The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-04-16
CARNEGIE GOSPEL OF WEALTH

Wilson prosperity and Carnegie philanthropy that the wealth of the
nation increases the of three hundred thousand dollars
produced five millions of dollars of wealth than they will
be permitted to use'
How much been added security the working
that their capacity for production twelve times greater than
few ago What consolation the millions who rev
ing less 1900 than 1890 and whose fall below
the actual of living that the wealth of the United States nine
teen times than 1910? OF what advantage the
wageave of 1871 in his daily stipend when the of living
increased, at the same time, more than 409?
While the abor necessary the production of the nation s
wealth fairly evenly shared by its actual producers the
Census $1,000 the fact that while seventy per per-
engaged in gainu occupations he wageearnng proear
gafnl novmens and who really do notbno in the wa Of sen
labor appropriated seventy per
Thus their increased in inverse ratio their share
lars in national wealth. in 1900 the plutocacy numbering little
wohundred fifty thousand persons sixeven
billions while the holdings of the proerat comprising than
twenty millions of wagesaves amounted to only about four billions
of dollars The mddecas numbering about eight and half
millions OF those engaged IN ganfn occupations formed about
twennne of the total and owned twenty-five per cent
of the national wealth. about twenour billions of dollars
Many members of the middle like the puocracy produce
nothing their energies being devoted to exploiting the workers of
According to Mr. Carneges Gospel of Wealth it is not to be
that the realizes small
over 10 the capitalist - COG Of the 81 ia he produced
the manufacturing industries 1909 taking CHS share $51S
bourgeois method Of giving the Iaborers work. 1t contempa
he development Of the country resources and leaves the workers
themselves without any!
true course that when capital increases rapid
but Marx long pointed the profit of
faster day
living faster than the Again if the
condition of borer has improved Mr. Carnegie alleges
this only the expense of their social position The social
gulf witch separates the operative or labore the skilled
mechanic from his industrial continually wenng that
Mr. himself points rigid Castles formed and
the Of wealth has become little better than myth the
producer thereof
The that the becoming of their
dependence the pleasure Of capitalists for the opportunity
bare living does according Mr. Carnegie offer
the Of the relations
Of and their interests being told identical
during twenty
all the workers knowing their
the bourgeois economy Unfortunately they had
learned Of Mr. Carnegie that social be made only by the
economy the of the benevolent capitalists Gin the
Of wages Moreover they probably did realize that
The between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage
the abrer with to-day the change which has
with civilization We have this contrast Of and toll
Mr. Carnegie all of will be reduced universal squaor
Once the product of labor belonged the producer belongs
to the Of the instrument of production
The for this sauary change doubt great We
assemble thousands of operatives the factory the and
the counnghou Of whom the employer know little nothing
and to whom the employer little better than myth All inter
between them end Rigid Castles formed and
usual mutual ignorance breeds mistr Each Caste with
sympathy for the other anything dsparagg
ands forced the srcet which the rates
paid to labor figure prominently and often there is friction between
employer employed between labor between
poor Human society loses homogenety
No. Mr. Carnegie human capitalism lose
homogenety; it attans it, 1t is vi du that lost
The workers. ppendages ponderOu machines reduced
homogeneous mob they merely many hands and