The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-17
PEACE SOCIETY NOT
DISCOURAGED BY WAR
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT COMMIT
TEE SAYS IT'S A GOSPEL
E
OF PEACE.


eveCS0s 70 The NeDs.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 1.-THE !
Carnegie Endowment fer International
Peace is not the least bit discouraged
over the great world war now In pro-
Eress in Europe.
In a statement issued today by the
trustees of the endowment. 1t is de-
clared that the present war is teach
Ing the gospel of peace.
The statement in full is as follows:
The undersigned have been associ-
ated for some years in the execution OF
a trust to promote international peace
and our duties have involved a con-
tinuai survey of the efforts to that end
throughout the world.
I'VE 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
terrible that the most Indifferent can
not fail to attend and understand it.
mot 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
tion of exchanges, have affected in
dustry 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.
ITO 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:
"ShaIl the lesson be forgotten; the
sacrifice lost?
THAT question the belligerent ma
tions only will have the power to an
swer; but every one in the world will
be entitled to be heard upon it, for II
will be a question of civilization, the
most momentous of our era.
sTt seems incredible that after this
,nt hntr For
In the same old paths of policy and
suspicion which must lead again tt
the same result.
Finding expression through grea
multitude of voices everywhere thu
general public opinion of mankind
should influence the minds of the ne
gotiators who settle the terms Of peac'
and inspire them to a new departure
in the establishment of justice as tn
rule of International relations.
''whiie we must not be overconflden
of our individual qualifications to poin
out the detailed methods throug
which the result may be accomplished
we may still advocate measures whic
seem practicable and appropriate
the purpose.
I'VE can see that definite rules {
national conduct should be agree
upon that a court of competent juri
diction should be established to jude
of national confirmity to those rules
and that new sanctions should be pr
yided to compel respect for the ind
ments rendered
"Above all the motive and spirit
the new institutions should be clear
and fully, not the promotion of ami
tion and the extension of power, b.
the safeguarding of human rights al
the perfection of individual liberty.
"Tow2ld d this high end the courai
and hope and conviction of tn hui
biest citizen of the most distant lal
may contribute.
Joseph II. Choate, Andrew d. Whit
John W. Foster, Elihu Root. Luke
Wright, Chariemage Tower, Robert
woodward. Austen G. Fox, Jacob
Schmidlapp, Thomas Burke. Robert
Brookings, Oscar s. Straus, SAINT
Mather. James L. Slayden, John Sha