| Show I Mr Carnegie's Latest Plaint I A ANDREW ANDRE CAR CARNEGIE who amassed a fortune in inthe inthe inthe the ste steel l business making himself a billionaire billionaire billion billion- aire afro and forty of his partners each cach several times a amill mill millionaire in lIt the years that have hao flown was wont to complain that he lie was misunderstood Recently he has hns tried a new variation of the old theme themo by re remarking me- me marking that the way of the philanthropist is hard bard Andrew ought to know because he is one of the few real professional philanthropists we have in this count country The amateur philanthropist is al always always al- al ways loth to permit his left hand to know what his right hand has been heen doing Andrew never feels that way Anytime the Laird of Skibo gives anybody a dollar he lie spends four more hiring a brass band to discourse blatant and sonorous music musie at the fes Ics t hit i es Libraries church organs sharing profit schemes for his the the Laird has tried all of them Recently Recently Recently Re Re- however er the dear public has grown restive A number of struggling little churches have refused to become objects of the Carnegie charity and many a small but proud community t has declined to let Andrew Andren Carnegie build a monument to himself himself himself him him- self on ground donated I by the community with the running expenses paid by the taxpayers and the stock of books also purchased by some persons other than Andrew Hence the Carnegie complaint Some super sensitive persons have heard in the music music mu mu- sic discoursed b by the Carnegie church organs the wails of oC the children of the steel workers employed at wages that have not given giyen them a a. living and the death th rattles of the thc striking workmen who were killed at Homestead many years ago by deputy deput sheriffs in Carnegie employ Others have heard beard echoes in Carnegie Carnegie Car Car- negie library buildings of the complaints of underpaid underpaid under under- paid workmen in the great steel plants Foolish isn't it iti The condition of the steel of the tile United Unite States under tinder the trust with Carnegie eliminated as a managing factor has been marvelously improved since sinco the days when Andrew and his brother Tom managed matters in Homestead and Duquesne t- t tt-el tt |
