The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16
THE REFLECTIONS
OF A KNOCKER
BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

f6f WONDER" said the Knocker as
he perused the newspaper ac-
count of how certain cIersymeu
opposed the acceptance of Mr.. Rookie
'e'ier money for foreign missions. Il
wonder II 1t came TO a show down how
i'aHy or the dollars now in circulation
'ould be proven to be filthy iucre and
aoW much good square currenc,, thar
never knew sin. These cIergvmeu who
a-cuse the Rockefeller dollars of heinz
oIIi'eu seem TO have an idea tIat
where IN the world there are some
~ - as pure as a new born babe
-,IH Ohey seem to think they can oet
aioIlg with those without dirfvinr. t131i.
It9 WIN the other. What I'd like 10
now IS how they're going to find ONT
y nat Is the clean money and what isn't
.Lo~ are they 10 spot the sanctiied
-,7 Nlllch alone IS fit for heather
luis uInptlon? Certainly even If al
1om Lawson has to saw about the
resoCASLetieF crowd is true some Of Mr..
,ONASLeIIefs vast wealth has beeD
iolleStly earned. some of his dollars are
- cream as anybody eIse's How do
,1 protesting clergy know but that
WI Rocketeller himself REALIZING The
Htuation which is alleged to evisf has
uiFlaed his surplus up into fresh
slTictly fresh and absolutely fresh dol
.1rS the way they do eggs at the gro
-erS he may have classes of dollars
"illch range all the WaV from resDeet
aDle 10 rancid just as the grocers have
81 III Tor poaching and others fit for
nothing but the stage. OF course he
ISL gong 10 tell the public that ne
mas 50 classified his fortune if ne has
zone such a thing. but as long as he
ooesll II seems TO me the board of
missions are perfectly justified i'm xiv
o. lg-G h
81 the doubt. 1t is generally conceded
mat d man may make So OO0. 900 these
laES without indulging in any of those
nnderhanded devious methods that
everybody but our financiers REGARD as
Inscriptions Five per cent interest
on lhaI IS $-7O,OO0 a year, so assuming
mat 10 the tune of s. 000.vyU MIR. Rookie
teller has come by his fortune accord
.nE to Hoyle, he should have the privi-
leEe Of giving away S25O.OOO without
having his contribution treated with
contempt which of course let's i'm the
fl""'oo0 ne has donated to the use of
the missionaries.
But after all. is there anv clean
money IN the world barring that that
comes fresh from the mint2 Is any
~ the cash that comes into the Golfers
~ the missionaries through the contri-
huuon boxes and collection plates of
The church so obviously free from faint
[ doubt II. II every penny that finds
It's way into the missionary treasury
we're accompanied by a typewriter
statement of its record from the dav Of
It's mintaEe. I'll wager you that not
nue of them would be free from sus-
2iclon. At some time, somewhere
you'll find that every mothers copper
D en- has been mixed up in some more
or less irregular transaction which. in
Is own degree, was just as question
able as any of those deviations from
The path Of strict rcCtitude which are
charged up against the Rockefeller dol
5rS- Take the pennies for instance
Is there penny in this world that has
not at some time in its career been Won
Or lost in \ game of craps. tossed I'm Il
lead-or-taH gambling enterprise
dropped into slot machine 10 the
spreading of the nefarioUS chewing
gum habit, or ian some similar other
way put TO base uses2 Do YOU believe
that there Is a nickel i'm .Crea ton that
has not at one time or another been
dishonesty earned by a lying slot
Weighing machine. SquandeTed on the
Ultimate schooner that was the final
cause Of a drunkard's debauch, or ex-