Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-14
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Gives Ten Million Dollars for
AboIishing International
War.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES NAMED
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES NAMED
prest. Taft Accepts Honorary
Presidency of the Four
dation.
Senator Root, l'rcslNcnt.-Nicthod of
ESrcntling Income left En-
tircly TO Trustees.

Washington Dec. ls.-hndrew carne-,
gic today transferred.to board OF trus-
tees Sl0,OO0,0oO II, per cent first mort
gage bonds tho revenue of which Will
be used to'hasten the abolition ofinter-
national war and establish lasting
world peace.
The formal transfc. was made at u
meeting in tine rooms of the Carnegie
Research foundation. The trustees or
ganizcd by choosing us president United
States Senator Ilihu Root the perma-
ncnt representative of the United
States at The Hasuc tribunal. Presi-
dent Taft has consented to be honorary
president of The foundation
The method BY which the annual in
come of half million dollars shull be
expended is left by Mr.. Carnegie en-
tirely in the hands of the trustees.
The foundation is to be pcrpet'lal.and
when the establishment of universal
reace is attained the donor provides
that the revenue shall be devoted to
the banishment OF the next most de-
grading evil or evils" the suppression
ofwhich would most advance the prog
rcss, elevation and happiness OF men,.
TRUSTEES OF FUND.
The trustees of the fund are: United
states Senator Elihu Rootii e%-secretary
of state and ex-secretary Of war; DR..
Nicholas Butler, New York, president
of Columbia university; DR. Henry S.
Pritchctt, president OF the Carnegie
teaching: Joseph H. Choatc, lawyer, OK
ambassador to Great Britain; Albert
x. Smiley, Lake Mohonl, educator and
humanitarian: Or. Charles W.. Eliot.
president emeritus of Harvard
university: james Brown Scott,
solicitor Of the state department. John
w. Foster. lawyer. Ecx-sccretnrS offwar:
Andrew j. Montague. lawyer, eS-gover-
nor of Virginia: William Howard, law
yer, congressman, Lexington, Ga:
George Thomas Burke Semitic. wash.
james l.. Slayden, congressman, Sal,
Antonio. Texas; Andrew D. White, ex-
ambassador to Germany; Robert s.
lsrookinss. lawyer ST., Louis: Samuel
Matlier banker, steel manufacturer.
Cleveland, Ohio; j. G.. Schmidlapp, rail-
road man, Cincinnati, Ohio: Arthur
William Foster regent OF the Univer-
sity OF California. San Francisco; r.
y. Franks, banker. Hoboken. N. j.:
Charlemagne Tower, ex-ambassador to
Germany and Russia; Oscar Straus.
ambassador TO Turkey; Austin G. Fox,
lawyer, New York; John l.. Cadwalad-
or, lawyer, New York: John Sharp Will
liams, scnator-elect from NIssissippi:
G, l.. Taylor. chairman of the Car
leGic Hero fund c4nmlssion. Pittsburg,
tn.1 fD..,f ~
ihancer and philanthrcpist; Robert S.
woodward of Washington and Cleve-
land H. Dodge, Of New York, the pres
ident ana secretary respectively OF the
Carnegie Institute OF Washington.
INFORMAL TRUST DEED.
The informal trust decd presented
By Mr. Carnegie to the trustees today
reads as follows:
Gentlemen ] have transferred to
you as trustees of the Carnegie Peace
FUND, 10,C0S, 900 OF 8 per cent first mort
gage bonds. value sll 500 900 the revenue
ofwhich is to be administered by yo, to
hasten the abolition OF international
war, the foulcst BLOT upon our civiliza-
ton. Although we no longer eat our
fellow men nor torture prisoners. nor
sack cities, killing their inhabitants
we still kill each other in war. like bar
barians Only WILD hensts are cxc,ls-
eth century Of the Christian era, for
the crime of war Is Inherent, since it
decides not In favor of the right but
always the strong. The nation Is Grim
lnal which refuses arbitration and
drives It's adversary to u tribunal which
knows nothing of righteous Judgment.
u believe the shortest and easiest
path to peace lies in adopting Presi-
dent Tafts platform which he an
nounced In his address before the
Pence and Arbitration society at New,
YORK, March 90 lS1o,as follows:
b TAFT'S PLATFORM.
:" j have noticed exceptions in2our
arbitration treaties, as to the reference.
Of questions of national honor to courts
Of arbitration PersonallStI DO not sec
any more reason Why matters of ma
tional honor should not be referred to
4 court of arbitration than matters OF
property or of national #nrOpretarshp.s
know that is going further than most
men are willing TO go. but i do not see
why questions Of honor may not be
submitted TO a tribunn! composed Of
men OF honor%who understand uucs-5
tons OF national honor to abide by
their dcclsionsas well ai}any other ques-
tons of difference arising between ma
t!ous.'
venture to duotc from my address
rs president Of the peace congress in
L
dishonorch word In our language. No
man ever tUuehodSanother mans honor;
no nation ever dshonorel another ma
tinn; all honor wounds are self-innict-
cd
AT tho opening Of the International
bureau of American republics at WASH.
Yslngton. Apri &C. 1910 President Taft
& said;S
= 'W'ercpubiicsScann afford toi,inve'
anyItwo prlanH thrccEof us Quarrel. We
must stopst his and MI Carnegie and I
= VIII nut be satisfied untilSall ~ OF us
"A Gan Intervene hH proper measures to
shppress a quarra, Between any other
Two Fl V 9 .at
I'll hope tho trustees Will begin by.
messing forward upon this line. testing
4 II thoroughly aid doubling not.
s'rlic judge Who presides over a
cnuse IN WHICH he lis Interested. dies
Il 5ipsnmr5 If discovered. rlei citizen
who constitutes himsel Y AZ Jpdge}in3 his
own cause ms asninstsh fellow citi-
zen and presnmcs ito 3nttacls5him, ls g
q lnwbre,l le,.t n nd ma such dtSgiaccd, So