Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-18
Knox and the Trust Magnates


Republicans claim in public to be the
great and only trust busters. notwithstand-
ing the fact that under Republican misrule
trusts have sprung up like mushrooms in
a damp cellar. and have become plentiful
1t is said that 'straws show which way
the wind blows" Here is straw
which indicates that the trusts have moth
ing to fear from Republican trust busters.
1t is the appointment of Attorney General
Philander c. Knox, Republican trust
Matthew Stanley Quay of PENNSYLVANIA
in the senate of the United States There
wouId have been nothing strange or sus-
picious about that performance were it not
for the influences which secured the ap-
nointmeut of Mr.. Knox. There can be no
question about his intellectual qualihca-
said truly of some other Pennsylvania Re-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. John Dalzell and
Joseph c. Sibley, for instance
PeoDIe will open their eyes in astonish-
ment when they learn that the transfer of
Mr. nnox from the attorney generalship to
the senate was procured by the earnest Hs
Cassatt and Mr.. Donald Cameron to induce
Senator Penrose. the new Republican boss
Of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr.. Knox to
be senator. The amaZement of the people
will grow like JOnah's gourd vine when
they learn that Mr. Prick is the heaviest
stakeholder in the steel trust, that Mr.
Cassatt is president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, which is one of the de-
PENDANTS III the coal trust suit now pend
ing, and that Mr.. Cameron represented
the Standard Oil trust and Will street in
terests in persuading Boss Penrose to let
Mr. Knox go to the senate.
Here we have the strange spectacle
the mystifying anOmaly-of three of the
chief trust magnates in the land securing
the appointment to the senate of Attorney
General Philander c. Knox, who has been
exploited far and wide as the greatest
trust buster on terra firma.
Here is another straw: 1t has been told
In Gath and proclaimed on the streets of
AskalOn by the Roosevelt shouters that the
trust magnates, especially those whose
habitat lair is Wall street, are bitterly op-
posed to the president
A change appears to have come over the
| spirit of their dream, if Hon. Francis L.
! LOOMS. assistant secretary of state, can
i be believed. That illustriOus public func-
tionary recently Swung around the circle
| in New York, and elsewhere to survey the
| situation" Upon his return to Washington
| he delivered himself of an interview, in
which, among other things, he says:
.'While in New York l spent two days
| on Wall street, chatting with representa-
| tives of the financial interests. and l find
| that there is no longer any disposition to
! make a fight. And in accepting the situa-
! ton the feeling toward Mr. Roosevelt
! seems to have undergone a change, and
beard many friendly comments. l confess
I was surprised at the extent of this
change"
| Roosevelt seems to have undergone a
| change among the Wall street trust mag
Mates and Brother LOOMS heard many
! friendly comments by the aforesaid trust
/ magnates.
Mr.. LOOMS does 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 presi-
| dent as a menace to the republic to make
''many friendly comments upon him now.
Has the president changed his views, OF
have the trust magnates changed theirs
Plain people cannot be blamed for being
bewildered by all this kaleidoscope; per
Torrance. They cannot be censured, be
cause by an old process they figure it out
that two and two make four and that the
transfer of Mr.. Knox from cabinet to sen
ate 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 sen
atoria toga for Mr.. Knox, since they have
established the entente cordial with that
famous trust buster ought to compel the
young ruffianly scions of great trust houses
who some time ago insulted and assaulted
Mr.. Knox in a public restaurant to &C
down on their knees and make to him the
amende honorable. Then all will be lovely
between the trusts and the trust buster.