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Show Tail Speaks As Enemy Of War i Praising the Soldier Dead, Country Chould Abate No Effort to Avoid , War In Future. Washington, May 30. Undr the shaded arches of the Washington Nil-t'onal Nil-t'onal cemetery. President Taft today spoke not so much as tho friend ot ,. peace, but as the enemy of war. Thou 'AJ MJ0 nnnds of veterans trumped tho hot as- " ' phalt of tho Btroet, croaaed tho Poto mac and trudged the dusty roads to Arlington to hear tho piesldont speak. Thousands or othcri camo In automobiles auto-mobiles and'by strei. cais, nnd when Mr. Taft, with Secretin v of War Slim-son Slim-son camo whizzing up to tho vine-covered vine-covered amphitheatre, thcro vwie fully 10,000 persons' in tho seats and crowded about tli-3 speakers' stand. It piobably was tho most largely attended attend-ed Memorial day celebration Washington Wash-ington has seen. "Far bo It from me," snld the president, presi-dent, "to mlnlmlzo in any way b tlteso suggestions tho deb we owe to tho men burled h-m who carried on tho successful strugt'io that resulted in tho abolition or the cancer of slavery, sla-very, which seemed Ineradicable savo r bj such an awful slaughter of tho brightest and bravest and best ot tho nation's youth and manhood. "I shall not stop to discuss whether it might liavo been possible to accom pllsh tho samo reform by milder methods. Whether that bo truo or not, tho supremo sacritlco of theso men, who lie about us, In the cause of advancing ad-vancing humanity cannot ecr be lessoned les-soned or obscuicd by such a suggestion. sugges-tion. "Hut tho thought at which I would but hint this morning Is that even in the hallowed presenco of these dead, whoso Ideals of patriotism and Ioo of couutiy needed u wur to make ccrlastingl) evident, wo should nbate no effort and should stialn ov-ery ov-ery honornblo possible device to mold war in tho future. "I am not blind to tho aid In cient- t lng stin dy manhood that Vho military dlsclplino wo seo in the standing arm ies of Europe nnd In the regular army of this country furnishes, nor do 1 deny this incidental benefits Mint may grow out of tho exigencies and sequelae of war. Hut when the books nro balanced, tho awful horrors ot either Internal or International strire far outweigh tho benefits that may be attained In It," |