The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-26

much less ask 70. il. Heaven Forbid tie
~ here 20 fight against II, and this time
his voice OF protest will be heard from
Gresnland's icy mountains 10 Indis's coral
strand--H he has his way
TOO LATE on OTHER GIFT.
Dr. GLADDEN.. chief protester, leader or
the untainted, has given up his hght
against the slo0.0cc gift 10 the American
board OF foreign missions. and his reason
IA simple enough 1t is too late, the taint-
ed money has nearly all been spent,
there amt goin' To be no core
In a star chamber session. the local pro-
testing committee OF Congregational min
listers. headed by Or. GLADDEN., President
Tucker OF Dartmouth, and other proni-
nent churchmen of New England. will
meet this afternoon at the Twentieth Cen
tury club whom they will endeavor by
grand concentrated effort 10 keep the
American Missionary association and
other Congregational societies from ask
ing or accepting tainted money" from
John d. Rockefeller, or other persons who
may be placed under the ban because they
nav possess greasy gold.
ANSWERS DR. GLADDEN..
New York, April 26,-starr j. Murphy OF
John d. Rockefeller's private counsel
yesterday issued the following statement
by Mr.. Roclkefellers authority:
I'm his latest attack upon Mr.. Rookie
feiier Or. washington GLADDEN. seeks to
make out a case OF perjury, and in doing
ro assumes paternity for falsehood
which has been frequently published
during the past 10 years and until now
never answered. DR.. GLADDEN. SAYS:
4" The South Improvement company was
one of the schemes invented by the Stan
dard OIL magnates tO plunder their com
Ietitors and enrich themselves The or
garization and the method OF this COM
pany were abundantly proved I'm court,
and the company was driven out Of bust
ress.
"a few years afterward before a COM
ruittee Of the New York legislature Mr..
Rockefeller under cath took part in the
following colloquy;
There was such a company?
~ have heard of such a company
" You were not in it?'
81 was not
4" Mr. Lloyd appropriately adds $50 help
me- God"
ION the same dey another Of the former
trustees and one Of the closest associates
OF Mr.. Rockefeller. being asked by con.
Ercssional committee who made up that
South Improvement company. namel as
among them the principal members Of the
Standard oil company and at the head of
them all stood the name OF John, ID.
Rockefeller.
ON A GARBLED REPORT
Or .Gladden makes much OF his position
as an original investigator and says that
IL is within the power OF every intelligent
man 10 find out from the original docu-
ments whether the statement is true or
not
'Rut unfortunately. his statement is
untrue, and his whole charge OF perjury
rests upon a garblel report. The testi-
fnony is taken from a report OF an inves-
tiGation relative 10 trusts New York SEN
ste, 1883. pages r9 g.
Anyone turning 10 that report will find
that Mr.. Rocke fnler's testimony TO tho
effect that he was not in such a company
did not refer TO tie South Improvement
company at ALL but TO another And entire
~ different corporation, called the South.
ern Improvement company.
IF Or. Glalden has mendaciously gar
bled the testimony IN order 10 make out
a cnsc, there is nothing more 10 say.
'1f he has done II ignorantly and has
confused the names OF these two corpor-
ations, he Is scarcely less culpable, since
before making charge OF so serious a
Character IL was obviously his duty 10
possess himself OF the fact"