Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-16


ment manufacture of all munitions of
war is that sucn a policy will remove
all incentive for the defrauding of
, the Government by private manufac-
turerS. The war trust has never hest
tated to cheat the Government when
it found an opportunity to do SO, and
it has managed to find such opportuni-
ties. 1t is probable that the exact
extent Of the frauds that have been
| perpeLraLed upon the Government by
the war trust will never be known,
because it has been only by sheer &C.
cident that such frauds have become
public in a few instances.
! nrop6 sition has been made to
Secretary Daniels, however, that ii
ne will agree to reward those who
furnish the evidence of extensive ar
| mor-plate swindles with a certain per
centage of the same recovered from
the armOr ring as result of such
information that 1t will be forthcom-
ing. Those who have made this pro-
position to the Secretary state that
the men who have such information
have dealings with the armor con-
Germs, and that others who would tes-
tify are in the employment of the ar
NOR manufacturers, and that they can
not sacrifice their interests and means
Of livelihood without some kind of
protection. Since there would be no
cost to the Government, unless 1t was
able to actually recover fines from
the armor patriots, it can not be seen
how the Government can well refuse
this proposition. There is little doubt
but that the Government has paid
high prices for inferior and doctor
ed" and defective armor plates, guns,
and gun forgings in scores Of instan-
ces without the same being detected.
| Any discussion as to armor frauds
necessitates the mention of one of our
prominent mi1lionaires who travels
about the country posing as great
patriot-Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who,
despite his intimation that he has ire
: tired, holds $500, 100000 worth of
bonds in the United States Steel Cor
poration, which in turn owns the Car
negie and other war1trafffcking sub
salaries, which never hesitate to take
advantage of their strangle hold of
our Army and Navy, Mr.. Carnegie's
protestations of patriotism notwith-
standing. Mr.. Carnegie's slice Of
pork resulting from his $500, 100000
worth of bonds amounts to $16,000-
600 annually. The American taxpay-
ers contribute the greater proportion
of this in the form of Increased cost
of living.
On January Z, 1911, Mr.. Carnegie
made a speech before the Republican
Club in New York City, in which he.
told how he came to go into the ar
NOR plate business.
was coaching in Scotland -
He said \
when / got cablegram from Score
tary Tracy
This is the same Secretary of the
! Navy Tracy who, after leaving the
Government service, became the at
. torney 70 rthe Carnegie Co. II
saying in effect, "The President says
he understands 1t to be your duty to
enter into the manufacture of armor
and save the ships from waiting on
the stocks for want of it."
Mr.. Carnegie then proceeded to
say:
That telegram settled it, for when
ever the public calls on me for any
thing l can do, unless fall dead, it
| is my glory to respond.
| That is what / did, because the
President asked me to do it, and If
the President thinks it is my duty to
do anything or to go anywhere for
[my country, / consider it the voice OF
God.
Mr.. Carnegie went into the armor
business as a result Of listening to
the voice of God" but there is suf-
| ficiently large amount of, documentary
evidence to indicate that once in the
armor business, with Uncle Sam as a
customer, his hearing must have be-
come defective.