. Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years. y that but a fellow Fifer. We havehad a great deal of delightful conversation sincemy arrival under the protection of Sir Williamand Lady Forwood, and the Scotch element wasnot altogether absent. It is astonishing howmany of the people of Liverpool are Scots, forwe Scots claim as Scots men or women bornin Liverpool whose fathers and mothers wereScots. I am reminded that Liverpool was thepioneer city in regard to Free Libraries. It wasmy extreme pleasure in receiving the freedom ofDumfries to suggest that the library there shouldbe called
. Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years. y that but a fellow Fifer. We havehad a great deal of delightful conversation sincemy arrival under the protection of Sir Williamand Lady Forwood, and the Scotch element wasnot altogether absent. It is astonishing howmany of the people of Liverpool are Scots, forwe Scots claim as Scots men or women bornin Liverpool whose fathers and mothers wereScots. I am reminded that Liverpool was thepioneer city in regard to Free Libraries. It wasmy extreme pleasure in receiving the freedom ofDumfries to suggest that the library there shouldbe called the Ewart Library as a tribute to aLiverpool man. It was he who succeeded inpassing the Free Libraries Act, which unlike someother Acts of Parliament creates no sensation,causes no partizan bitterness, and who shall saythat that one Act has not already done, and willin its operation do more, as I believe, to elevatethe people of Great Britain than a hundred Actsof your Parliament which have created partizanbitterness. My Lord Mayor, may I suggest that. Photo, by W. Crooke. Andrew Carnegie, History of the Liverpool Public Libraries. 177 Liverpool has had no citizen more worthy of suchan honour in the city of his birth than that whichDumfries has paid to Mr. Ewart. I like a freelibrary because it is free. It is a grand symbolof true genuine democracy, and this more anexhibition of democracy than perhaps any libraryI have spoken in, because it is the gift of nocitizen, of no man; but is from foundation stoneto turret paid for by taxation, so that the poorestcitizen of Liverpool contributes in his proportionas much as the multi-millionaire in support notof a library, not of the library, but of his is a proprietor here, and there is no privilegethat may be enjoyed by the wealthy or thetitled—no, not even by your august Lord Provosthimself—which is not the birthright of the humblestcitizen of Liverpool. Such an institution as thishas a far-reaching influence beyo
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