New-York tribune., 1903-01-21
Mr.. GAGE ON CAPITAL.
andres Carnegie Clues Medal to
Life .Sauer.

Andrew Carnegie, in presenting medal from
the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps
TO Earl Guiiek. at the celebration of the sixth
annual anniversary ef the West Side Branch
of the Young Mems Christian Association in
Carnegie Hall last night. congratulated the
weird on the improvement in its conception OF
heroes and of the tendency of enlightened man
10 Apply mere and more this crucial test in re-
gaFd Ia heroes. What have they dene TO henelt
or save their feliows?" not How many have
they destroyed"
Every seat i'm the auditorium to the tepmest
tier was filled by ticket holders before the doors
were thrown open william NJ. Kingsley, chair
man af the branch. escorted Mr. Carnegie and
Lyman J. Gage ex-Secrstary Of the Treasury
To the platform The New York Festival Chorus.
of four hundred voices seated in tiers on the
stage. and led by Tall Esen Morgan. sang.
When Mir. Carnegie was introduced the audi
enee arose, waved their handkerehiefs and
cheered. lie said in part:
There is a hero in the Philippines to-day; He
a wise judge, and strongly opposed our
forcing ourselves upon the people there, but at
the call of duty ne went 10 serve his country
and benefit that people The highest once save
one in the land within his Feach, the
height If his ambition at home He resisted the
termination. impaired his health was he
elected to plunge into the waves, as II were, & 10
save the drowning people who needed MS heip.
Judge Taft is true hero; he has risked ms ne
for his fellows.
Permit me TO introduce to you a hero of the
higher civilization ef to-day; strange kind of
hero indeed would he he to our ancestors Tor
he has never killed anybody He has only al
fourteen years OF age saved a man OF Ihl's
from drowning
Mr. Carnegie then called Earl Gulick forward
and presented the medal te the lad. who was
greeted with cheers.
Mr. Kingsley announced that the branch was
looking for the right man to start an up to date
Young Mems Christian Association in Havana,
Cuba. He said il would cost $1,000. A cellec-
1ien was started at once for the fund
when the collection basket was passed to Mr..
Carnegie he fumbled in his pockets and looked
embarrassed. as his search failed to disclose
any charge. Then he turned TO ". s. Hawk,
OF the Hotel Manhattan. who accompanied him.
The latter produced dollar bill and slipped it
into Mr.. Carnegie's hand. and it went into the
collection basket.
Ex-Secretary Gage. in his speech. said:
Thank God. there is perfect equality among
n0en in political and civil rights-the rights OF
life. liberty and the pursuit Of happiness No
government ought To infringe upon these rights.
they ought not to he trespassed upon by any
combinations Of wealth or power. or invaded by
any body Of men, whether calling themselves
unions Of labor o. by any other appellation.
I submit two propositions: First that every
man should in equity receive from society value
FOR value according to the service he renders
Second. that the most valuable services always
have been and always will be rendered by the
superior or exceptional man. and that he always
has been and always Will he comparatively un-
derpaid. .,
Vanderbilt found FIVE or six independent rail-
roads between New-York and Buffalo and the
carsci+y of he whole was that of the weakest
section He welded the links together ana
1sa ned a large rav-aFd, but since then the aver
Sc freight rate has 8een reduced from "t2 cents
9 milo to tnree-qr l;e~s Of cent. II the rail-
=reiEhi Of thirty years ago We're PAID now:
- - = ed States would he under cest OF
S-0.. ~ per annum more than now. yet
r-aeee &C., Sse roads are now higher and hours
IS -. Credit is due to the men whose
- b,,Ie. Nd executive ability and energy
t tr,- ,ese improvements about.
7 cali tho S-ceptional men who have risen
fress the ranks mere labor to the higher work MerR
- lsrraetinr IA \ coordination Of those three
iapPen+s Of pr2d5 Nion-land. labor and capital.