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Show : SHARP QUESTIONS ;!' A5KED THE 50N OF : j J.D. ROCKEFELLER j; " NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Before his regular reg-ular lecture in Carnegie lyceura today Henry Frank, leader of the Metropolitan Independent church, read an open letter let-ter which he had addressed to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and which -is in part as follows: ' ' "You are the son of probably the richest untitled man in the world and will naturally fall heir to much of his wealth. You are a sober, sensible, well-behaved well-behaved man apparently striving with sincere earnestness to. solve the serious problems of life. But more especially and conspicuously do you stand before the world as one of the richest professors profes-sors of the religion of Jesus Christ, and seem to be afraid to be tested and challenged chal-lenged by the ethical standards of that wisest of men." . , Mr. Frank then puts a series of questions ques-tions to Mr. Rockefeller, in .which he asks: "Is it not true that the enormous wealth which has accrued to the benefit of the Standard Oil company, of which your distinguished father was the founder and is the present head, was secured' by the methods of the usurer, the robber, the oppressor of the weak and defenseless, the murderer and the hypocrite? Is it not true the proprietors proprie-tors ef the Standard Oil company were at one time Indicted as -sharers in a conspiracy to blow up the oil wells of a competitor, Involving the loss of both life and property? Is it not true that the Standard Oil company unconscionably unconscion-ably purchased the election of Henry B. Payne as United States Senator, paying as high as 5000 for single votes in the Ohio Legislature? "And lastly let me ask, do you not believe that such manifest hypocrisy, such Unblushing denial of all the ethical doctrines of the greatest moral preceptor precep-tor of the race, such unconscionable efforts ef-forts to purchase eternal salvation with gold and silver Is doing more to cause the final overthrow of the Christian system of belief than the combined labors la-bors of a hundred aggressive Voltaires or a thousand unequaled Ingersolls? "I would respectfully submit these questions for answer to your next Sunday Sun-day Bible lass." |