Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-15

I fret mortgage bonds, the feVe
nue. from which will be used to has
! ten the abolition of international war;
and establish lasting world peace
The formal transfer was made at
meeting in the rooms of the Carhegl
Research Foundation. The trustees
organized by choosing as president
United States Senator Elihu Root, tn
| permanent representative of the Unit
ed States at The Hague peace tribu
nal President Taft has consented t
be an honorary president of the foun
| dation.
The method by which the annua
| income of half. million dollars shall
| be expended is left by Mr.. Carnegie en-
tirely in the hands of the trustees
The foundation is to be perpetual ant
when the establishment of universe
peace is attained, the donor provides
l. that the revenue shall be devoted t.
| the Punishment of the next most de
grading evil or evils" the suppression
of which would most advance thu
progress, elevation and happiness o
man."
The trustees of the fund are: Unit
ed States Senator Elihu Root, ex-sec.
rotary of state and ex-secretary o.
war; DIT. Nicholas Murray Butler
president Columbia University; DR.
Henry S. Pritchett. president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching; Joseph H. Choate
lawyer, eX-ambaSsador to Great Brit
ain; Albert X. Smiley, Lake Mohonk,
educator and humanitarian; Charles w.
Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard
University; James Brown Scott, soil
citor of the state department; John w
Foster, lawyer, ex-secretary of state;
Andrew j: Montague, lawyer, cX-gov-
ernor of Virginia.; William NJ. Howard
lawyer. Congressman, Lexington,
Ga: Judge Thomas Burke. Seattle,
Wasn.;> Games H. Slayden; Congress
man, San Antonio Texas; Andrew! d.
White, [eX-ambaSsSdor to Germany;
Robert IS. Brookihs, lawyer, st. Louis;
is; Samuel Mather, banker steel man
ufactifrer, Cleveland: j.. G. Schmid-
lapp. railroad man, CINCINNATI; Arthur
William Foster. regent University of
California, San Francisco; r. A.
Franks, banker, Hoboken, II. j.; Char
lemagne Tower eX-ambassador to
Germany and Russia; oscar S. Straus,
ambassador to Turkey; Austen G.. Fox,
lawyer, New York; John L. Cadwalla-
der, lawyer, New York; John Sharp
Williams, senator elect from Missis-
sippi; G. L. Taylor of Pittsburg, chair
man of the Carnegie Hero Commission
George w. Perkins of New York,
finarcier and philanthropist, Robert
S. Woodward of Washington, and
Cleveland II. Dodge of New York,
the president and secretary respec-
lively of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington.
The informal trust deed presented
by Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees today,
reads as follows:
Gentlemen: have transferred to YOU
as trustees of the Carnegie Peace Fund,
100000 of five per cent. first mortgage
dollars, the revenue of which is to be ad-
ministered by you to hasten the aboli-
tion~of international war, the foulest
blot upon our civilization. Although we
no longer eat our fellowmen nor torture
prisoners, nor sack cities killing their
inhabitants we still kill each other in
war like barbarans. Only wild beasts
are eXcusable for doing that in this, the
Goth century of the Christian era, for
the crime of war inherent, since it de-
cdes not in favor of the right but al
ways of the strong. The nation is crimi-
nal which refuses arbitration and drives
it's adversary to a tribunal which knows
nothing of righteous Judgment.
II believe that the shortest and easiest
path to peace lies in adopting President
before the Peace and Arbitration Socie-
ty, New York, March %, 1910:
81 have noticed exceptions in our ar
bitration treaties as to the reference of
questions of national honor to courts of
arbitration. Personally 1 do not see any
more reason why matters of national
honor should not be referred to court
of arbitration than matters OF property
or of rational proprietorship. | know
that is going farther than most men arc
willing TO go, but J. do net see Why
questions of honor may not be submitted
to a tribunal composed of men of honor,
who understand questions of national
honor to abide by their decision, as wefl
as any other questions. of difference aris-
ing between nations
II venture to quote from my address
as President of the Peace Congress in
New York. 1907:
"'Honor is the most dishonored word
in our language No man ever touched
another mans. honor; no nation ever dis
honored another nation; all honor'>
wounds are self-nllicted.'
AT the opening of the international
Bureau of American Republics at Wash.
ington, April 26, 1910. President TAT,
said:
We Il republics cannot afford tC
have any two or any three of us quarrel
We must stop this and Mr.. Carnegie
and 1 will not be satisfied until all 1.
of us can intervene by proper measures
| to suppress quarrel between any othel
| two
| Il hope the trustees will begin by
pressing forward upon this line, testing
it thoroughly and doubling not.
| The judge who presdes over a caus,
| in which he is interested dies in infam,
| if discovered. The citizen who consti
tutes himself judge in his own cause a.
against his fellow-citizen, and presume.
| to attack him, is a lawbreaker and a.
such disgraced. So should nation b,
held as disgraced which insists upon sit