The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-01
cnrncgie,s Paramount Issue.

In the October number OF the NorttS
| American Review" MIR. Andrew Carnegie
will essay to tell the people of his
adopted and admiring country why he
will not support the Democratic ticket
! and Will support Mr.. Mckinley for re-
election. Through advance sheets of
the monograph we are placed in poss s.
sion of the material part of its text and
of its argument, which latter we think
will strike the intelligent reader as sin
gular and wholly insincere. Like other
plutoeratic persons. who have acquired
yearly incomes amounting to many mil
lion dollars. through the operation of
legislation practically creating monop-
oily, and through the destruction CT do
nestle competition by means of the
trust system, Mr.. Carnegie at tn tine
is peculiarly anxious to assign reasons
quite other than the real ones for
political course which, in the circum-
stances, is entirely natural and to be
expected.
The great steel magnate Acknowledges
that he agrees with the Democratic
platform, which he declares as truly
American in it's opposition to impe-
rialism and militarism." and heartily
favors its declarations concerning Porto
Rico, expansion, the Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty, and the South African war.
He is not worried over its currency
plank. but says that the most serious
objection to it is not the proposed low
ering of the standard Of value" which
he regards as no longer an issue. 1t
lies, according to MIR. Carnegie, in its
"insidious attacks upon the Supreme
Court, which strike at the foundations
OF human society"
1t is noticeable that not only Andrew
Carnegie. but all trust magnates. are in a
condition of nervous terror for fear
something should happen to the Supreme
Court. He and they are painfully aware
that, If Mr.. Bryan should be elected,
the Attorney Generals office would not
thereafter be used to protect instead OF
to prosecute criminal combinations in
restraint of trade. or to prevent cases
against the trusts reaching the Supreme
Court on their merits. Mr.. Bryan's
Attorney General would certainly be an
officer who would ''obey the law" and
the tribunal of last resort would be
given every opportunity to declare it.
This is the thing of which the trus s
are in mortal terror. This is what they
have in mind when they accuse the
Democratic party and its candidate of
"insidious attacks upon the Supreme
Court" And this is the true reason
why men like Andrew Carnegie are will
ing to swallow everything they claim
to contemn in order to maintain that
creature of the trusts, the Hanna-Mc-
Kinley Administration, in power for
another four years.
Should their hope IN this direction be
realized, It will be edifying to see what
they will do to the Supreme Court.
Their Intentions arc well enough known.
Indeed. until the opening of the cam
paign they had hardly been concealed
The purpose is, in the event of trust
success at the polls. to pass an act
largely iacreasiA, the number of Su-
preme Co i judges. On the plea that
the present semen is overworked, and
then to fill the new places with lawyers
selected by the trusts. We presume that
Mr.. Carnegie does not consider that
among "insidicus attacks" upon the Su-
preme Court We DO. In any event it
is largely what the trusts are bargain
ing for in their contributions TO the
Republican corruption fund 1t remains
to be seen whether the American people
are willing to let them get value re-
ceiyed.