The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-01
ROCKEFELLER PUTS
Up SELF-DFFFNSF
His Man Rogers Gives Ont
Statement Prompted by
Church Controversy

NEW YORK, March s1.-H. H
Rogers. vice president and director of
the Standard Oil company, today
made statement as to the conduct of
the company. which was evidently
prompted by the criticisms of the pru-
uehtlal committee of the American
BOARD Of foreign missions for accept
ing a gift of 100000 from John D.
rockefeller. Mr.. Rogers said:
- Ministers say queer things. DR.. Wash
ti ,S ton SIadden says that everybody knows
LII John ID. Rockefeller has obtained his
Tloney dlshonestly. With as much reason
ci GoIiu say that everybody knows that DIR.
~ n ,a,,q,sh would not trust the ten COM
- f9hhi M Tor ten days with the deacons
% ms church because they would surely
Sis SIten some OF them and bend the rest.
St3te cry IN certain sections of the United
a,o'S; was legal until President Lincoln's
emancipation proclamati ton. Rebates on
taLIl od1S We're Just as legal until the Das-
sion act. &c OOhiiiilS
After an exhaustive examination nv
the industrial commission authorized
by congress June IS, 1898. saws Mr.
Rogers, in review of evidence the
commission reported that none of the
charges that the Standard Oil had
asked or received favors from railroads
was sustained.
Prior to the final action by the nru-
dental committee of the American
board for commissioners of foreign
missions in accepting the $1,000 Gift
rendered by Rockefeller. prominent
members of the board at a meeting i'm
this city considered the matter AS a
result they issued a statement in which
they declared that they did not con-
slider the acceptance of the gift would
compromise the board in anv wav
Among those who signed the statement
were:
Rev. J. w Cooper. secretary of tba
american Missionary association; Iucien
=. warner. chairman; Rev. A H Brad
Iord, eX-moderator of the national Conrre-
gational conference; Rev Edward p, In
gerSoH secretary of the American Bible
society William H Ward. editor of the
president of Fisk university NashviIIa'
Tenn; Rev. Frank k Sanders dean Of
! ale university divinity school; Rev. DR..
Lyman ID. Abbott. Rev Charles Evans
pastor of the Broadway TabernacIe and
Rev. Henry w. HubbelI of Greenwich.
Conn. ''
Want No More of the Kind
BOSTON, March 31.-The committee
winch heads the protest of Congrega-
tlonallsts against the action of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions in accepting q gift of
100000 from John d. Rockefeller to-
day issued a statement inviting all
persons, whether clergymen or laymen,
who wished to record themselves as in
sympathy with the protest to send
their names to the chairman of the
committee, Rev. Daniel Evans of Cam
bridge. 1t is understood that if the
protesting clergymen fail to bring
about return of the money already
used and a reputation of the gift, they
will aim I,a
board such a declaration as will pre-
vent the possibility of the recurrence
OF such a controversy as the present
one.
Arouses DR.. GLADDEN.
COLUMBUS, O., March 31.-Dr.
Washington GLADDEN., moderator of the
general council of the Congregational
churches of the United States, tonight
gave out the following reply to the
statement of II. II. Rogers:
Mr.. Rogers alleges that the vast
sums extorted in rebates by the Stand
ard on company from it's competitors
was legally taken. because no law ex-
plicitly forbade them. What I said
was that the money was 'fiagitiouSly
acquired. To coerce the railroads into
an arrangement by which it received
large rebate not only on it's own oil,
but on the oil sent by it's COMPETE
lOISI 10 LOTCe the railways TO ROD us
competitors for its enrichment, was, L
submit. a f1agitious, shameful policy.
If there was no law at that time by
which that particular kind of robbery
could be punished, the robbery was no
less fragrant and outrageous. 1t was
by this means that this enormous
power was created.
THE denial that rebates have been
eXtorted since the interstate commerce
law was passed is not credible. But it
is true that it has now gained a power
in the classification and control of
rates which make it unnecessary to
use the system of rebates. Some of
the apologists of the trust are now as
sorting that the money now under dis
cussion has been legally acquired. Lee
gally, says a New York paper, there is
no question that the money is Mr..
Rockefeller'S to give. If there is no
such question, why Is the United
States government now investigating
the operations of the Standard Oil
company"