The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-01
MIR. .ROGERS' 4 STATEMENT Tss.S of Standard Oil COmpany'S Conduct. 4 REPLY TO CRITICISM Sarcastic Nudge at Dr. Wash
 ingt0n Gladden.. Names of Several Prominent Members Who Favored Acceptance of
 RockefelIer's sloo,ooo Do.a-
 tion are Made Public:
4 REPLY TO CRITICISM

New York. March 31.--H. H. Rog CTS vice president and director of the Standard oil Company, today made a statement as to the conduct of the Standard Oil Company, which was evil dently prompted by the criticism of the prudential committee of the Amer ican Board of Foreign Missions for ac- D. Rockefeller.
 MT. Rogers said:
 Ministers say queer things. pr. Washington Gladden. says that every body knows that John D. Rockefeller has obtained his money dishonesty. With as much reason l could say that Dr. Gladden. would not trust the ten commandments for ten days with the deacons of his church because they would surely break some of them and bend the rest.
 Slavery in certain sections of the United States was legal until President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Rebates on railroads was just as legal until the passage of the inter-sts.s commerce commission act. After an exhaustive examination by the indus gress July IS, 1898, in review of tho evidence, the commission reported as follows
 Commissioners Report.
 "Tt has been charged as a matter of general belief on the part of almost all the opponents of the Standard oil Company that these discriminations in various forms have been continual ly received. even up to date. Cn the other hand these charges have been denied in toto and most emphatically by the authorities of the Standard oil Company with all cases excepting one which they claim was a mistake. the amount of freight duo being promptly paid on the discovery of the error. The Standard Oil Company not merely challenged the opponents to bring forth proof of any case by accorded many letters from leading oficials of had in case received any favors or asked for them"
 It became known here to-day thai prior to the final action by the pru- dentfa1 committee of the American
 Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions in accepting the $100,00o gift rendered by John D. Rockefeller, a number of prominent members of the board at a meeting held in this city considered the matter at length. As a result the parties to the conference issued a statement in which they de- clare that they did not consider that the acceptance of the gift would com
 promise the board in any way. Among those who signed the statement were Rev. J. W. Cooper, Secretary of the American Missionary Association;
 Lucien c. Warner, Chairman of the In- ternational Y. M. c. A; R W. Richard son, Secretary of the International Congregational Church Building So- ciety; Rev. A. H. Bradford. former Moderator of the National Congrega-
 tional Conference; Rev. Edward P. In- gersoll Secretary of the American Bible Society; William H. Ward. edi-
 tor of The New York Independent; Rev. J. J. Merrill. President of Fisk University. Nashville. Tenn; Rev. Frank K. Sanders. Dean of Yale Uni versity Divinity School; Rev. Dr, Ly-
 man Abbott, Rev. Charles E. Jefferson
 pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, and Rev. Henry W. Hubbefl of Green
 wich. Conn.
 The Statement.
 The statement Issued as a result of
 the meeting was as follows:
 ''The prudential committee of the American Board has been requested to
 refuse a certain gift for It's mission
 ary work on the ground that the giver
 Is the president of a corporation whose business methods are extensively criti-
 cised by the press and public.
 Compliance with this request would
 put upon the board of the university
 grave responsibility of refusing money which had been given for the further ance Of the work entrusted to It's care
 or in aid of the particular object with which 1t is entrusted.
 ''It would also establish the prece-
 dent of subjecting individual gifts to
 a scrutiny not heretofore regarded as
 practicable for a mission board to ex- ercise.
 "we do not consider therefore, that the acceptance of this gift compro-
 misses the board in any way and we cannot recommend any departure from
 the lcrg established usage of the board in receiving with thankfulness funds
 intrusted to its care for the prosecu-