The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . it tobreak up the red-hot slag is not himself an idealist, nor has hethe mental equipment to make necessary allowances for the enthusiastic > ideal-ism of another. Inhis hands Trium-phant Democracy be-came not the gospelof a universal eman-cipation it was in-tended to be, but aspecial message ofindependence fromhis master to him-self. The exaltationof labor turned thelaborers head ; and hegravely accepted thetributes to his superi-ority with which themere capitalist en-dowed him. This was shown a hundredtimes during t
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . it tobreak up the red-hot slag is not himself an idealist, nor has hethe mental equipment to make necessary allowances for the enthusiastic > ideal-ism of another. Inhis hands Trium-phant Democracy be-came not the gospelof a universal eman-cipation it was in-tended to be, but aspecial message ofindependence fromhis master to him-self. The exaltationof labor turned thelaborers head ; and hegravely accepted thetributes to his superi-ority with which themere capitalist en-dowed him. This was shown a hundredtimes during the strike, when the menthought that all they had to do was to let Andrew Carnegie inScotland know what his wicked managers at Homestead weredoing, for him to order its discontinuance by cable. Concerning the difficulties under which the Board of Mana-gers constantly labored through this tendency of their chief totalk for publication, Mr. Lauder, his cousin, relates how heonce told the following parable tp Mr. Carnegie. It is moregrewsome than funny, but it has a Not an idealist. LALDERS (;i<I-:\\SOME STORY 199 Once upon a time a man collided with a street car. Theremains were collected and built up into some human sem-blance, and placed on view in the undertakers for identifica-tion. After a while a lady drove up and claimed the corpse asthat of her husband; and she ordered the handsomest funeralthat money could buy, with flowers, plumes, and every costlyaccessory to mourning. As she was about to leave the estab-lishment, the undertakers assistant, in hastening to open thedoor for her to pass, gave a jar to the slab on which the de-ceased reposed; and the dead mans jaw fell open, revealing agolden tooth. At sight of this the lady hurriedly counter-manded the orders she had given for the imposing obsequies,saying that she saw by the golden tooth that she had made a mis-take and that it was not her husband after all. As she passedout of the door, the disappointed under
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