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What Shall We Call It?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 3.

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What Shall We Call It?

The Springfield Republican points out that while Mr. Rockefeller’s recent gift to Chicago University was $1,000,000, his dividends in Standard Oil amounted to 45 per cent for the year. But this does not satisfy. Notwithstanding the pinching poverty in the East, and the famine for coal, so that many have had to resort to the burning of oil, Mr. Rockefeller has raised the price of kerosene oil, since September, two cents a gallon. From the needy is wrung the million dollars. Is it philanthropy?