The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
+ SEES GOOD IN IT.
Jewish Rabbi Discusses Church
Fight on Rockefeller.
H. II. Rogers Comes to the De-
tense Of His Chief.
DIR. GLADDEN. REPLIES.
Insists That Standard Oil Has
Robbed the People.
Says He Does Not Believe That
Rebates Have Stopped.
DIR. GLADDEN. REPLIES.

4 s.. Wise, a prominent rabbi, in a ser
mon on the action Of the Prudential
| committee Of the American board for
foreign missions in regard to the gift
of John D. Rockefeller and the protest
of DR.. Washington GLADDEN., said:
Perhaps none of you will agree with
me, when I say that there has nothing
/ happened of more Importance to the
/ ethical welfare of the nation than the
act of DR.. GLADDEN. and the Prudential
committee.
"It seems to me that there is nothing
more helpful as a tonic than what is
happening now. Whether Rockefeller
4 has his gift accepted or not the effect
will be good.
although it has been the universal
custom for benevolent and educational
/ institutions to receive money without
any thought of its origin, 1t seems 70
me that the time has come when this
/ custom must be changed.
] But is it fair to single Mr.. Rookie
/ feller as a target2 Why this sudden
rise of righteousness? Washington
! GLADDEN. says the money is not his to
give. But GLADDEN. says We can use the
| money to do good. How can you match
! the little good it might do in far away
/ India, with the lowering of the ethical
standards of the American peoples. It
/ is all right to boycott Mr.. Rockefeller
and refuse his gifts, but we must do it
/ tomorrow and the day after"
Rogers Replies.
| New York, April HI. Fl. Rogers,
vice president and director of the Stan
dard Oil company, has made a state
ment as to the conduct of the Standard
/ Oil company, which was evidently
4 prompted by the criticism of the Prua
! Dental committee Of the American
! board Of foreign missions for accepting
/ a gift of $100 900 from John D. Rookie
feller. Mr. Rogers said:
Ministers say queer things. DR..
Washington GLADDEN. says that every
/ body knows that John D. Rockefeller
/ has obtained his money dishonesty.
With as much reason, ] could say that
I everybody knows that Dr. Gli4dden
would not trust the ten commandments
i for ten days with the deacons of his
/ church, because they would surely
4 break some of them and bend the rest.
! Slavery in certain sections of the Unit
! ed States was legal until President Lin
coins emancipation proclamation. Re
/ bates on railroads were just as legal un-
/ til the passage of the Interstate COM
merce commission act. After an exhaus-
/ tive examination by the Industrial com
/ mission authorized by congress June Is,
/ 1893 in a review Of evidence, the COM
mission reported as follows: It has
j been charged as a matter of general be-
+ lief on the part of almost all the oppon-
ents of the Standard Oil company that
/ these determinations, in various forms,
! have been continually received, even up
/ to date.
"On the other hand, these charges
I have been denied most emphatically by
! every representative of the Standard
i Oil company with reference to all cases
excepting one which they claim was a
mistake, the amount of freight due be-
ing promptly paid on discovery Of the
error. The Standard Oil company not
merely challenged the opponents to
] E,,.fv4 =, 80
! duced many letters from leading Off
Gals of railroads to show that the COM
pany had in no case received any favors
or asked for them"
It became known today that, prior
I to the final action by the prudential
1 committee of the American board of
/ commissioners of foreign missions in
/ accepting the $1,000 gift rendered
by John D. Rockefeller. a number of
prominent members of the board at a
meeting held in New York city con-
4 sidered the matter at length. AS a
result the parties to the conference is
sued a statement in which they de-
/ clared that they did not feel that the
acceptance of the gift would compro-
mise the board in any way. Among
/ those who signed the statement were
the Rev J. w Cooper, secretary of
! the American Missionary association.
/ ternational Y. M. c.. A; Rev. G. A
/ Richards, secretary of the Interna-
tional Congregational Church Building
society," Rev. A. H. Bradford, formerly
moderator Of the National Congrega-
tional conference; Rev. Edward p
IIngersol. secretary of the American
Bible society; William H. Ward, editor
/ of the New York Independent; Rev. J.
/ J. Merrill, president of Fisk univer-
sity, Nashville. Tenn; Rev Frank X.
Sanders, dean of Yale university Di-
t vinity school; Rev. Lyman Abbott
Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, pastor Of
~ J.
Henry w. Hubbell, of Greenwich.
Conn.
The statement issued as a result of
the meeting was as follows:
1.-THE prudential committee of the
/ American board has been requested to
+ refuse certain gift for its missionary
work on the ground that the giver is
/ the president of a corporation whose
business methods are extensively criti-
c1Sed by the press and the public.
| Compliance with this request would
put upon the board, which is a cor
porate trust created for the definite
purpose of maintaining missions IN
foreign lands, the very grave RESPONSE
bility Of refusing money which has
been given for the deveIopmene of the
work intrusted to its care in aid OF
particular objects for which it is
ct would also establish the preca-
] dent Of subJecting Individual gifts to a
scrutiny not heretofore regarded as
practicable for a mission board to eS-
ercise. We do not, therefore, con-
slider that the acceptance of this gifs
compromises the board in any way
and we cannot recommend any de-
parture from the long established
usage of the board in receiving with
thankfulness the. funds intrusted Il
its care for the prosecution of its inn
portant work -
DIR. GLADDEN. Comes Back.
Columbus. O., April L-Dr. Washing