Heaven And Trust Money

Iu addressing the Chicago Uuiversity Vlr. John D. Rockefeller, one of the chief organizers and beneficiarles of the Standard Oil Company, made a claim ;o divine right as bold as auy which aas been advanced since the great controversy on that subject in the time of Charles I. "God gave me my money ind I gave it to th University, " said Mr. Rockefeller. This is to gome a very alluriug theory and it is frequently advauced uow as it was some hundred of years ago. Iu the thirteeuth and fourteenth centurias theie was at every crossroads a captain of iudustry preying on cornmerce and takiug forced loaus from trade, and out of the vast estates thus accumulated bospitals, monastaries and churches were built as a rneaus of sanctifying tlie systeui and establishing its divine right to exist. If Mr. Rockefeller bas from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000 that he has not earned, every newspaper reader in the country knows that it is not the gift of fleaven, but that it came through the Standard Oil Trast, one of the most unserupulous and rapacious monopolies ever organizad. It has bought conven-, tions, corrupted courte, bribed legislatnres and done more to demoralize American politics than any other agency. lts principies are depraved, its practices degrading, its snccess shameful, its impudence collosal. But no amouut of impudence will ever couvince any sensible persou that it is either th busiuess partner or beuefioiary of God. Mr. Rockefeller must find a more plausable theory if he wishes sane people to listen to him -