MR. CARNEGIE'S HOPE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 3

MR. CARNEGIE'S HOPE.

UNIVERSAL PEACE IN TTVO YEAKS. Mr, Andrew Carncgio gave an address before the Republican Club iu New York, in which ho applauded very highly'iho proposal mado by President Taft for an Anglo-American arbitration treaty which should cover, every possible point of dispute between the two countries. "There is no more reason," said Sir,. Carnegie, "why nations should not leave questions of honour.to arbitration than individuals. If an arbitral court could bo established with Great Britain, war. would bo practically abolished, and tho world's peuco would be established' by 1013." Mr. Carnegie considers that the ground has now been prepared for negotiations looking to this end, and declared liis intention of lending every assistance in liis power to the accomplishment of what ho believes to bo tho "sacred duty-laid upon both countries." ~ Opinion on both sides of tho vcater. ho thinks, lias very considerably changed in. tho last few-years, and thoopposers in America of such a scheme have been so educated out of their opposition that such a. measure would pass. Mr. Carnegie also l«lieves that -the Senate, which opposed unlimited arbitration in 190S, has every confidence in President Taft, and would now sanction such an agreement, Replying to' a criticism, commonly, offered, that Mr.. Carnegie mado his fortune by tho-manufacture of armour-plate for warships, the speaker said, "It is true I made nrmaur-plate, and good nr-mour-platc. too. I did so in" response to the then President's declaration that it was my duty to make such plato as would save wasting warships. As a matter of fact," concluded Mr. Carnegie, "there was more money in making pig. iron than in making armour-plate."