"The Apostle of Democracy"

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 70, 1 December 1892, Page 3

"The Apostle of Democracy"

The Birmingham Hardware Trade Journal of a recent date has some interesting remarks about Mr Alexander Ckrnegie, " the Apostle of Democracy." It will be remembered that it was at the works of this magnanimous individual, jn the United States, , that the terrible labour war took place a short time ago, owing to bis having cut down the wages of the employed. Our contemporary says :^" This gentleman fills many parts. He is at once ironmaster, milUonaire, philanthropist, and lecturer to the benighted inhabitants of the British Isles. He is the apostle of triumphant Pemocracy. He instructs us in tho rjghte), duties, and responsibilities of wealth. He strives to lead us in the way we should go. It is somewhat in the nature of a grim satire, therefore, that this conflict of Democracy and Plutocracy should have occurred, so to speak, in his own house. He is in the position of the man Who lectured on the cultivation of memory, and walked away at the conclusion forgetting to take his umbrella with him. He preaches that which toe does not carry into practice, and when Protection fails, he has to resort to Pinkerton's private police. The result has not, so far, proved satisfactory, The solution of the labour question does not lie in the direction of three, hundred or three thousand armed mercenaries Carnegie and Hod brother monopolists, when they were "engineering" the McKinley Tariff through Congress, promised their employes that their wages would be raised as a result of the operation of the tariff. No wonder, therefore, that the men were enraged when they found that, instead of being raised, their wages had been lowered, that the benevolent apostle, of triumphant Democracy and his associate prohibitionists wanted all the plunder for themselves.—Wellington Press. For continuation 9t Reading Matter see fourth page.)