Does Andrew Carnegie stand by the flag of this country? ... They hear the music from the Carnegie organs, while click, clack, click, clack go the mills, grinding out wealth for Carnegie, grinding the very life and joy out of the hearts of the brave toilers. Andrew Carnegies sympathies are so occupied with the Filipinos, and his aggressiveness towards President McKinley is so great, that he has forgotten the assertion he made that "charity should begin at home and also end at home. ... What time have the mill men to benefit by the Carnegie libraries? ... Let Andrew Carnegie set the example, and be content to make less money. ... Carnegie says the gospel he has preached, and will preach while he lives, is that "for a man to die rich is to die disgraced. ... Carnegie die poor? ... Carnegie has said that "the epitaph to which every rich man should wish himself entitled is that seen on the monument of Pitt":
HE LIVED WITHOUT OSTENTATION AND HE DIED POOR. ... Carnegie announce that he means to die poor? ...
And now, after all the trouble Andrew Carnegie has caused by remaining in Washington and has had his wish gratified, that the American soldiers would be shot by the insurgents, he proposes to rear to himself a monument, a free library, in Washington, where he has carried on warfare against the President of the United States, and he asks that a site be furnished, and that Congress appropriate $10,000 a year to maintain it. ... Carnegie put such vast sums in magnificent buildings and speak against the expenditure of money in behalf of human beings whom God has cast at our very feet, that they may be lifted up from degradation to civilization, that they may become a higher order of beings? ... On her lap lay a book brought by another friend from the Carnegie Library. ... Carnegie can enjoy his wealth knowing how many poor old people there are who have no one to support or do for them, nor money to admit them to the home for the aged. ... "
Why does not Andrew Carnegie build free homes for old people instead of libraries for those who do not need them? ... Carnegie, who has stated that applications for charity never reach him. ... The young men and widows who humble themselves to ask Carnegie for a small amount to start themselves in business are alike driven away, and go their way disappointed, hopeless, and wretched. Would Carnegie have the wealth he has to-day had the helping hand been refused to him when the tide in his affairs came? But the Carnegie buildings, costing hundreds of thousands, are still going up everywhere all over the land, and this anti-imperial agitator is honored and made much of for the wealth he has accumulated, for the wealth that only goes from his coffers to be stamped -- Carnegie. ... Carnegie proposes to erect, it would soon become an unendurable incubus to the taxpayers. ... Carnegie offered them a library. ... President McKinleys speech to the people of Atlanta made such a favorable impression that Carnegie hoped by the gift to counteract it. ...
From an article published in the New York World, May 13, 1899, over the signature of Andrew Carnegie, we extract the following: "I have seen many of the most prominent public men now in London who I know have been friends of the American Republic when it has needed friends. ... Carnegie certainly misrepresents the sentiments of the British people. ... They are evidently not in sympathy with Carnegie and his following:
"The Americans are to be congratulated warmly upon the victory which they have won at Calumpit. ... "
Andrew Carnegie has announced his intention of interesting himself in politics the coming fall.
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