Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-01
STILL IN THE FIGHT,
Andrew Carnegie Says He Has
Not Given Up the Battle
AGAINST ?. r. E. EXT0RTI0N
he Denies That the South Penn Suf-
fered at All at His Hands,
LAYING 1T ALL TO VANDER6ILTS.
Some Mighty Pertinent Suggestions on
State Transportation.
AGAINSTP. R. r. EXTORTION
LAYING 1T ALL TO VANDER6ILTS.
THE PUBLIC MUST FIGHT TIE PENNSY

HE PUbllG MU0I EIuH1 4uG A1NNoA
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie takes decided ex-
ceptions to the popular superstition that he
had ANYTHING to do with the death Of the
South Penn Railroad, whatever connection
he may have had with its burial. The gen.
tleman not only makes positive state
went in this behalf, but with it offers to the
public of Pittsburg and vicinity the sug-
gestion that submission to the extortionate
and discriminating freight rates of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad has ceased to be q
virtue not only, but has placed the public
in the position OF blame for whatever the
community suffers in that particular.
What Mr. Carnegie says in the appended
letter to The DISPATCH will be read with
interest, not only because it shifts all
blame from his shoulders to those of the
Vanderbilts, but becsuse of the spirit of
combativeness that seems to be willing to
make itself felt in the line of opposition to
an acknowledged injustice.
1t was hoped that more detailed state
ment of the exact doses administered to
bring shout the death of the South Penn
project would have been vouchsafed; but
Mr.. Carnegie insists that the following is
quite sufficient:
MR.. CARNEGIE PROTESTS.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch.
Your editorial this morning amazes me.
one of the PRIME agents in DESTROYING the
South Penn enterpriseI 1 never heard such
nonsense!
Twas the first man Mr. Vanderbilt consulted
about it, and said, if he was resolved to build
a competing line to Pittsburg, would furnish
one-half the amount he did.
"You will ?' said he Then will put in
s5OOOOOO"
MY share, then, Mr. Vanderbilt, is $780, :
OOO," replied.
With Messrs. Jones, Chalfant and Watson,
myself and partners furnished this amount.
While was absent in Europe Mr. Wander
bflt, sick in mind and body, sold out to the
monopoly. l then advised all my associates to
sell out also. To fight the Pennsylvania Rail-
road monopoly with Vanderbilt and his COM
peting lines, meant victory. To attempt it
with these gone, meant defeat. 1 never fight
Mr. Editor, when don't see can whip
The Vanderbilt sale was interrupted by the
courts. was the man who stepped in again
and reorganized the South Penn, and induced
Mr.. Vanderbilt's sons to agree to join the reor-
ganization. The signatures were obtained and
we called upon the Vanderbilts to make good
their promise and sign also. They announced
at the meeting that thew could not do so. and
offered IN nav ms q, ner cent of our investment.
and II 1,as a surnrise tn ali of ms although I
had been advised that the officers of the Penn.
svlyapia Railroad Company had been negotiat-
ing with them.
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I then advised our people to save all they
could from the wreck. The monopoly had
evaded the edicus of the Court and had done
indirectly what the courts had prevented their
doing directly. The South Penn was again in
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sons Why tne numoer OF snips arriving with
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Ledger calls In lpalics 1or tnorough report,
and the reason ana motiVe 1or TINS alarming
fact They VIII call IN vain; because the people
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none OF them Will turn states evidence
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troubles; Philadelphia suffers likewise, and is
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Pannsvlvania RAILROAD IN reduce its rates he.
yond the State. and it is, unwisely and most
ungratefully, seeking to extort the former
rates within the State, because here it has
monopoiE