Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-17
MILLIONS FOR CHINESE
STORY OF ROCKEFELLER DoNA.
TON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. March 16.-John D. Rookie
Teller is planning to give $5OOOO,OOO for the
purpose of lifting the Chinese in their own
country to the plane of civilization of the
American people.
knowledge that Mr. Rockefeller intends
to give this enormous sum to be used to
turn the orientalS into the paths of western
civilization has been made public by men
who have been consulted by the intending
donor as to the best methods to be en-
ployed to make the money useful in the
highest degree.
1t is now clearly understood what Mr..
Rockefeller meant when, Immediately fol-
lowing his munificent gift of 32,OO0,OOO to
the cause of general education, he said that
he hoped before long to have something to
announce which might be OF still greater
interest to the public. This is to be Mr..
Rockefeller's GROWING benefaction to the
human race.
A Record-Breaklng Donation.
The sum which the Standard Oil chief
tain will give for the benefit of the orientals
is the largest sum ever given singly for the
carrying out of philanthropic purpose.
The effects of the gift, it is Mr.. Rockefel-
that has sat in emi-darkness. If the pur-
pose of the giver is realized fully new
and an enlightened power Will be added to
the world nations.
Briefly stated, it is Mr.. Rockefellers in
tent1on to endoW in the Chinese empire
many institutions of learning unconnected
in any way whatever with any religious
organization at which the mandarin classes
OF the Chinese may learn by teaching and
association the value of higher civiliza-
ton than that which they have yet known.
1t is thought that these upper classes will.
by their example, turn the lower orders
into the paths which their superiors in rank
will be made glad to travel.
A Daring Conception. s-
1t Is accepted as being practically GER
tain that if Mr.. Rockefeller follows the adj
vice of the men who know Chinese condi-
lions institutes of the kind which he
has in mind will be established at Picking,
Tien-Tsin, Hankow, Chinanefu, in Shan
tung province; Changsha, in Human pro-
vince; Chungking, in western China, and
in Canton.
1t is a daring plan that the worlds rich
est man has conceived. He intends with
his money to make possible the birth
of an empire. The plan of Mr.. Rockefeller
for the carrying out of his purpose seems
to be founded on the same business sanity
which made his great fortune possible. He
has witnessed for years the futile attempts
of the apostles of the western civilization
to uplift the Chinese people as body. He
has read of converts to Christianity here
and there in the Chinese empire; he has
read of the enlightenment of certain Chi
nese in the coast cities. and he has read of
attempts to introduce at places remote
from one another the social usages and the
manufacturing methods OF the west And
then he has compared the pitifully small
numbers of the Chinese who have been
reached by these influences with the hordes
xlosr fn1lr ynf mot rooP n bod nd hn
has determined that the methods were all
wrong.
Denied by BOOKSELLERS Secretary.
AUGUSTA, Ca, March 16.-In regard to
the report wired here today from the north
that he had given $50, ZOO, 900 to the Chinese
relief fund, Mr.. John D. Rockefeller.
through his secretary, said the story was
all rot. Further than this he refused to be
intervieMed.