My experience in getting money for Tuskegee has taught me to have
no patience with those people who are always condemning the rich
because they are rich, and because they do not give more to objects of
charity. In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping
criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how
much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at
once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize
and cripple great business enterprises. Then very few persons have
any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people
are constantly being flooded with. I know wealthy people who receive
as much as twenty calls a day for help. More than once when I have
gone into the offices of rich men, I have found half a dozen persons
waiting to see them, and all come for the same purpose, that of
securing money. And all these calls in person, to say nothing of the
applications received through the mails. Very few people have any
idea of the amount of money given away by persons who never permit
their names to be known. I have often heard persons condemned for not
giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away
thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing
about it.
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