The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-29
WRECKING OF TRUST ,. COMPANY BY SUGAR TRUST IS RECALLED Receiver of Defunct PhiIa- deIphia Firm Testifies in
 Sugar Hearing SAYS ROOSEVELT
 REFUSED TO HELP President Had Lost His Preference for Large Game and Infamous
 Conspiracy" Had to Go
 Unpunished

Washington, June 9s.-That former President Theodore Roosevelt had lost
 his preference for large game" be-
 cause of the failure of the governnrsas
 to prosecute former heads of the Amer ican Sugar Refining company for the
 wrecSing of the Real Estate Trusl company of Philadelphia ia the Penu- sylvania Sugar Refining company deal In 1906 was asserted today before the House sugar Investigating committea by George II. Earle. Jr, receiver for
 the trust company. The Pennsylvania refinery was acquired by the American company and promptly closed. Mir. Earle, who declared he made re-
 peated efforts to induce the federal au-
 thorities to take up the case, also , declared that considerable of his cor
 respondence with MT. Roosevelt in re-
 lation 10 the case was not eommuni-
 cated to the Senate when a resolution
 was passed calling for all papers. Mir. Earle submitted to the committee two letters he said he wrote to Mir. Roose- velt subsequent to the one bearing date of September 21, 1906. submitted to the Senate.
 That letter was not all I wrote to MT. Roosevelt" said Mir. Earle. "I wrote
 several that never saw the light of day, and 1 have been able to find two of them"
 Read them," said Mr Hardwick.
 ''on October 10. 1906." MT. Earle re- piled, nothing having been done by the government in this case. l wrote another letter to MT. Roosevelt"
 Here the witness began reading a copy of that letter, in which he said. being alumnus of Harvard as was Mr. Roosevelt, that T began to labor under the horrible suspicion that this might prove the first occasion upon which '79 asked assistance of 80 and did not get it'
 The remainder of the letter follows: If Justice Should Be Done"
 "Seriously, l mean still seriously, the | matter of the wrecking of the Real
 Estate Trust company by he sugar
 trust if justice should be done. needs
 the promptest attention from the at
 torney general I have seen num- Der of the eonspirators who wrecked tthis institution for the bent1t, and at the instigation of, the sugar trust. and I am, in myself, magazine of evil 
 been waiting and doing nothing, oth-
 CTS have been intensely active and these very persons were hot to help me are now withholding all documents and evidence at their command. If we could have jointly acted little earlier we might have got some original pa pers which we greatly need and may lind it very difficult to do so now, but 1 have copies and can prove them, al-
 though not all the facts that establish the infamy of this conspiracy.
 Tt has often happened that you have been able to punish the oppressors of the public, but there has really been no occasion where there have been substan- tial evidence against many of the first rank and 1 totally misjudge your char acter if you have lost your preference for large game"
 Lost His Preference" MT Roosevelt had lost his preference for large game and I was mistaken,' de- clared MT Earle, when he concluded. He then read another letter which he wrote to Mir Roosevelt under date of October 27, 1906. In this letter, after apologizing for his importantly. he said:
 1T thought that the case that had come | to my attention in the performance of an
 unsought trust both might enable the government to enforce most important statute hitherto unused and at the same l time to demonstrate that the oft-made assertion of the trust that they were but technically not morally guilty of crime. was untrue. When men, for pecuniary ends, violate one class of laws, they do not stop at infringeing others, but when they so charge that the government is prosecuting them for making mere neces- sary business arrangements. it is diff cult to prove the untruth of their asser- tion And so, when I find a case of first impression where there was proof of what I consider pure villany. I thought 1t my duty to lay it directly before you. And have or had no other end to serve.
 Referred to Purdy
 q have followed your suggestion and visited the Attorney General. who in turn referred me to MT. Purdy. at which l greatly rejoiced. For, unless have mis- read his character. he is intelligent, fear less and devoted to the performance of
 his duty. I think he now understands the importance of this case and so am con- tent and wish to thank you for what
 ever trouble you may have been put to by my appeal to you" MT Earle declared that he had not talked with Attorney General Moody be- cause the latter had been appointed to the supreme court bench and could not undertake the case. He has seen Assist. ant Attorney General Purdy, explained | the case to him and thought the govern ment was going 10 press the case. | ''Purdy told me- said MT. Earle, that | he wanted all the details. I gave them | to him After he heard them he jumped | LID and said, "We'll send them all to jail l He said they wanted to get the best man 1 in the United tSates as special counsel | in the case and asked me how James 1 NJ Beck, former assistant attorney gen. | eral would do. l said thought he would 1 be all right
 'That was before MT. Beck became | counsel for the American Sugar Renn- | ing company, was 1t not?" asked Chair | mar Hardwick.
 l ''tYes You know, after man makes l success trust buster he doesn't | continue to serve the people long" | Bonaparte Criticized | The witness criticised former Attorney | General Bonaparte, and said when he as- l sup1ed office he despaired of government i action and began civil suit in the fad