The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1910
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.yyben Mr.. Roosevelt was President
the Pennsylvania sugar Refining com
many. an independent concern, was
wrecked by Il conspiracy OF the Susa al
Trust. George II. Earle, Philaoeipii'
LAWYER and financier. was appointed i.s
receiver He appealed to Mr.. Roose-
Welt with documentary evidence prov
ing the conspiracy and the susai-
weighing frauds practiced upon the
United States customs. He commuhi-
Gated the facts to the President IN
letter in 1906, and appealed to the
President again and again to look at
the evidence and begged that crlHl-
nal prosecution be instituted by the
President under the Sherman antl-trust
law. but the President ignored all his
appeals. Mr.. Earle proceeded, without
the Presidents assistance, ana perse-
yered with the evidence he had col
leeted and submitted to the President.
with the result that the Sugar trust
confessed its guilt and settled the case
by paying between two ana three MI
lion dollars damages.
After Mr.. Roosevelt left tho Office OF
president, Mr.. Taft's Attorney General
tool, tho evidence Mr.. Earle had offered
to Mr.. Roosevelt and had the oflcers
OF the Sugar Trust indicted, some OIL
1. whom. because of the delay caused py
4 Mr.. Roosevelt's failure to act, were aoie
Z "a Mead the statute of limitations; but
they are still in the hands of the
4 courts. Mr.. Earle has refused down
! to- this time to discuss the subject, but
he has been moved at last by. the lnfa-
NOUS attack of Mr.. Roosevelt upon
( The United States Supreme Court to
4 tell the whole story, and he is telling
i 1T in a series OF articles in the New
Z York World--a plain. unvarnished story
/ of Executive inefIiciency or cowardice
I or worse.
4 From his "uncanny experience with
Z him" MIR. Earle charges that "he HIM
self, Theodore Roosevelt, is more large
ly responsible for the continuance OF
the evil of which he complains. and
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Ger, than any other man in these United
States; that 'sthe very offences which
afr. Roosevelt so hotly lays, against
the Supreme Court are his own; that
s.if the Knight case have any present
4 Importance 1t is, on his own showing
schiehy due to his own neglect of duty" ;
What his administration mot merely
3iid not attack the Knight case but
actually sheltered itself from a plain
Sand imperative performance of duty to
1.-THE American people by extending it
smost dangerously and giving 1t an ap-
plication that the Supreme Court has
Railways and repeatedly repudiated. that
gwas totally unwarranted either in law
or reason; that whatever his pur-
sposes. he has SO conducted himself as
40 be of the greatest advantage TO the
FNery predatory trusts that he SO wild
ily denounees." ana+rhat Gin the result
he and they have '6een not only the
5chief but the sole beneiciaries of his
patent neglect of duty"
Mr.. Earle will probably be called a
liar by Mr.. Roosevelt; but he is doubt.
less prepared for that. What he is
doing now, however, will help TO clear
the air of some of the smoke of the
Colonels Western tour, and 1t is com,
sing out at Il time when the people Of
the country should know what sort o.
caesar is this great American revolu
zionist, to whom tho Supreme Court II
but dust and ashes in his hands.
II the Earle letters had come GU
before the-dinner at the Hamilton clut
in Chicago, we wonder If Senate. T ar
liner could have afforded to be present,
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