Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-15
AUTHOR CARNEGIE.
Has Been Writing a Book on
Labor Problems.
A TALK WITH THE MILLIONAIRE.

Forced to Suspend His Work Because of
Worry Over Homestead, Which Trouble
Is Now, He Says, Practically Over
Going to Europe to Study the Indus
trial Ouestion--Johnny Bull in a Bad
Commercial Way, While Uncle Sans
Goose Is AItitudinous.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Andrew Carnegie sub
mitted TO a long interview yesterday in the
Hotel Metropole, being the first time he has
spoken freely to a newspaper man since the
recent serious labor troubles at his extern
sive works in Homestead, Pa. He said
that he would start for the continent on
Tuesday next, and that he intended to de
vote the winter to visiting the various
cities of Europe and inspecting the large
manufactures which they contained. He
would study thoroughly the laws bearing
on industrial concerns, especially those of
courts of arbitration which France had
established for the settlement of differ
ences existing between employers and EN-
ployed.
Has Been Writing Book.
He informed the reporter that he had
been busily engaged all during the spring
and summer in preparing new book treat
ing of the industrial problems of the day.
The work. he explained, was written from
the standpoint of one who had long retired
from active business and who had been
both an employee and an employer and
knew how TO sympathize with both He
would write as a workingman TO working
men and as an employer to employers; not
as an advocate, but as a judge between
them Since the deplorable Homestead
events, which had burst upon him like a
thunderbolt from clear sky, he had bt en-
unable to work much. They had de-
pressing effect upon him.
Might He Mistaken in This.
He had perforce to lay his book aside and
resort TO the lochs and moors, fishing daily
from morning To night Now everything
had been settled at the works as kilograms
which he had Just received showed that all
the troops had left Homestead and that the
ranks of the strikers had been broken. The
old men were returning daily tother form
er places and the trouble was virtually a
thing of the past He would now so 70 the
continent and work with a fresh and happy
mind. For all the deplorable incidents of
the Homestead strike his chief regret was
that so manv of the old men had allowed
their places to be filed.
England Going to the BoT-Wows.
Referring TO the business prospects of
this country, Carnegie said that the out
look for Great Britain was very dark. He
daily saw az least half dozen calls for
reductions of wages and hours of labor and
the closing of works Owing to the poor
crops i'll Europe the United States would
find good markets for all its surplus pro-
ducts. That country would therefore re
main prosperous and the masses would be
able to obtain full employment and to live
in comfort, although at the present prices
for manufactures continue low.
''An Hunky'' in the United states.
The capacity for production of the United
States was beyond any possible domestic
requirements for some time TO come aad
the country was therefore enabled TO send
its surplus products abroad and undersen
even the British in their own markets. In
short" said Carnegie in conclusion. "look
where you will there is but one truly pros
porous count " in the world, and this is the
republic of the United States. God bless
her. She deserves it