The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-14
CARNEGIE TO
 MAKE REPLY To Question Asked by Rosebery. WHY NOT EDUCATE THE NEGRO Another Art Collection is For
 Sale.
War In England Amoag Takers Re- Joices Poor of London. Small -Bak- CTS Ask Government to later
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 BY ROBERT BR0DHRICk.
 London. Nov. 1s.--Andrew Carnegie is preparing reply on the question which Lord Rosebery asked him the other day at the opening of the win ter session of the "Philesophical In- stitution." and to which he was unable to give an immediate reply.
 Mr. Carnegie had spoken on the nec- essity of tuteiage in India and the United States and when he had finish ed Lord Rosebery said in part:
 Might not the period of tutelage which you. MT. Carnegie, alluded to as necessary in India and in the United States have been extended with ad- vantage to the negro race?
 'T take it that when they were ad- mittedt to the privilege of citizenship, 90 per cent. were iiliterate. Ttake 1t that even on your own showing. wbich may be, perhaps, considered optimistic. there are still some forty-seven per cent. illiterate,"
 well, does 1t not seem to you that you add to the franchise in the general impulse of the moment men who were not wholly competent to exercise that high prerogative? There is a danger. masses of voters, of undertaking the i'm dividual importance, nay, will say the solemnity of the vote.
 We do some things under high and generous impulse that we afterwards regret and I am inclined to think that there is a scho oeI in America which does regret that the concession of the suf- ferage was made. 2 You see in the United States an enormous nation, soem eigthy millions of people, inhabiting an almost bound less territory, receiving into its midst yearly every race and nation under the sum- 1t is the great crucible into which all the metals of the various races of the world are being melted together.
 What is to become of them ?(Will the amalgamation result in the prcduc- tion of perfect man of the future. or will the result be a perfectly new type. unknown hitherto to anthropologists. that will be the subject of study and interest to the older races of the globe?'' What is to become of them? VIII
 We look forward to the development of the expirement with almost breath less interest"
 Another great art collection has come into the market and it's treasures are available for American buyers, who are now recognized as the most important factor in the art market.
 he picture referred to belonged to Lord Ashhurton, the young baron who last year married Frances Donnelly, e New York chorus girl. He has sold hia incomparable gallery of old masters to as syndicate of art deslsrssfoR $780,
 The Ashburton collection was form. ed nearly one-hundred years ago bs ths~ fiFst -baFoRs4 and is faanouss for iti pumerous great masterpieces of tht r Dutch, Italian, and Spanish schools Among the most famous pictures art the Wolf Hunt" by Rubens. the Holy Family" by Vandyck, portrait of him. self by Rembrandt and the Foul Saints" by Vandyck, an early but bril- | liant Correggio. There are also many me pictures by Guyp, SStteen Paul Pot ter, Teniers, Van ostade, Hobbema and RuisdaeL
 glo Russian treaty not only relieves England of considerable anxiety ir regard to her Indian Empire, it- will al so in all probability result in the reduc tion of the strength of the British army in the land of the hindoos. The question of a material reduction for the sake of economy will very short | ly be brought up in the Cabinet anC | will not pass without strong objection It is well known that Lord Kitchenel considers that in the new circumstancei | in India the British garrison should be increased In order that certain dis. tricts may be garrisoned- without in terfering with the scheme of distribu ton as devised for war. Any proposa from the home authorities towards re duction would therefore produce ( sharp reduction of opinion.
 At the present moment great difficul ty Is being experienced in finding tho drafts for India to keep the present force at. an adequate strength. India i' also to be asked to pay 10000 900 ad' .fal T NIR .A -N AN. garrison.
 It is regarded as in every way like. ly that the discussion of military measures in India will once more be. come acute if the Government presses for a reduction in the force, coupled with a demand for increased payments
 At a recent meeting of the Tariff Re. form League Lord Ridley spoke very interestingly on the danger of social ism.
 We want to fight socialism" he said ';by exposing the fallacy of the economic views of the Socialist. But fl I read things right the. working classes of England are not concerned so much with the theoretical and economic doct- rines of the Socialist as with the tvari- ous improvements in their position which they desire, many of which i'm provements are far removed from So- cialism. but which are advocated heart. fly and genuinely hx Socialist leaders
 The working class of England are not SociaHstic,' and for one refuse to regard this socialist movement as a class war. unless the older political parties of the country fail in their con ception of the situation. The British working man does not want to divide up everybody's property including his own. He does not want to destroy fam fly life or to deny the authority of Christianity.
 "He does not care particularly for the standardization of railways, and s all the means of production provided he Is assured of a reasonable share in the national profits. and you will find plen- ty of British working men only too ready to fight against purely socialist doctrines.
 But the British working man is dis- catisfed with things as they are, and the strength of the clever Socialist writer lies in the fact that Socialism is the product of economic conditions which it should be the business of the Unionist party to alter
 Too Late.