Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-14
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MILLION FOR PEACE

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ator-elect from Mississippi; c.. L. Tay-
lor, of Pittsburg. chairman of h a
negrie Hero Fund Commission, and
George w. Perkins, of New York.
fnancier and philanthropist.
The informal trust deed presented by
Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees today
reads as follows:
The Trust Deed.
"~Gentlemen-I have transferred to
you as trustees of the Carnegie Peace
Fund ten million of 5 per cent. first
mortgage bonds, value eleven and a
half millions of dollars, the revenue OF
which is to be administered ~ you to
hasten the abolition of international
war. the foulest blot upon our civiliza-
ton. Although we no longer eat our
fellow men, nor torture prisoners, ror
sack cities, killing their inhabitants,
we still kill each other in war like bar
barians. Only wild beasts are excus-
able for doing that in this, the TWEEN
tieth century of the Christian era, for
the crime of war is inherent, since 1t
decides not in favor of the right, but
always of the strong. The nation is
criminal which refuses arbitration and
drives its adversary to a tribunal which
knows nothing Of righteous judgment.
quotes President Taft.
"I believe that the shortest and
easiest path to peace lies in adopting
President Taft's platform, who said in
his address before the peace n ar
bitration Society. New York. March %.
1910:
~ have noticed exceptions in our
arbitration treaties as to reference of
| questions of national honor to courts
of arbitration. Personally, l do not
see any more reason why matters Of
national honor should not be referred
to a court of arbitration than matters
of property or of national proprietor
ship. l know hat is going farther
than most men are willing to go, but I
do not see why questions of honor may
not be submitted to a tribune COM
posed of men of honor who understand
questions of national honor to abide by
their decision, as we'll as any other
questions of differences arising be-
tween nations
Quotes own Address.
Il venture to quote from my address
as president of the Peace Congress i'll
New York, 1907:
Honor is the most dishonored word
in our language. No man ever touched
another mans honor; no nation eve
d~ishonored another nation; all honor's
wounds are self-inflicted.
"At the opening of the International
Riraau of American RpDnblipS at
Washington, April rs, 1910, President
Taft said:
1--WE twenty-one republics cannot
afford to have any two or any three of
us quarrel. We must stop this, and
Mr.. Carnegie and L will not be satisfied
until all nineteen of us can intervene
by proper measures to suppress a quar-
rel between any other two.
II hope the trustees will begin by
pressing forward upon this line, testing
1t thoroughly and doubling not.
The judge who presides over a cause
in which he is interested dies in infamy
IL discovered. The citizen who con-
stitutes himself a judge in his w
cause as against his fellow citizen and
presumes to attack him is a law
breaker and as such disgraced. Sc
should a nation be held as disgraced
which insists upon sitting in Judgment
in its own cause in case of an inter
national dispute.
Resolution In Congress-.
II call you attention to the following
resolution introduced by the committee
of foreign relations in the first session.
Fiftieth Congress, June Ia, 1888:
RESOLVED by the Senate (the House
of Representatives concurring), Thai
the president be, and is hereby, request
ed to invite from time to time, as fl
occasions may arise, negotiations with
any government with which the United
States has or may have diplomatic re-
lations, to the end that any differences
or disputes arising between the two
governments which cannot be adjusted
by diplomatic agency may be referred
to arbitration and be ~peaceably adjust
ed by such means. (Resolution no
reached ON calendar during session, bu'
rei%ntroduced, ana passed Senate Feb
ruary IA, 1890. Passed House, April
1901
This resolution was presented to tn
British parliament, which adopted
resolution approving the action of tn
Congress of the United States n eX
pressing that her majesty's govern