Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-01-06
COFFEE AND HOPKINS
Carnegie And Rockefeiler-ThsirF Foolish
Gifts When Will The People Stop
Them-Repressutatiye Tawney


1t has frequently been noted that
following Rockefeller's gifts the
price of Standard Oil has advanced.
Unkind people have noted it and said
that that's the way the Oil King gets
his money back. Give to the sleek
colleges and pampered charities huge
fortunes and come back on the COM
mon people for the funds. That's the
way the people love to be humbug-
ged. There should be public pro-
test against it all, and Rockefeller
and all others of his kind should
be called on to give the people sim.
pie justice and find that afterward
they would not have so much with
which to play 'lady bountiful."
But what Rockefeller does on
huge scale lesser lady bountifuls may
do also. 1t is we'll known that the
Johns Hopkins University has been
calling loud and often for funds.
The other day some coffee men of
Baltimore Clipped in their thousands.
A few days later it was announced
that coffee had gone up several cents
pei BOun0s A1O buCkC We aICs iA lilC
same old trap. The man that works
for dollar day will contribute bis
quota to the Hopkins, while he won't
get puff in the papers nor his por.
trait there either.
Carnegie's $40, 900, 900 for world
peace is another abomiration. All
that man wants is to immortalize him
self if possible. He wants his name
kept before the people until the end
of time, if possible. If he, Rookie
feller, and the other millionaires are
going to keep on little further in
the directions they have been travel
ing, their fame and their fortunes
will be swept away by the outraged
masses. Look at the foundations"
recently founded by these two men.
What are they already but national
nuisances? They have a great lot Of
paid subordinates pompously travel
ing around the country bothering
everybody for data and maddening
everybody with their reports.
AS soon as l heard of the Carnegie
peace fund, ! dashed off some letters
to papers, thinking that / would be
about the only man to openly pass
irdicule and condemnation upon it,
but II now see others looming ur,
among them the great philanthro-
pist, Joseph Fels, of Philadelphia.
Carnegie has arranged for Mr.. Root
and the seven other trustees of his
fund, to have very good time over
it, and after their deaths for others
of their kind to take their places !;
each and everyone of them to keep
the Andrew Carnegie name ever
aloof. They will do that, while their
near and dear friends, like Roosevelt.
will call for more battleships, more
Notifications, NOR soldiers and even
more school boys :, O be taught the
art of war. -:
Carnegie better chuck his money in
cart, shovel eart of it out in the
byways of those who made it for
him, and then repeat the job up and
down the alleys of the big cities until
the poor masses have gotten back
some share of what they were origi-
nally robbed of in the same way that
some of US now are by the coffee
men in their aid to Hopkins. Peace
can best be brought by those writers
and speakers who are continually
denouncing the war measures pro-
posed by men like Roosevelt, General
Wood and Representative Hobson.
Let US remember men like Represen-
tative James A. Towney, of Winona,
Mimi. He is doing more for peace
than is Carnegie with his $10.-
600, 600
FRANCIS B. LIvESEY,
Clarkson, Md.