The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-29
LOST HTS TASTE.
Witness Tells the Sugar Trust
Investigating Committee
That Roosevelt Gave Cp His In
terest in Big Game.
READS TWO LETTERS
Which He Wrote to the Former
Chief Executive
Urging Prosecution of the
READS TWO LETTERS
Urging Prosecution of the
Heads of the Concern.

menr to prosecute former heaQS OIL the
American Sugar Refining company
for the wrecking of the Real Estate
Trust company of Philadelphia in the
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company
deal in 1906, was asserted before the
house sugar investigating committee
by George H. Earle, jr., receiver for
the trust company. The Pennsylvania
refinery was acquired by the Ameri-
can company and promptly closed.
Mr.. Earle also said that considerable
of his correspondence with Mr.. Roose-
Welt in connection with the case was
not communicated to the senate when
a resolution was passed calling for all
papers. Mr.. Earle submitted to the
committee two letters he said he wrote
to Mr.. Roosevelt subsequent to the
one bearing date of September Fl,
1906, submitted to the senate.
THAT letter was not all 1 wrote to
Mr.. Roosevelt" said Mr.. Earle. Il
wrote several that never saw the light
of day. and I have been able to find
two of Them
Read them,'' said Mr.. Hardwick.
"On October 1, 1906" Mr.. Earle re-
piled, nothing having been done by
the government in this case, 1 wrote
another letter to Mr.. Roosevelt"
EarIe's Letter.
The letter follows in part:
Seriously, l mean still seriously,
the matter of the wrecking of the
Real Estate Trust company by the
sugar trust. if Justice should be done,
needs the promptest attention from
the attorney general have seen a
number of the conspirators who
wrecked this institution for the bene-
fit, and at the instigation of the sugar
trust and I am, in myself, magazine
of evidence against them; but while
we have been waiting and doing moth
ing, others have been intensely active
and these very persons who were not
to help me are now Withholding all
documents and evidence at their COM
mand. If we could have jointly acted
little earlier we might have gotten
some original papers which We greatly
need and may find it very difficult to
do so now; but I have copies of and
can prove them, although not all the
facts that establish the infamy of this
conspiracy.
1T has often happened that you
have been able to punish the oppres-
sors of the public, but there has really
been no occasion where there has been
substantial evidence against so many
Of the first rank; and I totally mis-
Judge your character If you have lost
your preference for large game"
Mr.. Roosevelt had lost his prefer
ence for large game and 1 was miStak-
en- said Mr.. Earle when he conclud-
ed. He then read another letter which
he wrote to Mr.. Roosevelt under date
of October 81, 1906. In this letter,
after apologizing for his importantly.
he said:
He Tries It Again.
ct thought that the case that had
come to my attention in the perform
ance Of an unsought trust both might
enable the government to enforce
most important statute hitherto I'M
used, and, at the same time to dem
onstrate that the Oft-made assertion
of the trust that they were but tech
nically not morally guilty of crime was
untrue. When men, for pecuniary
ends, violate one class of laws they do
not stop at infringing others; but when
they so charge that the govrnment is
prosecuting them for making mere
necessary business arrangements, it is
difficult to prove the untruth of their
assertion. And so when / found a, case
of first impression where there was
prof of what 1 considered pure vii
lainy, I thought it my duty to lay it
directly before you. And I have or
had no other end to serve.
IT have followed your suggestion
and visited the attorney general, who,
in turn, referred me to Mr.. Purdy. at
which I greatly rejoiced. For, unless
I have misread his character, he is
intelligent, fearless and devoted to the
performance of his duty think he
now understands the Importance of
this case; and so 1 am content and
wish to thank you for whatever trou-
BILE you may have been nut to by my
appeal to you
He Expected Action.
Mr.. Earle declared he had not
talked with Attorney General Moody
because the latter had been appointed
to the supreme court bench and could
not undertake the case. He had seen
Assistant Attorney General Purdy, ex-
planned the case to him and thought
that the government was going to
press the case.
s'Mr. Purdy told me-" said Mr.. Earle,
''that he wanted all the details. 1 gave
them to him. After he heard them
he jumped up and said. Wen send
them all to jail He said they wanted
to get the best man in the United
States as special counsel ii the case
and asked me how James NJ. Beck,
former assistant attorney general,
would do. I said I thought he would
be all right
ssThat was before Mr.. Beck became
counsel for the American Sugar Rein
ing company, was it not?" asked
Chairman Hardwiek-
Yes, you know after 4 man makes
a success as s. trust buster he does not
continue to serve the people long,
The witness criticised former Attor-
ney General Bonaparte and said that
when he assumed Office he despaired
of government action and began civil
suit in the federal court of the south
ern district of New York
Mr.. BonaDarte never submitted
anything except briefs favorable to
the American Sugar Refining com
pany and they were very bad briefs
at that" Mr.. Earle declared.
Mr.. Earle related the history of the
case of the Pennsylvania Sugar Rein
ing company, organized by Philadel-
phia capitalists, and how Adolph Segal
borrowed money on his stock from
Gustav Kisse1l. who turned out to be
an agent for the American Sugar Re
dning company
wornan's Garter saves Life.