MR. CARNEGIE'S FEACE GIFT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 2

MR. CARNEGIE'S FEACE GIFT.

£2,000,000 TO STOP WAR. (From Our Own Correspondent). LONDON, 16th December. At Washington, on Wednesday, Mr. Andrew Carnegie transferred to a Board of Trustees the sum of £2,000,000 in 5 per cent, first mortgage bonds, the revenue of which is to be used to hasten the abolition of international war and establish a lasting world-peace. Senator Elihu Root, the permanent representative of the United States at-the Hague Peace Tribunal, is the nresiderit of the Trustees, who are twenty -four in number. President Taft has consented to be lion, president of the foundation. The method by which the annual income of £100,000 shall be expended is left by Mr. Carnegie entirely in the hands of the trustees. The foundation is to be perpetual, and when the establishment of universal peace is attained, the donor provides that the revenue shall be devoted to the banishment ' of the "next most degrading evil or evils," the suppression of which would "most advance the progress, elevation, and happiness of man." THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE, lii tho trust-deed Mr. Carnegie calls attention to the various proposals for peace put forward in British and American Houses of Parliament. In 1890 both Houses of Congress passed the following resolution :—: — Resolved, that the President be, and is, hereby requested to invite from time -to time, as fit occasion may arise, negotiations with any Government with which the United States has or may have diplomatic relations, to the end that any differences or disputes arising between the two Governments, which cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agency, may oe referred to arbitration, and be peaceably adjusted by such means. "This resolution," said Mr. Carnegie, "was presented to the British Parliament, which adopted a resolution approving the action of the Congress of the United States, and expressing that her Majesty's Government would lend their ready co-operation to the Government of the United States for the accomplishment of the object in view, (Resolution of the House of Commons, 16th July, 1893). _ "It was my privilege to introduce to President Cleveland in 1897 a committee of members of Parliament of Britain, headed by Sir William Randal Cremer, in response to the action of Congress, proposing a treaty agreeing to settle all disputes that might arise between America and Great Britain by arbitration. Such a treaty was concluded between Lord Pauncefote and Secretary Olney in 1897. It failed of passage by the necessary two-thirds majority of the Senate by only three votes. There is reason to believe that the British Government has been desirous of having that treaty ratified by our Government, or ready to agree to another of similar character, so that President Taft's policy seems within easy reach of success. "If the English-speaking race adopts such a treaty we shall not have to wait long for other nations to join, and it will be noticed that the resolution of Congress in 1890 embraces 'any Government with which the United States has or may have diplomatic relations,' thus all nations seem still open to the invitation he is requested lo give, there being no 'imitations as to time."