New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Story of Carnegies Rise From Penury to Riches

arrested for riot and bound over for
trial. Consequently, some OF these dis
appeared, among them the Burgess of
Homestead. Some time afterward my
friend, Professor Van Dyke, of Rutgers
College, was ordered to California for
his health. Upon his return he told me
that he had met the eXBurgess work
ing ns q laborer in n Mexican mine at
Sonora. asked him to offer McLuckie
ary help he might need, and upon his
return to the West he did so.
at was D--d White in Andy"
"Meanwhile McLuckie had got post
ton with the Sonora Railway driving
wells, and was succeeding admirably.
The professor said: You don't know
whose money | was told to help you
WITH lie said that he had no idea.
Well, it was Mr.. Carnege's.' Then
came the slow, earnest response. That
was damned white in Andy"
Mr.. Carnegie said this proudly and
his smile started general laugh
"When | talked to the Homestead
rollers upon my return told them
my partners had offered liberal terms
and | could not have offered more.
One roller said: 'Oh, Mr.. Carnegie, it
wasn't question of dollars! The boys
would have let you kick them and they
wouldn't let another man stroke their
hair"
In 1901 the Carnegie Steel Company
was merged into the United States
Steel Corporation, and in this year Mr..
Carnegie retired from business, with q
fortune of about $3.50, 900, ,000s
The bonds of the United States Steel
Corporation which he held yielded a
gigantic income, of which he always
gave literally, and the fact that he
said "The man who dies rich dies dis
graced' showed that money was not
thc goal of his ambition. "That is the
gospel | PREACH he said, referring TO
these words, chat is the gospel l prac
tise, and that is the gospel l intend
TO practice during what remains of
my life"
Despite his busy life, Mr.. Carnegie
found time for literary work His first
book, Round the World,' was pub
lished in 1879. In this he gave an
account of his trip across the Pacific
Ocean to Japan, China and India, and
and Europe. Several similar books fol-
owed, but his best known work is
Triumphant Democracy; OF, Fifty
iears' March sof the Republic" This
cook was widely read in America and
urope, and excited much comment and
criticism. He treated of the progress
the American Republic largely as an
dvance in material prosperity, which
le regarded as the surest test Of the
validity of the claims of popular gov
crnment to superiority. Of this book
The New York Nation" said; "There
is, perhaps, hardly a word which passes
the truth. 1t is only when it is placed
before us in this vivid way that we
realize the stupendous development"
"Triumphant Democracy" passed
through eight editions in England, and
has been translated into French, Ital-
ian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese.
In 1891 Mr.. Carnegie contributed an
article TO The Tribune entitled Glow
to Get Rich" the main thesis of which
was that native ability and industry
are quite sufficient to insure prosperity
without the aid of college education
1t was largely copied and quoted, with
>the result that large numbers of col
lege graduates attacked and criticised
it freely, but without refutng is main
thesis; Mr.: Carncgie's fourth book,
wealth." was reprinted in England
under the title "The Gospel OF Wealth." ,"
Its principal contention is that "sur-
plus wealth is a sacred trust, which It's
possessor is bound to administer in his
lifetime for the good of the commu-
nifty from which it is derived" and
that "the man who dies possessed of
millions of available wealth, which was