The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-15
CARNEGIE GIVES MILLIONS
 TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE
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 have attended but confusion as to the hour of the meeting has made 1t impossible. for either the President or Secretary Knox to be present because President Taft had arranged to give d cabinet dinner on the same evening. James Scott, president of the society, will preside and Joseph H. Choate and Andrew J. Montague. formerly gov ernor of Virginia, who are trustees of the new peace fund, also will make ad- dresses.
 Informal Trust Deed
 The informal trust deed presented by Mir. Carnegie to the trustees today, reaus as follows:
 Gentlemen: I have transferred to you as trustees of the Carnegie peace fund 100000 of per cent first mortgage honds value N1,5O0,0OO, the revenue of which is to be administered by you to hasten abolition of international war, the foulest blot upon our civilization. AL though we no longer eat our fellow men, nor torture prisoners, nor sack c!ties killing their inhabitants, we still kill each other in warlike barbarities. Only wld beasts are excusable for doing that in this, the twentieth century of the Christian era, for the crime of war Is in- herent, since it decides also not in favor of right but always the strong. The na- ton Is criminal which refuses arbitration and drives its adversary to a tribunal which knows nothing of righteous judg- ment
 T believe the shortest and easiest path of peace lies in adopting President Taft's platform, who said in his address before the Peace and Arbitration society, New York, March %. 1910
 T have noticed exceptions in our ar hitration treaties as to reference of questions of national honors to courts of arbitration. Personally, l do not see any more reason why matters of national hon oi should not be referred to court of arbitration than matters of property or of national proprietorship. 1 know that Is going farther than most men are will mug to go, but do not see that questions of honor may not be submitted to tri5- unal composed of men of honor. to abide by their decision as well as any other questions of difference arising between nations.
 T venture to quote from my address as president of the peace congress in New York 1907;
 A Dishonored Word
 Honor is the most dishonored word in cur language. No man ever touched an- other mans honor; no nation ever dis honored another nation; all honor wounds are sef-inf1cted.
 "At the opening of the International Bureau of American Republics at Wash ington April 26 1910 President Taft said;
 We 21 republics cannot afford to have any two or any three of us quarrel. We must stop this and MT. Carnegie and will not be satisfied until 1s of us can intervene by proper measures to suppress a quarrel between any other two.
 q hope the trustees will begin by press ing forward upon this line, testing 1t thoroughly and doubting not.
 The judge who presides over a cause in which he Is interested dies in infamy If discovered The citizen who constitutes hmself a judge in hs own cause aganst his fellowcitizen and presumes to at tack him, is a lawbreaker and as such dlsgraeed. So should a nation be held as disgraced which insists upon sitting in judgment in it's own cause in case of an international dispute.
 "I call your attention to the fol- lowing resolution, adopted by the com mittee on foreign relations in the first