Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — ROCKEFELLER’S MONEY GOOD [ARTICLE]

ROCKEFELLER’S MONEY GOOD

Grafters are boiled in Persia. In this country we merely give them a bath and send them to the Senate. Utah reports land frauds, but it hardly gets into the first class, for not a Senator seems to be involved as yet. j

One governor recommends religion as a cure for trusts. Seems a sort of veiled slam at the Rockafeller brand of piety.

Mrs. Chadwick and her attorney are said to be very much dissatisfied with the verdict in her case. Bhe evidently expected the jury to treat her as the bankers used to do. .

Alaska threatens to secede on account of the failure of Congress to grant her demands. Alaska should take a lesson in patience from Oklahoma and Indian Territory.

g? For the first time in fifty years the democrats have elected the officials of the city of Bangor, Me. There’s no telling what might happen if Maine were to hold her presidential election in an off year.

Congregational Committee Think* It Will Huy a* Much Hlulon Work as Any Other Money. Boston, March 24. —The Journal tills morning says: Despite the protest from the ministers of the eliurcßes of New England, and in the face of the dissenting memorial presented and signed by thirty local pastors, the prudential committee of tin* American Board of Foreign Missions will on next Tuesday vote unanimously to ■accept the gift of SIOO,OOO from John D. Rockefeller, and will use the money for the U'lidit of the mission schools of the Orient. This action on the part of the prudential committee will follow the unanimous recommendation of u subcommittee of three that the gift be accepted.