The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-24
THE STANDARD OIL COLLEGE
Washington Paper Takes Issue With
Those Who D.nouncs It.


Those Who ID .nounce It,
The Rev. DIR. w. W. Boyd of the Secon,
baptlst church of ST. Louis is reported to
nave said in recent address that "oui
university IN Chicago has been founded
IN blood. and must and will fail" Tn,
reverned gentleman uses the DO ssessiy,
| pronoun "our," for the reason that the
university is under the auspices of th,
Baptists, although open. on equal terms.
10 students of any, all. or no religious be.
llefs or church connections. The founder
of that great institution of learning is Mr..
Rockefeller, Baptist layman of great
wealth, and, so far as we know, of high
character, who made his money in the
Standard Oil corporation, combination or
trust. And because the universities en-
dowment came, in a large measure, from
that source, Mr.. Rockefeller's good
brother, Parson Boyd, upends himself
and IN sepulchral tones declares that il Is
founded in blood, and must fail"
Ii is not the purpose of this article to
discuss or defend the Standard OIL trust.
That concern is too we'll known to require
description at our hands. Attacks on
and defenses of its plan and methods
were familiar reading matter long ago,
and are still in fashion. But the theory
on which the Rev. Mr.. Boyd bases his pre-
diction of disaster to the university is err
roneous. Granting, for the sake of arpu-
ment, what is far from being true in point
of fact, that Standard oil is "blood," that
the money donated by Mr.. Rockefeller
was gained in bad business, it does not
by any means follow that the university
will not have a successful and beneficent
career. From human evil still educinp
good, and better thence in infinite pro-
gression"-that is the province of the
ruler of the universe. What better way
can be devised of bringing good out of
alleged evil than to donate the monopo-
lists millions to noble public uses? If
the most wicked man now living were to
offer money to a church to be used i'm pro-
noting education, that church should
promptly accept the gift. "God sent H.
though the devil brought it' was the re-
mark of hungry widow when a wicked
and disappearing neighbor brouyh her a
loaf.
When the missionaries were preaching
the gospel among the miners in Califor-
mia in the early fifties they were accus-
toned to the sight of gamblers pursuing
their calling in close proximity to their
pulpits. At the close of the
service the hat was passed around, and
the preachers would direct the collectors
10 give the gamblers a chance to do
something for the good cause" 1t han
)encd not seldom that ounces of gold
we're dumped in by the sons of BeliaI
when such n ''chance" was presented.
Those preachers knew what they were
LONG and why they did it ; they knew that |
! gamblers money would 60 just as far in |
my good work as the same amount of |
ucre from any other source. The Rev.
'lr. Boyd of St. Louis is probably sim |
ere man, but his moral philosophy is |
warped. The progress of education, re-
lgion and all other good things would be
realty accelerated if other men of wealth.
egardless of the means by which their
ortunes were gained. would follow the
right example of Mr.. Rockefeller.-
Washington Post.