The Washington herald., 1907-03-14

binations and conspiracies against the
laws and in derogation of the common
rights of all the people of the United
States committed by John d. Rookie
Teller and his associates, the United States
Attorney says that to set forth all the
places and instances would render this
bin unduly voluminous.
''An editorial in Current Literature for
March says. Mr. Rockefeller's own mind
evolved the scheme of the general educa-
ton fund and the plan is singu-
/ larly like that which he evolved in the
financial world. It Is the Standard Oil
Company plan of consolidation and con-
/ Icentration applied TO educational institd-
tions
! President Gates, of this board. is
quoted as saying that the board aims 10
he better acquainted with ever. college in
I the United States than is any member OF
\ its own board Of trustees. An eminent
lawyer. speaking in favor of the jury sys-
Item instead of one judge. once said: II
takes a very smart man 10 know more
! than twelve men. But here is a single
/ board appointed by Rockefeller that aims
/ to know more Of every college in the
/ United States than any member of its own
board. Does this imply that the colleges
will have 90 come to this board for knowi-
/ edge of what they are 20 do and teach, as
Well as for money supply?
'.The New York Tribune, speaking OF
| this proposed syndicating of colleges,
/ says:
While certain colleges win be selected for con
I trimtiGus or end0Hnents others not 50
favored win be left to their fate by The Rockefeller
fund and many Of them. 1t is expected, VII be
forced close their doors IN thu face of such strong
I support 90 their fortunate rivals And or
the maps In the William street office Of the Kocke
feIer fund the ttle colored pms vii probably seal
4 the fate Of many college aEd work ont the des-
TINY Of others 90 prosperous ends.
Brides offered to Public Opinion.
In strong editorial under the title
! Rockefeller Bribery the New York Press
/ says: Another big gift is said TO be forth
coming from John d. Rockefeller.
/ Rockefellers millions are bribes offered
/ to public opinion and this is the most
insidious form of bribery. we say
without qualification and shall din it into
the publics ears until the EVIL is ap-
preciated that every man who makes
himself "a party to the bribery Of public
opinion by John D. Rockefeller Is an
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/ detestation of mis- fellows
Can any college afford 10 take orders
or money from such "a source? \ monop-
/ oily or trust is the segregaung for the
benefit of one or few of that which was
/ formerly the common right Of all The
/ fundamental principles or our government
/ forbid the granting of such privileges:
/ yet this power has been usuTped and used
| TO practice eXtortiOu on the whole people.
Take, for instance, the industry I'm
which the Standard Oil Company ac-
cumulated its vast wealth, sometimes de
pressing the price of oil and buying large
properties, then advancing the price and
assessing the world % pay for the same.
They fix the price at which they buy,
/ transfer. and sell. Thus they have made
the people who are wholly dependent on
the oil industry serfs. Their profits.
reaped from this serfdOm. have been gov
I erned only by their greed, and their dc-
eumuiation of wealth and enormous divi-
Gends have startled the world.
Handicap to Moral Culture.
If educational institutions and benevo-
/ lent and Christian organizations solicit or
/ receive tainted dollars which are CON
/ tribUted from this source. they are mis-
/ taken: such Institutions must remember
/ that the people viii live, but the Stand
/ ard oil Company viii die and right viii
/ prevail, Furthermore, the Informed will
not bequeath money to, nor educate
/ their children in schools where moral cul-
ture may be handicapped by such gifts.
/ Should a foreign missionary society
( solicit, or be sustained by such funds as
/ John D. Rockefeller recently contributed
/ to tine Congregational Missionary So
ciety 10 civiize, moralize. and Christian
/ ize pagan nations, if such money has been
/ accumulated by methods in direct viola
/ ton Of the fundamental principles of
/ Christian morality which missions are
intended 10 propagate Can the gospel
propagated by Illicit money be effective
/ 10 purify the present life ana give hope
/ Of life beyond?
/ THE contributions Of men ike Rocke-
feller are but q pittance of the great
mass Of gifts to the cause of religion and
1 education The people are strongly op-
posed 10 the evil methods by which In
/ recent times many of the large fortunes
/ have been built up; they are rapidly
I learning not 10 give their honest dollars
/ 10 supplement the dollars which they
/ feel have been illicitly obtained Con
/ sequentiy, these large contributions are
/ drying up the very sources of benevo-
I lence, for It is from these millions OF
small gifts from the hands Of honest
+ men and women that the great works Of
/ religious and educational endeavor are
sustained. 1t is clear that this Illicit
money is injuring instead Of aiding the
/ causes to which it is given
Means Purchase of silence.
institutions receiving the funds of the
monopoIists naturally enter into a species
( of bargain by which they in a measure
/ bind themselves 10 keep silence as TO the
/ offenses of the giver. This has already
/ been demonstrated in some institutions to
which they have given large donations.
Educational and religious organiza-
ti0ns, instead of sanctioning and sharing
/ in wealth accumulated by oppression and
/ injustice should use all the weight OF
their influence to condemn and abolish
! these commercial and industrial wrongs,
and stand for the fullest economic. COM
mercial, and religious liberty for the peO-
pie
1--WE should be warned by the fate OF
past civilizations which have perished
/ from the earth when they permitted the
+ destruction of justice, liberty, and
equality This result was largely brought
about by the abuses arising from the inor-
dinate and unjust accumulation Of wealth
/ concentrated in the hands of a few at the
! expense Of the many. The moral and civil
codes of all peoples, 70 say nothing of re-
/ ligion, require the return Of dollars un-
/ lawfully obtained 10 the rightful owner.
Philanthropy is one Of the noblest
traits OF man. Fortunes won by honest
means viii be respected, but money OBJ
tanned by unjust methods viii not be re-
spected, and its possesors cannot repay in
/ acts of benevolence by returning in part
/ to few that which they have wrong
/ fully taken from the many