Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-27
How Carnegie and Root, His
Attorney, Suggested to Eng
land the Raid on the Canal!

snon clause Of the Panama Tolls act fixes clearly respon
sbty for equvOcal position which the United States
now is.
That responsibility rests upon man-Andrew Carnegie
That single individual private citizen should be able TO
bend national administration to his will compel great poti
party repudate its platform and bring Congress TO the
point annung deliberate acts seems incredible
the record shows that this is precisely what was done
by this powerful example of the trubred putocrat that
the United States any other country has yet produced
Working through his personal attorney Ehu Root in the
United States Senate and misleading public sentiment through
out the United the close association OF his educational
foundation with universities colleges and the activity OF the
Carnegie endowment in influencing public and the press
generally Andrew Carnegie out to overthrow fixed policy
Of our government.
His arguments have convinced President Wilson
who by way applied for pension from the Carnegie
Educational Fund.
Whether Mr. Carnegie will also succeed in bending Con-
gress to his will the next few days will tell
But the facts strip effort repeal the exemption clause
of all its trimmings Of sensitive national honor wherewh it has
been decorated the prime to have been Andrew
Carnegie and prime purpose his desire to create that Anglo
American unity which he has been preaching and for the fur
hsrance of which spends avshy the dollars which the
United States has paid him.
cuson between the State Departments Of the United States and
England purely routine and unvexed question dpO
mats exchanged polite notes about The Panama Tolls bill
had been passed. and then Secretary Of State Phnder O.
Knox and Sir Edward Grey in practical unity on most Of
its terms.
the right Of the United States grant subsidies its ships
or encourage its shipping interests had been conceded BY
Great % u tho law rT nor 81
Of approved this from Mitchell nnes then Charge
dAnairos at the British Embassy.
bona nss ' sss.sss psS when United
benefited BY this exemption may be that no obe
This was rightly accepted by Secretary Knox expressing
British approval Of that particular portion Of the Panama Tolls
BILL and the correspondence the matter was proceeding
smoothly with repeated evidences Of British acquecence in
our policy the Of President Taft and Sec
rotary Knox Senator Root arose in his seat and offered bill
what had happened! There had been no discomfort with
the law expressed any quarter The only that
seems have bearing the matter that the Laird Of Sbo
had returned 10 country and chance force sere
from the United States Government to the British
Root Mr. Carneges attorney was the abest possible adj
vocate He introduced his repeal BILL days sup
ported by speech which he made this puerle plea for
peal Of the law:
We physically and msnsalysuoh discussion as was
It reads like the later plea that the free tolls plank
struggled into the Democratic platform.
Neither the President the Secretary of State had been
by Senator Roots confidence They amazed
this sudden surrender to Great Britain Of something she had
asked But the British not slow to detect the value
to them Of this fire in the American rear.
THEY KNEW THE WORTH OF ROOT IN THE SENATE
PRECISELY AS THEY KNEW THAT OF BENEDICT Ar
MOLD IN THE MPREcNABLE FORTRESS OF WEST
POINT. Arnold bought Root was not He is Senator
and also Mr. Carnegie's attorney.
Instantly the British diplomatic correspondence
tone II became hecoring extensively instent upon rights
that heretofore had not been asserted hardly limited at
All this a matter of record readily verified veri
hcaon necessary As for Hearst information
it originally from Of the handful of personally
involved in the incident
with the movement for the repeal of the exemption law
thus dutfuly launched in the Senate by Attorney Root JAN
uary a. 1918 the various Carnegie organizations for the forma
ton Of public opinion got busy The great enterprise of begin
ming AngoAmercan unity by letting Great Britain direct
American legislation pressed through every agency that
dollars could buy repeated and peous arguments deceive
It took nearly year to bring the President to the point Of
repudag the platform which he had been elected and the
words Of which he had given the voters during the
campaign But the persistence OF the agitation financed and
fomented by Carnegie at last brought President Wilson the
point Of making his pifu appeal to Congress to make
udgngy this surrender Great Britain lest he be unable
safely direct the nation in other and delicate matters i'm
pending.
So stands the matter to-day In scant fifteen months the
United States has been driven the point of concedng Brit
ih demands rights and privileges which in January 1918 the
British Foreign Office frankly admitted TO be inaenabe and
unquestoned rights Of our nation.
If the voices that plead for the repeal Of enacted laws
and the surrender Of undoubed rights Great Britain
the voices Of Woodrow Wilson and Ehu Root the hand that
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