The labor standard., 1919-10-01
'EANDREW CARNEGIE
 WAS A FAILURE"
Never Repaid Workers in ''SteaP' Towns for Their Inhumanly Long Hours and Nerve Wrack- ing Foil
(Meat Cutters JournaD

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 "The man who dies rich, dies dis graced," is statement credited to the great iron master. When Carnegie made this statement we believe he was sincere in his belief and that he in tended to make every effort to refund to society all wealth he considered to be in excess of what any one individ- ual could acquire by honest effort.
 "The highest use of great fortunes 1 is in public work and service of man kind," said MT. Carnegie, "it is the true antidote for unequal, distribution and would pave the way for commit mist ideals in the yet unevolved future. The millionaire should consider his sur plus trust funds as held for the com munity, and the best means of distri button is by giving free libraries, parks and works of art, and public in stitutions of various kinds. Death duties and inheritance taxes, provid- ing they are high enough, should be considered as among the wisest forms of taxation"
 As before stated, we believe that the intentions of MT. Carnegie was at the time he made this assertion, to devote the remainder of his life in repaying to society, through philanthropic do- nations, the excess wealth that he had squeezed out of the sweat of the toil- CTS.
 Whether or not MT. Carnegie was sincere, one fact stands out, and that is, he could not return this wealth to the people to whom it belonged. MT. Carnegie is not to blame for his ina lies in our present system of society and how it is conducted. When the iron master had reached the conclu- sion referred to above, his wealth had reached such proportions that it accu- naulated faster than a we'll equipped purpose, was able to give it away.
 Another story is told of Carnegie: Upon visiting his banker he turned to his wife and said: "Our riches are like that of Alladin, it grows so fast that no one seems to know how much am worth" His wife said, Andrew, you are better off than Alladin, for you neither have to wish nor rub the lamp" Like Midas, gold grew up around him in spite of all he could do to keep down the excess accumu- lation.
 The miners of England and the rail- road men of America are now ap- preaching the solution of this prob lem. They say that the distribution of wealth must take place at the point of production and that they will have something to say as to how that dis tribution will take place. To be fair distribution it must benefit the work CTS, those responsible for it's produc- tion, and it is to the solving of this problem that our labor unions are now devoting their efforts through the control of the workers, banded to- eether in their organizations.
 Even though Carnegie had been able to spend all of his vast fortune in phil anthropic ventures he could never re- pay the workers in Pittsburg, Homs- stead and the other "steal" towns for the hunger and inhumanly long hours and -wracking toll that his for tune was founded on. Even were he to build a public library in every block it would not repay society for forcing children into the mines as door boys, and into the steel mills as "straighteners" at the age of nine years or less.
 MT. Carnegie, in spite of his indis- puted genius must, from his own standard, be rated as a failure.