The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1911. ARBITRATION TREATIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 58, 23 October 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1911. ARBITRATION TREATIES.

At a State fair held at Hartford, Connebticut, in the middle of last month, President Taft spoke on arbitration. He remarked that he hoped co see in the early months of next year the peace treaties arranged with Great Britain and France an accomplished fact. He did not believe 1 that the Senate would effectually oppose the ratification of such desirable agreements between nations. The treaties as drawn up were a safeguard against premature conflicts, and should have the effect of causing such hesitation in taking up arms that war would be a tiling of the past. There was happily nodanger of armed conflicts between the United States and the Powers already agreeing to the treaties, and the chief use of these treaties would lie the great example they would set. It was in the hope that other nations would adopt similar agreements that the peace of the world lay. Particular pains had been taken to safeguard the powers of the Senate, uid the President warmly defended the text of the treaties which, gong further than any previous arbitration agreements, imposed no onerous conditions and interfered with no prerogatives of any legislative body, it is considered a striking coincidence that in the “Outlook,” pubished on the same day, ex-President Xoosevelt, formerly regarded as the peat peace advocate; of America has m article bitterly opposing the arbitration treaties on the ground that it is impossible to arbitrate on quesdons of honour, independence, and integrity. Mr Roosevelt believes that die arbirtation treaties already in iractice are sufficient for the needs if nations, and that the inclusion in the new treaties of the clauses rejecting questions of vital interest uid national honour is a mistake, because when a matter came to a crisis ‘no nation would regard them.” tenter’s correspondent, referring further to the speech, said that Presilent Taft took issue with the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on its attitude towards the Anglo-Ameri-•an and Fra neo-American Arbitration treaties. He said that if the Concitation forbade the submission to in.ernatinnal commissioners of the question of what is arbitrable, their peace-loving’nation would for ever ho incapable of talcing a step along the path which all the world wished to tread and along which all the world thought that America was host fitted to take the lead.