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Show CARNEGIE GIVES TEN MILLIONS TO HASTEN THE ABOLITION OF WAR Board of Trustees, Acting as a Corporate Body, to Have Half a Million Dollars to Spend Annually to Promote Peace-No Nation Should Be Self-Judged Washington. Dec. 14. Andrew Carnegie Car-negie today transferred to a board of trustees J10,000,0oij In 5 per cent fir?t mortgage bonds, the revenue of which will be used to " bus ten the abolition 1 of International war'' and establish a lastinpworld peace. The formal transfer was made at a meeting In the roonu of the Carnegie Research Foundation. The trustees organized by choosing as president United States Senator Ellhu Root, the permanent representative of the United Unit-ed States at The Hague tribunal. President Taft has consented to I honorary president of the foundation. The method by which the annual Income of half a million dollars 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 unl-crsal unl-crsal peace is attained the donor provides that the revenue shall be devoted de-voted to the banishment of the "next most degrading evil or evils," the suppression of which "would most advance ad-vance the progress, elevation and happiness hap-piness of men " Carnegie's Statement. The formal trust deed presented by Mr. Carnegie to the trustees today reads as follows: "Gentlemen I have transferred to you as trustees of the Carnegie peac fund ten million of 5 per cent Arst mortgage Ironds, valued at eleven and a half million dollars, the revenue of which Is to be administered by you to hasten the abollilon of International war, the foulest blot ut-on our civilization. civili-zation. Although v.e no longer eat our fellow men; nor torture prisoners, nor sack cities, killing their Inhabitants, we still kill each other In war like barbnrlans. Only wild beasts are excusable ex-cusable for doing that In this the 20th century of tho ChrlsHun era, for the crime of war is Inherent, since H decides de-cides not In favor of the right but 'alwave the strong. The nation Is . criminal which reluses arbitration and drives Its adversary to a tribunal ! which knows nothing of righteous Judgment. "I believe tho shortest nnd casieut path to peace lies in adopting President Presi-dent Taft's platform which ho announced an-nounced In his address before tho peace and arbitration society at New York March 22. 1510, as follows. "T have noticed exceptions! In our arbitration treaties, as to the reference refer-ence of questions of national honor to courts of arbitration. Possibly I do not see any more reason why matters mat-ters of national honor should not bo referred to a court of arbitration thai! matters of property of of national proprietorship. pro-prietorship. 1 know that Is goIn.T lur ther than most men are willing to go, but I do not see why questions of honor may not be submitted to a tribunal composed of men of honor, j who understand questions of national 1 honor, to abide by their decision, as I well as any other questions of differ-) differ-) ence arLdng between nations.' 1 ' I venture to quote from my address as president of the peace congress in i New York In l?ni7: I " Honor Is the most dishonored ! word in our language No man ever j touched another man s honor, no na-j na-j tlon ever dishonored another nation: 1 all honor wounds are self-inflicted.' j "At the opening of the International I bureau of American republics at ' Washington April 26. 1010, President I Taft said: I 'We republics cannot afford to 1 have a'nv two or any throe of un qu.nr-I qu.nr-I rel. We must stop this, and 'Mr. Car-I Car-I ni gle and I w ill not be satisfied until all nineteen of us can Intervene by proper measures to suppress a cpiar-rel cpiar-rel between -jn- other two.' "I hope 'tho trustees will begin by pressing forward upon this line, test-; test-; ing it thoroughly and doubting not. j "The judge who presides over a tare in which hr !; Interested dies in Infamy If dipeoiered. Th - ordinary ' citizen who constitutes himself a ' judge in his own ease as aguiDSt his fellow citizen and presumes to attack hfra is a lawbreaker and as such disgraced. dis-graced. So should a nation bo disgraced dis-graced which Insists upon sitting In Judgment in Its own cause In case of a ) international dispute " |