Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-02-16
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNATIONAL PEACE.
? JACKSON PLACE
WASHINGTON, d. G.
Febratary Is. 1915.

1ne Undersigned nave Deen aSSO-
ciated for some years in the execution
of trust to promote international
peace and our duties have involved
continual survey of the efforts to
that end throughout the world.
We wish to say to all friends of
peace that the dreadful war now rag
ing affords no just cause for discour-
agement, no discredit to past efforts,
ard no reason to doubt that still
greater efforts in the future may be
effective and useful.
The war itself is teaching the gospel
of peace through lesson SO shocking
and so terrible that the most indiffer-
ent can not fail to attend and under
stand it,
Not only have the destruction of
life, the devastation and the suffering
in the warning countries passed all
experience, but the cessation of pro-
ducJioD, the closing of markets, the
blocking of trade routes, the inter-
ruption of exchanges, have affected
industry and caused ruin and poverty
in all the peaceful countries of the
world.
The universal interdependence of
nations has been demonstrated and
the truth forced upon every mind
that the peace of all nations is the
vital concern of every nation.
To cast our weak protest now among
the tremendous forces that are urging
on the great conflict would be futile;
but the end of this war will come be-
fore long and then the great question
will stand for answer:
Shall the lesson be forgotten; the
sacrifice lost?
That question the belligerent ma
tions only will have the power to
answer; but every one in the world
will be entitled to be heard upon it,
for it will be question of civilization,
the most momentous of our era.
1t seems incredible that after this
the stricken people will set their feet
in the same old paths of policy and
suspicion which must lead them again
to the same result.
Finding expression through great
multitude of voices everywhere the
general public opinion of mankind
should influence tie minds of the
negotiators who settle the terms of
peace and inspire them to new
departure in the establishment of
Justice as the rule of international
relations.
While we must not be overconfident
of our individual qualifications to
point out the detailed methods
through which the result may be
accomplished, we may still advocate
measures which seem practicable and
appropriate to the purpose.
We can see that definite rules of ma
tional conduct should be agreed upon;
that court of competent jurisdic-
tion should be established to judge of
national conformity to those rules;
and that new sanctions should be
provided to compel respect for the
judgments rendered
Above all the motive and spirit Of
the new institutions should be clearly
and fully, not the promotion of am.
bition or the extension of power, but
the safeguarding of human rights
and the perfection of individual
liberty.
Toward this high end the cour-
age and hope and conviction of the
humblest citizen of the most distant
land may contribute.
JOSEPH H. CHoATE
ANDREW d. WHITE
JOHN W. FOSTER
ELIHU Roof
LUKE E. WRIGHT
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER
ROBERT S. WOODWARD
AUSTIN G. Fox
JACOB G. SoHMIDLAPP
THOMAS BURKE
ROBERT S. BRooKINGs
OSCAR S. STRAUs
SAMUEL MATHER
JAMES L. SLAYDEN
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS
CHARLES L. TAYLOR
HENRY S. PRITCHETT
WILLIAM M. HOWARD
CLEVELAND II. DODGE
ROBERT A. FRANKS
GEORGE w. PERKINS
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
ANDREW j. MoNTAGNE
ARHUR WILLIAM FOSTER
JAMES BROWN SCOTT