Show TAfT DEfENDS S POLICIES i Justifies His Hla Course In Nicaragua i And Scorn Scorer Inventors of Phrase Phra Dollar DoBar Diplomacy IS GIVEN UNSTINTED PRAISE Has u Given Wise 10 Connect at fit th HM lit Ut moat anon v Yatee Val hi M tinkling inkling the Ie Of 01 the be Pittsburg y t President Taft Tatt ended his It hi two days day stay May In Pitsburg with a speech at t the th Grant day dinner of ot the American club tonight In which he ho dealt almost wholly with the foreign for foreign forel eign el affair at ot the t nation The Tb president l dent paid p ld a striking tribute to the tha see sec secretary of ot state Mr Knox who was Wail present He Ha If vigorously la l u l defended stud and justified the th Nicaraguan and flayed those thorn tho who Invented the tho phrase phrae dollar diplomacy Mr T tt had an exceedingly busy day daj da and end was w pretty well ell tired out when wen wenho he ho h retired to hl hi his private car r tonight to raving leaving at t Jae 0 am for tor Cincinnati where he Is III due a et at 1011 1068 10 tomorrow morning Count von on Bern Berni Berntorff i who tvs tati In the presidential party part all ail day d lift Idt with the president to tonight tonight night ir tor Cincinnati The day began bean with a brief add to tu the th students tunu of ot Penn Pennsylvania enno sylvania stat college for wOllin and II lu hr h next made an address l at t he found era er day l rs at raw la I institute After n at t th c tub club canto camo the th bull bail game lIall bt ii Wt tb hu g and Chicago The tad tact that ba the be bedont dank dunt was ay to attend RUnd brought broUCh an ex extremely extremely x large tare crowd Mr Taft expressed a desire to In alt among the tha fetus fn but the th heal committee look him to a box mi on n the second tier of ot the big I grandstand Count yon won sat ant with Itil the Ih president and Secy See Knox sat tut satIn In the th next box bug The provident president was wan preceded at the banquet by hy Senator of ot o Idaho h who ho made an a eI t s address l o on s n th the e elife life of ot O t T Oliv Oily Oliver er of Penn u 11 tl The president salt said t a d PRE iT PRAISES M KNOX I 1 am m greatly indebted to the state tate of to the i city Ity It of Pitts Pittsburg Pit burg and to 10 the thet American club forgiving for tor forgiving giving me m that gentleman who sits lilt It atthe at atthe atthe the head of ot my cabinet cabnet table and who In the th exercise of ability and learning which brought bl him to the head of ot your jour our bar and distinguished hits his II erv services ices Ic as a attorney general net Of lit Hi d States and nI I a a un from Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania yank has given wise wine wi counsel of ot the Ih utmost Blu In guiding the course of ot oft t the e administration administrationAl A M Al the law officer omer of ot the th government who conducted to a successful Issue the tt greatest of ot the th rate lu In I Ii which the meaning mal and limItation limitations of the th anti anU antitrust antitrust trust act were w considered and who by b Pita his hi successful called a halt upon the I movement which threatened a merger nf ot all railroad railroads In the hand handt of f t one ho hl took luok his h place among the statesmen n ul u o the c country entry i apt il while she e of ot capital and the green arat advantage Mint ago of ot lu its nt wa was ft alive to the tho danger to the public which lies II lie In the suppression of healthful competition and In the abuse of ot the privilege of 01 to mt ure pi private Irate mo Iy and excessive e profit pronto A ta 8 the Ih head of or r the Ih great grat de tie tiep p nt hiving In III lt it Its chit rge our Hr for i Ln ui I ni Mr I Knox X has 1 shown hon ho honI n I 11 fit foi ju tiding th 1111 lif In ter of ot his iii hi client the th I nit d i and a her hr people II In to denting with nations an he h did In protecting r ln th I their lr rights against the th unlawful rill encroach encroachment ments ment of ot of or capital The Th president pr referred t tn the t h ful tul culmination of the th recent negotiations tine under I the he n rn und and min minimum mInImum provisions pr of ot the new IW tariff law lawand I lawand and continued The Th work wick has hAil ben been done bv bs b Mr Knox and the state department und d has been n done don well FURTHER COMPLIMENTS KNOX Further complimenting Mr Knox the tho president said saidI Id I venture to affirm that hunt never nr he ti h fore to In III the tho of or the th nl hive have hll our cur ur relations with Month X merit an mud ind d nn been n nave lunN than they ate arc today oda The Thu great disturbs of t tr America AmrI In recent lit years year has hax hM b bien on en lays lay the tyrannical und tint n i c I president of the republic of ot IB Ja every e pl plan n for the tilt of f peace Isae and friendly n the live fire It republics republic public he lit played the th pout part of or marplot When his h brutal and n cruel ernel e exactions drove a part of ot the people 1 of l leu 1 t gua Into n aid id Ii an n civil II war air ho he h violated the th Ians I of tut wu a Kiel and toe the rights of ot American c lill tl on n who had regularly enlisted In I the th rank of ot the tho revolutionist V h b a heir lh lives liven Ul Hi Ile II thus thu gars a It right 1 the tl government of or the l t I Id demand d reparation and to with nv all ul relation laUn It M Is I undoubtedly true the th e AI the th l State slates tOWArd ti w rd so o 0 Injured his hh prestige and und brought him himo so IiO o clearly arly to t the bar har of or 11 pinion opinion of the th world as a an crim criminal teal inal that he II was wn obliged to II b lt t tand tare and are leave leae the th nt to a IM tatter man manThe The leaders leader I of both b th factions Mad iii std and a Estrada here ha mitt the th unjust character hant of nf the th klInl of r tine and aad Cannon This Thill t mu nut must t consider at tics the th proper Urn time c upon the th government of r Nicaragua when one UI ran cin an be he II rec recognised to 10 make such lIah reparation r as shall hall seem lit to tu tie Iw I just jat for tor thin violation of t Am rights and d to tn give h adequate dIat gu for tor the finis ohl and Ind nd strength strengthening ening on un the part of ot Nicaragua of r the Ha Washington conventions convent lone loneA As A a confirmation of the h friendly re relations lations between this country stud and all allnuth Houth nuth lIth America Argentine line hns ha placed In Inthe Inthe the United i tale te the t contract contrat for tor two t battleships and certain additional naval armament amounting In I money value alu to about and nd there I is III reason to believe we w shall hall have haio hill further tom con contracts tract tracts of ot a similar sort rt placed Iad In the tb by other South Amer Amr American AmrIn Ivan ican government The Th to get pt this business bual wits brought about abet directly by h th untiring efforts of ot th department of fot f state stat tal talA After A praising the of ot oft oftie t tie te tate which mate l the thi th possible Hi Mt Tart Taft continued DOLLAR AR DIPLOMACY To call such u diplomacy dollar macj mac and thus apply to It what I is deemed by b the th authors autho of ot tin the th phrase Ihra an expression of contempt Is I to 10 ignore Inor entirely nUnI a mo mt most t useful office oat to be he per par performed formed by a government In Its It dealing with foreign governments government Our trade trad has haa ha grown quite quit beyond the th limits limit of ot thi this country With an tin annum annual foreign tolan trade exceeding x toti 11 our state tate department d could not vindicate It is existence or Justify a poll polly polli i ry v y willed In any way withhold withheld a foster lug In II protecting and nd stimulating hand In inthe tin the development and extension of ot that trade tra In oui ow agreements with Ith China Ihl we have Ia p provisions by the th Chinese iO iov eminent promises romle to in t reform torm It II and tn to abolish liken a mode if t Intel internal nal taxation which weighs weigh t and to tn give Ive a share or nr railway loans Ian t to tn fl capital espital Tin The polio policy of or the II ripen n dolor do Mas a ua 11 III In by tile while John Jhn Hav Hn aas as WI seer tuy of ot tat stats and had h il JIM its Inception in a j note noh circulated among the power poneix bv hr him 11 It has Ita boon been n nth the tho th Intention and ami purpose e of ot this ad sd to and maintain that hat I ax its L rill far as and end we wn mk lok with or t Iv ty ai in the th actual measures measure adopted 11 d by b any an of ot the lite II governments In m Int InI t I de The lh t included To T the thO record re n of nl a years year under unI Knox Kno In III our foreign 1111 n I think I l may properly point mint with pride Irl Mid and d yet becoming t fur for It In Is t hi work and not II t mine All I 1 inn can nn U la the merit of ot ting him for far the t teak task |