Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-08
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j, SURELY THIS IS DIVISION

Certainly there is division in the
republican party, says the Commoner.
when u republican newspaper is bold
enough to attack Andrew Carnegie. In
.a.FecentIss66 the Chicago Inter Ocean
triep) printed IN editorial entitled Can
this Really be Andrcw C%arnegieT" The
Inter Ocean editorial follows:
One shock after anoterh! \ news
paper telegram comes from Los An
COLES, the capital of the Incompatible
sun belt of glorious California, where
the thinking of righteous thoughts
reqires little Of no effort. Before touch
ing upon the writer of the magazine
article, it tells us that the Hon. Panl
Morton, formerly vice president i'll
charge of traffic of the Santa Fee rail
way, later secretary of the United
States navy. and now president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society, II
recognized expert on all matters per-
timing to the rebate, is there, and, of
course. talking.
~ hilSN, hp va bpnNN' AiA
rebates were given by the Santa Fee
RAILROAD system when you were its first
vice presidents" and, it seems, he re-
piled:
THE rebate proposition was built up
Us n matter. of competition. Mr..
Carnegie, who poses as Il philanthropist,
il IL 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 time. 1t
seems incredible that the Hon. Paul
Morton is speaking the truth. And yet,
if anybody knows, he knows, when it
comes to rebates and rebaters. But to
realize it is the difficult, almost impos-
sible, thing!
Can this he the Andrew Carnegie who
is telling US in the magazines, over his
own honored signature, that the rail
way management of this country for
many years past has been i~nexcusably
immoral?
Can this be the Andrew Carnegie who
has been telling us in the magazines
that Mr.. Roosevelt is right in tearing
up the whole country to end tho vicious
practices of the railways?
Can this be the Andrew Carnegie
who, by q slight extension of the aver
nge imagination, may be seen to blush
with shame as duty to his adopted
country compels him to pen magazine
articles dealing with the pernicious
methods of the railway m~agnatesH
Can this be the Andrew Carnegie
who, after chilling us with fear, warns
us with faith. by explaining that the
residuum of national virtue of which he
himself is the foremost representative is
still q potent factor among those in
tiuences which make for good, and that
the country may yet he saved by the
exalted thoughts gs,ra
Is this the Andrew Carnegie who
endeavors to instill into our minds the
highest and most enduring precepts OF
commercial integrity from month to
month, next to pure reading matter. in
the ten and even the fifteen cent
periodicals.
Is this the Andrew Carnegie who de,
clares that the thing for all of us to do
In these trying hours is to I've just and
fear not, to he virtuous if we would bC
happy
We are afraid that it is the same, and
none other; and that the picture that
presents itself to Il troubled conscious,
ness is as black as it seems; for il any,
body knows about those things that the
Hon. Paul Morton is talking about, and
apparently Gpn not refrain from talking
about, thatIinani is the Hon. Paul Nor
Z toni sagOth