People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — This Is Treason. [ARTICLE]

This Is Treason.

What strange influence, or to express it vulgarly, “pull,” has Andrew Carnegie with the national administration? How the heavy fine assessed on this typical plutocratic manufacturer for having palmed off on the navy department defective and fraudulent armor plates was heavily, cut down by President Cleveland is a matter ot recent history. Now comes a parallel to it. Carnegie, Phipps & Co., are fur. nishing the armor for the new battle ship Oregon. One plate, singled out at random,was subjected to ballistic test and cracked like a sheet of glass before a stone. The natural inference is that the rest of the armor furnished for the Oregon is equally faulty. But the armor is not to be rejected, nor is there to be any further test, though the members of Carnegie’s firm protest that the other plates are all right. After a personal conference with Mr. Carnegie Secretary Herbert announces that “the cracking was caused by the use of a projectile much superior to the ordinary service shot,” and that he will accept all the armor despite this failure under trial. What, then, is the use of having tests at all? And, above all, what is the mysterious influence which Andrew Carnegie exerts at Washington?—Chicago Times* The game of making prize battle ships goes merrily on. England has just launched a couple of elegant killing machines, and the American builders are confident that they can make faster, finer and more destructive ones. Who is it continues to drain the trea-ury of its gold? 1* it not the pool man. He isn’t seeing any gold at all. It is the capitalist who takes a profit on bond issue in order to get gold into the treasury, and then hurries around with his legal tenders in order to take It out. This is our wonderful national financing.—Chicago Times.