The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
Chairman Of the Steel Trust
Investigating Committee
Calls Him GO-Between of Big
Business and Government.
ROBS WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
He Says to Aid the Roosevelt
Campaign Fund.
Picked Pocket of a ShrOud to
Help His Hero.

Washington, Aug. 15.-The r@r~nnai
AND political relations of Colonel The
odore Roosevelt and George w. Per-
kins, formerly of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
were bitterly attacked on the floor of
the house by Representative A. ..
Stanley (Ky.), who is chairman Of the
steel trust investigation committee. In
a speech supporting his bill to make
the reports of the commissioner of cor
porationS available for congress, Rep
resentative Stanley charged that Per-
lIins had protected the harvester trus
from government prosecution and de-
scribed Perkins as the ''go-between' of
big business" and the government.
Representative Stanleys characterize
lions of the former Morgan associate
were extremely bitter. He dwelt at
length on the absorption of the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron company by the
United States Steel corporation and
charged that Perkins had been able to
secure from Herbert Knox Smith, for
mer commissioner of corporations, in
formation which was denied congress
The new Progressive party came in for
an extended discussion at the hands of
Stanley.
Il hear that this new party of pro-
gressive capitalism" he said, will sing
hymns between the TRADES of Roose-
welt and the platitudes of Perkins and
that Perkins is to be choir leader. i
would suggest that they paraphrase the
war cry of the Mussulmans and adopt
with slight modification 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"
Stanley's Speech.
In his attack, Stanley said:
For several years the chief interme
diary between big business and those
who were invested by the executive de-
partment with the duty of investigating
it has been a gentleman by the name
of George w. Perkins. For years this
ardent partisan has broken
all restraints which deter men
and has unhesitatingly sacrificed every
other obligation to society and to him
self in the secret service of his party
In 1904 Mr.. Perkins in his eagernesS
to aid his party and his hero, Mr.
actually donated $4,000 of
other peoples money to the good cause.
He gave his personal check to Mr..
Bliss and was reimbursed by a check
of the New York Life Insurance COM
72S3-payabIe to J. P. Morgan
& Co. The proceeds of this check were
traced to Mr.. Perkins and for this emil
nent service he was arrested under a
charging him with grand
larceny.
policy holders was necessary to save
the 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 policyhold-
ers? The most pathetic and helpless
figures in all this vale of tears. The
young mother wrapped in the black
labiliments of woe, PROSTATE upon the
new made grave of her once loving
ord orphans wailing the name of faith
er above the silent dead. He robbed
he widow of her slender patrimony
and snatched the last crumb from the
0inched fingers of helpless childhood |
IN all the loathsome annals of greed
and graft there is nothing so sordid and
oitlless as the creatures who did 1t.
Narrowly Escaped Prison.
This man escaped a prison cell by |
the skin of his teeth, for having pick
ed the pockets of a shroud for the
use and benefit of the Republican
party
Reviewing the information as to
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal
& Iron company by the steel corpora
ton, secured by the Stanley steel in
vestigating committee, Mr.. Stanley |
said:
The severest critic of Colonel
Roosevelt can hardly conceive that
he would in twenty minutes have com
nc1sSloned the steel corporation to |