New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-29
ROOSEVELT ATTACKED
IN SUGAR INQUIRY
GEORGE H. Earle Produces Let
tiers He Sent to Former
President.
WERE SUPPRESSED, HE SAYS
Urged Prosecution of Trust, but
Found Mr.. Roosevelt Had
Lost His Preference
for Large Game"

Washington, June -S.--IM" i"'"-"'
NJ the firm OF Arbuckle BrotheIs' Hiuo
rendent sugar refners. were heard by
tho committee investigating the sugar
Truet to-day. but it was the brief testi-
noonv OF George II. Earle. Jr, receiver
for the Pennsylvania Sugar Rehhihg
Company. which most pleased the House
investigators. Mr.. Earle attacked Az
torney General Bonaparte and PRESIDENT
Roosevelt because they would not pro-
coed against the American Sugar Re-
fning Company. charged with running
the Pennsylvania company, and ne IN
serted in the record two letters written
70 the former President. Mr.. Earle Will
he on the stand again tomorrow.
That Mr.. Roosevelt had lost his pref
erence for large game" was asserted by
Mr.. Earle. He said he made repeated
efforts TO induce the federal authorities
to take up the case. and that consider
able Of his correspondence with Mr..
Roosevelt was not sent to the Senate
when a resolution calling for all the
papers was passed. Mr.. Earle sub
mitted to the committee letters he said
he wrote to Mr.. Roosevelt subsequent to
the one bearing date Of September u,
1906 and sent TO the Senate.
That letter was not all wrote to
Mr.. Roosevelt" said Mr.. Earle in re-
Spouse to a question by Chairman Hard
wick. 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.
"A Horrible Suspicion"
ION October 1. 1906" Mr.. Earle re-
Piled. nothing having been done by the
government in this case, wrote another
letter to Mr.. Roosevelt"
Here the witness began reading a copy
of that letter in which he said. being an
slumnus of Harvard. as was Mr.. Roose-
Welt. he began to labor under the hor-
ribe suspicion that this might prove the
first occasion upon which 20 asked as
sistance of so and did not get it."
The remainder Of the letter follows:
matter Of the wreckns of the Real Estate
Trust Company by the Sugar Trust. II
Justice should he done needs the prompt
est attention from the AttoIney GGne ,nr IL
who wrecked this institution for the bene-
fit and at the instigation OF the sugar
Trust. and ] am in myself magazine OF
evidence against them: but while we nave
been waiting and doing nothing others
have been intensely active. and these very
persons who were hot TO help me are now
Withholding all documents and evidence
1T their command. II we could have JOINT
~ acted a little earlier we might have
got some original papers which We greatly
need and may find it very difficult to DC
so now: hut | have copies and can prove
them, although not all the facts that es-
tablish the infamy Of this conspiracy.
II has often happened that you have been
able 10 punish the oppressors of the public
but there has has been no occasion
where, there has been substantial evidence
against so many of the first rank, and
totally misjudge your character If you
have lost your preference for large game
",ar. Roosevelt had lost his preference
for large game. and I was mistaken,
Mr.. Earle declared
Eare's Second Letter.
He then read another letter which h
wrote to MIR. Roosevelt under date o
October %. 1906. In this. after apollo
gizing for his importantly. he said:
i thought that the case that had com
TO my attention in the performance of Al
unsought trust both might enable the GOV
eminent to enforce most importaV stat
ute hitherto unused ana at the same tim
30 demonstrate that the oft made assertion
Of the trusts that they were but techni
callv-not moTaly-guilty OF crime wa
untrue When men, for peCuniary ends
violate one class of laws they do not sto
81 infringing others: but when they s.
charge that the government is persecutin
them for making mere necessary bushes
arrangements it Is difficult 10 prove tn
untruth of their assertion. And so. when
found a case Of first importance wher
there was proof of what ] consider pur
villany ! thought IL my duty 10 lay
directly before you. And ! have. or had
TO other end 10 serve
/ have followed your suggestion an,
visited the Attorney General who. in turn
referred me 10 Mr.. PurdY, a which great
~ rejoiced. For unless | have misrea
his character he is intelligent. fearless ant
devoted to the performance of his DUTY
think he now understands the importanc
Of this case and so I am content. and wsl