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STANDARD OIL MAGNATE
MAKES A STATEMENT
PROMPTED BIZ oRITIcrsM op
THE ROCKEFELLER GIFT.

Vice President Rogers Declares Min
listers Say Queer Things-Dr. Clad
den's Assertion That Everybody
Knows Rockefeller Obtained his
Money DishonestIy-Just as Sensible
for Him to Say That Deaeons Of
GIadden's Church Could Not be
Trusted With Ten Commandments.
New York, March S1.-H. H. Rogers,
vice president and director of the Stand
ard Oh company. to-day made state
ment as to the conduct of the Stand
ard Oil company, which was evidently
prompted by the criticism of the pru
Dental 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. DR..
Washington GLADDEN. says that every
body knows that John D. Rockefeller
has obtained his money dishonesty.
With as much reason could say that
Everybody knows that DR.. Washington
GLADDEN. would not trust the Ten Com
mandments for ten days with the dea-
cons 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 were just as legal
until the passage of the interstate COM
merce commission act.
After an exhaustive examination by
the industrial commission authorized
by congress June is, 1898, in a review
of the evidence, the commission report-
ed as follows:
81 It has been charged as a matter
oi general belief on the part of almost
| all the opponents of the Standard Oil
company that these Determinations III
various forms have been continually
ASSS1fSAA ~ = dP " QdlC. Ql1 IIie 0I1eT
hand these charges have been denied in
toto, and most e.. ohatically BY every
representative Of the Standard Oil com.
pany with references to all cases ex
cepting one, which they ts1im was
mistake, the amount of freight due be-
ing promptly paid on the discovery OF
the error. The Standard Oil company
not merely challenged the opponents to
bring forth proof of any case, but pro-
Educed many letters from leading Off
Ecials Of railroads to show that the com
Ipany had In no case received any ia
yors or asked for them Z
1t became known here to-day that
prior to the final action by the pruden-
Etial committee Of the American Board
of Commissioners Of Foreign Missions
in accepting the 100000 gift rendered
by John D. Rockefeller, a number of
prominent members of the board at
meeting held in this city considered the
matter at length. AS a result the par
[ ties to the conference issued a state
ment in which they declare they did
not consider that the acceptance of the
gift would compromise the board in any
/ Wcty fAiliOAEs tuSf0C Wui0 soAt5 iiCtl thU
statement were Rev. J. w. Cooper, sec
retary Of the American Missionary as
Esoeiation; Lucien G. Warner, chairman
Of the International <. M. G. a.: Rev.
10. III. Richards, secretary Of the Inter
national Congregational Church Build
ing society; Rev. A. HI. Bradford, ex-
moderator of the National Congrega-
tional conference; Rev. r. p. Ingersoll,
secretary of the American Bible Soci-
ETY.; William III. Ward, editor of the
New York Independent; Rev. J. J. Mer-
rill, president Of Fisk university, Nash
vile, Tenn; Rev. Frank III. Sanders,
dean of Yale university Divinity school;
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Rev. Charles
E. Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway
tabernacle and Rev. Henry w. HuRbell,
/ of Greenwich, Conn.
The statement issued as the result Of
the meeting was ais follows:
THE prudential committee OF the
American Board has been requested to
refuse certain gift for its missionary
work on the ground that the giver is
the president of a corporation whose
business methods is extensively criti-
cised by the press and public.
Compliance with this request would
put upon the board-wfich is a corpor-
ate trust created for the definite pur-
pose of maintaining missions in foreign
lands--the very grave responsibility OF
refusing money which has been given
for the development Of the work en-
trusted to its careers in aid of partic-
ular objects for which it is trustee
1T would also establish the prece-
dent of subjecting individual gifts to
scrutiny not heretofore regarded as
practicable for a mission board to ex-
ercise.
1--WE do not therefore, consider that
the acceptance of this gift compromises
the board in any way, and we cannot
recommend any departure from the long
established usage of the board in re-
ceiving with thankfulness funds en-
trusted to its care for the prosecution
of it's important work.
Unusual Debarment.
New York, March 31.--Although he