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Show FiMIT IIAKES APPEAL TOR RATIFICATION . OF ARBITRATION AND OTHER TREATIES MOUNTAIN LAKE PAHK, Md.. A eg- ..President Taft traveled 4IMJ mile through Maryland and Wat Vir ' ginia yesterday by epeeial train to ap-pMl ap-pMl to tbe people of the United States - to bm their moral influence to have the eeaate ratify the British and French arbitration ar-bitration Ireeties and the treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras. II appeal a a ad direct to the Moun:tn Uik.v Park Chaotuaqua of the Methmliat Episcopal ehnrrh, bnt in it the president presi-dent included the 'rest of. the nation as well. "I observe eaid th. president, "that there i him suggestim that by ratifying this treaty the senate may in urn. wav abdicate ila function of treatv-makina. I con f cm myself unable un-able to perceive the substance in any lurk a point. Aski apaady Ratification. "T have these treatiee not ratified by th eenste. or to have any hesitation a'uu discussion of a serious character in reepert to them, would halt the more-ntent more-ntent toward general peace, which baa made anbstantial advance In the lat tea years. To secure the ratinVation i'of the treatiee. therefore, appeal must he made to the moral sens of the nation, na-tion, and while that is not entirely in the keeping of th. ehurehes, eertsiuly they may exert a powerful influence in the promotion of any effective loitin hi. secure erraaaent peacaviL , American A free men ta Important. Leering tbe arbitration treatiee behind, be-hind, the preeident aeked for the same sort of popular support of tha treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua. "There ia ao issue before the senate ae acute ia respect to the cause of peace aa the confirmation of thee. Ten- a tribunal of arbitration anil thai they defined what Justiciable means. "It le any laaue between the natlone that can be properly eetlled upon the principles f taw and equity, aa theee are understood In lew end In International Interna-tional law. There are. of ituirae. questions ques-tions of pulley with reaper! lo which eei-h nation must use He own discretion and dolne so la entirely within lis legal rlajllt. and however Its action may affe-'t i i-' other natlone II la not the proper subject sub-ject of (-ontroveray. The machinery provided pro-vided will practically dispose of every nueallon en far ae It la a war-indiuliiif tssue. "The treaty may he called almost a treaty, not only to aotd wnr. hut even to avoid arbltntllon. f'.r It la only in i.i-leat i.i-leat Instance, after the commlealon shall have failed In a year a tlnie to suaet a aetlefactorv solution, that even arbitration arbi-tration la to he reeorled to. "Bv Ihla treaty. If II Is ratified, the executive and the senate, representing the t'nlted Plates, ssree to etc all their dlfferen'-ee. aa described In the treaty, oy arbitration or through a claim. "Hhould the treaty he ratified, the senate, sen-ate, ensctlv as the executive, will be In honor bound hv Its obllratlons. In awo faith to perforin the offu-ee which the main treaty provldea ahall te rK-rtortned on the aide of the I lilted Blatea end then tt abide ty the result, and to acqillcece or. Insofar aa may he. perform and execute the lodgment of the tribunal. "The fact thel the aenale ha. the power to meke a treaty ne.-eeaarllv In-volvea In-volvea Ita power lo bind Itself aa part of the aovernment n j. obligations of the treaty. Title la Inherent In the treaty-maklna power. Knrnl time Immemorial Im-memorial am-ernmenta have bound theni-aelvea theni-aelvea to abide the Judrmenl of third partis, par-tis, la aeetpeueeel.s Safes, ia.- "In what respect doe. the eenste treatv-maklna treatv-maklna power differ from that of the ea-eeutlve ea-eeutlve or of anv aovernment In all limes past, that It mev not eeree. on behelf of the nation, to abide the Judgment of en tmnartlsl tribunal, or bv treat v to establish estab-lish a tribunal to consider a certain class of raeea and rieefde them, whether few or manv. whether ealatlna or In the future, fu-ture, or to accord to the tribunal Itself or iraj Asneriess Treaties, eaaa io prrw dest. 44 While I admit the greater lm porta are of asiTersal treatiee of arbi-tratioa arbi-tratioa ia the long run, and as of fee tie tha world at large, vet ia respect re-spect ef Aaierioas intereats, in respect of peace la this hemisphere, they sre set eeual ia importance to the eon-iematioa eon-iematioa of these Central American treaties. ' ' la making his plea for the Central Amerieaa conventions, Mr. Taft highly praised former Pres. Sent Booeevelt. He epofce ef the teadeeev of the United fctates to sxteed a helping aaed te lss powerful peoples, and instanced Mr. Beeeeeelt (nterveatioa ia Cuba. That tended was svideseed also, he said. 'by the woaderful successful intervsn-tioa intervsn-tioa by Theodore Booeevelt, aa presides presi-des t of the United Btates, ia seenriag peace between Japaa and Russia." Th president left Washington at I e'etocs with a carload of Baltimore a Ohte reiiroad offtrials along to help run the speetaL He epent Just an hour In eountal Lahe pars, leaving for Wash-gio Wash-gio at e'sfoek. The address waa saade to severml theusaad people. rrealdeat'a Addreaa. - , The president said In part; . "I have been surprised ta note with what fervor tho plain people of every eat io weloome the proposal of universal S rait rat ten. not berauee their real interest in-terest in the practical adoption of the riiaa la sot greater than all other classes n the community, but heeauee It ta a somewhat a bet ruse ease. In the success ef which they might not be expeetea to take an Immediate tntareet. Of oouree. In a war. It la the eonunoa people that have te er most of the suffering. They have te pay most of the taxee, they have te do meet ef the fighting and they secure se-cure tbe least benefit and least glory." The treatiee. the president went on to ' say. "provided that every question of a just ef sHc rsture shmild be euhmltted to some other Impartial commission, nnt onlv the power to decide certain Issue, but also to decide whether the Untie which arises comes within the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the tribunal in accordance with tbe terms of the treaty? "One of the common eat kinds of oueatlona ouea-tlona that corns before anv court." the president pointed out. "is that of deciding Ita own Jurisdiction In accordant with the law. "To have theee treatiee not ratified, therefore, by the senate of the Fnlted States, or to have anv hesitation or discussion dis-cussion of a serious eharsrter In respect to them, weuld halt the movement toward to-ward general sare which baa made aub-atanttal aub-atanttal advance In the last ten veare. Te secure ratification of the treatiee. therefore, there-fore, appeal must be made to the moral sense of tbe nation. "I Invoke your aid aa a branch of the great Methodlet church, to brine: all the Influence you can bring to secure the confirmation con-firmation of the trestles new made, and 'of those which may hereafter be made of a simitar tenor with other countries. This movement bas attracted the attention atten-tion of not enlv England and France, but all the countries of Europe and of the Orient. It Is not too much to bono that there are a number of others who will be willing now to sign the same kind of treatiee as those already mads, and that we mar ultimately have a network of such agree me nta making loag strides toward to-ward universal peace.'' In closing the president not n ted out the peculiar relations between the United States and the Central American republics, repub-lics, due to the Ins 1st en os of the t'nlted States that tbe Monroe doctrine be oh-I oh-I served. He declared that if the Vnlted States Insists upon the Monroe doctrine. It should also be willing to help the republic, re-public, aa was dona with Santo TVmlnan. bv collecting their revenues for them and aoolvlng those revenues te the payment of Just obligations. "Is It not better. he asked, "thus to 'anticipate trouble and ward It off b? mere civil arranjremsnts that Involve little lit-tle burden, than to wait until war follows. orliorajnoriBjm enlleetlnrt. ef their dehte, and when we have rflme to fare with Rumpeen enntrn-veree enntrn-veree and oontlnuoue war In the Central urtej2rjyrejMinrshMTjalv2 |