The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-20
From the Baltimore Manufacturers Rec-

ord.
 N DISPATCH from Washington says pN that MT. John W. Gates has
 written to the ways and means committee regarding the tariff, advoca- ting the placing of iron ore. coal and lum- orally understood. that MT. Gates is large ly interested in a Canadian ore property which is now being developed with view to shipping heavily to the United presume to suggest that the ownership of Canadian ore properties would in any way influence MT. Gates in desiring the abolition of the duty on ore, but still the question Is of interest. Free ore might make a difference of several hundred thousand dollars year to the ore com pany operating in the Moose mountain district of Canada, but If it be true that MT Gates is heavily interested in that project, so small saving as this would not, of course, influence his opinion on great economic questions Nor should any one presume to suggest that the American spectators who have been shrewd enough to buy up vast timber tracks in Canada, including timber suit able for wood pulp. are in any way back of the apparently genuine interest in the preservation of American forests and in the demand for free importation Of lumber and wood pulp. Since the Penn sylvania Railway company owns the Pennsylvania Steel company, and tho Pennsylvania Steel company owns some 4oo, COG, 900 or 5G0, ,0oo.oo0 tons of iron ore In Cuba. and since the Bethlehem Steel company, which the genius of MT. Schwab and MT. Johnson and their as- associates is making one of the great steel companies of the world, doubtless with some financial cooperation from MT. Car negie, likewise owns probably an equal amount of iron ore in Cuba, 1t might be charged by people of mercenary train of thought that these interests would seek to secure free ore in order to benefit their own plants. Away with such thought! Having enjoyed the benefit of a protective tariff and shared in the great great prosperity which this has brought to the country, the owners of the Penn sylvania Steel company and of the Beth lehem Steel company and MT. John w. Gates and others who are interested in Cuban and Canadian ores, and those who are interested in Canadian lumber, will not. of course. permit themselves to be put in the false light of working for purely selfish ends. The broad minded ness of these people will naturally cause them (even Mfr. Gates, who, doubtless un- der a misapprehension, has announced orous in defense of the tariff under which their interests have been so vastly bene- fited through the progress and prosperity of the whole country. And it is not too late to feel that Mir Carnegie-the lover of mankind, the man who is unwilling to die rich--will see the error of his ways. Surely he did not wish to deprive other men of the blessings which a protective tariff brought to him. He is too noble too generous-hearted, too anxious to see other men prosper through the countrys prosperity! So long as it remains true that "while the candle holds out to burn the yflest sinner may return we snail look for recantation on the part Of MT. Carnegie. Or has he sinned away his day of grace?
 But, seriously, it is time for the south to wake up. Once more 1t Is in danger of being killed in the house of pretended friends. Needing protection more than any other section, needing the benent Of