Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
MONEY Is NOT THEIRS
ATTORNEY GENERAL BONA
PARTE ON MULTI-MILLIONAI
Wealth, He Declares, Should Be Used
for the Public Good-Belongs
to Community.

BALTIMORE, Md, February %. AT
| the annual banquet OF the Johns Hop
! kins alumni at the Merchants Club last
| night the most interesting speech Of the
evening was that of Attorney General
/ Charles ]. Bonaparte, the prosecuting at
| torney for the government in the anti
| trust cases, in which he referred signifi-
cantly and forcibly to the abnormally
! swollen fortunes held by some of the multi
| millionaires of the country.
| Mr.. Bonaparte, as is generally his Gus
! tom, decided to inculcate lesson by the
| relation of an anecdote of humorous ma
| ture. He told it in this way:
| Some time ago I had friend of the
same religion as myself who was rather
given to appropriating things which were
| not his own. One day, when this feeling
| overcame him, he went so far as to appro
pirate a chicken that was the possession of
another. Soon afterward he became re-
pentant and before going to confession,
| came to me and expressed deep sorrow at
| having committed the act. He even went
| so far as to propose that he would bestow
| the stolen fowl upon me, but l, In most
! righteous frame Of mind at the time, re-
fused to accept the rendered gift.
Likened to Chicken Thief.
Thus it is with those gentlemen in this
country who have had the fortune, or
rather misfortune, to accumulate vast
amounts of money at the expense of their
| less fortunate brethren.
| Money thus acquired is really the prop
erty of the community and should be used
| in such manner to benefit it the most.
Many of the multi milionaires of this
| country should part with their swollen
| fortunes in ways that will most benefit
the community. l know of no other way
at the present time that such moneys
| could be taken from the poor unfortunate
| and misguided Croesus than by the be-
stOWal of such funds upon the educational
| institutions throughout the land and in
| that connection l would even go farther
and say that l know of no other 1nstltu-
| ton of learning at the present time on
! which such sums could be expended more
| beneficially than upon the great institu-
| ton in our midst-that which has been
| founded by the great philanthropist Johns
Hopkins.
On Grace Suicide"
Following up with remark upon race
| suicide, Mr.. Bonaparte said:
LAS it is with the human race. SO it is
| with universities, and especially with Johns
| Hopkins. The alumni of this university
| have achieved too great success in the
| many professions and forms of business
| to allow their alma mater to suffer from
| lack of funds, and thereby cause a suicide
| in point of the number of her graduates"
The individual speakers of the evening
were pleasantly introduced by Dean Will
liam H. Howell of the Johns Hopkins Med1-
| cal School, who made some novel and in
| teresting remarks about each of the orators
! as they were called upon for speeches
| Previous to his Introduction of Attorney
General Bonaparte Prof. Howell made the
| remark that a Harvard man was distin-
| guishable as far as the eye could see,
| whereas a man from Johns Hopkins had
| the happy faculty of travelling incosnito.
DR.. Gilman on Gifts.
The speech of President Emeritus Daniel
c. Gilman, who followed President Remsen,
| was mainly occupied with a discussion of
the vast sums placed in the hands of edu-
i cation by the munifcence of Mr.. Rockefei-
Ter within the last few weeks.
| 1.-THE sum of $50 600 ,OOO,' said DR.. Gilman,
| donated within the last few weeks by the
| munificence of the oil magnate to the cause
| of education. in addition to that of $11 ,OOO.-
| eco given a short time before, almost passes
! human understanding. 1t merely goes to
| prove that the wealthy men of this country
| are realizing the great practical benefit
| brought about by the educational institu-
| lions throughout the land and are begin
| ming to take an active share in their MAIN
| tenance, delegating, as 1t were, their active
management to those who have received
! training adequate to their direction.
| "As l look back upon the work done by
| the graduates of this institution and think
| of that which will be done in the future by
those who shall be sent forth from its walls
it is with a feeling of pride that l stop to
| think that have had a share in the organ
ization of Johns Hopkins.
| "At the time l retired from the presi-
dency of this university / thought ! would
| hang out a Single on which l should write
| the words, "A modest young man desires
| work of any sort; terms moderate. Before
| l had a chance to carry my plan into
| practical operation I was astonished at
| my appointment to the leadership in the
! great institution just established by the
| munificence of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie. The
| foundation of an institution for original
! research and pure science, as was Mr.. Car
| negie's plan, was rather unique, and for 1t
| he deserves great credit. The first grant
| made by that institution for original re-
| search was to that eminent and venerable
scientist whom we have with US tonight,
| Prof Simon Newcomb, man whose re-
searches in mathematics and astronomy
| have given him reputation that is world
| wide
| Prof. Moore Speaks.
| A speaker of great eloquence, and one
| introduced at the last minute, for when
| the list of speakers was made out it was
| not known that he would be in this city,
| was Prof. Ernest C. Moore of the depart
| ment of education at the University Of
| California, who is lecturing to the public
| school teachers of the city. Prof. Moore's
| speech was mainly taken up with praises
of the work being done by Hopkins gradu-
| ates throughout the country and the great
medical departments of the university: His
| talk evoked large measures of applause
| from the Hopkins alumni
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