New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-19
4 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE.
What Andre7C Carnegie Writes in
I'he Scottish american.

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Scottish American" The making of good resoIu-
tons is salutary II these bear little fruit for
they prove that our thoughts upon serious
things and that see the need for self-lmprove-
ment
"As grow older we should indeed grow better
1t IS point, gained if realize that we should be
better in many things. Throughout the whole world
people have stated times for considering their po-
sitions morally and materially and for laying down
good rules for the term In the most popuIous
! country Of the world China. this time is New
Years Day They are a very interesting people,
the Chinese and only do they then bring in re-
view their lives and aims. but that day they
give a practical turn to the study. It Is article
OF their religion that every debt should be dis
charged on New Years Day. They must begin the
new year owing anything. People unable
TO do this often commit suicide, being no longer
DESTROYS of living when they cannot hold their
heads up among their fellows free from all obga-
tons.
II would not venture to recommend this policy TO
the readers Of a Scottish newspaper but certainly
this season of the year would be we'll spent, after
moral amendment had been resolved upon in TAX
ing a review OF pecuniary circumstances and re-
solving TO live within income which many sages
tell US is Indispensable to happiness. Thrift Is a
virtue generally credited to the Scots in a much
greater degree than 70 their southern neghbors the
English.
"Junius goes pretty far in his advice TO everybody
to secure a modest competence, without which
man can be happy, scarcely honest We who know
what honest poverty is cannot go far that;
On the contrary. honest poverty Is more general
than Junius could ever have imagined Still, for
the well doing. respectable workingman, there is
il getting ahead in the world. source Of satisfac-
ton and OF character building which scarcely any
thing else can supply always excepting irreproach-
able conduct, which is the chief jewel of life
THE ownership OF q home has far reaching effects
upon human character and happiness Indeed I
do know material acquisition that compares
with it in this respect It goes deep down 70 the
root a mans man for a that but he is more
OF when he is owner Of his own home than
If he rents the property of another
Home. sweet home, there's no place like home
Is an American song. I wonder how many OF my
readers know that No Will ever know how
very, very sweet that song is until he sings It in
the home he call his own It would not be a
bad resolve for the wide circle OF Scottish
paper readers TO make this morning that they Will
devote the savings. which they should so manage
TO insure, TO the purchase of a home. Through
building societies this be easily accomplished,
and next Christmas when they assemble in the
home, not rented but owned, they will sing Home,
Sweet Home with more intense feeling than ever
before. 1t will have acquired new meaning.
" Every man his own landlord would make Scot
land happier land and Scots prouder than ever.
If possible of their native land.
There IS another source of happiness to those
who save, in insu-ing the breadwnner's life SO
that those dependent upon him will suffer want
Nothing take its place a matter OF prudence.
one might almost say OF duty. for those rich.
So much saved every year maintain the insurance
fund brings infinite satisfaction. 1t relieves man
from many anxieties. which react upon his bodily
health: and the breadwinner. sure that wife and
weans are provided for, goes forth to his work In
the morning as a giant refreshed. He is more likely
TO rise in the scale than his fellow harassed by
anxious thoughts upon that score.
"One cannot think upon the lives OF the masses
of the Scottish people without finding an unweI-
come spectre ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My experience
with workingmen has been not !nconsiderable in
America and from what I see here I cannot blind
myself TO he fact that in this respect my native
land is sadly behind my adopted land.
The native born American workman is a strictly
temperate I that the climate is
different and much more favorable to temperance
than this Scotch climate. This makes the tempta-
ton to drink much less. Besides this. the AHeri-
can, z rule, has better home. there is more
room IN H. and he is able rom his higher wages
to purchase more comforts. perhaps might say.
IN one sense. luxures than his fellow in Scotland.
The fact remains that he is temperate. and that
the Scottish workingman, not earning much more
more than double in Intoxicating liquors
The Scottish workman who resolves to- and
does, devote the amount OF his former drink expen-
ditGTe to payments fS IU eUg s1feJy 1GT
next in Importance, will have cause each succeed
ment. and remember with greater satisfaction. the
path which leads upward.
There is one subject which, when mentioned
causes a Scot TO hang his Tead-intemperanc This
loved Scotland from this stain that her
We all have our trials and dsappointments IN
this life. Those who think that the king upon
the throne escapes or the noble or millionaire in
the palace make a very great mistake indeed. The
Ifs touch all men one Ike myself who has known
poverty and known wealth, knows this. not only
from obseEVaCon' but from eAp=I4 eilce. -
OF true happiness worth having for all men Of
every degree-that IS the consciousness Of acting
according the light given them, feeling that
where much Is given much IS required There Is
one never failing satisfaction in the knowledge
that amid much that would change. it q
cheering fact that man has steadily improved. and
lower forms up his comparatively high estate.
If consider only the present much is seen TO
pain much 10 discourage US
,1isbaJ ere The conditions are as We should wish
But there remains direction 10 which We should
vyba1 our rnanffnd blessings come to mind ana
arouse our gratitude and bring US haPpiness-that
is the look backward Consider what has been,
and what has now been reached in the path Of i'm
provemsnt Read Of the Scotland Of the not even
very distant past. and note the depioraole condl-
for the better which the masses of tn PEOPLE now
enjoy. and the more than material benefits which
now enjoyed be overlooked. OF which our predeces-
s1rs knew nothing Traces Of the v.llanage re-
NAMED IN the lifetime OF men sun lVn7' ana tiler
fathers the workers transferred with the mines
that were sold Now the miners and the owners
are az ms moment negotiating as feIoW Hie[cIhts
Tor te purchse and sale Of lApor. one WlsHii4s 10
9uy me TteF Tlshins TO sci. Upon tib u F,5
stood for. is no longer merely aspiration Rank
Probably one Of the greatest changes in our gem
GRAFTON Is me general access Of workers 70 knowl-
te hnlcal education But there aIe too many points
OF contrast between past and present conditions 10
proved conditions, slowly only those who DO not
lft theinse4Ees out Of to-day's turmoil and taAe a
amazed at the rapd ity with which We are pushing
onward and upward and filed with glorious visions
by 2 ~ t Of his being must ever turn his
mar