New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-03
PAN.ELEOTRiC REVIEW 7
DR. ROGERS SITS IN JUDGMENT ON THE
REPORTS

DIX. ROUEKS SITS In JUDGMENT ON THE
REPORTS.
THE TELEPHONE "A MERE FRAGMENT OF THE
GREAT PAN-ELECTRIC CoNPANY-CHAgAcrxR
IsTIC vERDICrs
TO me Edttor or The Tribune.
SIR: The American people want "fair
play; does your fearless paper aud therefore sub
NIT that although the Pan Electric reports seem 70 bs
in the main. far-slghtly and unavodably warped By
personal and political preJuaices-yet that without A
word Of explanation, or two points, serious in.
justice night be done American Sovereignty in tvo
persons at least who. as you have frequently pointed
ont, testified fearlessy. coneealng nothing from ths
committee yet so far from betrayng went to the very
limits of honor and truth to shield the had
ceved and Injured them. The public s Of course chiefly
Interested In tho conduct OF its public servants bus
" the private station Is the post OF hohor" and
when private gentleman happens to he mixed up with
politicians in enterprise which they may have per.
verted against his WILL justice demands acqu-
In their schemes and msfeasance should not 10
assumed especially when the has been proven
The committee bsilg empowered TO deal with ths
telephone only ignores in part the original Pan.
Electric Company" and In so doing coniuses what 10
honorable. Of one with what might lie doubtful In tho
other mpeaches character by a sophstry and leads
the public astray The telephone fragment
Of this original Pan Electric Company" 1t from
this original company that allotted the 100000
each OF the notorious statesmen for tho purpose Of
ing sufficient stock to develop faly AMI pa, into
practical operation twenty odd electrical patents
which my son had spent nearly his whole life and
thousands OF dollars These embrace nearly the whole
field OF electrical science lie would certainly be rash
prognosticator who should the public.
OF the committee have DONE that they were all
valueless. and that the original project contemplated
sale OF stock which had value but in the names Of Its
promoters. The public shouts to Macbeths witches.
Rannsy. Boyle and Hale
Thunder lightning hail
STIR the csuldron-let 1t bubble:
Tooth of alder. tongue OF toad,
men shall these three meet AGAIN
For charm OF powerful trouble.
Like a he'll broth boil and bubble.
Double, double, toll ana tg0ube
Fre, burn and caudron bubble
What Scion must this Hale be Who Is he'll Tthins
my Pan. first brought him to the surface Whas
is hel Most certainly nobody compared with my old
preceptor a, Princeton. Professor Henry, who Land his
hands solemniy OF those Inventions in the de.
velopment OF which my son had toiled six years at
Peekskill and exclaimed: "MOrse never Invented any
thing half genious original" My chief object
in promoting "Pan-Electric Company mot the tel
ephone) to get capital to put this system OF tele,
raphy into practical operation, in preference selling
IL for rine dicatorial monopoly so with all tho
other Inventions but when the Pan Electric" states
men, to whom In overweening confidence hal given
the control OF enterprise refused to issue the stock
Tor which had promised IL, should be
used, and who then dwarfei themselves Into nero
u !
the telephone worthless (Which IL not trace. tho
whole project should be confounded with this mere
telephone fragment Of the great enterprise.
"Worthless with0u. tn. names" Of "a lot of nuckser-
ing politicians Who Is this Rlnney, mincing WIKI
Yankee imper;inence his born betters. WITH all the
chaance of Feejee cannibai when he slices a mis-.
sionary To prove that the telephone worthless no
says that one "Benthuyssn" notorious telephone
crank from New-Orlesns and an enemy OF my said
IT "was not worth So" Indeed! o. learned Judge.
Daniel judgment! And yet he abor in another
part OF his report when trying TO rub the black in
Garland, Harris and Young. to prove that this Ben
lied continually and coutradiced hnself point
blank. Come, Judge II for the goose, why not
sauce for the gsuieri Is such a thing" your best
wItnessi Then send for Wilbur again ami give ann $40
another AFFIDAVIT Dht you not have before you
the testimony OF several witnesses who swor, thtt ~
competitive tess in Boston this telephone was pro.
nounced by Mr.. lockwood. electrician OF the Bel
COMPANY be tour times as loud BelPs have great
respect for your tenacty and in proportion
really great compared with poor Hale. protest moro
earnestly against being put III position OF Offering
statesmen. The telephone company was a mere ten.
porary expedenJ gotten by the great statesmen and
consented to It's being capitalized. separately from IN
partly because the greatest lawyersin
America Garl.nd ieadnT them aad assured IA noaSa
sustained. end because I know absolutely that Beus
my sons instruments greater Improvements the
same, and therefore have always urged the Attorney
against broad claim amt Bells alleged fraud 80 far
from having part in "tle secret conspiracy Doth
ference by Young. Benthuysen, Harrls and Company;
Young testified before the committee that he would
never told either OF us ming which needed u he
kept secret for las he expressed 1t under oathD
would have told IL from the hOgsetOp-." JtSicd Uat
cirtbus ROmG 81 rInt siderd ReipubllcG! Inc puDtc
is dealing with public II true bat give
To fe rless truth honor their pac-s Give American
sovereignty chance and remember" The servant is hot
above his master"
SUMMARY.
Hale is a gas-bas. Boyle has evidently the delicate
instincts a gentle ami feels deeply for his
.'his falngs lean t. virtues side -
but IL is sad such man engaged IN the white
wash business He knows that Harris, Young ana an
enhuy couspirrd to the Department OF Justice
the very contracts which the committee extracted
after pulling them more than month VIII ever DO
seen through the thckes coating. IL Rsnney goes III
tie too far Tor inc xorAbe Justice and without dnt or
pity" Boyle has more OF that sublime charity whch
covers multitude faults" Garland and Harris arc
ruined by their duplicty; while Casey Young
aud Van Benthuysen are somewhat exalted
IN being connected with them Johnston and
Atkins will be remembered their weaker asso-
GATES whose honest Impulses were overcome by li@r'
rs Young and Garland, TO withhold from an inventor
the charter ana the parent stock which they had prom
political Influence should suffer. but nevertheless sold
ate rights and thus by substituting inferior names
on stock gut-d the market while screening themselves
Cleveland, their stalwsrt friend, will 20 down 10
nostery IA the goo -hearteG who threw his shield
over them TO hide part the Pan Ike boots or modern
The writer OF this article must OF course,
be forgotten except the few who that
genius OF his son. who standing above them all Ia
modest reserve eKclaims: "Ineres "a DIVINITY dosh
hedge an honest man ~ j. W. ho"EhS
PtrtIcnon Heights Laboratory July l. 1856.