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forms service in has been condemned
by Ills chief clerk and ordered off
the run, yet it continues to creak
and groan its way over the rails, a
constant menace to his life. Should
either of the above cars go into a
wreck and any one of their occupants
be killed, is it unjust, in the light
of the experience of the strong
Southern railway car, to call the
management of the negligent roads
guilty of manslaughter? The time
is near when the man in charge of
corporate action is to be held crim
inally responsible for negligence by
what too long has been considered
an inanimate nothing impossible of
any except financial punishment.
Hallway Post Office.
SURELY THIS IS DIVISION
Certainly there is division in the
republican party when a republican
newspaper is bold enough to attack
Andrew Carnegie. In a recent issue
the Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.) print
ed an editorial entitled "Can this
Really be Andrew Carnegie?" The
Inter Ocean editorial follows:
One shock after another! A news
paper telegram comes from Los An
geles, the capital of the incomparable,
sun belt of glorious California, where
the thinking of righteous thoughts
requires little or no effort. Before
touching upon the writer of the mag
azine article, it tells us that the Hon.
Paul Morton, formerly vice president
in charge of traffic of the Santa Fe
railway, later secretary of the United
States navy, and now president of
the Equitable Life Assurance society,
a recognized expert on all matters
pertaining to the .rebate, is there,
and, of course, talking.
''You knew," he was asked, "that
rebates were given by the Santa Fe
railroad system when you were its
first vice president?" and, it seems,
he replied:
" ""The rebate proposition was built
up as a matter of competition. Mr.
Carnegie, who poses as a philanthro
pist, is one of the greatest rebate
enthusiasts the country has ever
known. Every one who knows about
the steel industry knows that."
This is by all odds the worst blow
we have received for some ti-ae. It
seems incredible that the Hon. Paul
Morton is speaking the truth. And
yet, if anybody knows, he knows,
when it comes to rebates and rebat
ers. But to realize it is the difficult,
almost impossible, thing!
Can this be the Andrew Carnegie
who is telling us in the magazines,
over his own honored signature, that
the railway management of this
country for many years past has been
Inexcusably immoral?
Can this be tho Andrew Carnegie
who has been telling us in the mag
azines that Mr. Roosevelt is right in
tearing up the whole country to end
the vicious practices of the rail
ways? Can this be the Andrew Carnegie
who, by a slight extension of the av
erage imagination, may be seen to
blush with shame . as duty to his
adopted couniy compels him to pen
magazine articles dealing with the
pernicious methods of the railway
magnates?
Can this be the Andrew Carnegie
who, after chilling us with fear,
warms us with faith by explaining
that the residuum of national virtue
of which he himself is the foremost
representative is still a potent factor
among those influences which make
for good, and that the country may
yet be saved by the exalted thought?
Is this the Andrew Carnegie who
endeavors to instill into our minds
the highest and most enduring pre
cepts of commercial integrity from
month to month, next to pure read
ing matter, in the ten and even the
fifteen cent periodicals?
Is this the Andrew Carnegie who
declares that the thing for all of us
to do in these trying hours is to be
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just and fear not, to be virtuous if
we should be happy?
We are afraid that it is the same,
and none other, and that the picture
that presents itself to our troubled
consciousness is as black as it seems;
for if anybody knows about those
things that tho Hon. Paul Morton is
talking about, and apparently can
not refrain from talking about, that
man is the Hon. Paul Morton. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
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