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Show ROCKEFELLER'S CHARITY. We read much of Rockefeller that is scathing, but we are beginning to read not a little that Is commendatory. The widespread notoilcty given his contributions for colleges and charity accounts for the good tilings said of him. Possibly the great oil magnate isci tilled to commendation, but Just hotv much can be better determined when it is known what portion of his Income Mr. Rockefeller gives to public 1 benefactions According to a report at liana, John D. Rockefeller' Standard Oil dividends for the year will amount to $.0,000,000, and his Income from all sources for 1005 is estimated at 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 That sum Is not the Rockefeller foi-tune, foi-tune, bear In mind, but the accretions of a single year. He can hardly be worth less than a billion dollars, Rockefeller might spend and give away iMO.OOO.ooo In a single year, and be no pooier at the end of the year than at the beginning. He does not spend one per cent, of it, and in all his years of giving lie has never gotten i Idol as much as lie is taking in tills year. The money Is simply piling up, adding to the vast hoard and increasing in-creasing the enormous power of one man. Tde-, levied in the Stale of Minnesota Min-nesota for a year amount to $.0,000,-000. $.0,000,-000. Tills sum supports the State Government, all the Stale Institutions, all county government, all the cities with their special assessments, supports sup-ports all their schools, and pays the expenses of townships and road work. The Rockefeller Income Is twice the Income of this great state. Minnesota Minne-sota lias the greatest permanent school fund of any state In the Union, now over $10,000,000. Rockefeller could supply two such endowments out of his annual Income, and still have $s,ooo,000 for pin money. Such tlgurcs arc beyond the compic-lienslon compic-lienslon of ordinary mortals. Reducing Reduc-ing them to lower terms will make It easier. Rockefeller's Income for a week Is very near $800,000. That sum of money would establish a family in wealth and social position for all time to come, If conservatively inverted. The Income from that $800,000 would keep Its possessors in luxury sucli as no one dreamed of fifty years ago. The Income for a single day, over $100,000, would be a welcome endow-ment endow-ment for many a small college. Every hour adds to the Rockefeller fortune a sum almost equal to a Con-gressman'sanuual Con-gressman'sanuual salary. He receives In II ft ceil minutes fiom money that Is working for him as much as most ' skilled mechanics earn in a year of toll. How much credit does Rockefeller deserve for his comparatively paltry-gifts paltry-gifts to the publ!cv |