The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
UNIVERSAL. PEACE
CARNEGIE s DREAM
He Discusses the Crime
Of Killing / eople
in w ar.
ONE CURE FOR
WORLDS ILLS
Believes Deplorable Condition OF
Leading Nations Of Earth Is
Leading to One Thing, and
That Thing Is Judicial Set
tlement of international
Disputes.

Washington. u. c. December To-
Andrew Carnegie, who was the princt-
pal speaker OF the evening before the
international Conference OF the Ameri-
can Society for Judicial settlement of
International Disputes, in developing
| his subject. The Moral Issue in War"
! from a review of recent events in the
! movement for a permanent court OF
arbitral Justice, characterized the APP
tpeal to conscience, not to the pocket
Las the paramount question. lle de-
= clarcd that the enormous sums ma
! tions are now spending upon tnstru-
ments for war are ominohsly excess
! sive" and added that he did not be-
! liere the mere cost of war or the
| greater cost of armaments meant to
prevent war would prove the most ef-
/ fectual deterrent to war itself.
| Mr. Carnegie referred to the newly
created peace foundation only briefly,
urging the American Society for Judi
| putes. as well as other peace organiza-
tions. not TO fail to cooperate with the
foundation in its single aim-the aboii-
tion OF war between nations
No Other Remedy.
The peace movement never vibrated
SO strongly among men as at this mo-
ment" said Mr.. Carnegie The pres
ent deplorable condition of the lead
ing nations is rapidly bringing thought
full men of al! parties to the conclu-
sion that something must be done, and
that something invariably lies in the
direction of peaceful arbitrament OF
International disputes. No other
remedy is ever suggested There is
none. This in itself is great gain
for when men see that there Is only
one possible remedy. its application
Is near. President Taft was the frst
; among rulers of nations to bridge the
chasni between peace and war, anc
point out the true path.
; - =, 'at1ss arhir -s.tian treaties haye beer
i made. but still the situation remain.
/ practically unchanged, because witt
the chief nations these treaties havs
loopholes through which their yer.
souls might escape"
Mr.. Carnegie then referred to tn,
] fact that the United States and Grea
Britain agreed to an arbitration treat,
: in 1897: but it failed in the Senate.
He then declared that even il Ameri
ca and England stood alone in such
. treaty. the rest of the world woulS Sc,
> the benefit of the movement and fol
3 low suit He cited the large CONNER
, cial exchange between nations as ev.
I dence of the fact that they should b.
A
world at peace.
Crime of killing.
( Mr.. Carnegie deplored the crime o
4 killing, which is the moral wrong 70
$ which war should be abolished. Fl
said that it was the wish of Washing
ton, Lincoln. Grant and Sherman tha
war might cease forever, and h
commended the German Emperor 70
his efforts to restrict private war
"dueling"-in the army and navy.
In all this he continued, we not
9 the supreme Importance attached t
the moral equation. the outstandin
j question OF right and wrong-the re
. ligious and moral issues; the appeal t
: conscience. not to the pocket, is TIL
paramount issue That war is costl
! is true, but this loss might be endured
y that It Is a crime he!nous crime 70
. men to kill each other. is the trut
n that insures it's speedy abolition"
e He concluded with an appeal to th
3 society to cooperate with the peac
: foundation and all other peace organi
! cations "as fellow workers privilege
s to labor In the greatest of all cause.
y that war be abolished from the fac
of tho