CONTENTS
[ROBERT OWEN]
[JAMES OLIVER]
[STEPHEN GIRARD]
[MAYER A. ROTHSCHILD]
[PHILIP D. ARMOUR]
[JOHN J. ASTOR]
[PETER COOPER]
[ANDREW CARNEGIE]
[GEORGE PEABODY]
[A. T. STEWART]
[H. H. ROGERS]
[JAMES J. HILL]
ROBERT OWEN
I have always expended to the last shilling my surplus wealth in promoting this great and good cause of industrial betterment. The right-reverend prelate is greatly deceived when he says that I have squandered my wealth in profligacy and luxury. I have never expended a pound in either; all my habits are habits of temperance in all things, and I challenge the right-reverend prelate and all his abettors to prove the contrary, and I will give him and them the means of following me through every stage and month of my life.
—Robert Owen, in Speech before the House of Lords
ROBERT OWEN