Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-02-19
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Statement Issued by Trustees of Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace Concerning The Bearing of
The European War Upon Ultimate
Peace.

The undersigned have been associat-
ed for some years in the execution of
trust to promote international
peace and our duties have involved a
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,
and no reason to doubt that still great
er efforts in the future may be effec-
tive and useful.
The war itself is teaching the gos-
pei Of peace through lesson so shock
ing and so terrible that the most in
different can not fail to attend and un-
derstand it.
Not only have the destruction of
life, the devastation and the suffer-
ing in the warning countries passed
all experience, but the cessation of
production, the closing of markets, the
blocking of trade routes, the interrupt
tion of exchanges, have affected indus
try 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 before 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.
It seems incredible that after this
the stricken people viii 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 the minds of the
negotiators who settle the terms OF
peace and inspire them to new de.
parture in the establishment OF jus.
tice as the rule Of international rela.
tions.
| While we must not be overconfideni
of our individual qualifications tc
point out the detailed methods through
which the result may be accomplished
we NAV still advocate measures which
seem practicable and appropriate tt
| the purpose.
We can see that definite rules of ma
tional conduct should be agreed upon
that a court of competent jurisdiction
should be established to judge of ma
tional conformity to those rules; ant
that new sanctions should be provided
to compel respect for the judgments
rendered.
4 Above all the motive and spirit O
the new institutions should be clearly
4 and fully. not the promotion of ambi
ton or the extension of power, bu
the safeguarding of human rights an,
the perfection of individual liberty.
/ Toward this high end the courag
and hope and conviction of the humbl
est citizen of the most ristant Ian,
NAV contribute.
j Joseph Choate, Andrew D. White
j John W. Foster, Elihu. Root, Luke E
Wright, Charlemagne Tower. Rober
s. Woodward Austen G. Fox. Jaco
G. Schmidlapp, Thomas Burke, Rober
s. Brookings. Oscar s. Straus, Sam
: uel Mather. James L. Slayden. Johl
, Sharp WILLIAMS, Charles L. Tavlol
: Henry S. Pritchett, William M. How
ard. Cleveland H. Dodge, Robert "
Perkins, Nicholas Murray Butler
, Andrew J. Montague, Arthur Williar
; Foster, James Brown Scott. x