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things including men, women, and children, should be nationalized. 

 What are the results? Let torn, bleeding, starving anarchistic Eussia 

 answer as to the outcome of dividing up accumulated wealth and prop- 

 erty among the masses. Let her idle factories, whose foremen and ex- 

 perts have either been murdered or driven into exile; her uncultivated 

 and grainless fields; her unemployed and starving professors and 

 educated classes; her murdered citizens of the frugal and property- 

 owning class ; her lust-corrupted school children of both sexes ; her com- 

 munized and violated women; her enslaved and terrorized laborers, ruled 

 by a despotism more cruel and heartless than even that of Ivan the 

 Terrible, answer as to the merits of Eed class rule of the proletariat com- 

 pared^ to that of our free and glorious democracy, where the accumula- 

 tion of privately owned property by thrift, industry, and sacrifice is not 

 yet regarded as criminal by the large majority of American citizens. 



This great university, under whose sheltering domes our scientific 

 societies meet — its stately and beautiful temples, in which the accumu- 

 lated knowledge of all time finds such splendid exposition by hundreds 

 of learned minds— could not have been called into existence except for 

 the business foresight, the master minds to grasp the possibilities of the 

 petroleum industry, which, through labor and sacrifice, thrift and en- 

 durance, Mr. Eockefeller and his associates carried forward to com- 

 mercial success in every quarter of the world. This university, the 

 Eockefeller Foundation, the Eockefeller Institute for Medical Eesearch, 

 the Laura Spelman Eockefeller Memorial, Mr. Eockefeller's latest gift 

 of $63,000,000 for charitable purposes, the countless benefactions to 

 colleges, universities, churches, and to every cause worthy of human 

 endeavor, totaling the enormous sum of five hundred millions, as Mr. 

 Eockefeller's present contribution to human welfare, should be a 

 sufficient answer to those who would overturn our present private prop- 

 erty system and substitute therefor any kind of communistic govern- 

 ment. The example of Eussia on a large scale and that of William Lane 

 in Paraguay on a small scale give the same answer; the end of both is 

 idleness, starvation, crime, and barbarism. 



It is to be hoped, in view of these two conspicuous failures of Com- 

 munism to alleviate the ills of mankind, that all thinking minds, 

 especially in our colleges and universities, whose teaching staffs have 

 not been entirely free from the delusion which Karl Marx did so much 

 to promote, will abandon forever the idea of State Communism as a 

 cure-all for poverty, crime, and all the other ills that have always 

 afflicted humanity and always will, so long as envy, jealousy, greed. 



