Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
21 NATIONS Give
CARNEGIE MEDAL
''BenetactOr Of Humanity" is
Title Conferred on Him.
PRESIDENT PRAISES HIM
Representatives of 16o,000,o00 People
Present Gold Medal to Great Philan.
thropist For His Efforts For Peace.

Present Gold Medal to Great PhiIan-
thropist For His Efforts For Peace.
Andrew Carnegie received in Wash
! ington what he called his greatest
| mark of honor, when twenty-one
American republics bestowed on him
gold medal, bearing on one side the
| words 'Benefactor of Humanity" and
On the other The American Republics
to Andrew Carnegie"
According to John Barrett, director
general of The Pan American Union,
it was the first time in history that
such tribute from so many nations
had been paid to an individual. Senior
De Zamacona, the Mexican ambassa-
dor, made the speech of presentation;
Secretary of State Knox presided, and
President Taft spoke in eulogy of the
gifts which Mr.. Carnegie has made for
the cause of peace on this hemisphere
and throughout the world.
Members of the diplomatic corps
and men high in official life filed the
hall of the Pan American Union build.
ing where the ceremonies were held,
and for the erection of which Mr.. Car.
negie gave almost a million dollars.
In accepting the medal Mr.. Carne-
gle told OF his feelings on being in.
formed of the honor conferred upon
him by the Pan American conference
at Buenos Ayres.
81 was sitting at my desk in the
Highlands of Scotland last autumn, .
he said, when telegram was handed
to me, which | opened and read with
out seeming quite to grasp the mean
ing Of the words. | was stunned!
Was l dreaming? Gould such things
be and overcome us like a summers s
cloud without our special wonder?
"My hands went to my forehead and
l bent my head to my desk. Slowly
the truth developed and established
itself and | began to realize what 1t
all meant. Truly, my friends, l never
before felt so completely overwhelmed
and crushed as it dawned upun me
that the honor which the conference
had voted to confer was without par
allel; 1G0,000,000 people forming
twenty-one sovereign nations, bestow-
ing upon poor me an honor the like
of which had never before been be.
slowed upon human being"
Referring to President Taft's ad-
dress year ago when he voiced a
sentiment for reign of peace among
the Pan American republics, Mr.. Car.
negie said:
Thus the presidents first invitation
70 10 ich Of
erly made to you. Much has taken
place since then. He recently held out
the olive branch of peace, and it in
stantly was accepted by the other
branch of our English-speaking race
wit hsuch enthusiasm, not by one but
by all parties, that today we have
every reason to believe that war as a
means of settling disputes between the
two branches of our race will soon
become a crime of the past
In offering thanks to the nations,
through their diplomats present for
the honor bestowed upon him, Mr..
Carnegie asked them to accompany
the expression with the ardent wish
on his part that prompt action should
be taken by the twenty-one republics
to establish a reign of peace by
adopting President Tafts policy OF
submitting all disputes to arbitration.
Father Accused by Son of Murder.
John w. Poole, wealthy farmer,
residing near Fowler, Ind, who was
accused by his son Emory of the mur.
der of Joseph Kemper, German EN-.
ployed on the farm, year ago last
December admitted to Sheriff Frank
Shackleton and Marshal John Bow.
man that he had killed Kemper, but
that the killing was accidental.
Poole's statement caused great ex.
citement in Fowler, which was sec.
ondary only to the stir produced by
| the finding of Kemper's body on the
| Poole farm.
Poole was arrested at one of his
| farms north of Rensselaer,, where he
| had been for two weeks. On the way
| over from Rensselaer, Poole was
| greatly excited and feared he would
| be mobbed when he arrived at Fowler.
| He lay in the corner of the automo-
| bile and concealed himself with a rug.
| 1t was just before they arrived that
| Poole first told the sheriff and mar
| shall that he was responsible for KEN
per's death. He said that on the Sun
| day of the killing he was climbing
| over the fence at the back of his
| house with a shotgun in hand, being
| in pursuit of rabbit running across
| the yard. Kemper, he says, was stand
| ing near Poole declared that in get.
| ting over the fence the gun was dis
| charged and the full charge from the
gun blew off Kempers head