Show TAfT TALKS ON j MANY SUBJECTS Address Delivered at Miami University sity Commencement ADVOCATES COOLIE LABOR I I DEFENDS THE CONQUEST EST OF THE PHILIPPINES Oxford 0 June laThe IThe feature of the thi elg commencement of MiamI university here toda today was the address of Secretary of War William WilliamH H Taft It was delivered in the corn com tent erected In the campus among the forest trees Th The unusually large audien e made frequent interruptions interruptions with witt applause In opening hi speech pe h Secretary Taft tou touched be on the racial question in the south and in this connection said Another encouraging feature of the present increase of wealth is that a large proportion of this increasE has been in the south a part of our coca cou coutry try which heretofore has DeeR been largely agricultural and poor The change In Inthe Inthe the material conditions in the south In Ic spite pite or of the political 5 that certainly ar are there is creating a bet better better ter state of things with reference to the racial question The South and the Negro The work or of Booker T Washington in teaching taching his people how to uee tools instead of giving them a superficial university education which they can cannot cannot not use added to industrial demand for labor I am certain wm will pUt the then n negro gro In II a better condition m nd when that i brought about their spiritual and Intellectual uplifting is much easier aster The south uth em rn states are engaged in adopting whIch seem Intended to exclude the negro from the ballot in inI n nI I I ct without infringing the amendment so palpably as to lead to th their ir annulment by the tbt supreme court I irn am hoping earnestly that the experiment ment or of this sort rt wilt will fail but if they ther therm will m lead to a result in which the laws Jaws shan shall exclude ignorant whites and blacks equally equall front from the ballot thou then no orre Ofle can qu with the procedure which will be square and azid honest Colonial Expansion Refo Reference rence was made b by Secretary I Taft to teo the enormous material tnt cx or of this country and to LO its I standing among the I nations beyond that which could b be accorded by them tu to ont one which had no posses skins and nd confined d itself within the theS theseas seas S II He continued The powerful influence which it has Ils exerted to bring about peace between the Hessian and Japanese nations is 15 itself an evidence e The personality of the president has ha had much to do with the willingness or of the powers power to allow him to Intervene Confidence in his Impartiality and Integrity have aided our prestige m in securing this end de to be wiShed Chinese Exclusion Law Touching the application of the ChInese exclusion law the secretary asked uIs I it just that for the pur purpose purpose pose of excluding or preventing per perhaps r haps one hundred Chinese coolies from sUpping slIpping Into this country agaInst the law we should subject t an equal aura ncr mr of Chinese merchants and students of high character to au art ex examInation or of such an Inquisitorial humiliating In I suiting Dulling and physically uncomfortable I character as to lo discourage altogether the coming of merchants and st dents Then he said Commerce in the Orient One of the great commercial prIzes of the world is the t trade d with ith t the four hundred million Chinese Ought Ough we to throwaway throw away the advant advantage ge which wo we have by r reason cn of Gh Chinese natural friendship for Us ua and to enforce an unjustly severe law Iw And thus create in the Chinese e mind a rIis dis disposition position to boycott American trade and to drive our merchants front from Chinese shores hores simply because we are afraid that we may for the time loss the approval of certain unreasonable and extreme popular of Calf fOrn fornia Q and o other her coast tales states Does Doe th the question not answer it Itself Is it not the thoi dut duty of members of congress and of the exe executive to disregard the unreasonable demands ot of a portIO or orth o othe th the community deeply prejudiced upon subject itt In th far west and ir in insist or on axten i justIce and courtesy to a from whom we ar are deny deriving ing and are Jk likely h to derive h Ira im mf n benefit In th the way of intern l trade truc Colonial Burdens The secretary then paid some atten attention tion to Porto Porte Rico and the the Uthe burdens burdel which we have assumed umed ue to the Spanish war warI r I do not hE said for or a ort nd that now or for years they will prove any anything thin but a burden to th tilt United States In thi this connection he mid id We Ve en enjoy joy the benefits of the increasing civill of th the world b by reason or of colonization Must we e to us qa acme th the burden thereof Hence when an allen alien people como come under our con control control we deem derm It our duty aut to try the ex experiment ex experiment of educating them to govern I themselves and we should deem our ourselves s selves cowa cowards and recreants ts if we tie de declined dined to accept the responsIbility and thus thu throw the nack Into a achao chaos chao of br anarchy which could but result ultimately In s l I or despotism Secretary Taft th then n dir directed atten I lion to a few purely rei 3 domestic qU quo Hons with re respect to which he dt Oared the Amerlean people ought to act ct These Included the of the C criminal la law the Ir ii crease rease in divorce and the salaries paid pad to government official Regarding the th first t Secretary Ta H said the or of Ui tI criminal law is a disgrace J to our OIl The ratio of 0 the he number e those convIcted or of manslaughter mUl deI In the second degree or V th the first degree to the number of estee cide in a year eAr the country over ver is S small as to be startling What Is tru in respect t to homicides is true i respect to almost all other crimes l ai though there are some which 1 the indignation and emotion of tho pct pie and so 50 all for prompter ment The delays delas in the law and tV ii escape of so S man many criminals has T 1 1 directly and surely to the awful rn 1 in so many part of the country In which cruel ru 1 1 nl jh huts inV involve lv whole communities i 1 criminality Regarding Secretary Taft 8 said id Last year there h re were ere l 1 out of every 1 nani If thi continues KS to grow what will become o that which is if today the tAP foundation Uon OUr civilization and our home hom and the Imn family He giving congress power to peas JH a versal la law on the subject In hi discussing what hat he pointed d ou nu were the inadequate salar salaries paid t government officials the secrets r ta asked the question whether it Is j the Irony of inconsistency that t who are engaged In praising Ute the purl pun and the of the v should adopt a policy polky b by which j jone i ione one can govern goern us Is |