(BUSINESS) CARNEGIE ANDREW Typed Letter Signed

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(BUSINESS.) CARNEGIE, ANDREW. Typed Letter Signed, to Colonel Edward Jay Allen, the President of the Atlantic & Pacific Telephone Company, a lengthy letter regarding the difficulties of charitable giving, on growing old and discussing the "rotten apples in the social barrel." With a few holograph corrections. 3 pages, three 4to sheets, Skibo Castle stationery; minor soiling. Scotland, 19 June 1905

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" . . . I find the wise distribution of wealth much harder than its acquisition; very much harder . . . I am statisfied of two things: you cannot help those who do not help themselves, very much, and in this field there is more injury than good done. One of the wisest and best men living, Mr. Loch, head of the Charity Organization of London, found that the cheap shelters provided by the Salvation Army increased pauperism . . . When we reach a higher stage of civilization the submerged tenth, in extreme cases, that is to say ne'er-do-wells, will be isolated, tenderly cared for, clothed, fed, sheltered, educated as much as possible, and washed. They will be required to work at something or other, but they will not be allowed to marry. They are the rotten apples in the social barrel, and I would remove them . . ."