The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-23
ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNAT'L PEACE
Endowment by Andrew Carnegie
for MOVement-LeSSOn in
the European War.
2 Jackson Place, Washington, D. c.,

Jackson Place, Washington, d. c.,
February 16, 1915
The undersigned have been associ-
ated 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 dis
couragement, no discredit to past
efforts, and no reason to doubt that
| still greater efforts in the future may
be effective and useful.
The war itself is teaching the COS
pei of peace through lesson so
shocking and so terrible that the most
Indifferent can not fail to attend and
understand 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 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 are urg
ing on the great conflict would be fu-
tile; but the end of this war will come
before long and then the great ques-
| ton 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 momentous of our era.
| 1t seems incredible that after this
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 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 accomplish
ed, we may still advocate measures
which seem practicable and appro-
pirate to 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; 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 courage
and hope and conviction of the numb
lest citizen of the most distant land
may contribute.
Joseph H. Choate
! Andrew D! White
John w Foster
Elihu Root
Luke e. Wright
Charlemagne Tower
Robert S. Woodward
i Austen G. Fox
Jacob G.. Schmidlapp
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 H. Dodge
Robert A. Franks
George w. Perkins
Nicholas Murray Butler
Andrew J. Montague
Arthur William Foster
James Brown Scott.
i Our Member Active.
| Hon. H. J. Grell, member of the as
sembly for this district, has introduced