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manufactures of Heunsylvaaia, who ae. gently proclaimed himself a Socialist fbe-
 fore the Nineteenth Century Clnb, el Ney York has published report of his speech, which was in reply to lecture oi Colonel Higginscn on the AsistocFacy of the Dollar" Mr. Carnegie, himself Scotchman. dealt largely with the shafns tot the Eneiish arfstocracy, whose man.
 ners. appearance and moral quality were toucaed upon severely. "What," asked he, "is the primary e6ndition of that un- restrained and graceful interchange oi civilitics which we know as good man. ners? Surely, the social equality of the
 Individuals concerned. Nov there is truth in Mir. Julian Ha&thorue'y remark, in his lecture the other evening, that some keen critic had said there could
 not be gentleman in England. In a social hierarchy, where neither attain neuts, culture nor conduct are the tests, but where precedence flows by fixed laws,
 merely from rank; and where neither
 public position nor eminence in any de- partment-but where promotion in this
 narrow circle is the object most desired, there must be, and there is, consciously or unconsciously, deference which savers oi servility on the one hand, and always, upon the other, what is called gracious condescension. An Englishman never meets his equal among his own people
 be is either looking up to somebody above him or looking down upon somebody be- low him-a condition of affairs fatal to good manners. a'
 There is delusion as to the appear ance of the British aristocracy. Let any
 visitor see the house of lords when it is
 6lled-which will only be for one of two
 reasons, either when the lords can, in the character of national legislators, legislata
 for themselves, or when they can reject a
 measure beneficial to the masses. Upon such an occasion one would really think, aShe watches the peers pass, or rather hobble in, that every reformatory asylum, or home for incurables in Britain, had
 been asked to send up to Westminster fair specimens of its inmates.
 An aristocracy of birth alone has never been able to sustain itself; and if that of England had not been constantly recruited from the classes beyond its pale, it would long since have perished of it's own inherent weakness. Even as it is, barrenness in the peerage amounts to twenty-one per cent, while the average in the whole population does not reach five per cent This is great natures revolt against the existence of an improperly constituted order which she is ashamed to perpetuate.
 The second contention Is that ar, aristocracy of the dollar is selfish and dangerous. g,
 The first charge is indisputably true. All aristocrats have been, and ever must be, selfish; 1t k their nature. But as compared with that of birth, the aristoc- racy of wealth might be considered gen. erous in the extreme. Of all classes in the world, charge the aristocracy of birth with being the most selfish that class which, during life, gives the least proportion of it's revenues for the good of others and leaves less of iss estate for other than private ends at death."
 From this point, MT. Carnegie went on to speak of the American aristocracy of the dollar. which he did not consider of permanent danger to the country. Then he closed with the following passage upon the prospects Of American million aires:
 His range of vision must be short, or his faith in the progress of the human race but small, who does Aoi sec that the state, in the near future, win not permit great millionaires to ignore the truth that they are but trustees after all, and that their millions boarded are detrimental tc the general good, as the same millions bequeathed to their own issue are posi- lively injurious to them. By cumulative taxation, by progressive legacy duties, or by some efficient means not yet devised, (because not yet necessary in this country while the laws of dispersion act 90 wei, or, perhaps, by strong overwhelming public sentiment only), the degraded soul whose chief aim to the end of bis life is eitherto augment or hoard his mill ions or hequeath them as a whole to his issue, will meet at the hands of an in- dignant community the defeat he richly deserves. After awhile the only con- dition upon which a man will be per. mittedAto posses or administer an undue amount of wealth in government of the people will be that he makes a good use of it, and spends it-not in such vulgar, OSt@uIa4lOuS ulSpiay aS Cn2I0C1eflxcS the royal families and some of the uohles of Europe, and which a few silly people imitate here, or to found family under the cover of primogeniture and entail. which is the general weakness of Britons neither to hoard nor strive to augment his millions, which is the form which the evil usually takes in this country-l It that he holds his wealth for the sake of liberal uses and great things to be done
 done, not for himself or for his family. but for humanity.
 "Hov was he born ? Is of the past What | man owns ? is. already sabordi- nate In America, to what he knows; but in the final aristocracy the question viii not be either of these, but what has he done for his fellows? where has he shown generosity and self abnegation [ when has he been a father to the fathesless and the canse of the poor-where has he searched that outk How he has wor- shiped God vil not be asked In that day, but low has be served man.
 3Which ot the tso great divisions ofl