The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-12-27
ELEVEN MILLION
AGAINST WAR
Andrew Carnegie Donates For
tune to Hasten Abolition
of Carnage.

WASHINGTON, December 14.-An.
drew Carnegie today loaned to board
of trustees $1O,OOO,O0O FIVE per cent.
first mortgage bonds, value at 11,5O0,-
900, the revenue of which will be used
to "hasten the abolition of internation-
al war; and establish lasting world
peace The formal transfer was made
at a meeting in the rooms of the Carne-
gle Research Foundation, the trustees
choosing as president, United States
Senator Elihu Root, the prominent rep
resentative of the United States at The
Hague tribunal. President Taft has
consented to be honorary president.
Foundation Is Perpetual.
The method by which the annual in.
Tome of half a million dollars shall be
Expended is left by Mr.. Carnegie in the
hands of the trustees. The foundation
is to be perpetual, and when the es-
4 tablishment of universal peace is at
tanned, the donor provides that the
revenue shall be devoted to the Danish.
ment of the next most degrading OF
evils, "the suppression of which would
most advance the elevation and happi-
ness of men,"
Inc trustees OF Ine luUu
among others United States Senator
Elihu Root ex-secretary of state and
ex-secretarygof war; DIR. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler president of Columbia Uni
versty; DIR. Henry S. Pritchet, presi-
dent of the Carnegie Foundation for
the advancement of teaching; Joseph
H. Choate, lawyer, ex-ambassador to
Great Britain; Albert K Smiley, Lake
NJ. L., Nnrt gv,
and DIR. Charles w. Elliott, President
Emeritus of Harvard University.
The Trust Deed.
The informal trust deed presented by
Mr.. Carnegie to the trustees today
reads as follows:
"Gentlemen:-I have transferred ia
you as trustees of the Carnegie Peace
Fund, ten million of five per cent. first
mortgage bonds, valued at eleven and
half-million dollars, the revenue OF
which is to be administered by you to
hasten the abolition of international
war, the foulest blot upon our civilized
nations.
"Although we no longer eat our fel
low men nor torture prisoners, nor sack
cities. killing their inhabitants, we still
kill in war like barbarians
"Only wild beasts are eXcusable fol
doing such in this twentieth century
Of the Christian era. The crime of wal
is abhorrent, since it decides not in
favor of the right, but always in favor
of the strong. The nation is crimina,
which refuses arbitration and drives it:
adversary to a tribunal which knows
nothing of righteous judgment, l be
lieve that the shortest and easiest patti
to peace is in adopting President Taft Z
platform. which he announced in his ad
dress before the Peace and Arbitration
Society in New York March %, 1910
"I have noticed exceptions in oul
arbitration treaties as to referring ques
tions of national honor to courts OF
arbitration. Personally, I do not SEE
any more reason why matters of ma
tional honor should not be referred t.
court of arbitration than matters Of
property or of national prOprieties.
know that have gone farther thar
most men are willing to go, but d.
not see why questions of honor ma!
nor be submitted to a tribunal com
posed of men of honor, to abide BY
their decisions. as well as any othe
questions of difference arising between
ma tiOns -