The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-02-18
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNATIONAL PEACE

undersigned have been associated 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 10 all friends Of
peace that the dreadful war now rag
ing affords no just cause for diseour-
agement, no discredit to past efforts,
and no reason to doubt that still great
err efforts in the future may be cFec-
tive and useful
The war itself is teaching the Cos
pei of peace through lesson so shock
Ting and so terrible that the most indif-
ferent can not fail to attend and I'M
derstand 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-
duction, the closing of markets, the
blocking of trade routes, the Interrupt
ton of exchanges, have affected indus
try and caused ruin and poverty in all
the peaceful countries Of the world
The universal interdepcndence Of
nations has been demonstrated and the
truth forced upon every mind that the
peace of all nations is the vital con-
cern 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
tons only will have the power to ans
wer; but every one in the world will be
entitled to be heard upon it, for it will
be a question of civilization, the most
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 the minds of the ne
yotiators 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 overconfdent
IF 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
he purpose.
We can see that definite rules Of
rational conduct should be agreed up
IN; that court of competent jurisdic-
ion should be established to judge Of
rational conformity to those rules;
md that new sanctions should be pro-
,ided to compel respect for the judg-
nents rendered
Above all the motive and spirit Of
he new institutions should be clearly
nd fully, not the promotion of ambi-
ion or the extension Of power, but the
afe-guarding of human rights and the
Of individual liberty.
Toward this high end the courage
nd hope and conviction Of the humbl-
st citizen of the most distant land
nay contribute.
Joseph H. Choate, Andrew ID. White,
ohm w. Foster, Elihu Root, Luke +.
Wright, Charlemange Tower, Robert
. Woodward, Austen 9. Fox, Jacob G.
Thomas Burke, Robert s.
BOOKINGS, Oscar S. Straus, Samuel
Iather, James L. Slayden, John Sharp
Villains, Charles l.. Taylor, Henry s.
ritchett, William NJ. Howard, Cleve-
md H. Dodge, Robert A. Franks,
gorge w. Perkins, Nicholas Murray
utler, Andrew j. Montague, Arthur
William Foster, James Brown Scott.