The Washington times., 1902-10-28
Europe VS.. America.

We publish with pleasure some re
Elections from a courteous and intelli.
gent critic on Mr.. Carnegie's st. An
drew's address, and on the comment:
made upon it last Saturday in these
columns. Our correspondent writes:
| / beg to trespass on your valuable
space to comment on your editorial in
| this mornings Times. entitled Mr..
Carnegie's Forecasts If after so many
years of unparalleled business success
under the fortunate and favored condi-
tions of the United States. Mr.. Carne-
gle, having in view 1.-The new titanic
contest for existence which the twentieth
century is to see," has become theo-
rist and dreamer, whose advanced ideas
'savor, perhaps, of the millennium" then
l can in a measure concur with you in
your commendation of Mr.. Carnegie S
address in SO far as he advises the
abolition of large armies. and a resort
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But sttli believe Mr- Carnegie man
Of wonderfully practical mind and pre-
eminent business and commercial acu-
men. and that his address should be
judged On those hypotheses. think your
correspondent 81 yesterdays issue OF
your paper. signing himself "B. a.
fairly criticised Mr.. Carnegie in at
tributing to him. by reason of his re-
marks at st. Andrews. desire to foster
and encourage European competition
dangerous to our industries. There can
be no difference of opinion whatever
that such a combination can only be
successful at very heavy loss to our
great business interests.
Mr.. Carnegie has. through the oppor-
tunities and benefits of this free govern
ment, amassed a fortune which is Won
derful even in this generation; he has
through the same opportunities become
one of the first citizens of this country
and is received and lionized in his ma
tive country for these reasons, as only
he could be as a product of American
fortune. For these circumstances, if he he
American in sympathy and attachment,
he should abstain from advising any
combination against us in this new and
titanic contest"
SAMUEL TAPPY.
Washington, Oct &c, 1902.
The point raised by our correspond
ent is pertinent and reasonable one.
We should be, indeed, among the first
to question the propriety of Mr. Car
negie's counsel to Europe, were it cap
able of working any appreciable or
practical harm to our own national
interests. The political and CONNER
cial union which the ex-ironmaster
suggests will, however, be impossible
of realization SO long as present ra-
cial antagonisms hold the states of
Europe apart-so long as national
traditions and prepossessions beat
back the pressure for political unifica-
ton and freedom of industry and
commerce.
A European zollverein is the dream
of still distant future. That it will
be hastened by the cramping pro-
cesses whose weight both Great
Britain and the nations of the Conti-
nent will feel as the twentieth CEN
tury's struggle for supremacy in the
worlds markets sets steadily against
them, there can be no question. But
that amalgamation will come only as |
a last desperate resort is equally GER
tain.
And when it comes 1t will find the
United States not only invulnerably
as "a Gulliver" In indus
try and commerce, but able and will
ing to look with friendly complacency
On the creation of a purely defensive
commercial federation in Europe
pledged by necessity to the abolition
1f armaments-with which it may
easily live on terms of amity and
peace.