PEACE BANQUET
PRESIDENT TAFT IN DEFENCE. NEW YORK, January 1. Addressing a peace banquet in this city, President Taft answered the charge of inconsistency on the part of the United States in refusing to arbitrate on the question of her present differences with Russia. The President declared that a treaty that was suitable in 1832 was no longer suitable to present conditions ; and the best way to act in the circumstances
■wae to abrogate the old treaty and contract a new one. If everything ought to be submitted to arbitration, then questions of national and personal honour should be arbitrated upon. Referring to the refusal of the United States to arbitrate upon the Monroe doctrine, the President defended his attitude on the ground that there was nothing to justify that doctrine being submitted as a reference under the terms of the projected Anglo-American Treaty. Hundreds of policemen acted as a bodyguard to the President, and great excitement prevailed at the banquet in view of Mr Taft’s attitude towards some burning questions of policy, but everything passed off successfully.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 24
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178PEACE BANQUET Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 24
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