The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
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(Continued from Third Page) the people will grow like Jonah's gourd vine when they learn that Mir. Prick is the heaviest stockholder in the steel trust, that Mir Cassatt is the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, which Is one of the defendants in the coal trust cases now pending. and that Mir Cameron represented the Stand ard oil trust and Wall street interests in persuading Boss Penrose to let Mir Knox go to the senate.
 Here we have the strange spectacle-the mystfying anomally-of three of the chief trust magnates in the land securing the appointment to the senate of Attorney General Philander C. Knox, who has beeh exploited far and wide as the greatest trust buster O terra firma. Folks who still dare to think will be forced to one of two conclusions:
 One of Two Things True.
 First-1ither Mir Knox is the only law yer in America capable of conducting a suit against the trusts which Is absolute ly preposterous, for there are hundreds of lawyers as able as he s-and that the trusts were anxious to get him out of the attorney generals office. because they fear him more than any other human being, or,
 Second-That the Knox antitrust crur sade has been a bunco game from the beginning. and that Messrs. Prick, Cas- satt and Cameron, together with those whom they represent, procured for him the senatorship as a reward for favors already rendered the trusts secretly while In the cabinet and to be hereafter rem dered in the senate.
 \ According to the press reports, Presl- dent Roosevelt stood by consentng to transfer of Mir. Knox from the cabinet to the senate just as Paul stood by con- senting to the stoning of Stephen. One paper says:
 The President is greatly pleased that MT Knox will accept the posltion"- which looks like he is glad to get rid of him.
 Here is another straw: It has been told in Gaeth and proclaimed on the streets or Askalon by the Roosevelt shout CTS Tor 10! these many months that the trust magnates-especiallv those whose habitat lair Is Wall street. are bitterly opposed to the President. A change appeares to have come over the spirit of their dreams if Francis Loomis, assistant secretary of state, can be be- lieved. That functionary recently swung around the circle in New York and else where to Survey the situation" Upon his return to Washington he delivered himself of an interview in which inter alia he says;
 Loomis Makes Statement.
 While in New York l spent two days on Wall street. chatting with many rep resentatives of the financial interest, and find there is no longer any disposition to make a fight. And in accepting the situation the feeling toward MT. Roose- welt seems to have undergone a change, and l heard many friendly comments I confess l was surprised at the extent of this change
 MT. Loomis does not youchsafe to an eager and inqustive world the reasons why Wall street feeling has undergone such change as to cause Wall street magnates who were erstwhile abusing the President as a menace to the republic to make many friendly comments upon him now
 Has the President changed his views. or nave the trust magnates changed theirs?
 Plain people cannot be blamed for being bewildered by all this kaleidoscopic per formance
 They cannot be censured because hv an old process they figure it out that two and two make four. and that the trans- fer of MT. Knox from the cabinet to the senate at the behest of Messrs. Prick Cassatt and Cameron taken In connection with the change of feeling in Wall street in favor of the President has sinister | meaning.
 The trust magnates who secured the senatorial toga for MT. Knox, since they have established the entente cordiale with that famous trust buster ought to compel the young ruffianly scions of great trust houses who some time ago insulted and assaulted MT. Knox in a public restaurant to go down on their knees to him and make to him the amende honorable. Then all will be lovely with the trusts and the trust buster.