Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-11-27

and her family should now be all I'M
der one roof and flag" 1t was certain
~ a great oversight on the part of the
Creator of the universe that, in the
separation of the waters from dry land,
He did not make arrangements for the
preservation of the dominions of George
III. and save Thomas Jefferson the
trouble of writing the Declaration Of
Independence. Unfortunately Mr.. Car
negie was not on hand to advise Him.
when He was calling order out of
chaos. The Omnipotent Architect would
in Mr.. Carnegie's opinion, have done
a thousand times better If He had
provided Himself with a board of d.
rectors with the retired steel king as
chairman. Not in this light did the
revolutionary fathers look upon the
Atlantic. Reverently they thanked the
Creator that it was by Him set between
them and the oppressive governmental
systems of the old world, and one of
them went so far as to wish that sit
were an ocean of fire instead of water"
Look at Mr.. Carnegies wise view of
it from Skibo castle as contradistln-
guished from that absurd one taken by
the fathers of the republic from ole
independence Hall IN Philadelphia.
Here it is in his own words to Barrow
In-Furness audience: "Gentlemen I'M
should have preferred prairies, but it is
traversed in about the same time a.
the three thousand mfSes of lind be-
tween Montreal or New York on the
Atlantic and San Francisco and -'ic-
toria or the Pacific. Who so bold as
to predict that never is our race to
succeed in conn erting the ocean. h.th-
erto a barrier to your branches, into n
pathway to reunion of the two once
united branches? Not l.. My faith is
mistaken that some day this will be
accomplished. and that instead of be-
ing two small islands here, alien to the
European continent, you will look
across the sea to your own children in
Canada and the United States and be-
come once more the mother member of
the dominant power of the world"
That is the vision which the seer of
Skfbo sees of the future of the repub-
lie. The stars and stripes lowered for
ever from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and the British standard run up in its
place: the union dissolved; the capitol
of Washington converted into a mu-
scum, or burned down as it was once
before in the war of 1912; the Lords
and Commoners of five and forty states
crossing the Atlantic on their way to
the houses of parliament of the
mother member" in London to hear
the speech from the throne and swear
allegiance perhaps to the present prince
of Wales. for Mr.. Carnegie has locked
up the exact date when all these things
are to come to pass in his own bosom,
and will not disclose 1t.
1t is possible that Andrew Carnegie
may believe all this. With him evident
" the wish is father of the thought.
But the English people should not al
low themselves to be deluded by such
nonsense even when it comes out OF
the mouth of a man who is regarded as
one of the most practical of his ex-
ceedingly practical race. Ante-prandial
or st-prandial rot" Of this kind
whenever uttered. does far more harm
than good so far as understanding be-
tween ourselves and the English peo-
ole is concerned. Our political systems
are radically and fundamentally dis
tinct and they are likeiy to remain so.
II there ever is a union such as Mr..
Carnegie contemplates the antecedent
step to 1t will be a revolution in Great
Britain. peaceable or otherwise, and
the establishment of republic the seat
of power of which shall be Washing
ton. not Westminster.