New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
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THE KIpD FOUNDATION
Com. Nav York rrs,ane lnr.. isas

I We have received letter from
Capt. Peter Fitzurse which shows
that gentleman in a new light the
old warrior is at heart philan-
thropist, it appears, and he has been
| for years meditating gift of in
estimable value to mankind.
The letter follows:
Sir: / broach to you project
upon which / have thought for many
years, and ask your advice and as
sistance.
There is in my possession---or,
rather, there may be in my posses
sion at any time choose to claim
it--an immense fortune--a fortune
SO vast that it staggers the imagi-
nation. All the gold Of Crasus
added to the wealth Of Monte Cristo
would be but one white chip in the
game that might be played with the
wealth that is mine to dispose of.
And Tor nifty years nave asked
myself over and over again how to
dispose of it for the benefit Of my
fellow-men
First, however, let me say word
as to what this gold is and where
it comes from. Ii is the cleamest
large fortune in the world to-day;
the money freest from the taint of
commercialism, from the sordid as
sociations of trade. 1t was all won
on the open seas by sword and
pistol, musket-ball and dagger and
cannon shot-by frank and honest
piracy, candid theft and bloodshed.
The reek of factories and the smirch
Of sweatshops and the poison Of
mines and the fetid odors Of slums-
these things do not cling to it. 1t
comes from the quick death of few
thousands of people, not from the
slow murder of hundreds of mil
lions under the guise of civilization.
1t is the purest large fortune in the
world. a
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The nucleus of it was the fortune
of Capt. Kidd, the Pirate. Kidd was
not only brilliant and lucky opera
tor on his own account, but-and
this is not generally known--he or
ganized the pirates of his day into
an association that outlived him
which endured, indeed, until eighty
years ago. Sixty per cent of the
takings of all the pirates from his
time until the '40s of the last cen
tury were contributed to this fund,
in good coined gold. And the total
is something stupendous. How it'll
comes about that ] discovered the
cache of this all bit incredible
wealth, and that a.t0 the only man
alive who knows it ...reabauts, is
a story that you v find in full in
my Autobiograpt when it is pub
lished.
N -, sir, the question is-the
que u has been in III mind for
half ! centuGy-what shall | do with
this money!?
Sir, the great Foundations of the
present day have long beea my adj
miration. Between $500, ,o0o, 600 and
81 900, 100000 IN the United States
alcme is invested in these great
Foundations.
! This sum is nothing compared to
the resources at my disposal.
l propose, sir, THE KIDD FOUN-
( ALTON. And it's object, nothing
] ,re or.less than the Uplift of the
| World! But we must organize; we
mast organize at once-and here is
/ where need your assistance. There
is only ono thing that l wish to
insist on: that Model City be built
as preliminary, and stocked with
experts of all known kinds, and that
AL WIZ SCAiCi nt oI0dIC "a tiiiS Gity Ut
erected Memorial, Monument Of
some sort, in honor of Capt. Kidd,
our Founder.
Sir, can you not see that in very
few years we shall be able to re-
form, .rejuvenate, vitalize, mold di-
4 recs and control all human thought.
all human action-aN the deeds of
all ena'akiad! New systems of edu-
cation, of finance, of industry-why,
sir, the field is lin1itless The fu-
ture Of the planet is ours to build:
it is for US to fix and determine now
and here the character Of the COM
/ ing super-race that Is to be evolved! |!
/ There are a quarter Of a million
trained Social Workers who will
want to join our staff at once, when
they find the salaries we are willing
to pay-and When they discover that
our money is the p,arest great for
tune 1,oao IN existence.
4 But we must first choose our
Executive Committee and get the
| right people on it.
! Your young friend, Hernaione. has
impressed me with her earnestness
and sincerity. | should like to have
j her on the committee.