Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-30
THE REVELATION OF MIR BARKER.

The statement oE Mir Wharton Barker before the senate interstate commerce committee on Tuesday. re. garding Mir. Roosevelts association with financiers and his acqulescent part in the panic of 1907. cannot be dismissed by the refusal Of the col, 0nel to enter into a discussion with an inmate of bedlam.
 It is true that the evidence pre-. sented by Mir. Parker is in part hear say and in part. circumstantial His knowledge of the things he talked about. he admits. was obtained from man now dead and whose identity he refuses to disclose. Yet it may be surmised that he was either Mir E. F. Hartman or Mr. A. J. Cassatt.
 The circumstances point to Mr, Hartman. though il is a matter of common knowledge that Mir Cassatt irspired the railroad bill. Before it was presented in the house however 1t was decorated with Rooseveltian features which Mir Cassatt would perhaps have not approved But the more foolish Of them as well as much oi the real effectiveness Of the meas ure itself were later sacrificed when Mir. Roosevelt betrayed the democrats who stood ready to make the meas lue a law. became frightened, and surrendered to AlGrich.
 But this is a matter of recent his tory. We are concerned now only with the character of the witness who has risen against MT. Roosevelt and We find him to be worthy of con sideratiou. former intimate friend and supporter of the ex-president and conspicuous figure in the banking and industrial world for forty years, whose activities extended to Russia and China.
 In 1896 Mir. Barker who had been republican became a popuLst and four years later. was the anti-fusion populist candidate for president He is actively identified with various irl- portant societies-the American Phi losophical Society, the Academy Of Natural Sciences and the American Academy Of Political and Social Science.
 We are forced to believe that what MT. Barker tells of his own knowl- edge is true: that a certain financial giant" had assured sim Mir. Rooso. ,elJ was frightened. had aceeded to the demands oi ihe fiusnciers, Ie- taining to himself the right to "hol- Ter all he wanted to"
 Mr Barker was increduious, but no reassuring word came 10 him from the White House in answer to let ter to Mir. Roosevelt describing what he had heard and professing a con. tinuing faith in him. Then came the message 10 congress in 1905 lending color to the statement of the -'finan ciai giant" and two years later came the panic aud the manner in which relief was afforded not 10 the couu try. but to the 6nanciers.
 Mr. Barker iD repiy to further ques tioning regarding the name Of hss in formant refused to divulge it thougi he turned with significant irreleyanc' 10 the matter of the stolen cores pondence Of Mr. L. II. Hartman.
 It is not charged by Mir. Barkel that Mr. Roosevelt two years earlier bad a guilty foreknowledge Of a pan ic. but that be had promised undel pressure. in certain contingencies tC pagsue a certain course 1'be hnan osfs, probaisy thought that the pres iaent in awakening the public con science was doing as much to sers' the ends, of the coRspiratOrs al be could by any consious ae' He vas only needed to perform th' crorning act at the proper time an'