Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-24
PHOENIX. NOVEMBER 90. 1909.

The gift season for all the world is
approaching. With some people it is
the gift season, all the
GIFTS year round. Andrew
OF A Carnegie is on the look
DAY. out from January to
December for towns not
provided with public libraries, as wit
ness his recent offer to the city of Tue
son. and John D. Rockefeller does not
wait for Christmas to be reminded of
deserving educational institutions that
are in need of money. There are other
rich people. plenty of them. who are
generous according to their means and
who propose to have the pleasure of
giving while they are yet alive.
Take the announcements of gifts one
day recently. We will begin with Mr..
Rockefeller He is not one of those
who think there are too many the
illogical seminaries, or that there are
too many young men attending the
seminaries. At least that is the con-
clusion to be drawn from his latest Of
fer. Following his usual plan he says
that for every dollar that is raised in
other directions for the Rochester. n.
Y. theological seminary (BaptisD. he
will give another dollar, till five hun
dred thousand dollars shall have been
secured. Mr.. Rockefeller is a Baptist.
and the Rev. DR.. A. H. Strong. presi-
dent of the seminary, tells of his pro-
posal.
The San Francisco Call is authority
for the statement that the money
amounting to $11,4OO,OOo obtained by
Mrs. Jane Stanford for her 2S5.OOO
shares of Southern Pacific stock, which
she sold to the Huntington-Speyer syn
dictate, will be available. at once. for
the use of Stanford university. From
Cincinnati comes the news that David
Sinton. the richest man In that town,
has given a 800 900 endowment to the
University of Cincinnati. There are no
conditions attached to the gift except
that the money is to be used in the
academic department of the institution
1t is suggested, by the university board
that a chair of political economy, bear
ing Mr.. Sintons name, be established.
Mr.. Carnegie has written to the
Polytechnic Library society of Louis
Vile, KY, saying that he will subscribe
$125,o00 for the construction of a public
library building, if the city will pay at
least $4,000 a year for running ex-
nd
newal of books
The Louisville Evening Post opposes
the acceptance of Mr.. Carnegie's offer
1t prints an editorial, in big, black
type, on its first page, which says in
part:
In the judgment of the Evening Post
Louisville does not want a Carnegie
library as free gift. Louisville is not
a pauper city and must not accept gifts
from princes not of her own people. 1t
was bad enough to attempt to build
here library by licensed gambling: it
would not be right to erect on these
gambling foundations a structure that
would be a monument to beggary.
Louisville is able and willing to estab-
lish and maintain a library. but it will
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nor will it tax itself for any private
corporation.
Mr.. Carnegie will be interested in
this outbreak, but, probably, he will
not be very seriously disturbed by it. If
the Louisville princes club together
and give funds for a public library
building his object will be attained and
he can use his $125,OOO for some other
purpose.