Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-04-06
is NO PHILANTHRoPlsT
Uncle Andy Carnegie Also Believes It's
Not a Disgrace 20 Die
Solvent,

New York, April ST never said that
to die rich was to die disgraccd."
Thus spoke Andrew Carnegie las. night
after he had footed up his unfulflled
promises to colleges and libraries at the
close of business hours and learned that
thes' amounted to sl7,nW,coo Turning from
the contemplation of this. which did not
disturb him in the least he said:
What did say was much more sensi-
bic and much nearer the truth. Some time
we will discuss 1T.
II do not expect to impoverisa myself,
but / hope to set i'm motion systems of
wise and practical benevo,ence which.
with what fortune j leave, may be wisely
and profitaby empioNcd by those who
come after me- am satisfied with what I
have accomplished thus far. but should
not be If 1 did not believe that what bo-
gan will continue after | have gone 1t
is not what l am able to give. blu. what
l am able to induce others to give which
docs the real good seek to accomplish.
Is No Philanthropist.
object to the term ph,lanthro DIST
when applied to myself. l always UNDER
stand it to mean man with more money
than brains. In my work for humanity I
propose to use the brains | have we'll,
as tried to do in accommodating the means
OF doing good and making myself and 9TH
err persons happy.
In my assistance to colleges I am on
deavoring to apply the same business prn-
ciples which have enabled me to put my
self in the position to do what | am doing
nave no intention of encouraging small
,colcges-nor large ones. for that natter
to expand beyond their visible resources.
1T Will do more harm than good in most
instances to place at their disposal con-
siderable sum OF money to be employed in
any way which might CRAFTY the immedi-
ate views of their trustees and faculty.
must be assured first that there en-
lists pressing need which cannot be met
by the resources at the command OF the
trustees. must then he assured that tho
enterprise is one which has reason for
being, which If managed wisely and con-
scrNatlNcly has Il reasonable chance of be-
coming self-sustaining. My secretary, Mr.
Bartran, receives all applications for gifts
before they come TO my attention, and he
is an expert
II do not object to a school conducted
If 1t prospcrs by reason of such
patronage. In case a school is so strictly
guarded that it makes the acceptance of
ITS tenets condition of matriculaton l
am free to say 1T does not interest me"
Given to Colleges.
Following is list of colleges which Mr..
Carnegie has assisted since December,
1859 and the amounts for which he has
made himself responsible in each in
stance.
$l5O. 600 Pennsylvania State college.
Syracuse university
$l2-i, G00-Oberln college
$lo0,HO-Iuft's college.
s5o0oO-lowa college Beloit college, Cor
nell college. Mount llolyoke college.
Lawrence university, University of
Maine, Washington and Lee university,
Depaw university. University of North
Carolina. Drake university.
$4,000 Washburn college, Marietta coll
lcgc, Fairmount college Pomona college.
University of Tennessee.
0N-Oklahoma university, I,ucknell
university, Berea college. winthrop
normal. Central University of kentucky,
Earlham college, Alabama PoIytcchnque.
So. OO0-Uppcr Iowa university, Atlanta
university, University of Mississippi.
500 -Tuskagec institute, Lebanon
Valley college. Bethany college, Fish uni
versty.
sls,soo-North Carolina state normal
school
SIG 7OO-St Johns college.
$4,000 Yankton college. ralladcga col-
lege. Wilberiorce university, Park col-
lese, North Dakota agricultural college.
Furman university.
ST. Livingston college
$1,000 Agricultural and Mechanical col.
lege
$1,000 Converse college. Simpson col
icge Carson and Newman college, State
normal school,
$4,000 Benedict college
S., O10-Fassenden academy
There are forty or fifty more appl.ca-
lions which will be acted upon before
MIR Carnegie goes abroad for the sum.