The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-11
ANOTHER GIFT FROM
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE
Home For the Bureau Of American
Republics.
1T WILL Be A TEMPLE OF PEACE.

New lear 8 Lay Dy D0natlng lnree-
quarters of a Million to Provide
Home in Washington for the Pam
American Union.
Washington Especially 1t was an
nounced at the White House Friday
that Andrew Carnegie has given
$750,000 for the erection of build
ing in Washington for the Bureau of
American Republics. The United
States government and the various
South American republics have
agreed to purchase the site.
Mr.. Carnegie was at the State De-
partment, and was in conference with
Secretary Root, who is chairman of
the board of governors of the bureau.
Secretary Root informally thanked
him for his gift, and indicated that
he would at once send him a formal
letter of acceptance. President
Roosevelt already has written Mr..
Carnegie expressing his appreciation
and acceptance of the donation.
The gift having been made to the
Bureau of American Republics, the
permission of Congress to accept it
will not be necessary. Several years
ago Congress appropriated 100000
as the share of the United States to-
ward the site and building for the
bureau, and between $4,000 and
$50, 900 already has been contributed
by the South and Central American
countries belonging to the bureau.
Mr.. Carnegie's Letter.
Mr.. Carnegie's letter offering the
gift is addressed to Secretary Root,
as ex-chairman of the governing board
of the Bureau of South American
Republics, and reads as follows:
II am greatly pleased that you and
your colleagues of the South Ameri-
can republics have done me the hon
or to suggest that might furnish a
suitable home in Washington for the
Bureau of American Republics.
The approval of your application
by the governing board of the inter-
national bureau and President Roose-
velt's hearty expression of satisfac-
ton are most gratifying.
"You very kindly mention my
membership of the first Pan-Ameri-
can Conference and advocacy of the
Pan-American Railway, the gaps of
which are being slowly filed. The
Importance of this enterprise i'm
presses itself more and more upon
me, and hope to see it accomplished.
Il am happy, therefore, in stating
that it will be one of the pleasures
of my life to furnish to the union of
all the republics of this hemisphere
the necessary funds ($750,000) from
time to time, as may be needed for
hn cf1sy1a Mi nf INT oh ions oil
home in Washington.
"The cooperation of our own re-
public is seen in the appropriation
of funds by Congress for the pur-
chase on the site, and in the agree
ment between the republics for the
maintenance of the bureau we have
additional evidences of cooperation,
so that the forthcoming American
temple of peace will be the joint
work of all of the republics. Every
generation should see them drawing
closer.
"It is a cheering thought that all
these are for the first time to be
represented at the forthcoming
Hague Conference. Henceforth they
are members of that body, whose aim
is the settlement of international
disputes by. that high court of MAJ
tons or other similar tribunal.
His New Years Gift.
IT beg to express to each and all
of them my heartfelt thanks for be-
ing permitted to make such a New
Years gift as this / have never felt
more keenly than l do this New
Years morning how much more
blessed it is to give than to receive,
and consider myself highly honored
by being considered worthy to pro-
vide the forthcoming union home,
where the accredited representatives
of all the republics are to meet, and,
trust, to bind together their re-
spective nations in the bonds of I'M
broken peace"
The Presidents letter to Mr.. Car
negie was as follows:
II am so much pleased at learning
from Secretary Root what you are
going to do for the Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics. You have already
done substantially the same thing
for the cause of peace at The Hague.
This new gift of yours has an almost
or quite equal significance as far as
the cause of peace in the Western
Hemisphere is concerned, for the
Bureau of American Republics is
striving to accomplish for this hemis-
phere what The Hague Peace Tribu-
nal is striving to accomplish for both
hemispheres. l thank you heartily"
10000 Strike In Mexico.
Mexico City Especially 1t is esti-
mated that 10000 operatives in the
clothes factories in the republic are
now on strike. Tie trouble has ex-
tended over a long period of time,