The Washington herald., 1907-03-14

of Pennsylvania, author Of the industrial
commission law, and the bureau Of cor
porations law-two of the most impor-
tant statutes enacted in recent years for
the benefit of labor. the regulation of
corporate wealth, and the abolition of
trust evils-has given to the press state
ment of his views on the question of the
acceptance OF tainted money" by
churches and colleges. The statement is
based upon John D. Rockefeller's latest
sift of S32000,000 through his educational
board
Mr.. Phillips spent a few days IN Wash
1ngton recently, and il was while here
that his statement was prepared. His
home is at Newcastle, Pa where he is
president Of a bank. and he IS extensively
engaged in the oil business as an indie
pendent operator He served two terms
in Congress, and later was a member OF
the industrial commission. His most inn
portant work in Congress was in counec-
ton with the creation of the Bureau OF
Corporations.
Takes Issue with Gen. Booth.
1T is speciously stated that there are no
tainted dollars that all dollars are alike,
and that institutions of benevolence are
ANAAAN be NDiLtA AJtNle-lo A4tltA A4A titE SUNS
without regard 10 the source from which
they come" Mr.. Phillips says, in opening
his statement 1T is also stated as an
apology for the acceptance Of tainted dol
lars. that they have been contributed for
religious and educational purposes. But it
must be borne in mind that no benevolent
or religious society should solicit or re
ceive them as such.
Gen Booth of the Salvation Army, on
his arrival in New York the other day.
when asked the question in regard to TAX
ing tainted money, is reported as saying
that he would take tainted money from
John d. Rockefeller or anybody else
would take anything and wash it in the
tears of the widows and orphans. But il
must be remembered that tainted money
has already been bathed in the tears OF
widows and orphans. Can he battle il
again in the same fount? Ii should be re-
turned 20 those whose tears IL caused 70
flow, and il cannot be washed in the tears
Of others. Such men as Booth should not
encourage the practices OF the men whose
methods create the very poverty and dis
tTess he aims TO cure
Judas Thirty Pieces of Silver.
eve have an account Of the gift of
the widows mite. No doubt much money
was received in the temple without in
curing in regard TO the sources from
which il came. But when Judas brought
the thirty pieces Of silver, saying. 4
have betrayed the innocent blood it was
at once rejected as the price Of blood,
and appropriated for the purpose of buy
ing a potters' field, so that money
donated for q benevolent or religious puT-
pose which has been obtained in an IL
liCit way. and known to be such. should
not be received for the promotion Of any
moral or religious object And that al
ready received should be returned, or
might be used TO bury the dead, but not
To corrupt the living.
ANY church or moral Institution re-
ceIving money obtained in q criminal or
immoral way. and knowing the fact, must
necessarily become partiCeps crimiuis,
and win naturally be considered as per
sons receiving stolen goods. Those who
knowingly receive and appropriate such
money must, IN a measure, indOrse the
criminal or illegal practices by which il
was obtained. 1t must contaminate both
the immediate and ultimate recipients
with some of the evil of the giver and
perpetuate the same in coming time.
Common offenders give, claiming no
credit but the great mOnopOlist expects
that they who receive the gift shall be
silent as to his methods, and give eulogy
10 his questionable acts. The apostle
said TO Simon the SOrcerer, THY money
perish with thee. because thou hast
thought that the gift of God may be
purchased with money
Calls Il Commercial Crime"
'The history Of the Standard oil Com
pany, as shown by Hudson, Lloyd. Tar
bell. and others, and as exhibited in the
court proceedings and investigations of
the various state, legislative, and Con
gressi0ual committees, as well as I'm the
Investigations conducted by the United
States Industrial Commission, the Inter
state Commerce Commission, and the
Bureau of Corporations and their find
ingss constitute the darkest page OF COM
mercial crime thus far written I'm the
history Of this country or of the world.
Their offenses have become so great that
over six thousand indictments OF which
the aggregate fines would amount 10 more
than Sl5t.U0,oJ0 have already been found
against them in the courts of the couu-
try. The monstrOus magnitude of their
total ofenses in the whole nation has
cast dark shadow of crime across the
entire continent These thousands Of in
dictments already found against the
Standard on trust are based only on
transportation ofenses, and do not in
clude the much greater and more numer-
GUS wrongs committed against the pro-
ducers in the oil industry. to say moth
ing of the Gmtless extortiOn practiced on
the consumers by the destruction of COM
petition.
'The trust has sought TO lnculcate in
the public mind the false idea that it has
reduced the price of oil to the consumer.
when the truth is the opposite: for all the
great discoveries which cheapened oil
We're made by the competitors Of the
trust.
All colleges or churches that contem-
plate soliciting or receiving contributions
from Rockefeller or his forty-three-mil-
lon-dollar educational fund should Sc
cure from the United States Department
of Justice. ana read carefully. the charge
made by direction of. the United States
Attorney General in December 1906. and
now pending against John d. Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil Company in the
United States Court for the Eastern dis
trict of Missouri. in which ii is set forth
that said Rockefeller and his associates,
in or about the year 1870 and al ali times
since have been engaged in a conspiracy
to restrain and monopolize trade and COM
merce in petroleum. and that said trust
did crush out and eliminate competition,
by rebates and secret preferential rates
&c, sc.
As Charged by Government.
The government further charges that
the standard oil trust has declared and
paid cash dividends amounting to over
500 an l-n - 1T L. rroats h. ...E