Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-05
DAMN WHITE OF
ANDY" EP|TAPH
CARNEGIE WANTS
So Declares in Testifying on In
dustriaIism Before Walsh
Commission.
INSISTS ON REMAINING
STANDING AT HEARING
Morris HiIIquit Attacks InfIu-
ence of Foundations-Denies
Charity Is Purpose.
BY JOHN EDWIN NEvTE
United Press star Correspopdent,

NEW YORK, Feb. SIT was
damn white of Andy"
That is the epitaph which Andrew
Carnegie wants on his tombstone. He
told the Federal Industrial Relations
Commission this afternoon that the
sentiment was uttered by an ex
burgess of Homestead, Pa. The
statement was made, he explained,
when he sent word through Professor
Dyke, of Rutgers, to the man, work.
ing as a laborer In a Sonora, Mexico,
mine that he wanted to aid him
financially.
The former burgess, he said, had
fled from Homestead after the 1914
riots after the governor OF Pennsyl-
vania wanted him arrested for COM
plicity in the Homestead trouble.
When Carnegie took the stand he
told the commission that, suffering
from other witnesses, he preferred to
stand and deliver his testimony in
stead of remaining seated in a COM
Portable chair. And Carnegie stood
up and delivered his address more to
the audience than to the commission.
VIII n asked to state his name and
business he said:
Andrew Carnegie, retired business
man, whose chief object in life Is to
do good to mankind"
Carnegie declared that summing up
all his experiences, he believed that
the one big thing he had learned
was that experienced men are the
best and that much of his success
was due entirely to himself and his
partners retaining in their employ
their old men, and to always grant
ing the demands of labor, however
unreasonable
Irz %
millionaire witnesses before the COM
mission, detailed the financial oper-
atoms of his six foundations.
Having characterized the various
powerful philanthropic foundations
as Charitable trusts in his
testimony before the commission
| just before closing time last
night. Morris Hillquit, the Socialist,
| to-day essayed to prove his conten-
j ton. He did this by attacking the
motives Of the fopnsietions declaring
funds are applicable to the relief Of
the wide-spreas poverty. faieerS and
distress of ffie american population.
He charged directly that the found
ations far from being philanthropic in
endeayor, in reality are intended to
develop those particular matters
which will prove of benefit to the
wealthy.
Mr.. Hillquit quoted John D. Rock
efeller, jr., as saying that 1.-THE best
form of philanthropy is the invest
ment of money In building UP produc-
tive industry"
That characterizes the spirit OF
modern capitalistic benevolence adj
mirably," said the witness. "It is no;
charity. 1t Is investment
Our higher teaching institutions"
he said, occupy themselves very
! largely with social, economic and po-
| litical sciences And too often these
! teachings reflect the personal inclin-
| atoms, interest or bias, of their ex-
ponents, and when institutions for
| the teaching of these subjects are
created, supported or endowed by in
dividuals with very decided class in
terests and social bias, the danger Is
| that such bias will naturally COM
municate itself to the teacher, who
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