The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-19
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

tfon or trust to promote interna.
ttonal peace and our duties have in.
volved u continual survey of the ef-
forts to that end throughout the
world.
We wish to say to all friends OF
peace that the dreadful war now
raging affords NO Just cause for dis
couragement. no discredit to past eff
forts, and no reason to doubt that
still greater efforts in the future NAV
be effective and useful.
The war itself is teaching the COS.
pel Of peace through q lesson 81,
shocking and SO terrible Nhat the
most indifferent can not fail to at
tend and understand it.
. Not only have the destruction OF
life, the devastation and the suffer
Ing in the warning countries passed
all experience, bpe the cessation OF
production, the closing OF markets
the blocking OF tr 4de routes. the in
terrupelon Of exchanges. have af-
fected industry 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 tremendousJ 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? 81. ~,
That question the bellgerent ma.
tions only will have the power to
answer; but every one in the world
will be entitled to be heard upon it,
Tor 1t VIII be question of civiliza-
tion. the most momentous OF our era.
It 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 q great
multitude OF voices everywhere the
general public opionion of mankind
should influence the minds o. the
negotiators who settle the terms of
peace and inspire them to q new de-
parture in the establishment of jus-
tice as the rule OF international re-
!etions. sts
While we must not be overconfl-
dent Of our Individual qualifications
to point out the detailed methods
through which the result may be ac-
complished, we may still advocate
measures which seem practicable and
appropriate to the purpose.
We can see that definite rules of
national conduct should be agreed
upon; that court of competent jur-
isdiction 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.
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 o. tho
humblest citizen Of the most distant
land may contribute. sts
Joseph H. Choate
Andrew D. White
John w. Foster
Eli,t Root
Luke e. Wight
'-1s, ,'e-f.. .,,5- CnSElSlur quo 1OWeE ii, y.
a Robert 8. Woodward
Austen g., Fox
Jacob G.. Schmidlapp
Thorn as Burke
Robert S. Brookings
Oscar s. Straus
Samuel Mather
James L.. Slayden
q John Sharp Williams
s.: r. Charles La Taylor
Henry s; Pritehett !.
William NJ. Howard
Cleveland III, Dodge
Robert "A. Franks.
George w. Perkins
giiSg Nicholas Murray Butler
Andrew j.. Montague
s Arthur William Foster
.4! James Brown Scott ID
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