The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-09-30
DECEPTION OF
EX-PRES|DEN7'
prosecution of Trusts While III
Office Proves to Be Fake
TIME CHANGES OPINION
All Proceedings Relative to Corporations
We're Either Forced or Caused BY
Selfish Political Motives

The time was when brute force
eoupled with military renown constitut-
sS Greatness. The era of hero worship
i not vet past. Not so long ago mill
tsrv success made presidents. qualified
Or Unqualified for the Office. But today
shirh estimate of morality is essential
to universal judgment of greatness.
Notwithstanding popular applause
and hero worship on certain lines of
uolitical activity, it was through due
regard to the moral sentiment expressed
above that the writer dissented from
opinion of ex-President Roosevelt be-
mo greatest man in the United States.
Later on it may be pointed out where
in Theodore Roosevelt should be classed
as big man in unparalleled daring to
change the existing order-or rather to
expunge the theory of democracy in
favor Of government by arstocracy.-
for which his tremendous energy has
to be reckoned with. Yes, Theodore
Roosevelt is big enough to be dangerous
to Democracy.
But to return to the starting point
when Illustrations were presented, rath-
er showing littleness in the subject of
our story, it was said in extenuation,
"But it must be admitted that Roose-
welt was great in regulating the trusts"
Roosevelt being just now in the lime
light campaigning for candidacy of
president in 1912, it is well to discuss
this subject of trust regulation so up
permost in the public mind, in earnest
desire to be relieved of the octopus
grip Of the monster. And strange as
Il may seem from his past record, DeO.
pie perhaps majority are looking
TO Roosevelt as man Of destiny to do
this great thing for them. Is there
anything in his record to justify it?
This is the right question to ask, and
one that ought to have q common sense
answer viz: the commOnsense of facts.
What are they? Search the records
while he was president. i
Taking them in the order of occur
renee as we'll as memory serves: First
is the vaulted busting Of the great
Northern Merger. harped on for so
long time, while as a matter of fact
the system only changed few names,
to meet technicality, and kept on do,
ing business in the same old way. and
kept on merging more and more, until
today it is one of the greatest robber
combines in America.
Next came the beef trust through
the amusement of public sentiment by
the Socialist Sinclair in his Jungle,
70 whom the credit should be given.
The regulation" however, may be
summed up in more of cleanliness.
Sinclair, in referring to Roosevelt copy.
ing socialist said: 1.-THE last case Of
which | will speak is matter OF my
own knowledge. The most effective
thing that Roosevelt ever did was his
campaign against the Chicago packers
he did not accomplish anything as Il
matter of fact, but he thinks he did, ne
does not know that the whitewash has
worn off, and things are worse than
they were BEFORE"
Roosevelt himself told me that he
took up the investigation because he
was getting something like hundred
letters or more day about the matter,
Next comes the prosecution OF the
standard Oil Company, and its fine ol
5000 goo. Everybody knows what d
nfzle 1t turned out.
The Times. Union, of Albany, has
heard of it Granting against the corpo-
ntons in Western tour), and remarKS:
II Teddy Roosevelt was, sincere wheh
g said ne would make the corporations
come to time, why. while he. was pres,
nent, did he not make the United
otates Steel Corporation come to time
Wien it absorbed the Tennessee Coa'
and Iron Company"
1T will be remembered, that kooSe-
YET was responsible for, the tremen,
oo9s steal by which the Tennessee Goa.
snd iron Company was absorbed 'py 'he
stesl trust. Appeal to Reason.
The only prosecution Ola trust tha'
Aas not been a farce under the kooSe,
YET administration was that OF the
.egar trust, which was conducted by
ne receiver, Geo. H. Earle, and was
unoertaken by Mr.. Earle on MS Owl
ssSsPonsibility, after the president did
q! he could 10 shield the trust. :.
. The history of the casei given 10
ihe Trics-a-Week World (Sept; v, "
mich oceurs the following; with al
-. kcosevelt's ranting and roaming
.oout lawbreaking- corporations, ne no.
SSoIy refu&ed to proceed against tne
cogar Truat. but he shielded that GRIM.
,nAl corndration. Not only this, Dui
.. Earl1 asserts that IN order to avon vow
osset1gi ling the Sugar Trust, Pres'oea ~
IN extended the Knight case y
g fve Il an application the supreme
~ has repeatedly repadiated' 80,
ia time the American people knew
n,ll truth about Mr.. RooseveIst .
in in the Sugar Trust case. me
. make that record public ''eo'