The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-15
OUTLINES Plan TO
ABOLISH WARS AND
GIVES s10,000,000
Andrew Carnegie, in Trust Deed,
Calls Conflicts Between Nations
"Foulest Blot Upon Our
Civilization.
Senator Root, Joseph H. Choate and
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler Are
y Among Trustees.

Hon dollars in per cent bonds MAS
today formally turned over by An
drew Carnegie 10 "A new peace founua'
ton, the income from which is 10 go
toward the establishment OF interna'
tional peace.
President Taft will be the honorary
president Of the foundation, Whlle
Senator Elihu Root, permanent repre-
sentative OF the United States at Inc
Hague peace tribunal was chosen oy
the trustees as the active president.
The foundation Is 10 be perpetual
and the method OF disposing OF the
anticipated 100000 annual income Is
left entirely to the trustees. Should
the purpose of the foundation ever
be achieved in full, the funds from
the foundation are to be used for the
abolition OF the next most degrad-
ing evil or evils"
Although Carnegie's gift was uneN-
pected, 1t caused no great surprise
among the promoters OF the world
peace movement In Washington. as
I'm recent years he has shown an in
creesing interest in the work. Ii ~
known that he mas been putting aside
most wholly TO the cause.
The complete list OF the
trustees of the fund are: Unit
ed States Senator Elihu Root. ex-sec.
Rotary of state and ex-secretary OF
war: DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
New York. president Columbia uni
yersity: DR.. Henry S. Pritchett, presi-'
dent of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching; Jo-
seph III. Choate, lawyer. ex-ambassa-
dor to Great Britain Albert X. Smil-
ey, Lake Mohonk, educator and hui
manitarian; DR.. Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard unit
yersity; James Brown Scott, solicitor
OF the state department: John w.
Foster lawyer. ex-secretary of state;
Andrew j. Montague, lawyer, ex-gov-
ernor OF Virginia; William M. How
ard, lawyer, congressman, lexington,
Ga Judge Thomas Burke, Seattle.
Wash; James l.. Slayden, congress
man. San Antonio, Tex; Andrew ID.
White, ex-ambassador TO Germany;
Robert s.. Brookings, lawyer. st.
Louis; Samuel Mather, banker, steel
manufacturer, Cleveland; j. G..
6chmidlapp, railroad man, Cincinnati;
Arthur William Foster, regent Uni
versity of California, San Francisco;
r. A. Franks, banker, Hoboken, n.
j.: Charlemagne Tower. ex-ambassa-
dor to Germany and Russia; Oscar
Strauss. ambassador TO Turkey; Aus
ten g. Fox, lawyer, New York; John
L.. Cadwalader, lawyer, New York;
John Sharp Williams, senator-elect
from Mississippi; G. l. Taylor, OF
Pittsburg, chairman of the Carnegie
hero fund commission, and George
w. Perkins, of New York, financier
and philanthropist
The informal trust deed presented
By Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees to-
day, reads as follows:
Gentlemen have transferred
to you as trustees OF the Carnegie
peace fund. $10,000,0OO OF 6 per
cent first mortgage bonds, value
,S11 100000, the revenue Of which
is to be administered by you TO
hasten the abolition OF interna-
.tional war, the foulest blot upon
our civilization.
Although we no longer eat our
fellow-men nor torture prisoners,
nor sack cities, killing their in
habitants, We still kill each other
i'm war like barbarians. Only wild
beasts are excusable for doing
that In this. the twentieth cen
fury of the Christian era, for the
crime of war is inherent. since 1t
decides mot in favor of the right,
but always of the strong. The ma
ton is criminal which refuses ar
bltration and drives its adversary
to tribunal which knows moth
ing Of righteous judgment.
rtsta \ haliaya that tho ahnrtaSt and
easiest path to peace lies in adopt
ing President Taft's platform, who
said in his address before the
Peace and Arbitration society,
New York, March % 1910:
Il have noticed exceptions in
our arbitration treaties, as to ref
erence OF questions of national
honor TO courts OF arbitration.
Personally, do not see any more
reason why matters of national
honor should not be referred TO a
court of arbitration than matters
OF property or of national propri-
etorship. know that is going
farther than most men are willing
10 go, but do not see why ques.
tons OF honor may not be sub.
mitted to a tribunal composed Of
questions OF national honor, to
acide by their decision, as we'll as
any other questions OF difference
arising between nations
I venture to quote from my ad-
dress as president of the peace
congress in New York, 1907:
Honor Is the most dishonored
word I'm Cur language. No man
ever touched another mans hon
or; no nation ever dishonored all
Other nation; all honors wounds
are seif-infiicted."
At the opening of the interna'
tIonal bureau of American repub-
lies at Washington, April 20, 1910,
President Taft said.
1--WE twenty-one republics can
not AFFORD TO have any two or any
three OF US quarrel. We must stop
this. and Mr. Carnegie and ! viii
not be satisfied until all nineteen
OF us can intervene by proper
measures to suppress quarrel
between any other two
hope the trustees will begin
by pressing forward upon this
line. testing IL thoroughly and
Z doubling not. The Judge who pre-.
sides over cause in which he Is
n 80 ~ uUuryENry ryyUNrNr tbat