Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-14
ITO HASTEN ABOLITION
OF INTERNATIONAL WAR;
Single Purpose Of the Gift Explained
in Informal Deed Of Trust.
BOARD TO HAVE FULL POWERS
70 Be Invested at Their Discretion
"From Time to Time, From Age
to Age" Until Universal Peace
Is Established.

.NiluTeW SdT1leSle lOudN tldiiS-
ferred to board of trustees
SIo.ooo.ooo i'll 5 per cent first
mortgage bonds. the revenue of
which will be used to "hasten the
abolition Of international war
and establish lasting world
peace.
The formal transfer was made
AT meeting in the rooms OF the
Carnegie Research Foundation.
The trustees organized by choos-
ing as president United States
Senator Elihu Root. the perrna-
nent representative of the United
States at The Hague peace tribu-
nal. President Taft has consented
to be honorary president OF the
foundation.
The method by which the an
nual income of half a million dol
lars shall be expended is left by
MIR. Carnegie entirely in the hands
OF the trustees. The foundation
is to be perpetual, and when the
establishment of universal peace
is attained the donor provides
that the revenue shall be devoted
10 the banishment of the next
most degrading evil or evils the
suppression OF which would "most
advance the progress, elevation
and happiness of man.
Text Of Informal Trust Deed.
The informal trust deed presented by
Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees today reads
~ follows:
'-Gentlemen:
L have transferred to you as trustees
Of the Carnegie peace fund, ten million
of ) per cent first mortgage bonds, value
eleven and half millions of dollars
the revenue of which is to be admin,
istered by you to hasten the abolition
of International war, the foulest blot
upon our civilization. Although We nc
longer eat our fellow-men nor torture
prisoners nor sack cities, killing thell
inhabitants, we still kill each other II
war like barbarians. Only wild beasts
are excusable for doing that in this, the
twentieth century of the Christian era
for the crime of war is inherent, since
it decides not in favor of the right. bu
always OF the strong. The nation j:
criminal which refuses arbitration ane
drives its adversary TO tribunal Whlcf
knows nothing of righteous Judgment.
Il believe that the shortest and easies
path to peace lies In adopting Presiden
Taft's platform. who said in his addres:
before The Peace and Arbitration Society
in New York, March 22, 1910:
have notceu exceptions IN our arDi-
trstion. Personally do not see any more
iions of national honor in courts of arbi-
trstion. Personally do not see any more
reason why matters of national honor
should not he referred TO court OF
arbitration than matters Of property OF
of national proprietorship. l know that
is going farther than most men are Will
ing to go, but do not see why questions
OF honor may not be submitted to tri
bunal composed OF men OF honor who
understand questions of national honor, tt
abide by their decision. as Well as any
other questions of difference arising be
tween nations.
"Honor the Most Dishonored Word. .
Il venture to quote from my address.
as president of the Peace Congress il
New York, 1901
Honor is the most dishonored wore
In our language. No man ever touched
another mans honor; no nation ever dis
honored another nation. All honor:
wounds are self-infiicted
,'At the opening of the lnternationa
Bureau of American Republics at Wash
tngton April 2S. 1910. President Taft said
I'VE twenty-one republics cannot al
ford TO have any two or three OF us quar-
rel We must stop this. and Mr.. Carneg
and ] will not be satisfied until all nine
teen Of US can intervene by proper meas
ures to suppress a quarrel between an.
other two.
Il hope the trustees will begin b,
pressing forward upon this line, testing !
thoroughly and doubling not.
THE judge who presides over caus
in which ne is interested dies in infam
il discovered. The citizen who consti
tutes himself a judge in his own cause a
against his fellow citizen, and presumes I
attack him, is a lawbreaker and as sue
disGraced. So should a nation be hel
rs disgraced which insists upon sitting i
judgment in its own cause in case of a
international dispute.
Early Move or Arbitration.
Il call your attention to the following
resolution introduced by the committee o
foreign relations In the first session, Fit
tieth Congress, June II, 1855:
Resolved by the Senate uhe Hous
of Representatives concurring), that tn
President be, and is hereby, requested I
invite from time to time, fit occasion
may arise. negotiations with any govern
ment with which the Unuited States ha
or may have diplomatic relations, to tn
end that any differences or disputes aris
ing between the two governments whic
cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agenc
may be referred to arbitration and
peaceably adjusted by such means. Rest
luton not reached on calendar during sc:
sion. but reintroduced and passed Sena,
February "a. 1890; passed House April
1S:O)'
This resolution was presented to Il
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