Philanthropy

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 26, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 30.

"Philanthropy."—The same writer tells us that the great modern financiers "are the greatest philanthropists that the world ever knew." "Philanthropy" comes from two words meaning love of mankind. How has it been manifest with many of these great financiers? (Thank God, there are few exceptions!) Is it philanthropy to crush to the wall, to utterly ruin financially, scores and hundreds of men because they are in the same business and stand in the way of higher prices? Is it philanthropy to give five or ten million dollars to a school and raise the price of some monopolized commodity so that the people shall pay into his exchequer two to ten times the amount he has given? It is time to open our eyes and see.