A Worker’s first problem

Mr. Andrew Carnegie in his rectorial address to the Aberdeen University students said:
“Youths should have a decisive voice, if possible, in the selection of their future occupation.”

There is another thing he might have advised them to do, viz, choose their own parents. If they did what large families the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Goulds, and Morgans would have ! Why, no poor man could have any children at all, unless some foolish young man chose a labourer on 16s. a week to be his father.

(From “Jottings”, SOCIALIST STANDARD, July 1912)