The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
CARNEGIE A FIGHTING MAN,


Mr.. Carnegie is at present the great
international exponent of peace. He
is putting up much money in the cause,
and is never 10th of speaking in advo
cacy Of international peace at any
price. Recently arguing against the
building of any more battleships for
tho u. S. navy, he burst forth in the
rapturous exclamation: "'Didn t the
war with Spain prove our efficiency
We had no war with Spain; it
tubs Surely that is n curious jun.
Bile, We had q war with Spain and
we did not have any war. The dis.
posal of Spain IS navy showed our eff.
cheney, still it was only play to dis
pose Of her old tubs. It must indeed
have been the fervor Of enthusiasm
that led Carnegie into the expression
OF such incoherent speech as this.
Still, he is the great exponent Of the
peace movement, and at the recent
Peace Conference in st. Louis he was
not only consenting but aiding in the
expulsion of DR.. Lyman Abbott from
! the peace organization merely because
DR.. Abbott is in favor of maintaining
navy strong enough for defending
our coasts and also for the enforce
ment of the Monroe doctrine,
And yet it IS not so long ago that
Mr.. Carnegie was distinctly and EN-.
phatically enrolled in the fighting
class, During the investigation that is
now being conducted of the United
States Steel Corporation, letter was
introduced few days ago written by
Mr.. Carnegie in 1899 that had q dis
tinctively belligerent tone The letter
was designed TO state his case in mat
ter Of making an agreed division of
business among the steel plants in this
country. On this question Mr.. Carne-
gle was distinctly and beligerently in
favor Of compelling his competitors to
come to his terms, and here is the way
that he undertook to impose those
terms upon his rivals:
If our President steps forward at the
right time and in the right way in
forms these people that we do not pro-
pose to be injured, on the contrary we
expect to reap great gains by 1t; that
we will observe an armed neutrality
as long as 1t is made TO our interests to
do So but that we require this arrange
ment; then specify what is advantageous
tageous than existed before the combina-
ton. he VIII get II. Ii they decline to
give us what we want then there must
be no bluff We must accept the situa-
ton and prove that II it Is fight that
they want here we are always ready"
The same fighting spirit displayed
In that letter is manifest by Mr.. Car
negie in his worldwide fight for peace
There can be scarcely a doubt, how
ever, that if Mr.. Carnegie were in a
responsible position which required the
knuckling down to foreign foe or the
proclaiming of war, the war levies
would be made instanter, and without
the least hesitation or demur. We are
all the surer of this from the reports
that come OF Mr., Carnegie's s utter
ances in regard to possible Japanese
war, such as elf Japan should force
the issue and war should come, there
are 100000 men In America to re.
pei her. In the first place, she could
never land. If, by any chance, she
did land, she could never get back. -
That sort of talk, accompanied with
the intimation that he is himself not
too old to shoulder a gun, fixes Mr..
Carnegie's status distinctly as fight
ing man. He is even more so than
DR.. Lyman Abbott whom he, in fight
ing mood, helped to expel from the
Peace Congress.