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Show pany which ha sold for $1G0000,000,. and whether the fact that there is a Wall street that deals in such stocks may hot have had its influence to enable him to sell his steel trust for that trifling amount. , When a man begins at $10 a month and in forty years is able to sell out for $460,000,000 it is a pretty good proof that though he may never have gambled at cards he did with his fellow countrymen, or he never could have put that something up which they were willing to pay $460,000,000 for. ' Curious men looking the whole business over would, we think, as a rule say: . ."Wall street may be a pretty bad place, but we j would rather; take the chances on Wall street than to go up against Andrew Carnegie in a square business busi-ness deal." There are eagles and wrens. There are not as many eagles as wrens, but if an eagle gets hungry and goes to looking about for something to eat, there are liable to be fewer wrens. Those boys on Wall street are looking out for the best chancess If Mr. Carnegie were not engaged in that business for several years then all the appearances ap-pearances are against him. Most men only get what they earn. Mr. Carnegie was not that kind of a man. He was always ready to work and it did not matter whether he was working at a forge, running an engine or working the public. He is a canny Scott and looks, out close to business. But he has been about as much a menace to the country during the last twenty years as is Wall street itself, because be-cause he has represented that kind of a snowball which gathers momentum with every turn, momen- turn and more snow, and is liable, before he reaches the valley, to have cleaned, all the mountain side of snow and of the .debris of years of bad speculation. Mr. Carnegie preaching of straight business methods sounds almost comical when we realise what his methods have finally culminated in. CARNEGIE AGAINST WALL STREET. Mr. Carnegie is out against Wall street. He says ' he never made a dollar by gambling in stocks, and he looks upon the' game played upon Wall street as the same as those other games played, faro or bridge. ' 'And he remarks, after calling himself a plain busi- , tiess man, that : - - "We have had five years of' such prosperity as the world has never seen. Why, I sold the Carnegie Steel company for $466,000,000. This year I could sell it for $640,000,000." ' Now some curious people may be tempted to ... flsk Mr. Carnegie how, if he never, gambled in stocks, he ever was able to organize the little com- ' p T, |