Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Carnegie's Life Ambition, His
Faithful Attorney and Mr..
Wilson's Canal Policy
Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently quoted Lord Rosebery

Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently quoted Lofo hoseDeIy,
former Prime Minister of England saying to him;
am fully convinced il Revolutionary War had
and Great Britain the Anglo
Saxon capital would be Washington owing " its central
British colonies and no one IN Eng
Land would have objected"
Senator German quoted the Senate the other day
article by Andrew Carnegie the North American Review IN
which he declared that it mistake for the American colo
MES have broken away from the mother country
and he added that he purposed consecang his life to eun
ing the two countries.
Mr. Carnegie and the Carnegie Foundation are at present
striving very great expense transfer the seat of
of the United States in at least important mat
ter, from Washington to London
Senator Root employed by Mr. Carnegie as his personal
Mr. has been the legal adviser turn not only
planhropsts of many of the most dangerous public
enemies of his time He the attorney of Tweed the atto
Mr. Ryan and he the general counsel OF the Metro
potan Street Railway when the organizers of that company
piaging York and Turing investors to their ruin
He the counsel of the New York State Trust Company when
made illegal loans for purposes of high finance and carried
lobbyist State Superintendent Louis Payn
of New York its books
MIR Root is very able lawyer 1t has been his lifelong
habit his clients with zeal and to show them how they
could do what they wanted to do.
incident the Carnegie campaign to induce Con-
Eress repeal the Panama Canal Act Mr. Roots speech
The United States Senate attacking the right of the United States
permit its domestic to the Canal without
paying tolls The next step to send than $4,000
copies the Root speech through the mails public expense by
Mr. Roots Senatorial frank free of postage This speech
numerousy colleges and universities that look aec
onaey upon the Carnegie Foundation which pensions pro
fessors.
The next step send 100000 copies of pamphlet
expense the Carnegie Foundation these college pro-
sso and others and appeal Senators and Representatives
aid in securing the repeal of the toll exemption law
According to the reluctant testimony of the secretary of the
Carnegie Foundation before the Senate Committee $4,000
first appropriated by the Carnegie Foundation to accelerate
public sentiment in this regard This appropriation proved in
the free of Senator Roots frank
TO the extent of $4,000 worth of postage SO the Carnegie
Foundation according to its secretary Mr. Scott then appro
praed ST 469 for what he termed canal work that is
say make the Panama Anglo American instead of
purely American canal
Mr. Carnegie is commercial genius, of the two great
individual money makers the world has known and
great phanthropst
But the serious question presented whether great
and patriotic nation the United States really afford
TO have such phanhropst using his colossal wealth.
his lawyers employees and his benefcaes secretly change
the policy of the United States in its foreign relations and its
domestic affairs