The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12
CHARITY DOES
HARM THINKS
SkIBO'S LAIRD
Famous PhiIanthrOpist Says
Obligation of Wealth Lies in
Advancing Education
Carnegie Says He Could Have
Made S50,OOO,000 During
Recent Panic

which he spoke Among the matters
he discussed were:
The Infamous" English land taxa
ton system
The drink problem.
Rare Scotch whisky and Mark
Twain's respect for it.
The vacuity of the Marian canal
theory.
The vacuity of the Bacon Shake
speare schism.
Henry Georges single tax theory
and Lloyd-Georgs's budget.
The work of the Carnegie institution
for scientific research.
Socialism.
Tariff for revenue only.
The futility of charity.
The obligations of great wealth.
The bronze ship Carnegie" which
has about it no iron to disturb the
eouaniu1ity of the compass.
Why he did not make S5o,0oo,o0o
during the panic.
Has Pleasing Personality
ANY cynicism which might have been
entertained toward Carnegie as one of
tho multimiuionaires of America van
ishes before the charm Of his personal
itv andG the conta gion Of his chuckle.
He might have won his millions
through the very desire of the dollars
10 gather around and enjoy the anec-
dotes.
Now here is 2 perfectly new story
on Mark Twain" he suddenly inter
jected into his interview. 1t will be
good for you. as it has never been
published before; il viii be a scoop
and the laird OF Skibo chuckled in an
ticipstion of the coming snecdote.
You know" he said, Mark Twain
and I are firm friends. He calls me
saint Andrew and I call him Saint
Mark. We write funny notes to each
other-that is, the notes he writes me
are funny. You know he has been in
rather poor health for some time. and
after one of his trips to Bermuda 1
visited him at his house. After I left
I sent him some Scotch whisky had.
Il was very good Scotch-it has a his
tory. but that is not in point. Mark
Twain wrote and thanked me for the
liquor. saying:
Dear Saint Andrew:
IF I had known when you were at
my bedside what you were about to do
would have given you my halo. It is
good halo. II is made of tin, and
paid the duty on it when it came
down.
shortly after that continued Car
negie I fell and hurt my knee And
Mark Twain. when he heard of the
accident said, Carnegie should have
sent me all Of that whisky"
Drinks Very Little Scotch
But the chuckling Scotchman hast
ened 10 add, Il only drink two glasses
Of Scotch day, at meal time, and that
under the orders of my physician.
While z man can not have too much
Scotch in him he can have too much
Scotch whisky"
From the jest Of Twain Carnegie
turned quickly TO the serious aspect
of the liquor question. not as il was
Eenially considered in the banter of the
humorist
Drink said Carnegie seriously, lis
one OF the principal causes of poverty
and inefficiencY. At Skibo 7 had made
it an object to our men to be sober.
Every man who passes a year without
taking q drink gets a 10 per cent ad-
ditiOnal wage II is worth that much
10 me in increased efficiency. 1 in
sist that the coschman and chauffeurs
shall not drink-my guests shall al
ways have tho assurance that they are
being driven by sober men, and on our
yacht we have only men who do not
drink. In the other lines of employ
ment il is optional with the men
whether they drink or not. 1 do not
infringe upon their personal liberty,
but If they do abstain I make it worth
their while.
This practice is having beneficial
effect in. the neighborhood of Skibo
castle.
Problem of Unemployed
While drink is one Of the chief
causes of poverty, there will always
be the problem Of the unemployed.
Wherever a city or congested COM
munity is prosperous and there is much
work being done there will be move
meht OF working men toward that
point They viii always keep the
ranks filled and the inefficient and the
inert who are about win form the sur
plus Of labor. That is inevitable"
The project of Millionaire Fels, the
soap man, TO devote his fortune to
spreading the propaganda of single
tax did not appeal to Carnegie
i do not believe in it." he said.
Single tax is what Henry George used
10 preach. l told Henry George to take
Ills theories out to- Iowa, the banner
state of his democracy, where nearly
every adult owns a farm and see how
dong he would be listened to.
1t is not so very different from So
cialism- There is a story that I have
heard that illustrates the socialists
attitude.
There was a negro in the south who
was a socialist and was given freely
10 discussing his theories. He met a
white man one day who questioned
him rigidiy on the extent of his be-
lief.
If you had two horses. SAM said
the white questionef, and your poor
neighbor had none, would you give
him one of your horsesT
Yes sir, deed ] would, sir replied
the dsrl<y; that's socialism,
And If You had two cows and your