The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-29
ITO ACCEPT GIT
Of ROCKET J. ( |: FE !. |. |. {. !
Prudential Committee Believed
to Have So Decided at Meet
ing Yesterday.
10 MAKE STATEMENT TO-DAY
/ DR.. GLADDEN. Files Protest Ar-
1 raigr,ing Rockefeller and Trust.
Dr.. Bradford's Position.


M !, S.. Ma rcii 2s.--it as learn
SSaed IL. h, canvass of the members of the
Prudential Committee to.nisht that II
mas practically been decided : ~ me
american Board to accept the &hoche-
Teller gift. though no official iniorlna-
tstion Will be given out before tomorrow.
tribe board will take the ground that
tie gift was not made to the board as
sEn official body, but was made to the
various missions specified and the Amer
can Board acted as custodian ol the
fund without having any right to refuse
THE money or specify how it shall be used.
This is the answer that is likely 70 DC
q made to the PIotestants who created
Asomething stormy scene III the poalu
session this afternoon.
VI Members of the committee refused 70
n discuss the nature of. the action taken,
5but announced officially that statement
Il citing the decision of the committee
would be given out tomorrow, after the
Sreport adopted, which is in the form
Hof resolutions, had been officially COM
municated to committee appointed at a
meeting Of congregational clergymeh q
N Boston and vicinity to protest the ac-
D ceptance of the Rockefeller gift.
Dr.. Gladden's Protest. 81
vi DR.. Washington GLADDEN., moderator Of
e The congregational Church. flied 4 writ
-
81 Committee. in which he says he objects
to accepting the Rockefeller gift because
n ..The money thus bestowed does notright-
II fully belong to the man who gives IT:
sEit has been flagtiolsly acquired and nll
Il the world knows It." He says In this
X case the facts are well known and con-
81 tinties IA i5 r
II The, legislative inquiries, the records
e Of courts, have given the reading peo-t
,$plei of this country the materials for q
judgment upon the methods OF Standard
n Oil !; and there never was a day when
u their minds were as clear on this subject
y as 95t cyl are nov. They know that this
n great power has been built up BY injustice
u and oppression; they know that It's im-
1nense gains have been made by forcibly
Il despoilirg citizens of Their honest gains
Il and shutting the doors OF Opportunity on
sthenl.''$8 X s5s ~ ~
fsS534 Mr. GLADDEN. says Standard Oil has been
;sSbuilt. up By illicit and Ubiquitous control
v Of railways and sits power lis exerted
IL in using the classification of freights II
n such a way thar It can Kill competition
1t Thus neutrality-suspicious. power islnow able
S3to lay It's oaralyzing hand upon all the
rs indnstries sd the nation. and ITO force
II them ito co ,Sute toEits enormous rev.
b ei, ues.s An; SIS the money which is
9aS&offered to 5th, American board. We have
Y. no right TO take it, 1T does not belong
SxS to the man who offers #. It belongs 70
3s the people from whom ~ has been e :s-
s lortel e 4 y *
Favors Accepting Gift.
~ The American board also has received
~ i decentralization from Rev. a. Fl. Brad
ford. p. d.. Of Montclair n. j., former
moderator. fayorlng the acceptance OF
Mr.. Rockefellers gift. Dr. Bradford
says:
5i.s.Nhy refuse Mr.. RocRefelerNs money
and accept the gifts OF other stockhold-
81 ,ers Of the Standard Oil Company? Nc
ss one doubts that much money derived
from that and other similar sources goes
Unto the treasury. Money which leaves
the receiver free from all obligatlons
except that of using itl.wisely, should %
#s received, unless some one else is read!
Ito prove that it belongs to him. 5tg.
NO such claim has been made mucl
less sustained, in any court OF our coun
8s;try. 1t is, therefore. fair NJ TO- presume
81 that the property which he holds Is TO
A him to administer as he thinks best