People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — "FOUNDED IN BLOOD.” [ARTICLE]

"FOUNDED IN BLOOD.”

A Chicago Preacher Who Calls a Spade , a Spade. “Our university in Chicago has been founded in blood and must and will fall.” Tljfs is the startling denunciation said to have been made by Dr. W. W. Boyd of the Second Baptist church at the ministers’ weekly conference recently. Thirty ministers were present and the charge created a profound sensation. Dr. Boyd referred to the Chicago University, the largest Baptist educational institution in the United States. The university was founded by John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king, who gave $3,000,000. It is supported by many other large endowments and by subscriptions from Baptists all over the country. Among the statements, he said: “The press, the pulpit, and all professions, especially that of law, are the allies and hangers-on of capitalist brigands.” Another argument presented by Dr. Boyd was that society was divided into drones, who are inventors; brigands who are the manufacturers and their allies; and the robbed wage-earners, and, he added for himself, that the wage-system, as at present established, is in large part to be blamed for existing misery, and that "all capital is fleecings, and wealth is the accumulation of these fleecings.” Dr. Boyd passed to the Standard Oil Company, and, it is said, made startling declarations concerning its methods. A spirited discussion followed. Rev. Colwell sounded an attack upon Carnegie, averring that the armor-plate king’s fortune was built upon the brain and brawn of men ground down by injustice. Dr. Boyd, while pastor of one of the most prominent Baptist churches of Newark, N. J., was thrown much with John D. Rockefeller.—Cincinnati Post. It makes the Republicans froth at the mouth when you point to the present depressed condition of business. They retort that their time is not begun; that they cannot be supposed to do anything until after the 4th of March. Ah, well! We’ll see what we shall see. Much was promised, and much is expected.