East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-11-24
DOES CARNEGIE WANT
TO TORYIzE THE STORY
OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR

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rrafalgar Buildings, Trafalgar Square,
London, w. C.. 18th October. 1918.
Editor East Oregonian:-
Now that the Carnegie project for
the celebration of one hundred years
of peace, between the United States
and Great Britain is assuming such
dangerous proportions it behooves the
press of the United States To sound
the alarm against the giving of sub
scriptions by the public To this fund.
The whole project is moth ng more
or less than a diplomatic move on the
part of the British government. to
ward off the wrath of Germany. who
Is only staying her hand for reason OF
the implied threat that the United
states will come TO the rescue of Great
Britain in the event of war between
the latter nation and Germany.
Andrew Carnegie. with the able
assistance of Elihu Root and Joseph
II. Choate. is the apostle who is spend
ing millions to promulgate this doc
trine, and it is high time that the U.
:. Ambassadors abroad, who are his
tools in this misrepresentation We're
recalled.
The interference of the United
States government in the Moroccan
dispute between Germany and Great
Britain was a disgraceful act of trea-
son on the part of the handful of AM
erican officials who without the
knowledge or sanction of the Ameri-
can people informed Germany
that any further insistence on her
part of conditions which We're not ac-
| ceptable to Great Britain. would mean
that the United States would back
Great Britain up with men and arms
Later, when William Howard Taft
was elected president of the United
States, Germany. who had not alto
| gether lost faith in American neutral
ity. again approached Great Britain
with view to the settlement of the
| dispute. Immediately the u. S. At
lantic fleet was dispatched to English
waters and Commander Sims of Ad-
miral Murdock's flagship. the Mime
| sofa, delivered an official speech in
! England were threatened with an ex-
ternal foe she could count upon every
man, every, dollar and every drop Of
! blood in the United States"
To the American public the dis
| patch of the Atlantic fleet to Brit sh
waters in mid-winter was regarded as
| very pleasant and enjoyable cruise
/ for the officers and men of the fleet
| The truth of the move was known to
the British and German governments
and the Carnegie pro-British annexa-
| tionists in the United States govern
! ment
! Germany was again obliged to stay
her hand; but Immediately increased
her naval program.
! Having been subjected to American
! diplomatic intervention on two criti-
cal occasions when pressing for a set
! tement of demands with Great Brit
ain, Germany had every reason to be-
! lieve that the United States govern
ment was representing public opinion
in America, by the pro-British SYM
pathies manifested by two successive
| administrations.
In consequence of this anti German
| attitude in American diplomatic cir
| cles. the German government decided
! to manifest its resentment of Ameri-
| can public professions of friendship
| for Germany and diplomatic private
threats, by refusing to take any part
( In the Panama canal exposition at
| San Francisco in 1915.
! When the Wilson administration
came into office the German govern
| ment was keenly alive to note any
| change in the diplomatic antagonism
| or the United States There appear
ed 10 be a Strengthening of the An
| glo-American bond by means Of the
| Carnegie Peace" ativities, and Ger
many was therefore only moved to a
| greater resentment when she learned
that in January. 1914. the Atlantic
fleet was to be again dispatched to
European waters.
January, 1914, synchronizes with
the date of settlement for German
claims against Great Britain, and
once again we shall find the power of
the L. $. navy backing up Great Brit
ain in European waters.
This contemplated "Jaun," of the
Atlantic fleet to the Mediterranean
in January next. is another instance
of Great Britain holding our Ameri- /
can fleet over the head Of Germany
as a big stick.
Very little money is being subscrib-
ed by the British public to celebrate
Carnegian Peace" although the ex-
pensive newspaper advertisements
which in one week alone are said to /
have cost $4,000, state that one of !
the principal objects of the movement
is
"A revision of historical text books
With view to the elimination of an
ti-British colouring and emphasizing |
the benefits of the Hundred Years
Peace"
have read some of these ire !
vised" histories written by the Car
negie employees and the manner in
which they seek to "emphasize" that /
George Washington was an upstart |
adventurer, and Jefferson and all the /
heroes of the war of independence, |
a set of self-seeking incompetent re-
bells, would cause the heart OF Bene-
dict Arnold to beat with satisfaction. /
No American worthy of the name |
will subscribe in any way to Carne-
gie's Peace" fund; and no man. wo-
man or child should hesitate to lift up
their voice in loud protest when they ,
hear the plausible professors. who are
so handsomely paid by the Carnegie