The fruits of their hard work and their business ability are to be applied to the purpose of "uplifting" their fellow-countrymen.

A certain number of figures written on a check and signed by a familiar name, what may it not accomplish?
Some years ago at the opening exercises of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Mr.Andrew Carnegie burst into an impassioned and mystical vision of the miraculously constitutive power of first mortgage steel bonds.

From his point of view and from that of the average American there is scarcely anything which the combination of abundant resources and good intentions may not accomplish.
The tradition of seeking to cross the gulf between American practice and the American ideal by means of education or the Subsidized Word is not be dismissed with a sneer.

The gulf cannot be crossed without the assistance of some sort of educational discipline; and that discipline depends partly on a new exercise of the "money power" now safely reposing in the strong boxes of professional millionaires.

There need be no fundamental objection taken to the national faith in the power of good intentions and re-distributed wealth.