Show I ONE GOOD ACT ANDBBW CARNEGIE the millionaire iron manufacturer of Pennsylvania proposes to build a public library in Pittsburg to cost 750000 He is negotiating for a site and will commence the work as soon as certain arrangements with the city are made Public libraries are useful institutions and they cover a multitude of sins in those who establish and endow them but it Will take a good many libraries to cause people to forget that Aximnw CtitXEniK has been and is one of the most heartless oppressors of the poor laboring man ever developed in America There are those who will not get it out of their mind however ostentatiously osten-tatiously generous with his wealth he may be that he made his money by grinding down the poor compelling them to work for starvation wages He is the man that used to bring in ignorant foreigners to supplant native Americans and who boasts that his income is 1500000 a year while his employees receive less than a dollar a day Mr CARNEGIE is also a foremost Republican and one of the most generous contributors to the campaign funds He is an extreme protectionist and gives freely towards the maintenance of a legal system which enables him to add 50 per cent to the cost price of his manufactures on the plea of keeping out foreign competition and developing de-veloping home industries Let us praise Mr Avimuw C UINCUIR for 4 his thoughtfulness and generosity in giving to the people of Pittsburg a grand free library and then let us hope that he will find it in his heart to do good with another million by distributing it in the form of increased in-creased wages among the five thousand toilers in his employ who find it almost impossible to keep soul and body together with the money which he pays them |