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Show .' ROCHESTER, N. T,, Aug. 23. On 1 the eve of his forty-day swing around the circle on which Republican leaders lead-ers expqct him to define the issues for tho campaign of 1912, President, Talt tonight announced liiinself unalterably unalter-ably opposed to tho "nostrums" of reform re-form which, he declared, demagogues and theoretical extremists have advanced ad-vanced for the solution of tho problem prob-lem of concentrated wealth in this country. The president spoke U the veterans of the' Grand Army of the Republic and he found in the struggle which they went through lifty years ago and tlie one which, he said, now confronts thiB nation, a striking analogy, although al-though the struggle of today, he declared, de-clared, would be bloodless. "Higher aim for the betterment of society, these new evils growing out of the concentration of wealth and these combinations which properly controlled are a great good In the reduction re-duction of the cost of production," said the president, "have invited from tho active minded of today suggestions sugges-tions of remedies that are so extreme that the medicine to many of us seems worse than the disease. "Those of us who are charged with the responsibility and sobered with the difficulties find ourselves In the middle of the road, resisting the tendency ten-dency to socialism on tho one hand and tho Inertia of reactionary contentment con-tentment with present ovil3, and ambition am-bition for greater concentration of financial fi-nancial power on the other side. Wo are gradually solving tho problem "The present struggle does not bring, differences so great as you had to overcome in '61. It may bo a long or fight because it will not Involve violence or the shedding- of blood: but ft must and will be solved peacefully and by the earnest effort of the levelheaded, level-headed, the practical and the courageous cou-rageous among us, and by reducing tho influence of the demagogue and the theoretical extremists on the one hand and the reactionary influence of combinations of wealth In politics and progress on the other. Its solution solu-tion will be consistent with the preservation pres-ervation of our ancient Institutions of persona, liberty and private property under the constitution. "The messase that you bear, with your experience and your success, to thoso of us struggling now with the problem is that, however dark at times the situation seems, so long as we retain in this country a God-fear-fng, sober, Intelligent people, we can count in the long run upon their working out safely and sanely the problems set before them, no matter mat-ter how many mistakes In the form of 'nostrums' they may have been led into by the speciousness of half-baked theories of progress; no matter how often they may have been defeated in their purpose by the temporary success of undue and corrupt influence of concentrated wealth." From the moment he reached Rochester, Roch-ester, about 9 o'clock -this morning, until 9 o'clock, when he left for Beverly, Bever-ly, the President was surrounded by veterans. He stood on a reviewing stand for more than two hours in the morning while thousands of old soldiers, sol-diers, many of them tottering along with the aid of friends, filed slowly by. Major Generr' Frederick D Grant, Mayer Edgerton and Commander-in-Chief Gllman of the G. A. R., stood with the President Peace was really the subject of the President's speech to the Veterans tonight, to-night, but he said he could not miss an opportunity to draw an analogy between be-tween the contests of the past and those of the present and future. He ' discussed briefly the arbitration treaties with Great Britain and Franco, which the senate foreign relations rela-tions committee seeks to amend and which part of that committee labelled "hrceders of war." In part the President Pres-ident said "I do not come before you in opDO-sitlon opDO-sitlon to the senate and I do not wish to criticise the majority of the committee com-mittee that has reported an amendment. amend-ment. I am onlv anxious to promote as full a public discussion of the questions ques-tions now arising In resoect to the confirmation of the treaties as possible, pos-sible, because I feel confident that a public discussion of the matter, followed fol-lowed by popular expression, will aid much in the clarification of tho subject sub-ject In the senate itself, and will lead to convinclnc a majority of that body und perhaps all. of the wisdom of the prompt ratification of the treaties as thev were signed. '"Those who have ohjected to tho treaty have suggested that the organ-ieatlon organ-ieatlon of the high commission with tho power given o either party to secure a reference of a controversy to It for consideration for a year, makes it a breeder of war I confess myself unable to follow the force of buch an argument The difficulties connected with the Initiation of proceedings under un-der any treaty, an 1 the appointment of six commissioners with the expense ex-pense and worry attendant upon It, are all likely to prevent an Invitation to a cumbersome negotiation like this when the ordinary channels of diplomacy di-plomacy are open. "Objection has been made to this treaty that under tho first section It might he claimed that we would be called upon to submit to arbitration the Monroe doctrine, our right lo exclude ex-clude foreign peoples from our shores, or the question of tho validity of the Southern bonds issued In reconstruction reconstruc-tion days. These suggestions have nothing in them Tho question of the Monroe policy Is not a justifiable one. It is ono of purelv government policv which we have followed for a century and which the countries of Europe have generally acquiesced in. Certainly, Certain-ly, with respect to this very matter. Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary secre-tary of state for foreign affairs, has announced publicly that the Monroe policy could not bo disputed by Great Britain under this tieaty and would not como within its. terms "With respect to tho exclusion of immigrants, it Is. a, principle of international inter-national law that oach country may allow those to como to its shores whom it chooses to have admitted to tho country, and may reject others, and that this is a subjoct of domestic policy which no foreign country can I w Interfere In unless It Is covered by u I treaty, and then it may become properly prop-erly a question .-f treaty construction. But In the absence of a treaty, It Is ' not. an" arbitrntfonal question, " ''With reference to the right lo involve in-volve the ITnlteJ States in a coutro-rersy coutro-rersy over tho obligation of certafn southern states to pay bonds, Issued during the reconstruction days and which hare been repudiated, it ."is sufficient suf-ficient to say that, such a quest'ion would not come within he jreaty 'for the treaty only affects cases hereafter arising, and tho cape; or the southerji bonds all arose years ago." |