The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-06

foAvHOIAHleIlL never occurs to this IN
tuitive sociologist. Such scientifically
! purposeful modification of environ
ment might, indeed; unfortunately
change human nature after a while to
the extent even Of eliminating the
| tiger, the hog and ape. 80.
| Perhaps Carnegie's richest contri-.
button to history and economics is the
cheering discovery that though in the
past the laborer was at a disadvan-
tage, today, under the wage-systen1,
he Is free. Thus pages 1854: Now
In this progress the laborer. has not
failed to share with the employer. It
We contrast what ne is with what he
was, the difference is great. He was
| once a slave, then a serf who did
| manual labor. IT'LL recent times
he was not paid in cash. Now he is
a freeman, and sells the labor the
n1ine-owner buys, both equally indie
pendent" Cine unemployed tease and
coax the capitalist for employment,
and accept the capitalists hungry re-
fusal-because the wage-earners are
| at last equally Independent" Later
Carnegie explains how Labor will
conquer capital" yet both enjoy full
freedom
Carnegie would solve the vexing
problem Of great fortunes by an in
heritance tax, by the terms of which
"cne-half Of the deceased millionaire's
hoard should go to the state-when
the estate exceeds $5,000,000." The
solution is statesmanlike, marks Car
negie once, more a genius, since such
tax would leave the Rockefeller
| children only the modest sum of $780,
100000.
Pages 166-167: Socialism, with it's
| equal conditions of life and equal in
comes, must tend to evolve the COM
mon assembling room, the aggrega-
ton of members in one common build
ing, and all the features Of the bar
racks, The result of this must be
to destroy tine home as weknow it,
and tend to substitute the ideal Of the
Socialist, all people being brethere1
and members Of one family and one
home = = father and son, wife and
mother, sisters and brothers no more
to each other than other members OF
! the great Socialist household. = All
are to stand upon an equality Of rela-
tlonship. one to the other - in re-
spect to homes, property, food, dress
and all other. things. Even the chill
tdgen are to be taken care Of by the
state
This message, like the rest OF the
book, was written to poison the pa
irons Of the Carnegie Free Libraries
against Socialism. That is 1t a bare
faced falsehood does not rnatter-to
this shameless poisoner Of the public
mind Prof1t-sharing would, in Car
negie's judgmen, undivorcAble marry
Eapital and Labor and for all time
bring peace and quiet in. this noisy
world. - - $50 z..<.<> ~ !.
OF course Carnegie takes perfervidly
of patriotism, but neglects to state that
his great steel corporation furnished
Russia with steel 7arn1or for warsaips
at less than half the price the corpora
ton charged the United, States. He
has always loved his workingmen,' %
| but neglects to state that his Home
stead company paid Pinkertons Just
| five dollars per day-and-board- for
shooting hungry strikers whom tne
company had goaded to madness.
| Carnegie breaches obedience to the
law, but neglects the testimony Of a
vlce-president Of the Pennsylvania
Railway company that the Carnegie
steel company was the most shameless
Of all the railways patrons in break
ing the federal anti-rebate law.
! PROBLEMS of To-Day marks once
| more ''tfe passing Of .Socialism."-G.
r. Il. in the New York Evening Call.