The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

tfon of international war and estab-
lish a lasting world peace. The formal
transfer was made at a meeting in the
rooms of the Carnegie Research foun-
dation. The trustees organized by
choosing a president, United States
Senator Elihu Root, the permanent rep
resentative of the United States at The
Hague tribunal. President Taft has
consented to be honorary president OF
the foundation
The method by which the annual in
come of half a million dollars shall be
expended is left by Mr.. Carnegie en-
tirelv in the hands of the trustees. The
foundation is to be perpetual and when
the establishment of universal peace Is
attained, the donor provides that the
revenue shall be devoted to the banlsh-
ment of the next most degrading ev1l
or evils the suppression of which
would "most advance the progress, ele-
walton and happiness of men,
The trustees of the fund are:
Tinted States Senator Elihu Root,
ex-secretary of the state and ex-secre-
tary of war; DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter. New York, president Columbia uni
versfty; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, presl-
dent Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching; Joseph II.
Choate, lawyer, ex-Ambassador TO Great
Britain; Albert K. Smiley, Lake MO
honk, educator and humanitarian; DR.:
Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus OF
Harvard university; James Brown
Scott, solicitor of the state department;
John w. Foster, lawyer, ex-secretary or
state: Andrew ]. Montague. lawyer, ex-
governor of Virginia. w. NJ. Howard,
lawyer, congressman, Lexington, Ga;
Judge Thomas Burke, Seattle, Wash /;
James L. Slayden, congressman, san
Antonio, Texas; Andrew d. White, ex-
ambassador to Germany; Robert 5.
Brookings, lawyer, st. Louis; Samuel
Mather banker, steel manufactures,
Cleveland; ]. G. Schmidlapp, railroad
man, Cincinnati; Arthur William Fos-
ter, regent University of California, san
Francisco; r. A. Franks, banker, Ho-
bolxen. N. T.: Charlemagne Tower, ex-
ambassador to Germany and Russia;
Oscar Straus, ambassador to Turkey;
Austen G. Fox, lawyer, New YORK; Jonh
L. Cadwalader, lawyer, New YORK; Jonn
Sharp williams, senator-elect, Missis-
sjnpi: C. L. Taylor of Pittsburg, chair
man of the Carnegie hero fund com
mission: George w. Perkins of New
York. financier and philanthroplst
ton. and Cleveland H. Dodge of New
York. the president and secretary re-
spectively of the Carnegie institute OF
Washington.
The Deed of Trust.
The informal trust deed presented by
Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees today
reads as follows:
lTeDIl6IlCil-
.I have transferred to you as trus-
tees of the Carnegie peace fund ten
million of per cent first mortgage
bonds, value eleven and a half millions
of dollars, the revenue of which Is to
be administered by you to hasten the
abolition of international war, the
foulest blot upon our civilization. AL
though we no longer eat our fellowmen
nor torture prisoners, nor sack cities,
killing their inhabitants, we still kill
each other in war like barbarlans.
Only wild beasts are excusable for do
ing that in this, the twentieth century
of the Christian era, for the crime of
war is inherent, since it decides not N
favor of the right but always of the
strong The nation is criminal which
refuses arbitration and drives its ad-
yersarv to a tribunal which knows
nothing of righteous judgment
''I believe the shortest and easiest
path to peace lies in adopting Presi-
dent Taft's platform. He said in his
address before the Peace and Arbitra-
ton society, New York, March p, 1910:
"I have noticed exceptions in or
arbitration treaties as to reference OF
questions of national honor to courts
of arbitration Personally 1 do not see
any more reason why matters of ma
tional honor should not be referred 20
a court of arbitration than matters of
property or national proprietorship.