Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-07

great hearted donor was crossing the
Atlantic.
His friends have defended him from
the charge OF inconsistency hither.o
by ayerring that he cannot escape re-
lantless fortune, who fairly overwhelms
him with her surplus millions, willy
nilTy. and that he cannot begin to
spend his income unless he hires dis
interested people to do 1t for him.
This sad state of affairs is the logical
! result OF having attracted toward one
self the cumulative forces OF blind ma
ture. who never discriminates the in
diyiduai. u only follows the age
worn channels of cause and effect and
showers her fayors upon him until he
Is moved to throw up his hands and
cry: Hold! Enough!" However. II
seems to be now a fair inference that
Mr. Carnegie will be able, il he devote
his energies strictly 10 the subject. to
dispense at least his income, provided
he keep on at tho present rate OF pro-
erosion. He has shown, first. his rood
intention; second. his good judgment,
and now. thirdly, he is going to give a
conspicuous example of a rich man
carrying out his theories.
But this wonderful man. Andrev
Carnegie, is not alone a money maker.
Tie is many sided. he is supenbly en-
dowed as a literary man and has won
renown by his books. His Genes
pleasure, aside from the bestowal OF
money upon worthy objects. is in his
literary work, which he has hitherto
performed at intervals snatched from
his exacting business cares. His first
book was around the World" pub.
lished in 1879; "Our Coaching Trip"
1882; Triumphant Democracy" which
made such a stir in 1883, passed
through many editions and was trans
lated into several foreign languages,
and the Gospel OF Wealth." his
latest, which are most explicitly stated
his beliefs respecting the uses to
which the rich should put their wealth
while living.
The public and perhaps Mr.. Carne-
gie's friends may look upon the libra
ries he has founded as his greatest
achievements, but 1t is whispered that
he himself regards them as only minor
monuments. his real and lasting memo
rails being the books he has written.
And in this belief there are many who
will share, for, after all. the product
of ones brains is vastly more credit
able to one than what results merely
from dipping into ones money bags
or the mere writing OF a check. At all
events. no n can deny that these
works of his. both literary and dona-
tice, will outiast the present genera
tion-outlive. indeed, the century-and
carry the name OF Andrew Carnegie
down to p~osterity as the great bene-
factor OF his race.
And with 1t all Mr.. Carnegie has
shown that he possesses a vivid con-
sciousness OF what is due his fellow
men, as expressed In his Gospel OF
Wealth and enacted In his daily life.
What a man owns" he says. lis al
ready subordinate in America to what
he knows, but In the final aristocrscy
the question will not be either OF these.
but what has he done for his fellows?
Where has he shcwn generosity and
self abnegation? When has he been a
father to the fatherless? And the cause
of the poor-where has he searched
that out?
How he has worshlpped God will
not be asked in that day, but how he
has served mani"
ARTHUR TTTCoMB.