But I do not forget that you have been suffering yourself from anxieties, and have been exposed to imputations in connection with your gallant efforts to direct rich men into a course of action more enlightened than that which they usually follow.

I wish I could relieve you from these imputations of journalists, too often rash, conceited or censorious, rancorous, ill-natured.
I wish to do the little, the very little, that is in my power, which is simply to say how sure I am that no one who knows you will be prompted by the unfortunate occurrences across the water (of which manifestly we cannot know the exact merits) to qualify in the slightest degree either his confidence in your generous views or his admiration of the good and great work you have already done.
Wealth is at present like a monster threatening to swallow up the moral life of man; you by precept and by example have been teaching him to disgorge.

I for one thank you.
Believe me Very faithfully yours (Signed) W.E.

GLADSTONE I insert this as giving proof, if proof were needed, of Mr.
Gladstone's large, sympathetic nature, alive and sensitive to everything transpiring of a nature to arouse sympathy--Neapolitans, Greeks, and Bulgarians one day, or a stricken friend the next.
The general public, of course, did not know that I was in Scotland and knew nothing of the initial trouble at Homestead.

Workmen had been killed at the Carnegie Works, of which I was the controlling owner.
That was sufficient to make my name a by-word for years.