A LIBRARY FOR MOUNT EDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 6

A LIBRARY FOR MOUNT EDEN.

" (To ~the Editor.) 'ShVr-Tnougli'coming.from so far a distance as the-Waikato is from the borough in'terestedi I am content'that there should be.some criticism.of my Associations.attitude in respect, to the suggested.: acceptance '..of .-a; library grant ; from -Mr :Carnegie,.because- I feel, that the more,the;question is ventilated'the 'more likely is : opposition, to s disappear. Mr"sCfisp;. is .quite right—-I- did, mean' -Eing.Edward when the King ; .—but .if I could.; have meant anyone : else it'shows-my-need new lib- . -inform .-me who. , So far we. agree, j-But I. deny -sthat I ignore completely OT otherwise any point at is-sue.-j There 'had been no point raised at issue or otherwise as to whether money-which has been obtained by dishonest combines, etc., should be accepted. There Mr Crisp begs the question, f-said we-had no right to assume that this money had been obtained by, the oppression of labour. Nor have we. And. there again Mr Crisp says I should have shown that the' King approved of the methods adopted by Mr Carnegie in accumulating Ids wealth. Why should I? And. what, else should I have done? What I did say was that we had reminded the Council how, in the acceptance of a gift for * a charity, the King (our King," Mr Crisp, not King Stork or King Cole) has supplied us with a precedent. Again," "If Mr Carnegie to disburse his wealth let him hot go out of r : the States"? Why-"" should': hot Carnegie go out of •America? Does the production of wealth-accrue from labour and material only? Let mc see, we must have alibrary to set us right. You see Carnegie owes a little to his parentage, his birth-place, the Tace from which he sprung; Or he thinks so. But should he think? : Here is a definite charge by Mr Crisp: "He has made no provision for their welfare^—the tens of thousands he "employs—outside their earnings." Yet "Life," October 15; 1906, has a list of big charities, among which are:— "Pittsburg- Technical Schools, ten- million dollars; = Pittsburg Museum of Art, two million dollars," and I think it is a fair assumption that in the fourteen hundred libraries, the fifty-one colleges, etc., Pittsburg must have had its share. My first letter is before mc, and I' see nothing to withdraw, rather I would like my fellow ratepayers to read it again. We "will have the library please, and we will not spite our faces to indulge in, censorious judgments.— l am etc., . ,-/ ;.. : ■"'-.■'"• Tl •MkUKTra; Mount Eden.