The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-03-27
PARDONED To DIE OUT Of PRISON,
c. ". MORSE REFUSES TO DIE
Wizard of Finance Has Cap
ital to Float Great Coast
wise Shipping Line.

handlcap OF being ''ticket of leave
man." Morse found that his post
graduate course in Wall street finance.
taken in the Atlanta penitentiary, did
not hurt his business chances in the
slightest.
The situation is brilliantly illuminate
ing to the men who for days have been
discussing the case of the prisoner
who went back to Jail for life because
he could not get a chance as an ex-
convict. 1t shows how it all depends
on the man, after all, and that stone
walls do not prison make nor iron
bars a cage if the fellow inside doesn't
see it that way and can consequently
impress the fact on Others
But one month ago DR.. A. L. Fowler,
who recommended the Morse pardon.
said of him: HE is a doomed man.
He is no nearer complete recovery
than he was a year ago, when he was
pardoned."
Smiled at "Doom."
Said doomed man, looking over his
agreements with the men Of English
money as the liner hurried along
across the ocean, must have smiled.
Just what Morse has up his sleeve is
not entirely understood by Wall street.
Careful perusal Of the financial dis
trict's pet organs shows that during
the last six months he has been cred
tied with being the moving factor in
every change of ownership in shipping
lines Of the coastwise order that has
been made in this country.
The plans he holds are said to in
clude line of ships that will operate
from New York to the north, taking in
Boston and Maine ports and placing
them in communication with Canada.
10 the south he has in mind the estab-
lishment of line from New York to
Panama. taking advantage Of the ca
nails opening to bring his ships into
play as competitors with the Pacific
roads. A division that takes in the
rapidly advancing and generally under
estimated South American trade is also
charged to be in his scheme. Now
the South American traffic is directed
to Europe. and passengers coming
from South American ports commonly
arrive in New York via England and
France.
A Winning Combination.
But it is the coastwise trade, with
New York at one end and Panama at
the other end, that chiefly interests the
big folk Of commerce.
1t is impossible to get the average
man and woman to stand hitched to
any statement that has a technical
ring. They shy from "differentials'
and the ''long and short haul clause.
as though both contained some posi-
bic evil But Morse. with his cunning
for trade, knows that under the tech
nique of transportation there lies a
pot of gold greater than that supposed
to be at the foot OF the rainbow and a
'blawsted sight, more tangible and
possible of development.
But a few months ago the interstate
NOA1IuCANC put OuL UVlIu-
tifully Illustrated document on freight
rates, with pictures that looked like
the weather map in a stormy period Or
flock Of typhoid germs having holi-
day. The statements and the maps
showed how much the roads could add
to the cost of carrying freight from
New York to various zones on out to
the coast.
With active water competition
through the canal and Morse at the
busy end of the marine wire, there is
no telling what will happen to the pic
lures with the isothermal lines and to
the operating revenue that is based
upon the zigzag art of the commission.
That is why Morse, the condemned
man, is Of such vital interest as he
comes back to live where he had been
scheduled to be occupying a short and
narrow residence by this time.
In spite Of all this, Morse is not a
citizen. He has not the privilege of
the corner bootblack Of running around
to the voting stand in the barber shop
and voting for the candidate Of his
choice E.
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