The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-12-27

Those who had been Taught by an
,hla ingenious campaign of public
a.. IN look upon Professor Wilson of
pTTinceton and New Jersey as brave
L,an with no thought of protecting
5,irosalf and with an eagle eye fixed
an The dizzy heights of unselfshness,
o+o shocked. They learn that before
10 decided to become the servant of
+ba neople and an earnest worker in
tbe vineyard of public payroll Mr..
Wilson looked around for a double
.ofatv anchor in the shape of pen
sion from Andrew Carnegie.
Governor Wilson, formerly presi-
don't of Princeton college, and Just
now candidate for president of the
United States, appealed to Mr.. Car
negie for a pension, and this was his
exclamation of the appeal:
"A man who goes into politics
bound by the principles of honor puts
his family and all who may be de-
nendent upon him for support at the
mercy of an incalculable turn of the
wheel of fortune, and | felt entirely
justified in seeking to provide
against such risks"
The gentlemen who have been
nromoting Mr.. Wilson's presidential
ambitions will know how it feels to
fall into ice water, now that Gov
ernor Wilson's appeal to Carnegie
for financial support has leaked out.
Mr. Carnegie, an estimabIe little
gentleman, is Steel Trust magnate,
and is one who enjoys himself Civ
ing away each year a small part of
the income on hundreds of millions
taken from the public.
Estimable as he is, Andrew Car
negie is the incarnation of the trust
evil And the honest supporters of
Governor Wilson for the presidency
will learn with a good deal of anx-
iety that their candidate tried very
hard, before setting sail for the
white house, to have life pension
from Mr. Carnegie in his pocket.
There is not the slightest doubt
that the ordinary American citizen
could find many presidential candi-
dates that would suit him better
than a man pensioned by Andrew
Carnegie or trying quietly to get a
Carnegie pension. If Mr.. Wilson
had been an old broken-down teach
err retired because of age or feeble
ness, and facing poverty after life |
well spent, no one would criticiSe his |
applying to Mr.. Carnegie for money |
to keep him alive.
But that was not Mr.. Wilson's sit |
uatiOn.
He was president of Princeton and |
could have kept his job if he had not |
wanted a better one.
He abandoned the work which he |
was doing, made himself candidate |
for governor and put himself on the !
public payroll at a very good salary. |
Drawing that salary he has de- |
voted much time in journeying over |
the land to promote his own political |
interests and to secure the presiden- |
cy-a position that carries big sal |
airy.
The ordinary hard-headed Ameri-
can citizen, of whom at least ninety |
nine out of one hundred would be
very lucky if they got half the salary |
that Mr. Wilson now gets, or half |
that he got as president of Princeton, |
or a fraction of the salary that he is
trying to get as president of the
United States, will be enlightened as |
to Mr.. Wilson's character by his re-
quest for a pension from Carnegie.
Mr.. Wilson's seeking to make him |
self perfectly happy and serene with |
a Carnegie pension before trusting |
himself to the tender mercies of the |
people as their candidate is not so |
different from other gentlemen try
ing to inorati alto t51 nm splvac with the |
people of the Rockefeller and Nor
gan type, and attach to their mouths
a sucking tube leading to the trust
milk pail-however the pail might
be labeled.
Those that have the most friendly
feeling for Mr.. Wilson will appreci-
ate most keenly the mistake that he
mas made in advertising himself as
an unsuccessful sutton for a pension
from Andrew Carnegie.