The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-16
Chairman Of Steel Probers Assails
Teddy's Affiliations With Nor.
gan's Associate
DISCUSSES TENNESSEE IRON
Declares Perkins Is 10 be ''Choir
Leader" Of New Party and Sug-
gests Wall Street Hymn

Washington, Aug. 15.-The per-
sonal and political relations OF
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and
George w, Perkins, formerly of J. p.
Morgan & Co., were bitterly at
tackled on the floor of the house by
Representative A., O. Stanley, of
Kentucky who is chairman of the
steel trust investigation committee.
tee. In a speech supporting his bill
to make the report Of the commits
sioner of corporation available for
Congress Representative Stanley
charged that Perkins had protected
the Harvester Trust from govern
ment prosecution, and described
Perkins as the "go-between of big
business" and the government
Representative Stanley's charac-
terizations of the former Morgan as
sociate were extremely bitter He
dwelt at length on the absorption of
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany by the United States Steel Cor
poration and charged that Perkins
had been able to secure from Her
bert Knox Smith, former commits
sioner Of corporations, information
which was denied Congress, The
new progressive party came in for
an extended discussion at the hands
of Stanley.
81 hear that this new party of pro-
gressive capitalism" he said will
sing hymns between the TRADES of
Roosevelt and the platitudes of Per-
kins and that Perkins IS 20 De choir
leader I would suggest that they
paraphrase the war cry of the mus
sulman and adopt with slight modi-
fcation as the battle hymn of the
Faithful from Wall Street the
chant of the Turkish Genesis;
Allah, Allah, Mammon is Allah.
"'There is no God but Mammon
and Morgan is his prophet. Il"
In his attack on Perkins Mr.. STAN
ley said:
Perkins a Go-BetWeen.
For several years the chief inter-
medary between big business and
those who were invested by the ex
ecutive departmnt with the duty of
investigating it has been gentle
man by the name of George w. Per-
kins. For years this fanatically
ardent partisan has broken through
all restraints which deter better
men and has unhesitatingly sacri-
feed every other obligation to soeie-
/fy and to himself in the present ser
vice of his party. In 1904 Mr., Per-
kins in his eagernesS to aid his party
and his hero, Mr.. Roosevelt, actual
ly donated 5000 of other peoples
money to the good cause. He gave
his personal check to Mr.. Bliss and
was reimbursed by check of the New
York Life Insurance Company No,
72S3-payable to ]. P Morgan &
Co. The proceeds of this check
were traced to Mr.. Perkins and for
this eminent service he was arrest
ed under warrant charging him
with grand larceny.
perkins knew the consent of the
policy holders was necessary 10 save
this appropriation of their funds
from the guilt of common larceny
and that consent was not and could
not have been obtained.
"Who were these pilfered policy
holders? The most pathetic and
helpless figures in all this vale Of
tears The young mother wrapped
in the black habitiments of woe
PROSTATE upon the new made grave
of her once loving lord, or children
wailng the name of father above the
silent dead. He robed the widow
of her slender patrimony and
snatched the last crumb from the
pinched fingers of helpless child
hood In loathsome annals of greed
and graft there is nothing so sordid
and pitiless as the creatures who
did it.
This man escaped prison cell
by the skin of his teeth, for having
picked the pockets Of shroud for
the use and benefit of the Republi-
can party"
Representative Stanley declared
that later Mr.. Perkins came to
Washington as "enyoy extraordinary
and minister plentipotentiary from
J. P. Morgan & Co., the Harvester
and Steel Trusts"
Would Silence Hsnsbrongh.
After reciting that. Senator Hans
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