The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-04
CARNEGIE STIRS
UP OLD LONDON
Steel King Tells Britons Why
Americans Outstrip Them.
BEATEN BY Us IN INDUSTRY.

Says, sand You win BE Happier IL
You Acknowledge It''-DecIine of n
Caste Governed Country Related In
an Interview-our smart Set Ridi-
euIed.
There was cabled to the American
papers the other day a brief extract of
an 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 III. S."
who wrote 1t is.
AS has been said, the smart set and
the problem of riches were among the
most interesting subjects upon which
the interviewer touched. He records
the process thus:
what of your gospel Of wealthT' /
asked of Mr.. Carnegie, who, vibrating
to sympathetic note, replied:
Il hold to my gospel Of wealth as
stated 1t and not as others state it. 1t
is that when a man is thus rich he
should spend what he has to spare
after first providing for those nearest
to him and leaving enough to maintain
the business which enriched him with
out hurt or detriment"
In Britain / said modestly, 1--WE
love to found families. Even our
Shakespeare had that weakness, and
our Scott"
Eyes. here it is in the air. 1t is the
outcome Of your primogeniture and
your entail. It's also the cause of your
weakness. Here a mans place is
fixed 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!' he cried. con the one
side country whose president sends
his children to the public schools,
whose president has never been chosen
for wealth or birth: on the other, a
country governed from top to bottom
BY caster
And then Mr. Carnegie, with one OF
his swift changes Of action his con
yersation is perpetual drama placed
his right hand hat above the left.
Your society here is like that, and
by that the upper class learns brutal
ity and the lower snobbishness. Every
class has one above to crawl to and
one below to kick" And he shifted
the left above the right.
I'm America" he went on, and his
eyes fixed me with the intentness of a
preacher preaching from his own text,
s'if the plumbers son is better than
the milaonaire's son he goes mp top.
| He rules she is the real king ne is the
man the girls run after and no one
cares a fig for his birth.
Here. he flashed, fixing the hum
bic, caste ridden Saxon with his eagle
eye, you have a duke at the head Of
your board He goes to sleep and no
one-except another duke dares to
wake him up or to tell him The truth!
And then you wonder when your gov
ernments and your companies 90 to
smashr
"But what about your smart seo--
your prank playing New Yorkers-your
Europeanized riehT
"They do not count We laugh at
them. You would initiate them. We
give them nothing to do. You would
place them at the head Of your gov
eminent departments and your rail-
ways
"But won't you do that with your
millionaire sons"
mo; there cant be a hereditary gov
erning class in America, Great for
tunes are made, but III few genera
tons they get split up again. The in
competents sink to the bottom, where
they ought to be. Treat your idle rich
as we treat our smart set and your
competent young men will not have to
emigrate TO America to find career.
And as TO the criticisms Of England.
Taking a pencil he drew for me a
little map by which be essayed to
prove that Washington was the proper
capital for the English speaking world.
"See!'' he cried, penciling the num-
Der Of days journey to the common
center. 1T is nearer to Canada and
Australia, it is quicker now in Ger
man liner to 60 to Washington from
London than from San Francisco-it Is
the real center Of the English speaking
race mot London"
And then, rapidly--for now he was
quite wideawake and alert-he began
to pencil the comparative figures Of
population In America and the British
empire.
Look he cried How can you com
pete with it? The American Union has
now 7S,00o,0O0; emigrants are pouring
in-- there are 1000 new little faces tC
greet every morning sun In the United
States. Between 1S90-1900 the increase
was 100000; between 1000-10 Il
viii be 100000. what was and what
will be your inereaseg'
Without waiting for reply he went
: ruthlessly on;
You are now 41,00o,00C Between
ls90-1900 you increased 100000 You
may increase the same amount be
tween 1900-10, but your rate Of In
! crease must soon begin to diminish
for you are fun up aud you are ex