Show THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION From Front tho the May IIa Hamptons Magazine John D Rockefeller has Ims announced hit hia purpose to Incorporate his fortune of o somewhere from train a half halt billion to toa toa 0 a t billion dollars a as au a sort of beneo lent trust Inspection of the dental equipment of oC a gift horse Is tradition traditionally traditionally ally all had manners but In this Instance there certainly le is reason for a n serious inquiry whether wh the American people want to accept this Sift gilt t I We Va re must decline to bo be carried away by the tho hysterical sentimentality with withro ro r Eia r which Mr Rockefellers announced purpose has luas been received Nothing could be more unfortunate than to get tho Limo public Into a mind of willing willingness ness HOBS to accept magnificent benefactions lions of o this kind as J a bribe from great aggregations of o capital for Hie rhe privilege of continuing methods which are arc generally Illegal and always anti anil social If Ii f people aro to lo ho bo bribed Into ac fiC acquiescence quiescence of trust methods and timid tacit indorsement of trust morals morn In it may maybo tt bo he cd at once that consolidation anti and centralization of o wealth wraith will go goon goon on hereafter more rapidly than over ever before Mr Rockefeller has had hall introduced Into Inlo congress a bill to grant federal deral f Incorporation to the Rockefeller Foundation which will perpetually ad administer administer administer minister his hl estate tt This foundation is Ie designated to be a great business organization on one side sid to keep great Rockefeller fortune fortuno rolling roIling up like a snowball into a n greater granter and nud greater fortune and on out the tho other side it is to he hue a philanthropic agency to distribute In charities benefactions tion education etcetera whatever part of o the may ma Impress the managers as og a proper and autO timely lImel salve to the public feelings Think of ot It Though wo we do not permit entailment of o estates wo ne 0 are arc solemnly asked In lii tho the name of ot hu him humanity manity inanity and of charity to grant a n char chill charter charter ter tel which will amount to perpetual entailment of the tho worlds greatest es estate tate Into ever eer got sot together to other in the tho worlds history The Tue managers would have hae complete control of ot Investments and organization They The would conserve their resources In whatever fashion their own will might dictate Being a n federal incorporation the power powel of any an particular state to Interfere with tho managerial methods would he I largely destroyed The properties now controlled by h the house of Roche fellor feller would bo be retarded I In that con COl control cOntrol and nd Inevitably would Increase under the policy inherited from rom the thrifty thrift Mr Ir Rockefeller In short if the Standard Oil of today is a amon moo mon monster ster tel the Rockefeller Foundation will wI very or easily cas II become a whole army of ut utI I Bribery Briber of at the public conscience con and tho the social instinct IB is bad enough Tho The fabrication of o such a creature as asIt asIt asit It Is proposed to endow with perpetual ual existence and unbelievable pow powers low lowers ers era Is had bad enough But BuL entirely aside from these considerations there is an aspect in which congress must very vcr carefully consider this sift gift from tho the Greeks The great case In which the tho federal government has demanded the tIme disso dissolution lution of tho the Standard Oil Company Compan Companas as a conspiracy Is now before borore the su suo supreme preme court of the United States for tor decision The circuit court of ap appeals penis peals has already decreed dissolution of the corporation and distribution of its properties Mr Rockefeller absolutely hit c dominates the Standard OH Oil Company It Is the head hend and center centero of o the Rockefeller aggregation of o wealth weal So that we have presented the re remarkable le spectacle on one side of or orthIs this great grent criminal corporation await awaiting InS big sentence on a L capital charge and andon andon andon on the other side of congress propos proposing proposIng proposIng ing to grant a now charter which In lu Inthe luthe inthe the pinion opinion of ninny many people might easily bo be made the means of o giving to tho Rockefeller trust a new lease lense of o olife life on terms vastly more moro advantageous to it than thun any nn which even the marvelous corporation code of New Jersey has ever eer conferred We Te TC are arc thoroughly justified In look lookIng lookIng Ing lag upon uon Mr oIl Rockefellers charitable proposal with suspicion It Is not narrow mindedness that Owl forces us to this suspicion Wo have long won von wondered wondered dered just how the adroit legal minds of Mr lr Rockefellers lawyers would handle Standard Oil In case the su supreme supreme supreme preme court should uphold the lower court and put the lie trust out of busi business business business ness We W have felt fell sure that those these capable brains would devise sonic some method possibly new and unique for tor allowing the mammoth combination combination tion to continue Its Us work Yet In our alii most naive pleases guesses we never neer thought of charity charlt and anti tho the proverbial sins sho she covers It Il would be a great joke on the American public if such a thing as ns this should Id happen hallen There Is III a tendency to have girdles quite wide wido In front |