Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-26
The RoekfelIer Foundation.

The Rockefeller foundation will be a good thing to those who handle the funds-that much Is certain. There will be life positions, easy work. and big pay. The imagination runs for ward and sees a swarm of faddists, innovators, reformers, grafters, and visionaries buzZing about this pile of money. eager to aid in disbursing it to humanity. including themselves. It will be a miracle if some of these up filters do not get in their work, there by dissipating the funds in pursuing impracticab1e schemes. Surely this country is not in need of hotbed for the propagation of more harebrained reformers than are already at large. The foundation will not benefit the country nor hasten the millennium by encouraging such persons. It is a question, indeed whether it will not do more harm than good by training professional almoners.
 The American people as a nation are not in need of charity from MT. Rockefeller. There is still a spirit of been weakened here and there by mil lionaires who bestowed their millions unwisely, but the mass of the people perceive that something gotten for nothing is not worth having. They prefer to earn their own way. and will not eat the bread of idleness. If the Rockefeller founda tion should tend to undermine the self-reliance and self V l prove to be a curse. instead of bless ing, so far as it's influence extends Washington Post.
 When the foundations are all estab- lished. the schools and hospitals en- dowed, and. the libraries all built, an other and perhaps graver problem will arise. The public. following it's natu- ral bent. is not likely to be satisfied. It will be recalled that piety and su- perstition. acting on the minds of rich men of the middle ages, led to trans ference of a third of all property to the church and to eccleS iastical in stitutions. Then arose the troubles over mortmain. A mighty revolution was effected and the wealth was wrest- ed from the guardians to whom it was conf1ded. Casting the mind ahead we can foresee the time when per haps there will arise in this country a similar demand for the breaking up of the foundations whose creation now causes general rejoicing. It will be asserted that those who live a life of ease out of the income of bonds and securities set aside by the Rock efellers and the CarnegieS are para sites and cumberers of rather than promoters of the common good--New York Life.
 The monopoly of charity would prob ably be more disastrous to society than the monopoly of sugar and oil. Imagine the moral and intellectual condition of a people who had fallen into the way of having all it's humane impulses attended to by charity trust capable of relieveing everybody from the pressure of a personal sense of re- sponsfbility for the cruelties and ca lamities of the world.
 MT. Rockefeller's representative for this project has asured us that the victims of earthquakes, tornados, pest Hence fire and hood-and presumably also the victims of commercial ex- p1oitation and unjust laws-will all be cared for by the Rockefeller founda- tion. Nobody outside the trust need bother his head or heart any more about anything except the saving of his own skin-and the support of this wonderful chartered providence.
 The people will think not only twice but thrice also. before investing the national hopes in so dazzling a prop osftion. The profits offered b the pro- moter are too large.-New Yorw Amer ican