The independent., 1903-12-10

Der OF the best clJlZenS, many Oh IHcm
members of the churches who had for
years been supporters of the ministry
and all benevolent undertakings, and
then come around to the Young Mems
Christian association and offer TO give
that organization portion of the re-
suit of his robberies, would it receive
the proffered amount? Would it do it
in such way as to honor and make
respectable the robber? 4s
The editor OF The Independent
knows of instances in which Rookie
feiier did just that thing, and the rob-
bing of one or two of the thousands
whom he beggared for life, was a mat
ter that came very near to him. The
result of Rockefeller's transactions in
the Pennsylvania oil field, when he
forced men who had put long months
of work and the accumulationS of a
lifetime into oil wells to transfer their
business to him, was that these men
were robbed" The editor OF The In
dependent knows of one case where
the man was as much murdered as IL
Rockefeller had cut his throat, for he
died short time afterwards from
prostration caused by the transfer OF
his property to the hands OF Rockefel-
ler The widow Of that man, as faith
full and trusting a Christian as ever
lived, has been on the verge of star
walton ever since. For all the long
years since she has been clothed in
the thinnest and poorest apparel and
has never had real nourishing meal,
except those sent to her by friends
who pitied her hard lot. The property
that Rockefeller took from her and
her husband was worth more than
100000 and he now proposes to give
portion of it to the state university.
There were scores of others who suf-
fered in like manner.
Rockefeller proposes to give to the
Nebraska university $4,000 of money
obtained in that way. At the Oliver
theatre last Sunday, the Young Mems
Christian association officially an
nounced that it intended to urge the
acceptance of that gift. A plan was
proclaimed by which the association
proposed to raise the $4,000 which
Rockefeller demands shall be raised
here before he will hand over $66,000
of his stealings, to build temple"
in which religious meetings can be
held and the worship of the living God
| be turned into the worship Of Nam
mon. The very teaching of the young
men that such a gift should be re-
ceived is in itself a turning from
Christ to Mammon.
Dr. Wharton, in a sermon last Sun
day night, in speaking of the money
power.' (and it was the first time that
this editor ever heard that term used
in sermon in great church,, said
he knew two men who were conduct
ing an independent business in Lin
coin and a trust sent for one to come
to Omaha. The result was that these
two men were forced to sell out to a
trust. They each had a good business
and did not want to sell, but the
money power" forced them to do so.
One of them now is out of business
and the other, who was once an in
dependent business man, is now an
"employe" and could not leave the
city without permission of his EN-
ployer. 4 Rockefeller temple at the
state university, built with the money
OF the most inhuman and cruel trust
that ever cursed the world, by and
with The assistance of the Young Men s
Christian association would result In
an influence upon the young men OF
this state tending to destroy every
high ideal and every noble impulse
and would be a curse for generations
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