The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-07-12

they learn that Mr. Frick Is the heav-
| lest stockholder II the steel trust:
that Mr.. CaSsatt- is president OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which Is one Of The defendants In the
| coal trust now pending, and that Mr
Cameron represented the Standard On
| trust and Wall street interests in per-
suading Boss Penrose to let Mr.. Knox
go to the Senate.
Here We have the strange spec
| tacle-the mystifying anomaiy-oT
three of the chief trust magnates In
the land securing the appointment 10
| the Senate Of Attorney General Phti-
ander G. Knox, who has been exploit
ed far and wide as the greatest trust
buster on terra f1rma.
Folks who still dare to think will
be forced to one of two conclusions:
First-Either that Mr. Knox 1s
the only lawyer in America capable
of conducting a suit against a trust
which is absolutely preposterous for
there are hundreds of lawyers as able
as he is-anj that the trusts We're
anxious to get him more than they
do any other human being; or, Sec
| ondly. that the Knox anti-crusade has
been a bunco game from the begin
ming, and that MeSsrs. Frick. Cassau
and Cameron, together with those
| whom they represent, procured for
him the Senatorship as reward for
favors already rendered the trusts Sc
cretly while in the cabinet and TO be
hereafter rendered in the Senate.
According to the press reports here
Roosevelt stood by consenting to the
| transfer of Mr.. Knox from the cabinet
| to the Senate, Just as Paul stood by
consenting to the stoning of Stephen
One paper says: THE President Is
greatly pleased that Mr. Knox will
accept the position-which looks like
| he is glad to be rid Of him.
Here is another straw.
''It has been told in Gath and pro-
claimed in the streets of Askalon by
| the Roosevelt shouters for 10 these
many months that the trust mag
nates-especially those whose 'hab-
| itat lair is Wall street-are bitterly
| opposed to the President. A change
| of their dream, if Hon. Francis B.
Loomis, assistant secretary of state,
| can be believed. That illustrious pub
| iic functionary recently Swung;
| around the circle" in New York ana
| elsewhere to survey the situation. !"
| Upon his return to Washington he
| delivered himself of an interview in
| which, interalia, he says:
while in New York T spent two
days on Wall street chatting with
many representatives of the f1nanciaI
| interests. and I find that there is no
| longer any disposition to make a
| fight. And in accepting the situation.
the feeling toward Mr.. Roosevelt
| seems to have undergone change,
and 1 heard many friendly comments.
| confess I was surprised at the ez=-
| tent of this change.
Eyes, indeed, the feeling toward Mr.
| Roosevelt seems to have undergone a
| change-among the Wall street trust
| magnates and brother Loomis heard
Il fvsh ,fc- -Ixy "a
aforesaid trust magnates. Mr.. Loomis
did not vouchsafe to an eager and
| inquiSitive world the reasons why Wall
| street feeling has undergone such a
| change as to cause Wall street mag
| mates who were erstwhile abusing the
| to make "many friendly comments
upon him now.
| Has the President changed his
views, or have the trust magnates
| changed theirs? Plain people cannot
| be blamed for being bewildered by al.
| this Kaleidoscope performance.
'They cannot be censured, because
by an old process, they figure it out
| that two and two make four, and that
| the transfer of Mr.. Knox from the
| Cabinet to the Senate, at the behest
! Of Messrs. Frick. Cassatt and Gamer
| on, taken in connection with the
| change Of feeling in Wall street I
| fear that the President has sinister
| meaning.
1.-The trust magnates who secured
| the Senatorial toga for Mr.. Knox since
| they have established the entente cor
| dial with that famous trust-buster,
ought to compel the young ruffianly
| scions of the great trust houses, who
| some time ago insulted ana assaulted
| Mr.. Knox in a. public restaurant, to
go down on their knees and make to
him the amende honorable. Then all
! will he lovely-away with the trust
| and trust-buster."
| Mr.. Clark has an ideal voice for ths
| convention. Every body could hear
| him. At the conclusion of his speecr
on motion Of Mr.. Kerr of Pennsylva,
! MIA, John S. Williams by a rising vote
| was thanked for his services as tenn
| porary chairman.
A motion to adjourn was adopted
and the chairman declared: 'fThe meet
| ing stands adjourned until 10 o'clooe
| tomorrow morning."
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