The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-02

found in his case? Why, that with the
exception of a small percentage used
for daily expenses his entire fortune
and all it's surplus earning were in
vested in enterprises which developed
the railway system of our country,
which gives to the people the cheapest
transportation known. Whether the
millionaire wishes 1t or not he cannot
evade the law which under present
conditions compels him to use his mil
lions for the good Of the people.
The MiIlionaire's Small Share.
"All that he gets during the few years
of his life is that he may life in finer
house, surround himself with finer
furniture and works of art which may
be added he could even have a grander
library, more of the gods around him;
but as far as have known millionaires,
the library is the least used part of
what he would probably consider
furniture in all his mansion. He can
eat richer food and drink richer wines,
which only hurt him. But, truly, the
modern millionaire is generally a man
of very simple tastes and even miserly
habits. He spends little upon himself.
and is the toiling bee laying up the
honey in the industrial hive, which all
the inmates of that hive, the commun-
ity in general, will certainly enjoy.
Here is the true description of the mil
lionaire as given by Mr.. Carter in his
remarkable speech before the Bering
sea tribunal at Paris:
"Those who are most successful in the
Han
to such an enormous extent, are the very
men who are able to control it. to invest
1t and to handle in the way most useful
to society. II is because they have those
qualities that they are able to engross 1t
to SO large an extent. They really own,
In any just sense of the word, only what
they consume. The rest Is all held FOR
the benefit of the public. They are the
custodians of it, They invest it; they see
that 1t is put into this employment, that
employment. another employment. All
labor is employed by it, and employed in
the best manner: and 1t is thus made the
most productive. These men who ac-
quire these hundreds of millions are really
groaning under a servitude to the rest of
society; for that is practically their con-
dition. And society really endures it be-
cause it is best for them that it should
be so''
Here is another estimate by a no less
remarkable man. Your friend, Mr..
Dana, has just said at Cornell the other
day:
THAT is one class of men that refer 10
as benefactors, the thinkers, the men of
science, the inventors, and the other class
Is that of those whom God has endowed
with genius for saving, for getting rich,
Tor bringing wealth together, for accumu-
lating and concentrating money. men
against whom it is now tshionable to de-
claim, and sainst W n legislation is
sometimes q. 'cted. Al Net is there any
benefactor OF humanity yho Is to be en-
We'd in his achievements and in the MEM
ory and the monuments he has left be-
hind him, more than Ezra Cornell? Or, TO
take another example that is here before
our eyes, morethan Henry w. Sage? These
are men who knew how to get rich, be-
cause they had been endowed with that
faculty, and when they had got rich they
knew how to give it for great public en-
terpriees, for uses that will remain living,
immortal as long as man remains upon
the earth. The men of genius and the
men of money, those who prepare new
agencies of life, and those who accumulate
and save the money for great enterprises
and great public works. these are the pc
culiar and the inestimable leaders of the
world, as the twentieth century is opening
to us"
"The bees of a hive do not destroy the
honey-making bees but the drones. 1t
would be d great mistake for the COM
munity to shoot the millionaires, for
they are the bees that make the most
honey and contribute most to the hive
even after they have gorged themselves
full. The millionaire who tolls on is the
cheapest article which the community
secures at the price it pays for him,
namely, his shelter, clothing and food
Necessary Concentration.
"The inventions of today lead to con-
centrating industrial and commercial
affairs into huge concerns. You cannot
work tha Bessemer process successfully
without employing thousands of men
upon one spot. You could not make
the armor for without first ex-
pending $7,OOO,OOJ, the Bethlehem
company has spent. You cannot make
yard of cotton goods in competition
with the world without having an i'm
mense factory and thousands of men
and women aiding in the process. The
great electrical establishment here in
your town succeeds because it has spent
millions, and is prepared to do its work
upon great scale. Under such condi-
tions it is impossible but that wealth
will flow into the hands of few men
IN prosperous times beyond their needs.
But assuming that surplus wealth
flows into the hands of a few men.
what Is their duty? How Is the strug-
gle for dollars to be lifted from the
sordid atmosphere surrounding busi-
ness and made noble career? Now,
wealth has hitherto been distributed
in three ways, the first and chief Of
which is by willing it at the death to
the family. Now, beyond bequeathing
to those dependent upon one the rev.
enue needful for modest and indepen-
dent living, is such a use of wealth
either right or wise? / ask you to
think over the result, as a. rule, of mil
lions given over to young men and
women, the sons and daughters of the
millionaire. You will find as a rule it
Is not good for the daughters, and this
is seen in the character and conduct
of the men who marry them. As for
the sons, you have their condition as
described in the extract which | read
you from the Sun. Nothing is truer
than this that as a rule the almighty
dollar bequeathed to sons or daugh-
ters by millions proves an almighty
curse. 1t is not the good of the child
which the millionaire parent considers
when he makes these bequests; it is
his own vanity. 1t is not affection for
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