The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-14
Board Of Trustees, Acting as Corporate
Body, to Have Half Million Dollars to
Spend Annually TO Promote PeaCe=--NO
Nation Should Be Self=Judged

Washington. Dec. 14.-Andrew Car
negto today transferred to a board of
trustees s10.00O.000 In per cent first
mortgage bonds. the revenue OF which
Will be used to hasten the abolition
OF International war and establish Il
lostingeworld peace.
The formal transfer was made Mt
meeting In the rooms of the Carnegie
Research Foundation. The trustees
organized by choosing as president
United States Senator Ellhu Root. the
permanent representative OF the Unit
ed States at The Hague tribunal
President Taft has consented to he
honorary president of the foundation.
The method by which the annual
income of half a million dollars 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 uni
yersal peace is attained the donor
provides that the revenue shall be de-
voted TO the banishmcnt OF the next
most degrading evil or evils" the
suppression OF which would most ad-
vance the progress. elevation and hap
pinCSs of men
Carnegle's Statement.
The formal trust deed presented by
Mr.. Carnegie 10 the trustees today
reads as follows:
Gentlemen have transferred TO
you as trustees OF tho Carnegie peace
fund ten million of 8 per cent first
mortgage bonds, valued at eleven and
half million dollars. the revenue
OF which Is TO be administered by you
to hasten the abolition OF international
war. the foUlest blot upon our ciylli-
zatlon Although We no longer eat our
fellow men. nor torture prisoners, nor
sack cities, killlnG their inhabitants,
we stlll kill each other In war like
barbari0ns. Only Wild beasts are eX-
cusable for doing that in this the Goth
century OF the Christian era, for the
crime of war is Inherent. since II de-
cides not In favor Of the right but
ALWAYS the strong Tho nation is
criminal which refuses arbitration and
drives Its adversary TO a tribunal
which knows nothing OF righteous
Judgment
Il believe the shortest and easiest
path TO peace les In adopting Presi-
dent Taft'S platform which he an
nounced In his address before the
peace and arbitration society at New
York March %. 1910. as follows
81 have noticed exceptionSh in our
arbitration treaties. as TO the refer
ence OF questions of national honor
to courts of arbitration. Possibly |
do not see any more reason why mat
ters or national honor should not be
referred to court Of arbitration than
matters OF property or of national pro-
| know that Is going fur
Lher than most men are willing 10
go. but I do not see why questions
Of honor may not be submitted to 4
tribunal composed OF men OF honor.
who understand questions of national
honor. to abide by their decision. as
well as any other questions Of differ
ence arising between nations
I venture 10 quote from my address |
is president OF the peace congress in |
Tew York In 1907
Z" Honor Is the most dShonored
word In our language No man ever !
ouched another mans honor, no ma |
ion ever dishonored another nation; !
III honor wounds are 5elfInficted.
AT the opening OF the International
'ureau OF American republics at
April 26. 1910, President
Taft said:
We republics cannot afford 10
ave any two or any three OF US quar- ,
ell We must stop this, and Mr. Car
Il gle and / wiz not he satisfied until
II nineteen of us can intervene by
roper measures TO suppress a quar-
ell between any other two
Il hope the trustees will begin by
ressing forward upon this line. test
* il thoroughly and doubling not
"The judge who presldes over a
ase in which he IS interested dies
! 'nfamy If discovered The ordinary
itizen who constitutes himself a
Idge in his own case as against his
ellow citizen and presumes to attack
sm is lawbreaier and as such dis
raced. So should nation be dis
raced which insists upon sitting In
ldement In It's own cause In case of
4 international dispute"