Show PHILANTHROPIC STANDARDS Standards in in America ica have more than the fOI co Pr of law hl At an early arly period in Am Americas America's Americ ric 18 is i's career carem as a nay 11 n tion i-tion ti on the tIO feeling n self aggrandizement of b iii social docial axiom Tho memory of of the wealth lion hom or dor d- d del or el incurred Inclined reproach i if not odium odium it part or all of his Ius riches vas 18 not given n to public uses The principle has powerfully affected acts of many rich men mere from that tune mo to this tills r Ono One of the tho first notable examples 8 was as as Stephen He Ho bequeathed to philanthropy the tho entire for fortuno fortune fortuno tune tuno amassed from slur ship commerce A long line of I itch ich lien have followed him him in thus tIms partially 01 OI v ti holly die dis- disposing dis disposing posing of their wealth Tn to the tho donations if immense sans for for public purposes ps Andrew Carnegie was but hut adhering i ing ing to an nil established rulo ruh John D 1 Rockefeller made such extensive contributions that he lie drew heavily upon his pi principal The public disfavor felt when a n multimillionaire makes no t provision for philanthropy was evidenced in inthe inthe the tho case of Russell Sag Sage Saga who both during Ins his life and after his death was as bitterly Cl If HP had n accumulated his liis fortune fortuno In railroad manipulations and stock his moth methods and ond parsimony did lId not endear Mm him to the people His IDs widow ho evor ho lio sev evor er generously gonet aton- aton atoned aton atoned c ed 1 for his Ills by largo and useful public spirited Thus This philanthropic standard has lias boon been a most im- im important im important part ant agency in holding holding- down clown the tho size and dispersing di much of the substance of American Am fortunes fortune Incalculable able ablo sums have boon been transferred from flOm private to public possession It has lias been an and 1 continues continue an nn effective ol ol- ol way bv by which many of the conspicuously con h rrell have lave divested th themselves of or much wealth either b by gift ift or legacy Their examples ampre may also have a n strong strong- per per- por influence their heirs upon |