The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
Carnegie Endowment For Peace

The trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for lnterna-
tional Peace are not as greatly discouraged over the titanic
struggle now being waged in Europe as might have been
supposed, if the statement they have just issued to the
public is to be taken as wholly expressing their views.
The board of trustees is composed OF such men as Joseph
H. Choate, Andrew D. White, Elhu Root, John w. Eos
ter, Charlemagne Tower and others of like mental equip
ment to the number of twenty-five. They announce that
they have been associated for some years IN the execution
OF a trust to promote international peace and our duties
have involved a continual survey OF the efforts to that end
throughout the world"
Among other things the statement of the trustees
says: 1--WE wish to say to all friends OF peace that the
dreadful war now raging affords no just cause for discour-
agement, no discredit to past efforts, and no reason to
doubt that still greater efforts in the future may be Ell
fective and useful. The war itself is teaching the gospel
of peace through a lesson SO shocking and so terrible tat
the most Indifferent can not tail to attend and under
stand it.
and the suffering in the warning countries passed all eN-
perience, but the cessation of production, the closing OF
markets, the blocking of trade routes, the interruption OF
exchanges have affected industry and caused ruin and
poverty in all the peaceful countries OF the world. The
universal interdependence of nations has beeen demon
strated and the truth forced upon every mind that the
peace of all nations is the vital concern OF every nation.
ITO cast our weak protest now among the tremendous
forces that are now urging on the great conflict would De
futile; but the end of this war will come before long and
then the great question will stand for answer: Shall the
lesson be forgotten; the sacrifice lost? That question the
belligerent nations 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 a question OF civilization, the most mo
mentOuS of our era.
1T seems incredible that after this the stricken peo-
Die 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 a great multitude OF voices
everywhere the general public opinion of mankind should
influence the minds OF the negotiators who settle the terms
of peace and inspire them to a new departure in the estab-
lshment of Justice as the rule of international relations.
"While we must not be overconfident of our individ-
ual qualifications to point out the detailed methods
through which the result may be accomplished, we may
still advocate measures which seem practicable and a,ppro..
pirate to the purpose. We can see that definite rules OF
national conduct should be agreed upon; that a court OF
competent Jurisdiction 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. Toward this high end the courage and hope
and conviction of the humblest citizen of the most distant
land NAV contributed