The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-31
BENZ AIN ANDREWS NOW De
FENDS ROCKEFELLER.s

at questions through corporation specta-
cles. When a man changes his base, he
goes clear over to the opposition and
seems to feel it incumbent upon him tc
so further than necessary to prove a com
pleta change of heart
A few years ago E. Benjamin Andrews
was forced out of Brown University be
cause, as some of the trustees said, his
views on public questions-notably hi
metalism-caused rich men to refuse to
give money to Brown University. 1t was
generally understood that Rockefeller
was the particular big rich man who
by Brown University as long as it re
tanned dangerous man" like President
Andrews Result: the president of the
college was forced out and soon thereafter
Rockefeller gave a handsome donation to
Brown. President Andrews went West
and is now president of the University
of Nebraska.
1t seems that Rockefeller, who is said
to believe that money will almost re-
move mountains, having by money re-
moved many mountains of competition
that his trust dynamite could not de-
stroy, has made friends with e. Benjamin
Andrews and has offered to give the Uni
versity of which he is The head large
sum OF money-$66, 666.66 % cents, if other
parties will give $33, 1888 33 1-3 President
Andrews hailed the proffered gift with
delight and other college professors and
trustees thanked Mr. Rockefeller for his
generous gift. Some people in Nebraska,
however, feel like looking the gift horse
in the mouth and a discussion has been
started about the advsability of the
Universitys accepting the Standard Oil
money Some people out there as
sert that Rockefeller ALWAYS ex-
poets value received for his gifts
to any college, and looks to see
boys taught that trusts are really very
good things for the country, as we'll as
| for the trust magnates. They assert that
| his wealth was acquired by the destruc-
! ton of competition and illegal methods,
| and that the only way to remain wholly
| free from such influence is to take none
| of the wealth obtained by illegal and
| questionable means. President Andrews,
| delighted at the prospect of the large
| gift, comes to the support of Rockefeller,
| defending his business methods. He also
| praises Rockefeller as a much abused
| person, declares he is the first business
| man in America, beside of whom Pierpont
| Morgan is "a mere pigmy.' Here is an
extract from an interview with a news
paper reporter:
THE chancellor (Andrews) declared
| that the universities were dependent
largely for support on the rich. He de-
| Tended Mr.. Rockefeller's business meth
| DDS, and declared that the Standard Oil
| Company magnanimously strove to buy
| in its competitors rather than crush
| them.
Like mercifully taking up a sickly
| child and benevolently Wrlnging its
neck was suggested to him.
Exactly" he retorted. THE analogy
is a good one Society, as it becomes
more enlightened, will snuff out the lives
| of sickly and deformed infants, to pre-
vent their becoming at maturity a bur
den to it and to themselves. AS with
the cradle, so it will be with other cases.
committee of skilled physicians, L firm
w believe, eventually will determine the
oJyl
recovery from disease is impossible. Such
persons if the physicians agree, will
mercifully be put to death.
Here we have the man driven out of
Brown University because Rockefeller &
Co.. demanded obeisance, going further
than even President Harper, of Chicago
University, who says his prayers with
his face toward the Rockefeller mansion
The above words, if they correctly
state DR.. Andrews's position, will shock
all Christian men in this civilized re-
of policy that prevailed in the ancient
world when the old were put to death to
save the expense of feeding them, the
Springfield Republican says:
This is the law of the survival of the
strongest, and is quite in line with DR..
Andrews views regarding the recent con-
duct of the American nation in relation
to certain weaker countries and peoples.
The task of harmonizing any such law
with the spirit of a Christian civilization
we may well leave to the editors of the
religious Yeeklies.
THE point we would make is that DR..
Andrewss analogy breaks down the
minute he begins to expand it. Unprom-
lsIng children and sickly persons, accord
ing to his plan, are to have their lives
'snuffed OUT under formal and orderly
arrangement duly provided by society as
a whole. Mr.. Rockefellers alleged pro-
cess OF crushing business lives which
stand IN his way or annoy and hinder his
wealth-getung goes on, not under the
due provision and sanction of society or
government. but at the will and whim
of an individual To make his analogy
correct Dr.. Andrews must leave to the
individual rather than to society the
business not only of deciding what lives
Ia Fed