Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-09
ARE NOW OF DOUBTFUL UTILITY
Would Have Meant Wide Step To-
ward Universal Peace.
NOT A TOOL OF THE TRUSTS
Executive Says Predecessor Deliber'
ately Misrepresents Him.
MORE ABOUT GEORGE PERKINS
Questions Asked About Contrfbu-
tions TO Roosevelt Fund and
Failure to Prosecute steel
and Harvester Trusts.

COLUMBUS. O.. May s.-President Taft
charged here tonight in a speech IN
Memorial hall that Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, his campaign manager, SEN
ator Dixon Of Montana. and democrats
in the senate were responsible for the
'.emasculation' Of the arbitration treaties
with Great Britain and France and that
in consequence Of their action the pacts
so changed as TO be of doubtful utility.
These treaties, the president declared.
would have made wide steps toward
universal peace; would have signalized a
movement for a universal arbitral court
and were as progressive measures as
ever were suggested to the American
people.
For some reason unknown to my puz-
zIe-witted BRAIN" said the president. MI.
Roosevelt opposed these treaties. and by
these men who supported that opposition,
his manager, Mr.. Dixon. and the demo-
cratic votes in. the senate those treaties
were so emasculated that II is difficult
to see whether they contain anything Of
value which ought to be ratified into
treaty My idea Of having the highest
progress possible was In those arbitra-
tion treaties. because saw In them
step toward a universal arbitral court to
which any nation in the world might re-
sort in order to solve. controversy that
II might have with any other nation and
until we get such court. war will not
disappear and this was decided step
toward that end, as progressive a meas
ure as has ever been suggested to the
American people"
Says Roosevelt MisreDresents Him.
Mr.. Tafts Memorial hall address was
the last scheduled for his present tour
through his home state. He. continued
his attack tonight on Colonel Roosevelt.
that Mr.. Roosevelt has referred to In his
speeches against the president. Mr. Taft
openly accused Mr.. Roosevelt of mis-
representation and. misstatement: said
that In many actions for which his pre-
decessor now criticised him he had been
Influenced by Mr.. Roosevelt's advice and
asked the people OF Ohio TO give him a
square deal
The president dweIt at length on the
Roosevelt charges that he was the friend
OF the boss and the tool Of the trusts and
special interests. He pointed out the
failure OF the Roosevelt administration to
prosecute the Steel, trust and the Har-
vester trust and contrasted that with the
attitude of his own administration which
has filed suits against both. Although
he carefully explained that he did not
wish to charge Roosevelt with anything
improper. the president reviewed in some
detail the circumstances under which the
Roosevelt administration decided not 70
institute proceedings against these trusts
or against any Of the Morgan interests"
The president said that George w. Per-
kins "a director Of the harvester trust
and the steel trust" was instrumental
m preventing the prosecutions In the
Roosevelt days and then went on to say:
Mr.. Perkins Is one Of the chief con-
tributors to Mr.. Roosevelts present H.
nancisl fund. Now I want to ask you
what do you think Mr.. Roosevelt would
say Of me II ! had not prosecuted the
steel trust and the harvester trust and
1t appeared subsequently that Mr.. Per-
kins was large contributor 10 a spe-
cial fund expended for my use. Wei.
what does he do on the face Of that?
He charges me with being in control Of
the special interests. with these facts
staring him In the face. don't infer
from these facts anything improper, but
] DO say to him who Is so prolific In
his suggestion Of suspicion and 80 easy
in his charges II improper motives that
for him now. with the evidence before
the public. to charge me with being an
agent Of the special interests. takes the
audacious courage still believe him to
have.
OIL aud Tobacco Cases
Replying to the statement that the de-
erees Of the supreme court in the STAN
dard on and American tobacco cases.
were really Of benefit to those trusts and
that the Taft administrations prosecution
OF them had been Intellectual because oil
had gone up and the stock Of both
companies has gone up. President Taft
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