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Show I . (PRESIDENT TAFT'S I LOGAN SPEECH 1 GIVEN IN FULL if l.iuiW ami (iciillumcn oM.ognu: ! i mn i'Oing to iisk ou, because I i mm j;ettJn to bo nn old man, and n.v Jmli is thin, until there is of It, pHH to ailow mo In tills night uir to put il . i, I n in delighted to bu hoie In tho ! , f j ciinix.iny of your most efficient' rep-I rep-I rrwnlntlve Mr. Howell, whom I hnvo ! tisoivn long nnil favorubty In Wash Sijjton, ami with your govornor nnd , nur distinguished sonntor. They nil i - t Jiave done their utmost to mnko mo ' .. ' . t'il welcome In Utnh, nnd thoy lmvo J; -tiirrrodod. V I vvunt to tttllc to you tonight n . ,, ttiitlio something that I lmo pretty Hmi vicar at heart, nnd that Is tho rutin- HfiM I -cation of the pcaco treaties. lam H vnrj nr.xiuus if the United States can Hf ;,. , V unj thing to help along thu cause H'wt f1 . ot permanent pence, It should do bo. HW I ''' ? .-un talking to a lot of young men Hp utmI old men, too, nnd I wunt to Hjij I , iitotiHo In them un otithusliibm for Hilrl vcaco, When u iniiii Is young bl-i Hiltfj " Wood runs fast, nnd he thinks of the Hjk !. Klory or tho battlefield, and lie thinks Hl T what war has dono In tho pnst Hy 31111I thut possibly It mny accomplish Fffl something of good in the futuio. lie H'V Ir.ohK on tho fair sldo of tho plctuie f' JU docs not realize tho awful horrors , ' Uiat war brings, the bloody cruelty, f, the demoralization, the corruption iV thnt follows In its train. Ilo does not M Itnow and can haidly iippreelnto the Ml' njony of the mothelK. tliu sisters and HlT 'the ilaughteis' In time of war, as they Hi u. uitt their heiitts In agony at the Lj news that may come fiotu tho buttle- H 'field That their dent ones have hlHt Hp j ttlielr lives. B j War Unnecessary, jli ' 11 Is said that war Is necoxsarj to LsHVl ,, Lwnnn ehiuncter. Theie ate other Iw 1 ways of training human I'liaiiieter, fj f jlinn by war. Aro there not genera-! $ -- ' lions or men that glow to he great H' 1 wining men and never take part III j iK, war? Is II not possible for us bj Hf - arbitration, bj a judicial nibltuil, 'f if couit to ubstlllute some means of de . 'n' chling iini'stions that arise between j ij. tuitions than by war? Wo liae ticu- PPBi - l)i-g that pjovlde for arhltnlion be- K l twoen us and other cmintiios, bu Hi V (tiey cicept ipiestluus or national HR lionov ami lt:il interest, ami II Is said PPB, Ikii our;ht never to uniheiiL to H 11 liltratu .1 qi.estlnn of national honor. H , XV ell, why not? One hiimlued ears H I -iv,n It lined to be that If one wele a Hll 1 entlfinan and Mt tho obligations of Bk' Keutlenian, and iiuother Insulted Bl lilm. It was ills business to tcud ti H; i -ch.illeiige nnd then to stand himself H .1 sit ten, or twenty or thirty paces and B' 1 imiko himself a target for the man H i)to insulted him. It Is trim that he H'l 1 ;i.-o had a etuince to shoot the man H( j '"li" insulted him Of couise If ho H( jnlk-A lilm then he went home and H A -.Midd: "Well. 1 have wiped out thut H' nnln." tail suppose ho wns not tho j AiittiT markstnan, nml suppose the B ' other t.-llnw shot lilm, and ho took 11 iulltt liome anil went to the uospi 'l al and lay there thlity days thinking B It out, don't joii think he had B''. iui'tt hard time to satisfy m n e 1 f PPH that was a iy satisfactory way of PPB. t)lng out the insult and sntisryiug PPPH.,, tllH B) J Day of 'he Duel. PPPH') . In the old das at eomniou law. if a PPpH f: man was sued on a ptomlsary note PPPB F. Mf vould go Into couit and say 1 de- PPPB U xnand 'iJiul this Issue bu tried by H'j vi(Ker or Imttte. The plaintiff might PPPPJ ! il biuve Ills witneshcs there, hut tho de- B 'ijjj tffmlnut' had a right to try it out that PPPH I'l way. and so thu court diew out from PPPH jl" Inehlnil the bunch two long swoids PPPH j. ' aim 'J he plaintiff anil the defendant PPPPJ -wem ax each other, and if the Qe H ' Pendant tut otr the plaintiff's head PPPK (L uir V4-m or knocked lilm dovwi in au II , wuj Ibut settled the fact Hint ho li 1 Ui.id iieier made the note, or if h- i rilil tbai he had paid It 1 want you to think that over, aaud tell mo K jou can discoier any tllfforonco he tweon thnt method or settling contro version botwecu ImllvldualB nnd our present method or settling Interna tlonnl controversies between nations. When 11 nation's honor Is Infringed and war Is declined and they go out and fight It out, ir the nation whose honor it thinks if Infringed, wins, they all go home and say the Lord was on their side nnd ecrthlng Is as It ought to he. Hut if they tackle a nation with better troops uud a hotter disciplined army and they nte wiped orr tho rnco of the earth, whnr do 5011 think about that way of willing will-ing out the stain on the honor? Is It not a gtent deal better to submit the Miicstlon to a board of honest Judges, made up or Impnitlnl men men who decide that question at-lordiug at-lordiug to law and Justice and righteousness? right-eousness? Is not tho decision one thnt wo would rather lmvo even than ir you won on the field or battle? What does that decide except that you luiMi stronger battalions, j on hue thu better diclpllned nrmy-' It docs not decide anything on the basis or right. II only settles It im the basis or might. Theicfoti I sny IT wo can get rid or uar. let us settle all questions ques-tions ot vital Intct est nml national honor In that way, and so we have ttle'd to do so. We hno tnailo two Heath's, one with ICuglnnd and one with Prance, and we are very anxious anx-ious to hniu them conrirnied by tho senate. Objections of Senate. The senate committee on foiolgu lehilloun objects the majoilty of tho 1 ommlttee does, the minority does not -object to the rotm or this tie.it. ir jou will bear with me n lllttle while I would like to tell you hat the tteaty Is. The rirst clause piovides that we shall submit to nr-hittatlon. nr-hittatlon. to The Hague tilbuual, or to some other hoard to ho agreed upon, eei, Justlcahle question that may ailse between two nations or nn International character lu-whlch one nation makes a claim against the (tlier, and then It defines what justiciable justi-ciable means. It means any question that may he settled by tho application applica-tion or tho rules of law nnd equnllty. The second piovides that wo shall have a joint high commission to con slst of three Americans and three Kngllshmen. to whom hefoie theques t ion goes to arbitration at all, in Older to prevent its going to arbitration, arbitra-tion, the question arising shall ht submitted for their recommendation, nnd they shall tnko a year at tills business Thoy shall hear evideuco ami they will ninko recommendations 110 matter what tho question is so , long as It has not been settled h diplomacy. Soma people object to that clause on the ground that it Is u bleeder of wnr ititlier than nn ender of It. 1 dont ngreo with thnt at all. If there Is anything thnt stays passion, if there is nnj thing thut prevents hasty action under the orrect or anger, It Is delay. It Is time. 1 suppose jou gentlemen I now speak to the men, aro like oth-eis oth-eis of us, jou sometimes get angry at homo nnd mnko jourseU disagreeable dis-agreeable to your entire family, and jour wife tiptoes around and says papa Is not feeling very woll tonight, to-night, and thorefoicfyou better not bother him, nnd you after 11 little while begin to reallire what nn inof-fable inof-fable ass you tire making of yourself, that you have no light to get angry under those conditions and that jou ought to apologlro to everybody foi doing so Delay Stops Passion. 1 That Is just' the win that nation) .will ne tir Individuals net In that way j Theie Is nothing like dulnj to stop passion Delay teaches common sense. Wnr Is not alone for the glory or two or three. It Is for tho Buttering Butter-ing people, and what I am glad to know Is that In Knglnnd, whose this movement for pcaco and for theso treaties has had n wider scope and has attracted the greatest support, It has found Its support mostly nmongl thu Itrltlsh common people, nnd tin reasi 11 Is that they lettllzo that It Is the plain common people who have, to fight out tho war; they me the, food for powder. They cantuti I stint mound In feathois nnd gold lace after the battle. It is they who have to pay tho fiddler, nnd It is they .who ought to object to wnv. I am not n blind optimist nor a wild enthusiast. en-thusiast. I do not think If we close these tteatles that wo lire going to end wnr at once. Herorm are not J accomplished that wny. It Is step by step thnt wc make the w-oild better. bet-ter. Wo don't dji'iim thut the world Is Improved by some pmtlcular lein edy and find It Improved the next morning for hicukrast. It "Is a hivrd task to walk along the path of prog less. If wc see a stop that we may take In the right, direction, then wo must take II. What we may icasnn-ahlj icasnn-ahlj look to as 1111 Ideal Is n general vrhltial com I supported by the Joint ; agreement of nil tho nations, In which any nation mny summon any other nation thnt lins Injured It and make that nation answer nt tho bar of jus-tile. jus-tile. The public opinion of nil nations will then euforco the decree and wo will lmvo something thnt mnj be 11 renl substitute Tor wnr. Now Uuropu Is nn armed camp. Kvciy nation Is armed to the teeth In older to protect Its Integtitv, lest tliiough soino trouble that mny nrlse wnr will be declared nnd then the) will lose their Individuality and their Integrity as a nation, nnd- they me not willing to disarm. We cannot bring nbout a movement to disarm until we have somo real substitute for war In the wny of settling these International controversies. I say, If we do have such nn arbitral couit, sustained by all the nations, then wo will offer such n substitute for war that they may safely disarm; and these two tieatlcs that we me now making ni u steps toward n general ngrcement for such a settlement by arbitration. Now, my friends, you aro the sovereigns, you nre my sovereigns, sov-ereigns, you nre my the sovereigns of your fecnutors nnd j'our congressmen. congress-men. All I can do If to Invoke from you is jour sympathy In this contesi ror tho ratification of these tteatles. I know jour Senator Smoot. He Is In sympathy with me, nnd I am mix Ions thnt wc should have as many senators us possible, because It takes two-thhds of the senate to concur with the executive hefoie we cau ratify a treaty. Hut so great Is the love of this country for peace that I do not despair. Power of United States. We have n great powerful nation; wo have 90,000,000 or people, wo have resources thnt exceed those of any other nation, nnd evcrjbody knows that we are not nfraid or war, If war he necessary, but we occupy such a poslton or Independence that wo may well say we will let go or these little oxcltements to wnr, wo will ovctcoine the raise pride, nnd wo will stand as a moral clement In tho community com-munity or nations nnd show that It is posslblo ror n nntlon to stnnd ns a great man will stnnd In the community com-munity for moialltj', for peace and ns an example to all tho woild God did not give us nil theso advantages ad-vantages without expecting us to 1130 thorn for the benefit of the world nt large. We cannot sit by ourselves and say wo aro the biggest, best na tlon on earth and wo will Just content con-tent ourselves and sit down and enjoy thnt contemplation nnd that fact. Wo have to bo active, we find ourselves charged with helping other nations nnd wo ought to do it. Aro we going to sny to them tho sennto has not tho power, or that wo ought not to mnko theso treaties for somo reason rea-son of policy, wo will retire rroni the van or those who aro leading townul permanent peace? The poor people or I'tmico nud or ICugland and ot Uermony are looking to us us a iu-tlon iu-tlon to he! shrdlu shrdlu shrdlu dlu Hon without entangling alliances 'jn help along this causo of peace. Now, I ought wo not to do it? I feol confl- dent that nil of you ngree with me. I believe you aio with me and I want jou to help along. |