The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-19
CARNEGIE STIRS
UP OLD LONDON
Steel King Tells Britons Why
Americans Outstrip Them.
BEATEN BY Us IN INDUSTRY,

Cannot Compete With U.s. He
sa ~. "and You Will BE Happier ~
You Acknowledge It"-Dccline OF u
Caste Governed Country Related In
An Interview-Our smart Set Ridi-
culed.
There was cabled to the American
papers the other day a brief extract Of
All interview with Andrew Carnegie
wherein he paid a few compliments to
the smart set. says the London CORE
spondent OF the Philadelphia Press.
The article appeared in the London
Daily News. 1t Is the talk Of the city,
and men are asking who the H. s.
who wrote It il.
As has been said. the smart set and
the problem of riches We're among the
most interesting. subjects ons:whicb 4
the interviewer touched. He records
the process thus:
What Of your gospel Of wealthT' !
asked Of Mr.. Carnegie. who. vibrating
to a sympathetic note. replied:
II hold to my gospel Of wealth as
stated it and not as others state 1t. 1t
is that when a manOis thus rich Ae
should spend what he has to spar
after first providing for those neares,
to him and leaving enough to maintain
the business which enriched him With
out hurt or detriment."
"In Britain" said modestly. "we
love to found families. Even oil.
Shakespeare had that weakness. and
our Scott" NJ
Eyes, here it is in the mir. 1t Is the
outcome OF your primogeniture and
your entail. 1t is also the cause OF your
weakness. Here a mans place Is
axed by what his father or his grand
father was: in America a man stands
for himself"
Mr.. Carnegie warmed to the subject
OF his life.
"Think Of It'll" he cried. '.On the n
side a country. whose president sends
his children to the public schools.
whose president has never been chosen
for wealth or birth; on the other. y
country governed from top to bottom
by caste"
And then MI. Carnegie, with one OF
his swift changes OF action-his con.
v~ersation is a perpetual d~rama-placed
his right hand fat above the left.
your society acre is like that, and
by that the upper class learns brutal
ity and the lower s~nobbishness. Every
class has one above to crawl to and
one below to kick" And he shifted
the left above the right. "
A. skr- A->ou;a, ~ In want on 0nd his
eyes fixed me with the intentness OF a
preacher preaching from his own text,
IF the plumbers son is better than
the millionaire's son he goes up top.
Ee rules-he is the real king-he is the
man the girls run after-and no one
cares Il fig for his birth.
Here" he flashed. fixing the hum
BILE, caste ridden Saxon with his eagle
eve, you have. Il duke at the head OF
: your board. He goes to sleep and@no
one-except another duke-dares tc
wake him up or to tell him the truth,
And then you wonder when your gov.
ernments and your companies go tc
!, smash!"
''But what about your smart set
your prank playing New Yorkers-you!
} E~uropeanized richy"
'.They do not count. We laugh a
them. You would initiate them. We
give them nothing to do. You woulc
place them at the head of your gov
!, ernment departments and your rail
ways
but won't you do that with YOU
millionaire sonsy"
mo: there can't be a hereditary gov
erning class in America. Great for
tunes are made. but in Il few genera
tons they get split up again. The In
competents sink to the bottom. wher'
! they ought to be. Treat your idle ricl
, as we treat our smart set and you
4 competent young men will not have t
. emigrate to America to find a career.
And as to the criticisms of England.
. Taking n pencil he drew for me
: little map by which he essayed t
!. prove that Washington was the prope
D capital for the English speaking world
"See!" he cried. penciling the mum
Der of days journey to the common
center. 1T is nearer to Canada AM
Australia. it is quicker now in a Ger
man liner to so to Washington iron
: London than from San Francisco-it
the real center of the English speaking
!. race-not London"
! And then. rapidly-for now he wa
]. : quite wideawake and alert-he begal
5 to pencil the comparative figures o
3 population in America and the Britis
empire.
. Look" he cried. How can you CON
pete with it? The American Union ha
|. now 7S.OOO.OOO: emigrants are pourin
:. in-there are 1000 new little faces t
greet every morning sun in the Unite
States. Between 1S9O-19OO the fncreas
was 15.OOO.O00: between 1900-10