PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



in all classes, even among the rich them- 

 selves. Hardly a newspaper in the land 

 but frequently gives it voice. Pulpits are 

 equally intemperate. 



The pity is that this gnashing of teeth 

 goes on against the rich, as such, without the 

 least discrimination between good and good- 

 for-nothing. We howl down alike the 

 helpful rich and the harmful, the industri- 

 ous and the lazy, the thrifty and the spend- 

 thrifty, those making life easier for all and 

 those making it harder. 



When distinction is made, it nearly al- 

 ways favors the idle rich, especially if they 

 are generous, against the energetic and 

 creative rich. Mr. Carnegie was thought 

 little of till he retired and began founding 

 libraries. This zeal of his I commend; but 

 the man's main benefactions to the public 

 lay, and still lie, in the business he built up. 

 Wealth must be created before it can be 

 given away. 



If you are well-to-do you are lashed and 

 pilloried and your name cast out as evil 

 though no breath of fraud attaches to your 



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