Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-04-24
AS TO RockEEeLLER,s MONEY.

AS TO ROckEFELLER's MONEY.
The question of accepting Mr.
lscckafe|lers contribution for mission
VOL: is still bcing discussed with a
good deal OF vigor thrOu ghout the conn
try. Some time ago Rev. Lyman All.
bolt in the Outlook, took the ground
lfat the Mission Board had no right
TO refuse the money. as Slich refusal
would place ii in the light of sitting
in Judgment upon MIR. Rockefeller Il
course specifically forbidden ny the
saviour when he gave the command
Judge not" DR.. Abbott took il.t
,Usition thai SO long MS a man has
legal control OF his money and the
eift does not carry will: IL The as
sumption that it's acceptance will pre-
you; he reciricnis from denounain.
tho alleged evils CT lie donor there
is no improprcty in taking The gift and
using il to forward! tie work Of ;lr
church
DR.. Washington Gladden., one OF the
most distinguished Of the protestants
against the acceptance of The gift re-
plies Ia DR.. Abhott's article. He de-
MICS the assumption of DR.. Abhott and
some other persons that Mr.. Rockcfcl-
Ter has clean hill of health from the
courts by quoting this pronolncement
from he Judge of United States Cir
cult Court:
The discrimination complained OF
| In this cnsc Is 40 wantnn and opprcs-
slvc II could hardly hsNe boen accepted
by nh honest man having due regard
for the rights Of others. Or conceded by
a just and competent receiver who
comprehendcd the nature and respons-
Utility Of his oilic: and Il judge who
| would tolerate such n wrong, or retain
| Il receiver capable of perpetrating il.
oiGhi To be impeachcd and degraded
from his position" Proceedings in
Relation to Trusts. II. of II, 1880, Rep.
No. :, ll2. Pr. 57175S.)
Or. GLADDEN. also calls attention to
the fact that the Supreme Court Of
Ohio. in 1902, dissolved the Standard
Oil Trust. which had been doing bust
ness, the language Of the court being:
| Its object was to establish n virtual
monopoly OF the business of producing
petroleum. and Of manufacturing, re.
tining. and dealing in il, and all its
products. throughout the entire cOun-
try. and by which II might not merely
control the production, but the price,
AT its pleasure All such associa lions
arc contrary to the policy of orr State,
and are void
| The History Of the Standard Oil
Case in the Supreme Court of Ohio,
Part Ill.," is then quoted in connection
with The testimony of The secretary
OF the company. who swore that lie
could not produce the company's
books.
| Because the books disclose
facts and circumstances which may he
used against The Standard Oil Com
Dany. tending TO prove 1t guilty of of,
lenses made criminal by an act of the
Legislature of Ohio.
| because they disclose facts ami cir.
cnmstances which be used against
myself personally as an officer of said
company. tending to prove me guilty
of oifenscs made criminal by the net
! aforesaid"
| An incidental sideliS ht upon the dis
cussion of Mr.. Rockefeller's character
as II has been shown in the great
monopoly which he has built np, Is
given in the current insialmcnt OF
Thomas w. I.awson's "Frenzied
Finance" Quoting Henry II. Rogers
Mr.. Rockcfcller's rlght.hand man, the
Boston broker says:
Lawson, said the master.brain oil
the greatest and most successful COM
mercial enterprise in the world. you
know the stock market hut you don't
know the first principles of working to
advantage n great business in which
you absolutely control the production.
The novice assumes that consumption
when 1t Is greater than production
makes the price Do you suppose
STANDARD Oil" has built itself up to
where 1t is and made the money it has,
simply because there were always
more lamps than we had oil? AS the
world goes today. the prices of ncces.
sites and luxuries are fixed and should
be fixed ~ the man who controls
both the selling and the producing
end, for there is n greater profit to be
had by supply 10 regulated demand
and demand regulated supply than
from charge made and regulated by
/, supply aud demand. STANDARD Or,