The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-07
GBy Lillian Scott Troy.O

provai rrhen the ironmaster's nnrE.e is mentioned
 When Engiishmen sheer, they hate; when they hate, they hate forever. Why this sudden change? Carnegie's money? No! His libraries, hero funds, etc? No. His ambition? Yesi
 Within the soul of the little Scots man dwel,s a burning weakness, which only an experienced physiognomist could discern in his fmmobiIe features.
 Ambition! Mad ambition; the ann bition of Caesar!
 The man who so clever1y amassed one of the largest individual fortunes gether in the age of the world would be less than human had he not some weakness. To be ambitious is good: but to be ambitious with a fever sh but deliberate intensity which sacri- fees principle is bad. The master mind that engineered the ways and limita tionsi Carnegie expands and basks in the limelight; it is the one joy of his declining years
 | Skibo Castle, in Scotland, new germ of ambition has been sown in the mind and soul of the Scotsman. On that memorable day. when he was honor l ed by the King of England, flag foated over Skibo Castle, which showed the Stars and Stripes on one | side, and the British flag on the oth- er- As the King was leaving the cas- | tie, after offering Carnegie a duke dom-on terms, the laird of the castle is said to have his hand to the dag and exc aimed subjectively. Your Ma jesty entered Skibo Castle under the American flag, and the British flag flies over your Majesty as you leave. bo Castle when your Majesty gra- l ciousIy de'gns to enter again; and may that flag be the British flag. And may it also float over the United cific!"
 Immediately after the Peacemaker's visit the Carnegie Peace Fund was started in America.
 The word Peace caught the popu- lar mind for the moment. The sub lety, which marks the character of arbitration with England until the Peace Fund had been well advertised and duy cemented in the minds of | the American people as the best scheme for good the laird of Skibo | had initiated.
 The Peace Fund Committee was regard for future developments. And l trading under the holy name of Peace the object and aim of this l congenial committee (neat salaries, States to Englandi
 These were the terms demanded for Carnegie's dukedom! His money could i buy men buyable, to favor Peace; it could buy or lease secretly newspa- 1 pers to spread broadcast Carnegian | doctrines until their protean procIfvi- |
 
 influenced minds; it could hire unnat- uralize1 Englishmen or Canadians who | had lived and amaSSed fortunes in the | United States but who found the land | of their long residence too inferior l for adoption, to spread the doctrine; l and lastly, to be ultra charitable, 1t ( could even pull the wool over the eyes of the President of the United States! <,
 This sudden haste about arbitration | was unwittingly brought about by the impending war between England and CNn- FnT- r0T1 against his will and more far-sighted judgment to bring about a working ''entente" with the United States be- fore Germany made any hostile move | against England. In fact, the United | States were to be held over the head of their friend, Germany, in the shape 1 of a Dig stick, by Eng and: - ing themselves hoarse trying to tell | why we must have arbitration with | England. Is there a man amongst them who is a representative Ameri- i can? Is there one whose patriotism | for America we could class with that | of Washington, Jefferson, or with that | of any of the great men who have | passed away, but whose example of | stunning ''entangliIg alliances has l helped to make America what it is to- | day, the sun in the conste lat1on Of na- | tionSl
 Of Carnegie I have already spoken and sparingly. And what Of MT. Eliot | Of Harvard? We are told that the | Gentleman is an Englishman, and as | such probably knows what is good for | England more interestedly than he l knows what is bad for America
 MT. Choate, the ex-Amhassador to Great Britain? This gentleman was principally notorious for his ultra | Engi ish tendencies and symps thieS | when Amba to Great Britain; | and any fame he may have attained | was chiefly as an after-dinner speak
 Mr. whitelaw Reid, the present Am rl,~ Ilrifo fT1 tIeman is remarkable for the facility | with which he manages to marry his | relatives of the gentler sex off to deca- dent members of the English nobility; | and also almost famous for the beam ing smile he bestowed upon Com mander Sims, of the U. S. battleship ''Ninnesota," when that previously in- spired American officer made his c ev- CT faux pas at the Guildhall luncheon in London. given to the officers and saiIo~s of the American fleet in the speech, which the Engltshmen gulped II down with joy, and which gave ser ious offence to Germany, contained these most un-American sentiments:
 ''If Great Britain were to be threat ered with an external foe, she could count upon every dollar, every man, and every drop of blood in America"i
 Like the famous speech of an ex- President of the United States at the Guildhal' sometime previous, it is gen. orally accepted that Commander Sims simply said his little say, as he was parroted to, and felt amply repaid in the genial nod and beaming smile of approval of the American Ambassa- dor.
 This speech was intended to convey false news to Germany; 1t was intend- ed to scare Germany off!
 If the little "feeler'' passed unchal- lenged in America, the intended end would have been accomplishd; if ex- ception were taken as to how and for whom we Americans were willing to she'd every drop of our bloOd-there was Sims to be the Scapegoat.
 I am in Germany as write this. and want to say right here that Com mander Sims unlu~ ky inspiration has done exactly what these Benedict Ar nolds'' exrected it to do, and the Am erican people have been greatly in iured in the eyes of a friendly nation. without any other reason than that the Germans have made such won derful progress in their forefpn trade. E,r and ha continually inSulted and