The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-19
AS TO TAINTED MONEY,
Eairbrother's Idea of Rockefeller 8
Currency and the Propriety of
Handling It.

Handling It.
Everything.
In local story concerning vis-
ltmg minister to Durham, the Her aid
OF that city in bolstering it's claim
that the divine is a great man, makes
this allusion to him:
AS illustrating the force of this
gentleman's personality and his re-
putation among the ecclesiastics Of
sthe country, he has been called to
R cleveland, Ohio, where he will fill
athe Baptist pulpit in John D. Rookie
great church during the sum-
liner months.
sss% sssss% And yet we know many people in
1.-the grand old commonwealth OF
aNorth Carolina and elsewhere who
awouid prove by the fact cited that
Va there was no test of greatness for
man to accept tainted money for
his pulpit work. Indeed we have
time and again been told that much
OF Rockefellcr's money is not only
germ-tainted but blood colored. Soms
OF the churches in general conference
nave declared that to accept whiskey
money, cigarette money or Standard
Oll money was to reach forth an Gag
er hand to divide the loot of vanda]s
snd ghouls.
We arc not subscribing to that
sort OF philosophy, but we are cit
ing the facts of history. It would not
necessarily follow that a man who
would please John D. Rockefeller,
Fgentlcman of oil instead Of letters.
was deep man or learned man,
but it might follow that the religion
was secondary and the bloomin' bou-
fqnets he could throw from the pulpit
Unto Old Johns weasoncd soul were
Aworth the price.
1t perhaps remains ii fact that
mere are ministers of God IS gospel in
me of the little North Carolina
WINS as able as any who have filled
pulpit for John D. Rockefeller,
d it is fact that some of them
uld scorn to take his gold. As to
own inclination we have a purify
process in our business Office, and
&c blood money that comes in is
over night in what we term
rorating Vat and it comes ont
'risp and clean as those
Dollar bills which arc stain
sweat and CRIME of the
YES and digs and cusscs
ng to plow q ten acre
stumps and flint
.."ncy is for the most part
a figure Of speech. The ten dollar
bill that helped carry Durham wet
may be used next time to carry Wake
county dry. You can't tell about
the money that is on the wing John
d. scrapes his wealth from all over
the country, hut, hovcl, mansion and
church pay tribute to this bold buc-
cancer. and if any of his dollars float
through our window we are going to
reach for them. But because he has
the price and is willing to cough foe
spiritual comfort it need not follow
~ sr<,Lcn . that the ma. no ends
lin out The chunks of scripture is
either ablc on popula1--but it doc*
follow that such man Is ,.ilc willin,.
to adapt Himself to the riicy of tie
gentlemen who pay the freight.
Accident of birth or fortune in no
way denotes greatness. Rockefeller
"struck it rich' as the phrase has it,
and. by securing monopoly on one
Of Gods rich bountics he has piled
high his gold. We're the Standard
Oil Company conducting a newspaper
and were we called to edit it for the
concern, it would strike us that we
were wanted because the hope would
he that we would hand out the dcsir-
cd package. to please it. and not be-
cause We were particularly pious--
but because we were the kind of a |
hired man who obcvcd orders. The
man who secures the favors Of John
d. Rockefeller isn't going to choose
for his text the proposition that
rich man can no more enter the |
kingdom of heaven than Il camel can |
thread the postcrn of needles eye.
Not on your life he isn't. and if hc
does, his job on the day shift and the
night shift close, instantcr.