Show ROCKEFELLER AND GLADDEN v OR OP NOT NO it is ia proper r for forthe forthe forI I the American board of foreign forein Jus Jons to receive money front from John JohnD JohnI D I Rockefeller has been bien settled tern tem In hi favor of ot acceptance A final decision dl loll has IMS be been n postponed po for tw twan t ucla an anti in the tho meanwhile Dr Wash a oth Gladden the great t I onal preacher declares the churches ought to unite and demand the Ute relm repudiation of tf the Ute gift In lii recommending the acceptance nee of oft the t hf gUt Kt t the subcommittee of or the board gives v reasons Iea on for Its con comi I lueion It sees ees no flO harm in tak taking tug ing the money because e it says time the th receipt of fie the Ute gift is ig without con coma conditions in lit no way ay implies partnership with w the th d HM r or Oc approval of or his hit meth methods methods otis Dr Gladden on the time other hand affirms that thet Mr Ir Rockefellers Rockefeller gift Ift is tainted the money mone was gained by b force and fraud frau and its ita acceptance places JlIa ea obligations on the churches which they have nave no moral right to toa assume a DIe They The could not take the money and then denounce Rockefeller and amid silence sl nce under time the conditions conditIon is hs im un The is to as old at as donations themselves Receiving stolen goods good is not usually regarded as good morals cud ud it involves legal penalties where the thief is a common burglar or high In Mr Rockefellers case the court records and the commercial history of or the country leave little doubt 6 that a If large part of ot his tremendous fortune was acquired illegally and at atthe atthe atthe the sacrifice of or ethical standards Un Until til thi recently he has h s managed to es escape escape escape cape H any y penalty social or legal and an his money meney has lias been accepted acce ted by millions fur for CK the Chicago university for fo innumerable educational and religious uses uso JUhas seemed seene to most people a univ university or 01 church en endowed endowed endowed dowed by the Rockefeller means was under obligations not only to refrain from criticism of or him or his methods but that its whole hole system of teaching whether wether secular or religious must necessarily sarn imply approval of the Standard Oil system s stem whether the teaching was explicit or not If the money were to go directly from Mr lr Rockefeller to a hospital or oran oran oran an institution 1 n associated with religious or W work rk the burden of for Mr MJ f I standards standards might not be involved d but it is difficult to see se how a n church t ann accept such a gift bitt unless it expects to condone or approve the life liCe of the donor dono If there is one issue before the Amer American Amerlean lean ican people today It Is the question as to whether BUell men enema as Rockefeller shall shaU j toe e permitted to pursue me their pre nrc predatory predatory system s unchecked with the acquiescence cence of or the whole nation or whether the right to equal opportunity opportunity before the law for every everyman man shall shan be restored r If the tho churches the tho col colleges colleges leges and th the thi other sources of moral morl morland and religious teaching are to approve the Rockefeller standard directly or Indirectly then Uen the hope of commer commercial cial and industrial freedom might as an aswell well be bc abandoned without any malay fur further further ther timer struggle Fortunately the signs sign of the times Umes point to a H revolt against all aU that Rockefeller Ro represents re and an not the least significant of these thebe signs si ns is the attitude of men like Dr 11 Gladden |