Origin of Scrooge

[Dyer, Sonia]

Don Rosa wrote:
>Would part of a European model be to hate the relatives that
>made it big in America? I know many older Europeans/Italians
>feel that their countrymen who fled to America were "trash".
>I've had a few smiling, friendly old Italians tell me that
>during my trips, as if it was simply common knowledge and I
>already knew my grandfather was dirt.

	Well the Carnegie's certainly felt their Scottish neighbors
considered them dirt when they left town.  The husband was a respectable
linen weaver until driven bankrupt by the Industrial Revolution.  In
those days, going bankrupt or just being poor was considered a moral
failing, not just a financial problem. 
	I wonder what Scrooge's Scottish neighbors thought when he left
town, dirt poor.  And how did they react when he came back from America
rich?  And did Scrooge flaunt his wealth to show his family wasn't dirt
after all, and to generate envy from the old nay-sayers?  Hmmmm.
Possible story there.

              Sonia