The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-08

,aarr that Mir Prick Is the heavfest
 .tockhoIder in the steel trust, that MT
 Casaat is president of the Pennsyivania
 Railroad Company, which Is one or the
 defendants in the coal trust cases now
 pendins, and that MT. Cameron repre-.
 sented the Standard OH trus. ana wal
 Street interests in persuading Boss
 panrose to let Mr. Knox go to the Sem ate.
 Knox's Appointment.
 Here we have the strange spectacle -the mystifying anomally-of three of the chief trust magnates in the laho securing the appointment to the Sem ate of Attorney General Philander C. Knox who has been exploited far and wide as the greatest trust buster on terra frma. Folks who still dare to think will be forced to one of two conclusions:
 First-Either MT. Knox is the only lawyer in America capable of conduct ing a suit against the trusts-which is absolutely preposterous, for there are hundreds of lawyers as able as he is- and that the trusts were anxious to get him out of the Attorney Generals of- flee. because they fear him more than any other human being ,or,
 Second-That the Knox antitrust crusade has been a bunco game from | the beginning. and that Messrs Frick Cassatt and Cameron. together with | those whom they represent, procured | for him the Senatorship as reward for favors already rendered the trusts secretly while in the cabinet and to he hereafter rendered in the Senate. According to the press reports. Presi- dent Roosevelt stood by consenting to transfer of MT. Knox from the cabinet | to the Senate just as Paul stood by con | senting to the stoning of stephen one
 paper says: , that Mir. Knox will accept the posi- tion"-which looks like he is glad to | get rid ofshim.
 Here is another straw: It has been told in Gaeth and proclaimed on the | streets of Askalon by the Roosevelt shouters for To! these many months that the trust magnates-especially l those whose habitat lair is Wall Street l arc bitterly opposed to the President A change appears to have come over | the spirit of their dreams if Francis Loomis, Assistant Secretary of State | can be believed. That functionary re- | gently swung around the circle in New | York and elsewhere to survey the sit- l uation." Upon his return to Washing ton he delivered himself of an inter- view in which inter alia he says: While in New York I spent two days on Wall Street. chatting with many representatives of the financial | interest, and I find there is no longer | any disposition to make a fight. And | in accepting the situation the feeling toward Mir. Roosevelt seems to nave undergone a change, and heard many | friendly comments. confess l was l surprised at the extent of this change Mir. Loomis does not vouchsafe to an | eager and inquisitive world the req | sons why Wall Street feeling has un- dergone such change as to cause | Wall Street magnates who were erst-
 while abusing the President as @ menace to the republic to make many | Friendly comments upon him now. | Has the President changed his views | or have the trust magnates changed | theirs?
 l Plain people cannot be blamed fol | being bewildered by all this kaleido-
 scopic performance.
 | They cannot be censured because by | an old process they figure 1t out that
 two and two make four and that the
 transfer of MT. Knox from the cabi-
 net to the Senate at the behest oi l Messrs Prick. Cassatt and Cameron | taken in connection with the change oi | feeling in Wall Street in favor of the | President has a sinister meaning. | The trust magnates who secured the | Senatorial toga for MT. Knox, since | they have established the entente cor l diale with that famous trust buster
 ought to compel the young ruffianl,
 scions of great trust houses who some
 time ago instituted and assaulted MT
 Knox in a public restaurant to go dowr
 on their knees to him and make to hin | the amende honorable. Then all will
 be lovely with the trusts and the trus i