The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-07
TAINTED MONEY.

Foreign Missions is creating all sorts
of comments in clerical and uncleri
cal newspapers. One newspaper
says that the American press has
been full of all sorts of compliment
! tary notices about the beautiful be-
: nevolence and splendid gifts of Miss
i Helen Gould and yet, this paper says,
; if this money, with when the young
! lady is so generous in her gifts to
charitable institutions, were traced
back to its origin it would be found
to have been cankered much worse
than the millions possessed by Mr.
Rockefeller. This paper says that no
religious body that accepts gifts
from Miss Gould ought for a mini
ute hesitate tC accept them from
Mr.. Rockefeller.
The Carnegie millions, which are
given so lavishly to libraries, are also
the subject of sharp criticisms
Newspapers are not slow in saying
that these millions were accumulated
at the expense and TO the detriment
of the wage earners Mr.. Carnegie
has in his employment and that his
dollars are no cleaner in the sight of
the Lord than are Mr. RockefelIer's
dollars. Indeed, the argument is on
the side of Mr.. Rockefeller, for it can
be said as fact that instead of in
| creasing he has wonderfully lowered
the price of oil and while this policy
may have been hurtful TO a few
smaller operators it was helpful to
the great body of the users of the
same.
We have in our possession a set of
mercantile books owned by firm
doing business in Ocala in 1867 where
the price of oil is frequently given at
dollar and haalf and two dollars a
as sin to have reduced the price of
this iliuminant from two dollars to
fifteen cents per gallon. The masses
of the people have certainly been the
recipients of benefits in the lowering
of its price.
Speaking of what is and what is
not orthodox money the Richmond
Times-Dispatch says that a good
story is told of church board in one
of the Virginia cities anent the same
The story is as follows:
A member of the board had been
wicked enough to make some money
by trading i'll cotton futures The
other members held a conference,
and decided that money made in this
way was not fit to be received by the
church, and so informed the delin-
quent brother. He took the rebuke |
in good part, but asked the brethren
if it was contrary to religious prin- |
ciple and church rules to make money
by trading in tobacco. The members |!
of the board, some of whom were !
tobacco traders, decided that money |
do IN hot &c
orthodox. There was a debt on the |
church, and the cotton-trading men, |
Der had subscribed a round sum to |
the fund which was being raised to i
liquidate it. By and by when called |!
upon to pay he declared to the good |
brethren that his position was most !
embarrassing. Il have made some |
money in cotton,'' said he, "and I |
have made some money in tobacco, |
but l did not keep the accounts /
separate, and the cotton money and !
the tobacco money have been so |
thoroughly mixed that L cannot dis
tinguish one from the other. That /
being the case, l am afraid that / |
will give some of the cotton-made |
money to the church, which would |
be an offence to my brethren, and so |
l have decided that 1 had best give |
nothing at alI''
And the church went short.
Under Principal c. A. Abbott (hon-
or graduate of the Boston Normal
and Training SCHOOL, the Rollins
Normal has achieved fine results in /
years past, if examination records .