The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-06-25
.sIn common with


every other good citizen, I am at the
service OF my country said George
H. Earle, Jr., receiver of the Penn
sylvania Sugar Refining Company,
when asked whether he would aid the
Government in a criminal prosecution
directed against the heads of the SUI
gar trust.
Those who knew Mr.. Earle keenly
appreciated the irony OF his remark
when they recalled that he had plead
ed with and petitioned~ President
Roosevelt and Acknowledgement Bon
init him to institute just such GRIM
tnal proceedings as are now threat
ened by the present Department OF
Justice. AS long ago as November,
1906, MT. Earle now admits, he
warned President Roosevelt and his
Attorney-General of the Weighing
frauds in New York and rebating
practiced by the sugar trust, but no
action was taken.
Earle's Personality. IS
Mr.. Earle is the son of the late
George H. Earle, Sr., one of the FORE
most lawyers Of the Philadelphia bar.
The son, himself a lawyer, Is the ex-
ecutive head of ave of the largest
banks In the city. He has rescued
many concerns from the graveyard
of high finance, was too busy to be
Mayor of Philadelphia, is not
against" trusts, is worth IS, 900 ,060,
but lives on one of his many salaries,
and his hobbies are coins, first prints
and a model farm. He was offered
500, 600, for reviying the Real Estate
Trust Company, and went into court
and told the Judge that his services
were worth only $50, 600. and he has
aot yet collected the $4,000 because
the company needs the money more
than do.
While a financial genius Mr.. Earle
mas absolutely no ambition for great
wealth or political preferment and NO
iesire for social giories. Upon his
unsupported word the $500 depos-
tors Of the defunct Real Estate Trust
Company turned over to him all that
was left Of 1880, 900 deposits at the
time Of the crash, August %, 1905,
and every stakeholder in the company
assigned his property to Mr.. Earle
without recourse or recovery" with
tut a scratch of pen to safeguard
:he equity.
at would be manifestly improper
Tor me to discuss any phase of the
sugar trust case at this time," said
Mr. Earle, because am still an off,
ser of the court In my capacity as re-
sewer of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re-
dining Company"
Docs the same apply to the Gov
eminent and its agents?" he was
lsked.
"Oh, yes. suppose so. They did
lot care to discuss the case two or
.hree years ago, and prefer not TO
ak about it now, for the more par
ocular reason that we have agreed
lpon a settlement and / consider 1t
hardly fair to agree to settlement
ind then participate in an expose OF
| he other party to the bargain. Then,
90, l must keep in mind the fact that
he court has yet to review the terms
| md conditions of our settlement, and
might be subjected to some criti-
ism for commenting upon the case
1t this time"
Gave Warning in 1906.
"Is it true that you directed the
attention of the Government to the
scale frauds and rebating more than
:wo years ago?"
..Mr. Frank L. Neall, of Peter
Wright's Sons, told me about these
frauds SO long ago that cannot now
DIX the date, but certainly wrote to
the Attorney-Gene about them on
November s, 1906, as the papers in
the Pennsylvania Refinery case Will
how.
at am not fixing responsibilities.
am not naming men who performed
heir duties, nor am I pointing out
INV one who failed to measure up to
.heir responsibilities.
II must not be placed in the posi-