Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-14
CARNEGIE TALKS Q
Retired Millionaire Philanthropist esses
Himself Most Interestingly,
RElTERATES HIS VIEWS ON BENEFACTlONS
Why He Has Faith in Industrial Supremacy
of United States,
FUTURE OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC ASSURED
Feels the Pulse Abroad on Question of
American Imperialism,
JTURE OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC ASSURED
PRoPHs SIZES INDEPENDENCE FOR FlLIplNoS
Indulgcs in Severe Criticism of Course
Pursued by President Mckinley
in His Military Operations
in the East.


in His Military Operations
in the East.
Copyright, 1899. by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON May 13.-(New York World Ca
blegram-Special Telegram )-Andrew Car
negie spoke freely this morning concerning
his plans of public benefcence and the
industrial competition of the United States
and England. Both topics are causing con
troversy and speculation on both sides of
the Atlantic Just now
Have you any general scheme for dis
bursting your millons?"
Not any set scheme but the directions in
which | have tried heretofore to do some
good will afford general indication of my
idea of the most beneficial uses to which
money can be applied. l am the last man
living to believe in promiscuous or indis-
criminate charity. My opinion is that out OF
every $1,000 bestowed on so-called charity
$3.50 had better have been thrown into the
sea. No applications need be made to me for
contributions, as all my letters are opened
by my secretary and such applications
never get before me- l hope to preserve
what little reputation l possess for COM
mon sense in assisting useful objects. My
gift to Birmingham is only a slight return
for the inventions Birmingham has given
Pttsburg steel and iron manufacturers, be-
sides-and this is very important quail
fcation in this connection-my partners have
rot yet definitely purchased my interest in
my firm. l really don't know whether
will be glad or sorry to go out of business.
1t is a great wrench, but | dare say shall
find lots of occupation any way. / leave
for Scotland Tuesday and look forward to
a delightful holiday on my salmon rivers
for the summer"
Americas Industrial Supremacy.
'Mr. Barnes, secretary of the Amalga-
mated Society of Engineers, stated that the
sole reason for the transfer of orders for
locomotives and bridges and other iron work
to the United States was because English
workshops were full and that the English
engineering trade shows a steady growth for
the last ten years.
SIS this consistent with your views ex-
pressed Monday
Barnes explanation is quite true. All
steel manufacturing works in the world to-
day are pressed for products. The demand
is greater than the whole world can supply
for iron and steel machinery and ships. So
long as that demand continues all works
will be busy but after time there will be
slackening of the demand. The question is
which country will get half the loaf when
there is not enough to go round. My answer
is the United States, because it can produce
cheaper than either England or Germany,
the only two competitors necessary to take
into account as American manufacturers can
afford to run their works to supply the
enormous home demand at a small profit and
dump their surplus in competition with all
other nations England and Germany are
working up to their utmost capacity today.
Their cost of raw materials Is steadily in
creasng and it is impossible for them to
compete in the open markets Of the world
at prices the American manufacturers can
afford to take for their surplus. Neither has
the immense home market Of the United
States, and the country which furnishes the
best home market is the best equipped to
capture the foreign"
How long will this Industrial boom last?"
1T cannot wane this year. as there are
orders sufficient to keep things booming for
that time. At all events the supremacy of
the United States in the iron and steel
trades is permanently established. The
United States is barely tapping its resources
in the way Of iron and coking coal fields
while England and Germany are working
theirs to the full limits. England's product
of pig iron is decreasing year by year de-
icas industrial triumph is to endure"
Philippine Question Abroad.
Andrew Carnegie also gave out the fol-
lowing signed statement today on imperial
ism and the political outlook for the United
States:
ut gives me pleasure to oblige you by
statement Of the situation in which / find
the imperalistic question here. ! have seen
many of the most prominent public men now
in London whom know to have been friends
of the American republic when 1t needed
friends From the highest to the lowest,
without exception, they have met me with
expressions of deep regret that the republic
founded by Washington and his colleagues
upon plans so much higher than those of
any other state should have fallen to the
level of the military states of Europe Some
of these men stood with Bright in the cam
paign against the imperial party here who
longed to strike us down. l repeat that
without exception these men are lamenting
the lapse from true Americanism to this
miserable imperialism.
81 have met men of the other class who
struck us when the republic was down. Let
me give them credit for a change of their
feelings toward America. | know them now
to be amongst the foremost advocates OF
race alllahce. but l also know If / were
a British statesman there would be no price
would not pay for an alliance with Americs.
no price would be too high or securing her
entrance into the troubled waters of the far
east becauee 1t is the desire of all English
speaking men that We should stand together
as against men not of our race. Nature
made blood thicker than water and an al
lance with our republic is now the keynote
of British policy and wisely So But not an
alliance with our present industrial republic.
Our present war-lord makes himself ridicu-
lous in the eyes of these statesmen with
three battleships at his back and only 40, 900
soldiers strutting like peacocks, as vain and
just as harmless. No it is not the present
industrial republic England wishes 10 have
as her ally. 1t is the republic England sees
America must become II il does not soon
reverse its policy in regard to the Philip
pines. We must have a tremendous navy and
. huge standing army for Britain judges
truly that into Whatever enterprise the
uuit6d States goes II will not be eonteu. very