The Indianapolis journal., 1903-04-28
THE ELIMINATION OF sMALLNEss.

The local Democratic organ draws an
anti-tarif moral with equal facility from
the crop reports, the market reports and
the probate courts. the equity courts and
the divorce courts all alike furnish ii with
arguments in favor of admitting foreign
products free Of duty and reducing the
wages of American workmen TO the Euro
pean standard. For Andrew Carnegie's
1t had no word of approval, because it was
intended to benefit a race that furnishes
few Democratic votes. His later gift of
s1,500000 for the erection of Temple of
Peace for the use of The Hague tribunal
1t greets with the sneering comment: And
Mr.. Carnegie has rendered a million
and half to Holland for the erection Of
a permanent building for the International
Peace Commission at The Hague. Is there
no end to the accumulation of tariff bene-
fits?" A man who hunts for new stars
through a reversed telescope will never
find any. and one who searches after traces
of nobeness in human actions with
double concave lens will be equally un-
successful. A normally healthy vision can
find In the giving of more than 100000 900
for worthy objects something besides
pretext for a sneer or an argument for free
trade
Mr. Carnegie is not the only man who
has achieved great wealth, and the major
ity of those who have done so have had
no benefit from the tariff. There are mil
lionaires in every country of Europe none
Of whom has been aided by tariff. Krupp,
the great German iron worker and gun
maker, became q multimillionaire without
the aid of tariff. Sir Thomas Upton has
become a multi-millioEaire by importing
tea in a free-trade country. and there are
scores of others In both Germany and
England, not to mention other European
countries. In this country most of the
men of large wealth have had no benefit
from the tariff. The Rockefellers, John
d. and William, of Standard Oil fame,
worth more than Mr.. Carnegie. do not owe
cent to protection. Neither does Pier
pont Morgan nor any of the millionaire
railroad magnates or merchant princes. The
Astors and vanderbilts. of New York.
the Armours and the Palmers, of Chicago,
and scores of other millionaires throughout
the country owe nothing to protection
Even Mr.. Carnegie did not make all of
his money in the iron business. He laid
the foundation of his fortune by organizing
the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company and
m ry.x--
Pa. before the war. His success in the
iron business was largely due to his enter
prise in introducing into this country the
Bessemer process Of making steel-a pro-
cess which. by the way. enriched its Eng
lish inventor as well as Mr.. Carnegie. Per-
haps the latter made more money in the
iron business under protection than he
would have made under free trade, but he
belonged to a class of men who make
money under any economic system: But If
protection enabled him to make more
money than he would have done otherwise
it also enabled him to pay thousands of
workmen higher wages than they would
have received otherwise. Krupp, the great
German iron master. employed twice as
many workmen Mr.. Carnegie did, but
did not pay them much more than half as
much wages. Krupp gave away compare
lively little in his lifetime, and left an
enormous fortune without any charitable
bequests Of consequence. Mr.. Carnegie has
given more In single gift than Krupp did
I'm all his life and in his will besides. Yet
when the American, in addition to s1O0, ,OOO =
coo he has already given for noble objects.
adds $1.500OO0 for a purpose that excites
the admiration and applause of the civilized
world, fellow-countryman who is still
worshiping the memory of Golden and
the maxims of John c. Calhoun wants
to know If there is mo end to the
accumulation of tariff benefits" Evidently
there is no end to the littleness of the ad-
vocates of free trade