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Chap. Copyrignt No 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Anti-Carnegie 



SCRAPS 

AND 

COMMENTS 



By 

M. F. AND J. C. CAMPBELL 



PITTSBURG 
1899 






Copyright, 1899, by 
J. C. CAMPBELL, 



NOV i. «J ios 

SHI SECOND COPY. 







TO OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS, 
ON LAND AND ON SEA, THIS 
BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY 
DEDICATED BY THE 

A UTHORS 



Preface . 

This little volume is a veritable 
history of the anti-imperial craze, 
which was started in Pittsburg, No- 
vember, 1898, by Andrew Carnegie. 
The writers noted it from the first 
ripple, and the source from whence 
it came. 

Does Andrew Carnegie stand by 
the flag of this country ? He has 
expressed sympathy for and given 
encouragement to the armed bands 
of Filipinos, but he has neither for 
our American soldiers who are now 
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PREFACE 

engaged in the final conquest of the 
Philippines, to prevent our flag from 
bein£ "hauled down" from where it 
has been planted. The flag that 
shrouds the forms of our dead he- 
roes. The flag that only waves over 
the land of the free. 

The Authors. 



Anti-Carnegie : 

Scraps and Comments 

" How Wisdom and Folly meet, mix and unite, 
How Virtue and Vice blend their black and 

their white, 
How Genius, th' illustrious father of fiction, 
Confounds rule and law, reconciles contradic- 
tion, 
I write — if these mortals the Critics should 

bustle 
I care not, not I — let the Critics go whistle." 

Burns. 

To present facts plainly a writer 
must be fearless and independent ; 
not prejudiced, but impressed with 
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what he knows of the subject of 
which he treats. The subject of this 
book is Andrew Carnegie, born in 
Dunfermline, Scotland, over sixty 
years ago, and emigrated to America 
fifty years ago. Is he to-day a loyal 
citizen of the United States ? Is he 
an anti-expansionist and extremist ? 
Is he a bundle of inconsistencies and 
contradictions ? After reading this 
book the public may answer these 
queries. The writer will simply fol- 
low Mr. Carnegie's example of free- 
dom of speech, and show him as much 
respect as he has shown President 
McKinley — dabble in his affairs as 
he has dabbled in the affairs of state. 
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people. Condemn his principles as 
he has condemned the principles and 
policy of the President — quote as he 
quotes that it is "well sometimes" 
" to see oursel's as others see us." 
We bow neither to his wealth nor to 
himself, but will treat him as a prob- 
lem to be solved, as hard maybe as 
the Philippine problem. 

The nineteenth century about to 
close has been productive of mighty 
changes. England has advanced her 
conquests in every quarter of the 
globe. The Christian powers of 
Europe have been marking new 
boundaries and seizing upon the ter- 
ritories of half-civilized or barbarous 
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races, and America has grown from 
its feeble colonial state to that of a 
mighty Nation — "a nation among 
nations." Among the changes of 
the nineteenth century, and by no 
means the least, is the humiliation 
of Spain. At the beginning she still 
swayed her sceptre over an extent of 
territory nearly equal to the whole 
of South America. As it was in the 
old Roman dominion, her proconsuls 
and their dependents were enriched 
by the plunder of the provinces, 
which, in turn, set up the standard 
of rebellion. The Cubans struggled 
long to shake off the galling yoke, 
but it was left for Weyler to bring 
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to shut up the population in the 
towns, where they were rapidly 
wasted by famine and disease. We 
sympathized with them, but the 
spirit of our people was not aroused 
to active interference until Spanish 
treachery blew up one of our Gov- 
ernment vessels, the Maine, and 
thereby destroyed many lives. Our 
country was quick to act ; the strug- 
gle was short and decisive ; victory 
was ours ; the Maine was avenged, 
and Cuba is free. 

Partyism had been hushed during 
the war, and the President of the 
United States was loyally supported 
by men of all parties and creeds. 

But when the war was over and the 
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white-robed angel of peace seemed 
to abide with us again, and the thou- 
sand isles, more or less, whose in- 
habitants had been in a chronic state 
of insurrection were also free from 
the tyranny of Spain — at this crisis, 
before the peace treaty could be rati- 
fied, a faction started up who pro- 
claimed themselves anti-imperialists. 
These boding owls would, if they 
could, delay the development of the 
Philippine Islands for a whole genera- 
tion. In destroying the supremacy 
of Spain in her colonies we incurred 
a grave responsibility, and the starry 
flag would be disgraced in the sight 
of all the world if we should follow 
the advice of the anti-imperialists, by 

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leaving the Philippines a prey to civil 
wars, or foreign aggression, instead 
of establishing over them a govern- 
ment adequate for their protection 
against anarchy, and training them 
in the paths of civilization and peace. 
The Filipinos must be subdued. But 
in the meantime their aiders and 
abettors, the anti-imperialists, must 
not be forgotten. 

Let us compare the present state 
of affairs with that which prevailed 
a few short months ago, when peace 
prevailed. To-day intrigue, deep and 
mysterious, is paving the way for 
serious complications. The trouble is 
not between Republican and Demo- 
cratic politicians, but there is some- 
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thing deeper, a strong undercurrent 
that is drawing in many unwary ones. 
The situation to-day has given that 
undercurrent an opportunity to work 
not only in the dark but in the open. 
Does Andrew Carnegie advocate and 
support legitimate authority ? Does 
he follow God's precepts ? Some 
years ago he said, " What a man 
owns is already subordinate in Amer- 
ica to what he knows, but in the final 
aristocracy the question will not be 
either of these." It will not be asked, 
" Where has he shown generosity or 
self-abnegation — when has he been a 
father to the fatherless — where has 
he searched them out? How has he 
worshipped God ? " But the question 
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on that day will be, "What has he 
done for his fellows, how has he 
served man ? " The end of aristoc- 
racy appears to be a foregone con- 
clusion. Andrew Carnegie is cer- 
tainly carrying his anti-imperialism 
very far when he prefers to serve 
man rather than God. Is it because 
God is a Sovereign, King of kings, 
and has appointed kings and rulers 
over man, to which Carnegie and his 
following are opposed ? 

Some time before Mr. Carnegie 
returned to the United States he 
managed to meet many foreigners 
of high official position, with whom 
he freely discussed Government af- 
fairs on this side of the water, and 
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gave his views in regard to the war 
with Spain and impending results. 
Thus encouraged to speak, they as 
fully and freely expressed their views. 
Mr. Carnegie then felt it his duty to 
communicate with the authorities at 
Washington. As he said, " I did not 
fail in my duty to report to those 
in authority at Washington what I 
thought it behooved them to know." 
He wrote time and again, but those 
in authority at Washington never 
said a word, never gave a hint, and 
as he did not succeed in worming out 
any state secrets, it no doubt pre- 
vented him from performing a simi- 
lar duty to those powers in Europe 

that he says " are so intensely against 
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our Government." From the strenu- 
ous efforts he has made to compel our 
Government to give up the Philip- 
pines it looks as though he acted in 
and for the interest of that dissatisfied 
element abroad, and had undertaken 
to reverse the engine of progress and 
prevent expansion of this country, 
for it is well known that he furnished 
the funds for the anti-expansion 
league. His present assumption of 
power is in keeping with that he as- 
sumed when a boy while in the em- 
ploy of Thomas A. Scott, who was 
at that time superintendent of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. Carnegie 
tells it in the revised and improved 
narrative of his life. 

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"One morning Mr. Scott was a 
little late getting to his office," and 
Andrew Carnegie assumed the re- 
sponsibility of sending out telegrams 
in regard to the moving of trains, 
etc. " Every telegram was signed 
Thomas A. Scott." When Mr. Scott 
arrived at his office and found what 
the boy had done he " looked hard" 
at him, but " did not say a word." 
He generously overlooked the of- 
fence, but regarded the boy as a 
prodigy of assurance and expansion. 

At Homestead, Pa., November 5, 
1898, Mr. Carnegie began on impe- 
rialism and declared himself opposed 
to it. The people, without quite un- 
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derstanding what it meant, thought 
they were opposed to it also. Fi- 
nally they began to look upon it as a 
dread thing. Imperialism — it meant 
for them, as presented by Mr. Carne- 
gie, " militarism, taxation, war, and 
rumors of war, no work " ; later some 
of his employees took up the subject 
and echoed his words. Carnegie was 
delighted ; he wrote to them from 
New York through the press and ex- 
pressed a desire to shake hands with 
them, and contemplated a visit to 
Pittsburg to do so. 

"Have you found this, or t'other? There's 
more in the wind, 
As by one drunken fellow his comrades you'll 
find." 

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The imperial ghost conjured up 
began to assume such proportions, 
to expand so, that at last it took tan- 
gible form, shape. The confidence 
the people had reposed in President 
McKinley began to waver. Distrust, 
suspicion, and opposition to a pre- 
sumed policy set the country in a 
ferment. Mr. Carnegie invaded the 
Executive Mansion and addressed 
the President, and after leaving his 
presence said he hoped " if the 
American soldiers attempted to take 
control of the Philippines that the 
insurgents would shoot them." He 
then announced his determination to 
remain in Washington, and devote 
his "time and means" to accomplish 



SCRAPS AND COMMENTS 

his purpose. A Scotchman keeps 
his word. He remained in Washing- 
ton. How wrong his purpose was 
may be inferred from the fact that 
he selected for his advocate and 
proxy a man who, he said, " had 
proved himself destitute of all moral 
principles." Mr. Carnegie also, by 
some means, found a few congenial 
spirits in the Senate and attached 
himself to them, and through them 
succeeded in giving expression to his 
feelings against President McKinley. 
One day in the Senate Chamber 
" expectation stood on stilts" in an- 
ticipation of a speech from Senator 
Mason. An article was read by 
Senator Mason that smacked of Car- 



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negie. Mason never let go his man- 
uscript, but applied himself closely 
to it ; he did not seem to be quite 
familiar with it. 

" He clenched his pamphlets in his fist, 

He quoted and he hinted, 
'Till in a declamation-mist. 

His argument he tint it. 
He gaped for 't, he graped for 't, 

He fand it was awa, man ; 
But what his common sense came short 

He eked it out wi' law, man." 

The anti-imperialists became wild, 
murmurs of applause greeted the 
Senator. Mr. Carnegie was present, 
a much interested listener, and later 
made the following remarks : 

" The ratification of the peace 

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treaty may be defeated, and certainly 
can be if Mr. Bryan will come out in 
opposition to it. If he will only 
advise his followers to fight in the 
pass and not in the open the treaty 
is certain of defeat. All that I hear 
indicates the increase of the opposi- 
tion ranks, and I am quite encour- 
aged to believe the ratification of the 
treaty can be defeated. According 
to my opinion this is the opportune 
time for those who oppose expansion 
to do their work. Only a one-third 
vote is required to defeat the treaty, 
whereas with the treaty ratified we 
will have to secure a majority to 
make our views effective. Hence I 
say that this is the time for Mr. Bryan 
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and other anti-expansionists to make 
their fight. Hereafter we will not 
enjoy the advantage over our op- 
ponents that we now do, having to 
meet them in the open field." 

Andrew Carnegie has been sua-- 
gested by his friend J. H. B. as the 
man to be placed in the United 
States Senate for various reasons. 
First, " He stands ready to champion 
the cause of the common people." 
What cause ? The law is their 
champion when they need one. Sec- 
ond, " No one has gone so deeply into 
or opposed President McKinley and 
state affairs as Andrew Carnegie." 
Third, ki That he will not scandalize 
the fair name of the State by looting 



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its financial institutions — nor will it 
ever become necessary for him to 
shake the plum tree in order to fill 
his private purse." No — but the 
danger is far greater. Should An- 
drew Carnegie be placed in the Sen- 
ate and devote his " time and means " 
to run affairs according to his ideas, 
there would be danger of the Senate 
becoming Carnegie. A Greek phi- 
losopher (Plato) said : " We become 
like that which we contemplate." 
Carnegie compels people to contem- 
plate him, and he has contemplated 
W. J. Bryan, with the inevitable re- 
sult. 

" Though like as was ever twin-brother to brother, 

Possessing the one shall imply you've the other." 

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For months we have been obliged 
to read and re-read Jefferson in the 
Declaration of Independence. To 
read and re-read Carnegie in the 
speeches of Hoar, Mason, Bryan, 
and other lights. We have been 
confronted with the sayings of long- 
ago dead Presidents and statesmen, 
many of whose sayings were vague 
and uncertain. And it is these say- 
ings the anti-expansionists quote and 
twist to suit themselves. 

Faint echoes of the past, shall our 
Government stop to listen and not 
progress? The doctrines of Jeffer- 
son and Monroe, the principles of 
one hundred years ago, are presented 

as the guiding star for President 
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McKinley to follow. Let us briefly 
review Jefferson's principles and 
politics. 

As an adroit politician and organ- 
izer he stood without a rival; "his 
management of persons and events 
for the accomplishment of the end 
at which he aimed was considered 
masterly." When a young man, 
only thirty-three years old, he drew 
up the Declaration of Independence. 
At that time there was no system in 
government ; the Republic was in its 
infancy, trying to stand alone, but it 
did not stand still. Jefferson was 
elected President of the United 
States in 1801 ; he was popular with 
the people for the reason that he 
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opposed strong government ; he de- 
clared the world was " governed too 
much." He was an extremist, a man 
of imagination ; any innovation or 
novelty appealed to his nature. "In 
the face of threatened dangers from 
abroad, while he was President, he 
was timid, hesitating, and inade- 
quate. As war governor of Virginia 
he was a failure." In quoting Jeffer- 
son the anti-expansionists ignore the 
fact that Jefferson was an expansion- 
ist, that he purchased Louisiana from 
France, and that Monroe negotiated 
for the purchase. What would 
America be to-day but for expan- 
sion through purchase of terri- 
tory? 

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Why should an individual who has 
expanded to the extent Andrew Car- 
negie has, array himself against our 
Government, demand that it stand 
still, expand no farther? If Carnegie 
keeps on expanding there is danger 
of Uncle Sam being called Uncle 
Carnegie, irrespective of the fact 
that the records of Allegheny County 
fail to show him to be a naturalized 
citizen of the United States. A 
leading paper, the Daily News, of 
Pittsburg, has what may be called a 
bureau of information, which aims to 
solve all mysteries, even at the ex- 
pense of a world of labor and pains. 
In its issue of February 16th of the 
present year it gives a full and com- 
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plete answer to a correspondent who 
asked : " Is Mr. Carnegie a citizen 
of the United States in the legal 
sense of the term ? " It appears that 
Mr. Carnegie had given out the in- 
formation that his father was natu- 
ralized in 1853 and died soon after, 
adding, " His naturalization while I 
was a minor makes me an American 
citizen." Yet, for all his saying, 
after a thorough examination of the 
records of all the courts in which this 
naturalization could have taken place, 
the only entry in which the name of 
Carnegie appears was an application 
by William Carnegie dated Novem- 
ber 20, 1854, and as his death is 
recorded in the Allegheny Cemetery 
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as having taken place October 2, 
1855, less than one year after his ap- 
plication for citizenship, it was clearly 
impossible for him to have been nat- 
uralized, as his two years of proba- 
tion had not expired when he died. 
If Andrew Carnegie labors under the 
delusion that he is an American citi- 
zen it would be well for him to in- 
form the public when, where, and 
how he acquired that citizenship, or 
at least when he took the oath of 
allegiance. And yet this man, with- 
out ever having taken the precaution 
to clear his record, and prove his 
right to the electoral franchise, has 
the sublime assurance to force his 
advice on the President of the United 
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States, and instruct him how to ad- 
minister the orovernment. 



b 



What is the state of the Filipinos 
to-day ? Is it the savage state ? Do 
the anti-imperialists object to their 
being brought into a civilized state ? 
Mr. Carnegie is upholding the views 
held nearly two hundred years ago 
by Jean Jacques Rousseau, who main- 
tained that the "natural and proper 
state of man is the savage state, when 
he possesses complete liberty," that 
" all men are born equal." Rousseau's 
views on the subject paved the way 
for the first French Revolution. 

How the words "all men are 
created equal " are used to mislead 
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the masses ! No one explains to them 
that in this free land it means that 
all are born with equal rights, and if 
they have intelligence, ambition, and 
ability, they can aspire to any goal 
and attain it. The majority of the 
masses look upon it as social equality 
to which they aspire, and are thereby 
misled by agitators and Socialists 
who never would practise what they 
preach, but they want to draw the 
masses to vote as they desire. 

What are the imported anti-mon- 
archists doing for or against this 
country to-day ? They are arrayed 
in opposition to legitimate estab- 
lished government authority. The 
Socialists of to-day are organizing on 

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the ruins of the Populist party, and 
are paving the way for revolution. 
Socialists are in the Senate and stand- 
ing at the door waiting to grasp 
power to advance Socialism and de- 
stroy representative government. 
Why are Carnegie and Bryan so op- 
posed to militarism ? — insisting that 
the Government depend on the peo- 
ple in time of need rather than to 
any extent on the* "professional sol- 
dier " ? Why ? In time of need the 
Government can always depend on 
the professional soldier and loyal 
citizens ; the Socialists depend on the 
masses, therefore they are opposed 
to a large standing army. 

W. J. Bryan said, " Militarism is a 

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necessary companion of imperialism," 
and objects to it on the ground that 
it "gives the aristocracy and privi- 
leged classes an increased influence 
in government," and adds, " They are 
potent enough already." Now what 
reason has he to condemn aristoc- 
racy ? An aristocrat cannot help 
being born an aristocrat; he must live 
and die one. All the aristocrats are 
not wealthy, and all the wealthy are 
not aristocrats. The born aristocrat 
cannot be confounded with the 
wealthy imitators. So aristocracy is 
a weak argument to present against 
militarism. With the increased ob- 
ligations of this nation a large stand- 
ing army is necessary, irrespective of 
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the money it may cost. What do 
the opponents of militarism care for 
the taxation of the people ? They 
have other and deeper reasons for 
their opposition. The following ex- 
tract from a Populist paper (the 
Southern Mercury, March 16, 1899) 
says of W. J. Bryan : " Much that 
Mr. Bryan says in his speeches, the 
editor of this paper commends as 
good Populist doctrine. In so far 
we agree, but differ as to the methods 
to be employed to incorporate these 
views and ideas into the laws of the 
land. Mr. Bryan thinks that this can 
be done through the Democratic 
party. The editor of the Mercury is 
not quite so confident on this point." 
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What theory do Carnegie and 
Bryan advocate ? The answer lies 
in the definition of anarchy, which is, 
''Absence or insufficience of govern- 
ment, social and political confusion 
owing to the want of strong control- 
ling power." Andrew Carnegie's 
anti-annexation letter was sent to the 
agricultural periodicals for publica- 
tion and editorial comment, " to be 
paid for at the usual rates." That is 
rather significant, as during the Coxey 
craze the farmers were arming and 
drilling, particularly in and about 
Michigan. The agricultural paper 
is the medium to reach the farmer. 

Mr. Carnegie's violent opposition 

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to the Administration caused wide- 
spread comment and conjecture, par- 
ticularly when he announced his in- 
tention of remaining in Washington 
and personally conducting a cam- 
paign against the Administration, 
devoting his " time and means " to 
that end. Has he not carried out 
the social theory that every man 
should be a state official? Has he 
not acted as one of the Senate ? 
Has he not advised and dictated to 
the President ? Has he not caused 
disorder and confusion ? Have not 
the anti-imperialists caused the Fili- 
pinos to mistrust our Government ? 
Do they not advocate the worst social 
theory ? Collusion between some of 
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the anti-imperialist and Filipino lead- 
ers resulted in the insurgents' attack 
on the American soldiers stationed 
at Manila. Do not the Filipino 
leaders need Christian civilized gov- 
ernment ? They sacrifice human life 
as indifferently as Nero did. 

At Boston, February 16, 1899, 
President McKinley delivered an ad- 
dress before the Home Market Club 
that convinced many doubting ones 
all over the country that imperialism 
in connection with America was only 
a myth. He demonstrated clearly 
that the present policy must conform 
to the situation until the situation 
shall conform to a policy which 
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events and future developments will 
decide. To-day the world is im- 
pressed with President McKinley's 
wisdom and management of public 
affairs. His success so far and con- 
fidence that in the end all will be 
well is contagious. Only the few, 
whose personal dislike is inflamed by 
the dignified and unwavering course 
pursued by President McKinley, still 
hurl their poisoned arrows at him. 
While articles appeared in all the 
leading papers expressing admiration 
and approval of the President's Bos- 
ton speech, lo ! an anti-McKinley 
article was published, signed Andrew 
Carnegie, in which he said that the 

" Philippines were not the result of 
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conquest of war, but the President's 
own Pandora box." In writing that 
article it is strange that 

"One trifling particular, truth, should have 
missed him." 

About the same time a violent and 
abusive article against President Mc- 
Kinley was read by Johnson in the 
House. Reading from manuscript 
was contrary to his usual custom, and 
as there was no occasion for the out- 
break the House was mystified. 

In another article written by An- 
drew Carnegie and published in the 
North American Review, March, 
1899, he insults our brave American 

soldiers. Mr. Carnegie should not 
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presage and contemplate, and by 
these tactics force others to contem- 
plate, what he imagines the conduct 
of the American soldiers will be. He 
seems to think the army quite im- 
moral. He says that "soldiers in 
foreign camps require missionaries 
themselves more than the natives." 
What a fine opinion he has of Amer- 
ican soldiers. But he cannot under- 
stand how men can be brave, true, 
unselfish, and love their country 
enough to serve it — such feelings are 
foreign to his nature. But there is 
a freedom, cruelty and liberty about 
the savage state that appeals to his 
nature. He says "the Filipinos 
have just the same feelings we have." 
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If they have the same feelings we 
have why do they not want civiliza- 
tion ? In the March number of the 
North American Review Carnegie 
writes: ''Travelling in Southern India 
one day I was taken into the coun- 
try. The adults working in a grove, 
men and women, had each a rag 
round their loins, but the boys and 
girls, with their black, glossy skins, 
were free of all encumbrance. This 
happy people wondered why we did 
not come and enjoy life in their 
favored clime," and adds, " It is just 
so with the Filipinos to-day. It is 
astonishing how much all human 
beings the world round are alike in 
their essentials." He says "the 
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Filipinos prefer their own civiliza- 
tion." Are they civilized ? They are 
not, and could not be under Spanish 
rule and tyranny, and although that 
yoke has been lifted, read what Car- 
negie says in the North American 
Review, March number : 

"Are the broad liberty-loving and 
noble liberty-giving principles of 
Americanism as proclaimed by Presi- 
dent Lincoln to be discarded for the 
narrow liberty-denying, race-subject- 
ing, imperialism of President Mc- 
Kinley? Never had this nation 
greater cause to extol Abraham 
Lincoln than on this ninetieth anni- 
versary of his birth, and never till 
to-day had it cause to lament that a 

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successor in the Presidential chair 
should attempt to subvert his teach- 
ing;' 

Is it any wonder that blood is 
being shed to-day, when the Filipinos 
are thus led to believe that President 
McKinley wants to make slaves of 
them ? But the war, with its wide- 
spreading desolation, we hope will 
soon be over. But many human 
beings, the Christian soldiers, and 
the ignorant half-civilized braves, are 
lying in their graves ; many mothers 
are mourning for their sons, hus- 
bands, and brothers, and why ? Be- 
cause the Filipinos believed the lie 
that their false friends, the anti-im- 
perialist leaders, told them, that they 
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were to be made slaves, and they 
fought for the freedom that they 
knew not was theirs. The Filipinos 
issued a proclamation in which are 
these words : "We will fight to the 
death. Coming generations will pray 
over our graves, shedding tears of 
gratitude for their freedom." No 
one believes that Andrew Carnegie 
for one instant believes what he as- 
serts about the Filipinos being made 
slaves. There is not a sane man in 
America ignorant enough to believe 
such a thing. 

Mr. Carnegie has made frantic 
appeals to the pulpit to preach anti- 
imperialism. He speaks of the "de- 
cline of the pulpit on theological 
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questions, etc." Having won over a 
few of the unfaithful to his side has 
not increased his respect for the 
pulpit. 

14 Some, having swerved, have 
turned aside unto vain jangling." 
" Desiring to be teachers of the 
law ; understanding neither what 
they say, nor whereof they affirm." 
Among these a New York divine, 
who received W. J. Bryan on the 
Sabbath day to discuss politics with 
him. These preachers, instead of 
upholding the President and assist- 
ing him with their prayers and in- 
fluence to bear the heavy burdens 
imposed upon him by the war, are, 
with Carnegie and others, doing all 
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they can to hamper him in the dis- 
charge of his duties. A weak or 
corrupt administration would have 
settled the Philippine question long 
ago to the entire satisfaction of Mr. 
Carnegie and his following, but to 
the eternal disgrace of our country. 
Mr. Carnegie's advice to the pul- 
pit was discussed in a patriotic man- 
ner by Rev. Dr. E. M. Wood, an 
eminent Pittsburg divine. Dr. Wood 
said : 

" Officers of the general Govern- 
ment and all public functionaries who 
administer wisely should be sustained 
by all good citizens, and when their 
administration is maligned they 
should be defended. It is not often 
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in times of national peace that one 
can find a more pronounced case of 
the abuse of high public officials 
than that recently by Mr. Carnegie. 
He speaks of the President as ' mili- 
tary dictator ' and ' war lord,' as one 
likely to ' pass into history as a re- 
creant ' governed by the dictation of 
foreign rivals without hesitation, and 
doubts ' whether he had convictions 
upon any subject.' 

" But Mr. Carnegie does not spare 
the President's honored Secretary, a 
man who filled the arduous duties of 
his responsible office at the Court 
of St. James with such pronounced 
ability as to be recognized as one of 
the first diplomats of this age. Yet 

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Mr. Carnegie says: ' He has made a 
pardonable mistake, since he has had 
no experience of commerce.' And 
more. Mr. Carnegie spares no one 
when he says ' the men in Washing- 
ton to-day are so immersed in prob- 
lems which have nothing whatever 
to do with the prosperity of their 
own country that they have no time 
to consider subjects bearing upon it. 
They have eaten of the insane root 
of territorial expansion in distant con- 
tinents ; they are dreaming dreams 
and chasing phantoms.' 

" And now are not such expressions 

asufficient justification of the Chicago 

Record's saying : 'Mr. Carnegie has 

lost his head ' ? And we have not 

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mentioned all that could be quoted. 
One more, however, will be sufficient. 
In case the United States is com- 
pelled to use force in pacifying the 
island of Cuba, in that case, says Mr. 
Carnegie, ' I would be glad to see 
the insurgents begin shooting.' Such 
a statement is most revolutionary and 
unpatriotic, and especially so when 
the military forces of the country 
have so often been called upon to 
protect his own property." 

" But Mr. Carnegie complains be- 
cause the pulpit shows any interest 
in the Filipinos when he says : ' Why 
doesn't the pulpit recognize its duty 
to those whom it hath seen, rather 
than pretend to love those whom it 
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hath not seen, contrary to Scripture?' 
As ministers, we claim that it is more 
than a ' pretend ' in us and our 
people to be deeply interested in 
foreign missions, and if Mr. Carnegie 
will show the public where he has 
made liberal contributions to purely 
charitable institutions or home mis- 
sionary work he will stand in a better 
light than he does now before the 
public. 

" But Mr. Carnegie is on record as 
being opposed to the cession of the 
Philippine Islands to the United 
States." 

A man to be consistent should in 
every way conform to his proclaimed 
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principles. What difference is there 
in outward pomp and show between 
Andrew Carnegie and a king ? What 
belongs to one by heritage the other 
acquires by purchase. Andrew Car- 
negie calls himself an anti-imperial- 
ist. But Skibo Castle and town of 
Skibo belong to him by purchase ; he 
imitates in every way what he con- 
demns and buys all he can of it. In 
Pittsburg on Founders' Day, No- 
vember 3, 1898, he played sovereign 
behind closed doors. Every door of 
the building " free to the people " 
was guarded by police to keep out 
the people. One of the people 
managed to pass the police. She 
wanted 

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" To watch the symptoms o' the Great, 
The gentle pride, the lordly state, 
The arrogant assuming." 

But she was quickly ejected by the 
police inside. Only a woman had 
the courage to attempt such a feat. 
It was "high treason," and she had 
cause to be thankful that she was 
not punished for contempt of police. 
Late in the afternoon the people 
were permitted to enter the presence 
of Mr. Carnegie for a short time, 
after the police had seen the aristo- 
crats safely into their carriages. Mr. 
Carnegie, without their knowledge, 
had guarded them from the people. 
The crowd of people on that occa- 
sion was not so great, but the num- 
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ber of police was. Every step you 
took they glared at you, they trod 
upon your heels. Was it a body- 
guard or lack of confidence in the 
people to conduct themselves prop- 
erly ? With his proclaimed ideas on 
equality he should not, particularly 
on Founders' Day, have made any 
distinction, but should alike have 
received the general public. Some 
parties passing through Pittsburg on 
that day had remained over to see the 
famed picture presented by Mr. Frick 
to the Carnegie Art Gallery. They 
stood outside with the people. On 
gaining admittance they hastened to 
find the picture, but on reaching the 
spot Mr. Carnegie was in evidence. 
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He stood before the picture of Christ, 
and was receiving the people there. 

Many workingmen at Carnegie's 
mills complain and protest against 
being compelled to work on the Sab- 
bath day. They hear the music from 
the Carnegie organs, while click, 
clack, click, clack go the mills, grind- 
ing out wealth for Carnegie, grind- 
ing the very life and joy out of the 
hearts of the brave toilers. Andrew 
Carnegie's sympathies are so occu- 
pied with the Filipinos, and his 
aggressiveness towards President 
McKinley is so great, that he has 
forgotten the assertion he made that 
" charity should begin at home and 
also end at home." 
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Who are the " fellows " he claims 
he is doing so much for ? Who are 
the " men " he claims to serve ? 
Surely he is not doing anything for 
our respected citizens, the working- 
men. He is not giving the mill men 
an opportunity to cultivate their 
talents, among whom are many dia- 
monds in the rough. With Car- 
negie's superfluous wealth, why does 
he not show some appreciation of 
them rather than waste his "time, 
means" and sympathies on the Fili- 
pinos, who have a champion in our 
humane and Christian President? 
What time have the mill men to 
benefit by the Carnegie libraries? 
What time have they on Saturdays, 
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before the evening meal, to change 
their soiled garments for fresh ap- 
parel, which is so essential to health 
and comfort ? They need rest, they 
have home duties, and should have 
some pleasure and recreation also. 
Let Andrew Carnegie set the exam- 
ple, and be content to make less 
money. Let the mills close on Sat- 
urdays at noon. On God's day let 
the noisy wheels be still. Let the 
men be paid so they will not feel that 
Sunday is a day lost, but a day 
gained. How can men who are only 
half fed on poor food have brain 
power and strength to endure con- 
stant toil ? Constant motion wears 
out machinery, even when well oiled. 
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As miasma arises from low, swampy 
land, so a dangerous element arises 
from poverty, hunger, and want. 
Some eood and true articles have 
recently been written by some Popu- 
lists who are really and truly sincere 
in their appeals for their " fellow 
men." But organized charity and 
combines have greatly increased their 
bitterness. They sneer at the phi- 
lanthropy that rears magnificent edi- 
fices with money that should rather 
be paid in good living wages to the 
toilers. " The philanthropy of vanity 
and egotism that builds its monu- 
ments while it lives," that lacks even 
the politeness of the posthumous 
Tartuffe, whose etiquette bade him 
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wait till he was dead before he be- 
came offensive. 

Mr. Carnegie says the gospel he 
has preached, and will preach while 
he lives, is that " for a man to die 
rich is to die disgraced." These 
words he has said and re-said. But 
we say that the day will come when 
the word " disgraced " will echo and 
re-echo back to himself, "disgraced." 
He 

" Looks o'er proud property extended wide, 
And eyes the simple rustic hind 
Whose toil upholds the glitt'ring show, 
A creature of another kind." 

Can Mr. Carnegie die poor ? Each 

year he gives his wife a fortune in 

money and property. Does he live 
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without ostentation ? It is said that 
in his castle over the sea fifty ser- 
vants wait to do his bidding. Every 
morning an organ peals out soft 
strains to waken him from his slum- 
ber, etc. Mr. Carnegie has said that 
" the epitaph to which every rich 
man should wish himself entitled 
is that seen on the monument of 
Pitt": 

He Lived without Ostentation and 
He Died Poor. 

Why does Mr. Carnegie announce 
that he means to die poor ? What 
is his motive ? Why does he try to 
mislead the people and pretend to 
be in sympathy with them ? Not 

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one of them could even gain admis- 
sion to his presence. He only re- 
ceives and associates with aristocrats 
and plutocrats. 

And now, after all the trouble An- 
drew Carnegie has caused by remain- 
ing in Washington and has had his 
wish gratified, that the American sol- 
diers would be shot by the insur- 
gents, he proposes to rear to himself 
a monument, a free library, in Wash- 
ington, where he has carried on war- 
fare against the President of the 
United States, and he asks that a 
site be furnished, and that Congress 
appropriate $10,000 a year to main- 
tain it. That means taxation for the 
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people. But in these days, when 
education is compulsory and books 
are so cheap that they are within the 
reach of all who wish to read, why 
does Mr. Carnegie put such vast 
sums in magnificent buildings and 
speak against the expenditure of 
money in behalf of human beings 
whom God has cast at our very feet, 
that they may be lifted up from 
degradation to civilization, that they 
may become a higher order of beings ? 
But if we must have free libraries 
let them be revised and improved. 
Let a certain number of books be 
given to applicants each year, books 
that will cultivate and improve the 
mind. From a sanitary point of 
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view the promiscuous circulation of 
books should be condemned, and in 
time will be. Only the few know 
what unwholesome quarters the 
books go to and return from. On 
visiting at the house of a poor family 
the first thing that caught the eye, 
on entering the bare, cheerless room, 
was a bunch of flowers from the 
Phipps Conservatory ; an old broken 
pitcher held the flowers, the only 
bright thing in the room. A kind 
neighbor who was employed at the 
conservatory had brought them to a 
young girl who was suffering from 
tuberculosis. On her lap lay a book 
brought by another friend from the 
Carnegie Library. The girl's cold 
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moist hands lay on the open book. 
But enough ! 

Many marvel how Mr. Carnegie 
can enjoy his wealth knowing how 
many poor old people there are who 
have no one to support or do for 
them, nor money to admit them to 
the home for the aged. The poor- 
house being a horror to them, they 
must either beg or starve. A little 
story will illustrate only one of many. 
A father and mother, who were grow- 
ing old, depended on an only son 
for support. But he died, and the 
poor old woman had to seek some 
means of support for her crippled 
husband and herself. For years she 
carried a little basket of matches 
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from house to house — her feet weary 
when she returned to the poor old 
man, who always eagerly watched 
for her return. For years all through 
the spring, through the hot summer 
and fall we saw her, but last fall she 
came not. But one chill day, as if 
in answer to thoughts that were of 
her, she came. The little basket lay 
empty at home, and for the first time 
she asked for charity. The gray 
hair streamed over her face, blown 
there by the blustering wind, and a 
tear lay on the withered cheek. The 
snow from the thin scarf around her 
head melted, dropped, and mingled 
with the tear. And as she looked at 
the happy maid, laughing boy, and 

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contented mistress, a look of pain 

passed over her face. Did she think 

of her boy, her promise, and wonder 

how they could be so happy, and 

she 

"Sae weary, fu' o' care ! " 

We know not. She only asked for 
food, and clothing to keep them 
warm at night, and said : " It will not 
be for long that we will want for food 
and warmth, for we have prayed God 
to take us and we think that he 
will take us at the same time and 
soon." 

" I'm kneeling on the threshold, 
Weary, faint, and sore, 
Waiting for the dawning, 
For the op'ning of the door. 
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Waiting till the Master 

Shall bid me rise and come, 

To the glory of His Presence, 
To the gladness of His home. 

" A weary path I've travelled 

'Mid darkness, storm, and strife, 
Bearing many a burden, 

Struggling for my life. 
But the dawn is breaking ; 

My toil will soon be o'er ; 
I'm kneeling on the threshold, 

My hand is on the door." 

Why does not Andrew Carnegie 
build free homes for old people in- 
stead of libraries for those who do 
not need them ? But his motto is 
only to " help those who help them- 
selves." How can helpless old peo- 
ple help themselves ? He has erected 

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many buildings, but there is not one 
charitable institution among them. 

Our American millionaires, and 
even those who are only compara- 
tively wealthy, give much each year 
to charity, but they give it without 
ostentation or conditions. If they 
cared to build edifices to perpetuate 
their names without a trace of char- 
ity, they would be as notorious as 
Mr. Carnegie, who has stated that 
applications for charity never reach 
him. It is true, for he protects him- 
self ; he is like the rich old woman 
in a child's story book of long ago, 
who kept all applicants for assistance 
from reaching her door by beating 
them off with a broom. The young 
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men and widows who humble them- 
selves to ask Carnegie for a small 
amount to start themselves in busi- 
ness are alike driven away, and go 
their way disappointed, hopeless, and 
wretched. Would Carnegie have the 
wealth he has to-day had the helping 
hand been refused to him when the 
tide in his affairs came ? But the 
Carnegie buildings, costing hundreds 
of thousands, are still going up 
everywhere all over the land, and 
this anti-imperial agitator is honored 
and made much of for the wealth he 
has accumulated, for the wealth that 
only goes from his coffers to be 
stamped — Carnegie. Many people 
think he should not build any more 
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libraries than he can endow, as the 
people have to be taxed to maintain 
them. Even in Pittsburg, where his 
pet library is located at Schenley 
Park, the city has been compelled to 
appropriate many thousands above 
the amount first called for. It is now 
estimated that " in a little over three 
years the annual appropriation for 
this object amounts to $104,000, and 
from $500,000 to $1,000,000 must be 
furnished by the city to purchase 
enough additional land to provide a 
suitable site for the proposed annex," 
and the party who made the estimate 
truthfully remarks, " that with the 
expense of sustaining the additional 
buildings Mr. Carnegie proposes to 
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erect, it would soon become an un- 
endurable incubus to the taxpayers." 
Many taxpayers do not know what 
a large amount they have to pay for 
Carnegie's free libraries. The citi- 
zens of Atlanta, Ga., were much sur- 
prised when Mr. Carnegie offered 
them a library. In speaking of that 
gift, he said : " I have been pleased 
no little lately to notice the pub- 
lic spirit of that community; how 
strongly in support of the Ameri- 
can Constitution those people are, 
and how in accord with the senti- 
ments of Washington's farewell ad- 
dress warning us against entangle- 
ments with foreign nations. The 
patriotism displayed by the people of 
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the South at the Atlanta peace jubilee 
was 'notable. I have observed these 
things, and I felt that I would like 
to help those people if I could. I 
had some correspondence with our 
agent at Atlanta concerning the li- 
brary there. Then I determined to 
give a building for their library if 
the city would agree to appropriate 
$5,000 annually for its maintenance. 
I never give anything for nothing. 
It is my faith to help those who help 
themselves. The Atlanta people 
agreed to do this, and I went into 
copartnership with the city of At- 
lanta. ..." 

Carnegie's motive in giving a li- 
brary to Atlanta is patent. President 
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McKinley's speech to the people of 
Atlanta made such a favorable im- 
pression that Carnegie hoped by the 
gift to counteract it. He conveys 
to them the impression that they 
are and must be anti-imperialists. 
That is what he requires of them 
for the gift. 

From an article published in the 
New York World, May 13, 1899, 
over the signature of Andrew Car- 
negie, we extract the following : " I 
have seen many of the most prom- 
inent public men now in London 
who I know have been friends of 
the American Republic when it has 
needed friends. From highest to 
lowest, without exception, they have 
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met me with expressions of deep 
regret that the Republic founded by 
Washington and his colleagues upon 
planes so much higher than any other 
state should have fallen to the level 
of the military states of Europe. An 
alliance with the Republic is now the 
keynote of British policy, and wisely 
so. But not alliance with our present 
industrial Republic. Our present 
war lord only makes himself ridicu- 
lous in the eyes of these statesmen, 
with three battleships at his back and 
only 40,000 soldiers, strutting like a 
peacock, as vain and just as harmless. 
No ; it is not the present industrial 
Republic that England wishes to 
have as her ally ; it is the Republic 
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that England sees America must 
become if she does not soon reverse 
her policy in regard to the Philip- 
pines. 

" We must have a tremendous 
navy and a huge standing army, for 
Britain judges truly that into what- 
ever enterprise the Republic goes 
she will not be content very long to 
play second fiddle. She is now only 
the cat's-paw of England. She could 
not maintain her position for a day 
in Manila if England withdrew her 
august protection. 

11 This is the humiliating position. 

It makes my blood boil as I speak of 

the recreant President who is the 

sole cause of it. He it was who 

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changed his mind and demanded the 
Philippines against the advice and 
wishes of most of his colleagues. 
Will the President permit the sacri- 
fice of the lives of our soldiers much 
longer in a futile effort to conquer 
1,200 islands that would not stay 
conquered if beaten ? 

" Such is the position as viewed 
from London. 

" You ask my personal views of 
the future. I answer, President 
McKinley will not be allowed by the 
managers of the Republican party to 
continue his folly — his crime. I be- 
lieve he has been already informed 
by those whose voice he cannot dis- 
regard that he must stop and return 
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to American traditions. The country 
has no stomach for victories over 
people fighting for the right of self- 
government. 

" My forecast is that the President 
will get out of the Philippines and 
return to American principles, obtain- 
ing a shadowy protectorate of some 
form that will ' save his face,' and 
that he will then be able to appear 
before the Republican convention as 
having the Philippine question set- 
tled, having given them the same 
promise of independence he gave 
Cuba. Our party will then carry 
the Presidential election. If he ap- 
proached the country with the war 
in the Philippines unsettled, and the 

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convention were free, it is improbable 
that he would get even the nomina- 
tion. The weight would be too great 
to carry. 

" The nomination, however, he has 
probably already secured. But the 
election would then be another story. 
If the Democratic party were to drop 
free silver and come out, under the 
leadership of the World, for Ameri- 
canism — presenting to the people 
the clean-cut issue between the prin- 
ciples of Washington and those of 
McKinley — there would be no doubt 
of the result. Our party would be 
beaten, and deserve to be." 

Mr. Carnegie certainly misrepre- 
sents the sentiments of the British 

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people. We append an article from 
the London Daily Mail, April 27th. 
They are evidently not in sympathy 
with Carnegie and his following : 

11 The Americans are to be con- 
gratulated warmly upon the victory 
which they have won at Calumpit. 
Now, at last, it looks as though the 
back of the Filipinos' resistance had 
been broken, and Englishmen will be 
particularly glad of this fact, as they 
alone appreciate to the full the dif- 
ficulties with which their cousins had 
to contend. 

" The victory is all the more wel- 
come and all the more grateful to us 
because we have been watching with 
deep interest the efforts of a political 
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party in the United States to humili- 
ate the nation and the Government 
by persuading them to a disgraceful 
and cowardly retreat. 

" This party is insignificant in 
strength and influence, but what it 
lacks in this direction it makes up 
for by its lung power. It has gone 
to the length of endeavoring to 
induce American volunteers to de- 
mand their recall in the face of the 
enemy. To the eternal credit of 
these volunteers be it said that few 
have acted upon this treacherous 
and unpatriotic instigation. 

"The American people may well 
be proud of their soldiers. By the 
very nature of things volunteers en- 

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listed for a short war with a civilized 
enemy are not the troops best fitted 
for work at a great distance from 
their country, or for a tedious, pro- 
tracted and harassing struggle with 
an uncivilized foe in a tropical 
climate. But the determination of 
volunteers and regulars has been 
such that they have not once been 
worsted in battle." 

From the Review of Reviews we 
quote the following : 

" Following up all the unhappy 

influences to which our army and 

navy had to quietly submit without 

turning a finger, there came the 

blow from behind that did more 

harm than all of these local influ- 
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ences combined — the agitation in 
America in behalf of the Filipinos, 
and in opposition to the policy of 
our Government, and of the army 
and navy, as advised by such tried 
men as Admiral Dewey and General 
Otis. It is remarkable how quickly 
the idea spread, not only through the 
Filipino army but among the people 
in the distant interior, that the 
United States was wavering in its 
policy, and that it was probable that 
if they held out long enough and 
persisted in their position we would 
withdraw our army and give them 
back the islands. 

" Every discordant note that was 
struck in America was telegraphed 
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or written either to Hong Kong or 
Manila, and found its way by first 
opportunity to the camps of the Fili- 
pino army and to the columns of the 
native press. Not satisfied, how- 
ever, with the circulation given by 
the newspapers, what was said and 
done in America was printed in cir- 
cular and pamphlet form and sent 
among the people to encourage them. 
If the senior Senator of Massachu- 
setts could have witnessed the ex- 
pression of satisfaction depicted on 
the face of every Filipino soldier 
when he read the sentiments ex- 
pressed by that distinguished man 
in the halls of Congress, and then 
have seen the look of pain upon the 
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face of every American soldier when 
he realized that a United States 
Senator was inspiring the enemy 
opposite him, I am of the humble 
opinion that he would have experi- 
enced some feelings of regret at the 
direct effect of his argument. There 
is no question that the belief was 
prevalent among the Filipinos at the 
time the lighting began on February 
4, that if they held out a sufficient 
length of time the Americans would 
give them what they asked. It is 
not my intention to cast any reflec- 
tions upon the honesty and good 
faith of the men who have opposed 
our policy in the Philippines, and I 
do not believe that any of them have 
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been actuated by other than the most 
patriotic motives, unless, possibly, 
the natural tendency to make politi- 
cal capital out of the troubles of 
those in power has inspired some of 
the criticism or opposition." 

" I heard not only Admiral Dewey 
and Major-General Otis, but Gen- 
erals MacArthur, Anderson, Hale, 
Lawton, Brigadier-General Otis and 
Colonels Smith and Summers use 
terms as strong as I have on this un- 
happy feature of the war." 

Andrew Carnegie has announced 
his intention of interesting himself 
in politics the coming fall. It is to 
be hoped his doing so will not prove 

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as disastrous as his interest in the 
Philippine question. He should, 
however, first prove that he has a 
legal right to take an active interest 
in politics on this side of the water. 
If he cannot do so, he had better 
hereafter do his voting in the Queen's 
dominions. 

The presidential campaign of 1900 
promises to be an exciting one. The 
disturbing element in this country 
who do not appreciate the prosper- 
ous condition of affairs to-day will 
make a fierce fight to change them 
by electing another President. Let 
all loyal citizens, irrespective of 
party, take an active interest in the 
coming campaign, and defeat the 
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enemies of representative govern- 
ment. We should also be careful to 
elect only good, honest, loyal men 
to represent us in Congress, as the 
machinations of traitors in the House 
have done and can do a deal of 
mischief. 

Now the public may think we speak very plain, 
But freedom of speech is part of the game, 
For Andrew Carnegie, that old bogie man, 
Will frighten us all to death, — if he can. 
The imperial ghost will never be laid 
'Till our Government does as Carnegie has said, 
For "disgrace '11" be our portion, and "dis- 
honor foul," 
If from those islands our flag's not "hauled 
down." 

He has told Uncle Sam, and that very pat, 
To keep his " hand out of the Far Eastern trap" ; 

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He must not attempt to give any help, 

But let each Filipino govern himself. 

They can take any Friar and roast in the sun, 

And can even torment a poor little Nun ; 

" Freedom and happiness" each one must seek, 

For Carnegie said so in a most able speech. 

He has said our Republic " as Sovereign may 

play 
" But for a moment," not even a day ; 
For should she in earnest continue the thing, 
" War and rumors of war" it will bring. 
He will write, rant, and rave over questions so 

grave, 
It seems only Carnegie our country can save ; 
Not content with his lot, much money to make, 
He endeavors to steer our great Ship of State. 

This book is a waif. It never 
can enter the doors of the Carnegie 
libraries. But those who pity the 

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poor, for whose benefit it is written, 
will take it to their homes. And 
those who do not, will take it also — 
so either way the waif will find a 
home. 



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