO GA VI
to your attention that m tho only PIesi
dent that got the Nobel peace prize. and
| wouldn't have go. il il ! had want ed
4 ii g
WAT
! When he had finished his peace talk
| the Colonel started an attack upon the
| President in the most definite terms he
has so fur used.
The President has said that he il u
progressive. but this doesn't depend
| upon one mans say 50. -Four years ago
ON Mr. Taft's record ny To that Time. tn.
progressives. including myself. were
all for him. and Mrssrs. Galiingcr. Lorimer
Cox. Barnes. Gugxenh-im and Evans
all against him.
-Four years after that time. after three
and Il haif years of close study and close
wat ching of the President. all these men
who We're against him four wears ago
| IGallinger. Iorimer. liarnes and the res,
OF them. are for him and the proRressives
all against him. Four years ago on MIR
! Taft's record. the reactionaries were
| right. and now the rea tionaries who
supper, him and the progressives who
are agnSt him are right again
| The attack on Mr.. Taft. neither here
nor in any oi her place in New Hampshire
went well with the people.
| The Colonel instructed his Concord
audience on the recall Of judicial decisions
remarling that New England had no,
shown the keen intelligence that might
have been expected Of II in weighing hi,
theories. but that this was no doubt du,
to the muz2led press.
Nashua. which took a holiday for the
President turned ont all the school chill
dren and shut up the shops three week.
ago was only mildly cordial to the Colonel
There was no wild enthusiasm, but botl
Concord and Manchester turned out gooc
crowds. grester in size and spirit in botl
places Than those that met Presiden
Taft. At Manchester 1000 work kingmcr
stood in Mechanics Hall.
| Roosevelt's main theme in New Hamp
shire was that this State now holds in al
the country the leadership in progressiv,
government actually in practice
| If New Hampshire. that has beer
the leader in the country for the las
eighteen months now falls back" he said
III will give heart to the bosses and thu
! crooked financiers. ] ask you not to bow
your head and slip it under the yoke"
Col. Roosevelt will arrive in New York
early tomorrow morning. He leaves
New York for Nebraska az = =. NJ OIL