The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-16

I have been able to see) which sug-
gests the idea of an audacious rich
man attempting literary work as a
fad. Though often wrong Gas it seems
to me) he is always respectfully strong
in the positions he takes and defends.
He is optimistic, patriotic and conser-
vative. He Stands up for poverty"
in the most approved style of the rich
mans art.
Mr.. Carnegie is an optimist. "The
good old times were not good old
times. Neither master nor servant
was as we'll situated then as today.
What were the luxuries have become
the necessaries of life"
Mr.. Carnegie often expressed his
belief in the organization of labor, in
improved hours of work, in bettered
conditions for workmen, in subdued
and regulated oficialism- lin short,
IN about all the things contended for
by champions of labor. But, on the
othei hand, he snites with fury the
socialists and communists who de-
mand one level for all men. He
says Civilization took its start
from the day when the capable, in
dustriots workman said to his incom-
petent and lazy fellow, if thou dost
not sow, thou shalt not reap, and
thus ended primitive communism by
separating the drones from the bees.
One who studies this subject will soon
be brought face to face with the con-
clusion that upon the sacredness of
property civilization itself depends
the right Of the laborer to his hun
dred dollars in the savings-bank, and
equally the right of the millionaire to
his millions"
While Mr.. Carnegie thus vigorous
ly defended the right of some people
to have millions, he attacks with no
less vigor the usual method of mil
lionaires in applying what they have
accumulated. He thinks great for
tunes should be given back to the
people in some systematic manner and
in accordance with some wise plan.
He thinks this is the only way for
great and enduring advantages to
reach the people; and he thinks the
only way to do this properly is, not
by will, but by an intelligent person
al administration by the giver. "It
is well to remember that it requires
the exercise of not less ability than
that which acquires it so as to be
really beneficial to the community.
The growing disposition to tax more
and more heavily the estates left at
death is cheering indication of the
growth Of salutary change in public
opinion"
Mr.. Carnegie is champion of home
rule-in Ireland and everywhere else.
"It is said that the people of Ireland
will not do justice to the landlords.
No, 1 hope not. In my widest and
most vindictive moments 1 have never
yet gone so far as to wish that the
Irish landlords had justice. No; let
rs remember that mercy should in
that case season justice. !" This is
certainly fierce enough to suit the
most fanatical. 1t is the application
of this same doctrine that puts Mr..
Carnegie against England in the Boer
war and against the United States in
the Philippine matter.
No man has better stated the anti
side, so called, of the pres
ent controversy than Mr.. Carnegie,
and his opinions will always be of
value even if they do not in any
sense prevail.
It is not to be supposed that all
men who are fit to be kings are
nor tha t all men who
are crowned are fit to be kings.
1t is not to be supposed that all
men who are fit to be rich are rich,
nor that all who are rich are fit
to be so. Luck, or something wrong
fully called luck, enters in and gives
some men money who ought to be
poor. A vote of all the people would
undoubtedly decide, almost unani-
mously, that Andrew Carnegie is fit
to be rich.