Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Part 36

"Carnegie, twenty-five years of peace, and we hope for many more."

I could not help responding:

"And in this n.o.blest of all missions you are our chief ally."

He had hitherto sat silent and motionless, taking the successive addresses from one officer and handing them to another to be placed upon the table. The chief subject under discussion had been World Peace, which he could have, and in my opinion, would have secured, had he not been surrounded by the military caste which inevitably gathers about one born to the throne--a caste which usually becomes as permanent as the potentate himself, and which has so far in Germany proved its power of control whenever the war issue has been presented.

Until militarism is subordinated, there can be no World Peace.

As I read this to-day [1914], what a change! The world convulsed by war as never before! Men slaying each other like wild beasts! I dare not relinquish all hope. In recent days I see another ruler coming forward upon the world stage, who may prove himself the immortal one.

The man who vindicated his country's honor in the Panama Ca.n.a.l toll dispute is now President. He has the indomitable will of genius, and true hope which we are told,

"Kings it makes G.o.ds, and meaner creatures kings."

Nothing is impossible to genius! Watch President Wilson! He has Scotch blood in his veins.

[Here the ma.n.u.script ends abruptly.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ANDREW CARNEGIE AT SKIBO

(1914)]

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MR. CARNEGIE's chief publications are as follows:

_An American Four-in-Hand in Britain._ New York, 1884.

_Round the World._ New York, 1884.

_Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years' March of the Republic._ New York, 1886.

_The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays._ New York, 1900.

_The Empire of Business._ New York, 1903.

_James Watt._ New York, 1905.

_Problems of To-day. Wealth--Labor--Socialism._ New York, 1908.

He was a contributor to English and American magazines and newspapers, and many of the articles as well as many of his speeches have been published in pamphlet form. Among the latter are the addresses on Edwin M. Stanton, Ezra Cornell, William Chambers, his pleas for international peace, his numerous dedicatory and founders day addresses. A fuller list of these publications is given in Margaret Barclay Wilson's _A Carnegie Anthology_, privately printed in New York, 1915.

A great many articles have been written about Mr. Carnegie, but the chief sources of information are:

ALDERSON (BERNARD). _Andrew Carnegie. The Man and His Work._ New York, 1905.

BERGLUND (ABRAHAM). _The United States Steel Corporation._ New York, 1907.

CARNEGIE (ANDREW). _How I served My Apprentices.h.i.+p as a Business Man._ Reprint from _Youth's Companion_. April 23, 1896.

COTTER (ARUNDEL). _Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation._ New York, 1916.

HUBBARD (ELBERT). _Andrew Carnegie_. New York, 1909.

(Amusing, but inaccurate.)

MACKIE (J.B.). _Andrew Carnegie. His Dunfermline Ties and Benefactions._ Dunfermline, n.d.

_Manual of the Public Benefactions of Andrew Carnegie._ Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Was.h.i.+ngton, 1919.

_Memorial Addresses on the Life and Work of Andrew Carnegie._ New York, 1920.

_Memorial Service in Honor of Andrew Carnegie on his Birthday, Tuesday, November 25, 1919._ Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

_Pittencrieff Glen: Its Antiquities, History and Legends._ Dunfermline, 1903.

POYNTON (JOHN A.). _A Millionaire's Mail Bag._ New York, 1915. (Mr. Poynton was Mr. Carnegie's secretary.)

PRITCHETT (HENRY S.). _Andrew Carnegie._ Anniversary Address before Carnegie Inst.i.tute, November 24, 1915.

SCHWAB (CHARLES M.). _Andrew Carnegie. His Methods with His Men._ Address at Memorial Service, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, November 25, 1919.

WILSON (MARGARET BARCLAY). _A Carnegie Anthology._ Privately printed. New York, 1915.