The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-01
ROGERS DEFENDS
REBATE SYSTEM
Was All Right Up to the Time It Was
Declared Illegal.
STANDARD OIL IS SUNLESS
MORE DISCUSSION OF RocKEFEL
LER'S GIFT.

nj EW YORK, March S1.-H. II. Rog-
IN ers, vice president and director
Of the Standard Oil company.
the conduct Of the Standard oil
company which was evidently
prompted by the criticism in the
prudential committee of the American
board Of foreign missions for accept
ing gift of 100000 from John d.
Rockefeller. Mr.. Rogers said:
Ministers say queer things Or.
Washington GLADDEN. says that every
body knows that John y. Rockefeller
has obtained his money dishonesty
With as much reason I could say that
everybody knows that Or. 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 III certain sections of the Unit
ed States was legal until President
Lincoln emancipation proclamation.
Rebates on railroads were just as le-
gal until the passage of the Interstate
commerce act. After an exhaustive eX-
animation by the industrial commits
SION authorized by congress June Is,
1898, in a review of evidence the COM
mission reported as follows:
The Proof Offered.
1t has been charged as a matter
OF general belief on the part of almost
all Of the opponents Of the Standard
Oil company that these determinations
IN various forms have been continu-
ally received even up TO date. ON the
other hand, the charges have been de
MED most emphatiCally by every rep
reSeutatfVe sof the Standard Oil COM
pany with reference to all cases eX-
cepting ono. which they claim was a
mistake. the amount Of freight due
being promptly paid on discovery Of
the error. The Standard Oil company
not merely challenged the on
pononts TO bring forth proof OF any
case. but produced many letters from
leading officials OF railroads to show
that the company had in no case re
ceived any favors or asked for them. -"
Favor Taking the Money.
1t became known today that prior
TO the final action by the prudential
committee of the American board OF
commissioners of foreign missions i'm
accepting the 100000 gift rendered by
John d Rockefeller a number of prom
lnent members of the board, al d meet I
ing held in New York City. considered I
the matter at length. As u result the /
parties to the conference issued "a !
statement in which they declared they
did not feel that the acceptance of the /
gift would compromise the board in
any way Among those who signed the !
statement We're Rev. J. w. Cooper. sec I
rotary Of the American Missionary as /
ISOLATION: LuCien Warner. chairman of [
III" International Y. NJ. &. A. Rev G. |
\. richards. secretary of the Inter
national congregational Church Build !
ing society, Rev. :. II. Bradford. for !
lnerly moderator Of the National Con
greEational conference; Rev. Edward /
p. IngerSOil. secretary of the Ameri- /
fe#u-
editor of the New York independents !
Rev. !. 7. Merrill president of Fisk /
Nashville. Tenn. Rev. /
Frank X. Sanders, dean of Yale uni (
vcnsity divinity school; Rev. Lyman |
Abbott. Rev Charles r. jefferson. pas |
tor of the Broadway tabernacle. and /
Rev. Henry W. Hubbell Of Greenwich. /
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