TO STOP WAR.

Mataura Ensign, 25 January 1911, Page 4

TO STOP WAR.

MR CARNEGIE'S SCHEME. ) (.'IFT OF tL\<MX),O(HJ. Mr Andrew Carnegie at Washington.on December II transferred to a |„»ard :«f trustees l().()()f),()(M) dollars <l:2,Q()0. I'M)) in .1 per cent, first mortgage bonds, jibe revenue of \\lneh is to l>e used "to | hasten the abolition ~f international jv.ir" and establish a lasting uorhj. I peace. I The formal tr.ncf ;■ Has made at a j meeting in the rooms of the Carnegie I Research Foundation. The trustees (chose as their president Senator Klihu ; Root, the permanent representative of i the Cnited States at the Hague Peace j Tribunal. President Tait has consent* jed to be honorary president of the j foundation. The method by which the annual income of CIOO.UOO shall l*> expended ik left by Air Carnegie entirely hi the hands of the trustees. The foundation is to be perpetual, and when the end,!,, lishment of universal peace is attained the donor provides that the revenue shall be devoted to the banishment of the "next most degrading «. v iJ «»■ evils" the suppression of which would "most advance the progress, elevation and happiness of mail." ' The informal 1 rust deed presented bv Mr Carnegie to the trustees includes the following passages: "Although we no longer eat our feb low-men nor torture prisoners, nor sack cities, killing their inhabitants, we still kill cadi other in war, like barbarian* Only wild beasts are excusable for doing that in this, the twentieth century' of the Christian era. The crime of walls inherent, since it decides not in favor of the right but always of the strong. The nation is criminal which refuses arbitration and drives its adversary to a tribunal which knows nothmg ot righteous judgment." After referring eulogisticallv to a speech of Mr Taft, in which the President urged arbitration for every kind of international dispute, including | "points of honor," Mr Carnegie says: ; "1 venture to quote trom my address l.i«- president of the Peace Congress in :\'<w York in IW7: 'Honor h the most t <J,s.ioi!ored word in our language. N« j nan ever touched another inan'» (honor; no nation ever dishonored an* , other nat.on; all honor's wounds are self-inflated.' it was my privilege to introduce to 1 resident Cleveland in 1897 a committee of members of Parliament of Britam, beaded by Sir William Randal Cremer, ;n resjwiise to the action of Congress proposing « treatv agreeing to settle all disputes that might arise l»etween America and Great Britain by arbitrate n. Such a treaty was con- . eluded '-etween Lord Paui'icefote and Secretary Ohicy in IM«>7. It faded of passage by the necessary two-think majority <f the Senate by oniv threw votes. ; Then is reason to believe that the British Government has liecn desirous of having thai treaty ratified by out Government or is ready to agree to »n. other of Minilai character, so that PreIsident Taft's jwdicy steins within easy reach „f success. Jf U,,, En»li«th-*peak'. !mg race j-.dopls such ; , featy we shall *iot ha; e :•, -a ait long fur other nations t:> join. ; "Lines of future action cannot Ims jw.selv laid down. Mai, v tuav have to Ibe tried ,m] having full confidence in m.\ tn.stees 1 leave to them the widest fiscreiio,, as to the measure* and fiolicy I they s|,;,;j from lime to time adopt."'