The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-16
TEDDY AND PERKINS
ARE SCORED. BY .
REP. STANLEY
HE SAYS THAT THE NEW PARTY
WILL SING HYMNS WITH PER-
KINs AS THE LEADER OF THE
CHOIR.

Washington, Aug. 15.-The personal
and political relations of Theodore
Roosevelt and George w. Perkins, for
merly of J. P. Morgan & Co., were
bitterly attacked on the floor of the
house yesterday by Representative A.
o. Stanley of Kentucky, who is the
chairman of the steel trust investigat-
ing committee.
In a speech supporting his bill to
make the reports of the Commissioner
Of Corporations available for con-
,eat: ) artev nb" ged
that Roosevelt had protected the Har-
vester Trust from government prose-
cution and described Perkins as the
go between" of big business and
the government
otter Excoration.
Representative Stanley's characteri-
cations of the former Morgan associ
ate were extremely bitter He dwelt
at length on the absorption of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company by
the United States Steel Corporation,
and charged that Perkins had been
able to get from Herbert Knox Smith,
/ former commissioner of corporations,
information, which was denied con-
gress. The progressive party came
in for an extended discussion at the
hands of Stanley"
Il hear that this new 9artv of pro
| gressive capitalism" he said, will
sing hymns between the trades of
Roosevelt and the platitudes of Per-
kins and that Perkins is to be choir
leader. I would suggest that they
paraphrase the war cry of the Turkish
Janabaries, and adopt it as the battle
hymn of the Faithful from Wall
| street. the chant of the Turkish gen,
esfs:
"Allah Allah! Mammon is Allah"
There is no God but Mammon,and
Morgan is his prophet
In his attacks on Perkins, Mr.. Stan
ley said:
Perkins the Co. Between.
For several years, the chief inter-
mediary between big business and
those who were invested by the execu
tive department with the duty of in
vestigating it has been gentleman
by the name of George w. Perkins
For many years this fanatically ar
dent parusan has broken through all
restraint which deters better men,
and has unhesitatingly sacrificed ev-
cry other obligation to society and to
| himself in the secret service of his
party.
I'm 1904, Mr.. Perkins, in his eager
ness TO aid his party and his hero,
Mr.. Roosevelt, actually donated $4,000
of other peoples money to the good
cause.
He gave his personal check to Mr..
Bliss, and was reimbursed by check
Of the Northern Life Insurance com
pany-No. 72S3-payable to J. P. Nor
gan & Co. The proceeds of this
check were traced to Mr.. Perkins, and
for this eminent service, he was ar
rested under a warrant, charging him
with grand larceny"
Pilfered Policy
Perkins knew the consent Of the
policy-holders was necessary to 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 those pilfered policy
holders? The most pathetic and help
less figures in all this vale of tears. |
The young mother wrapped in the
black habiliments of woe, prostrate
on the new-made grave of her once
living lord, orphans, wailing the name
of father above the silent dead"
HE robbed the widow of her slen-
der patrimony, and snatched the last
crumb from the pinched fingers of
helpless childhood. In all the loath-
some annals of greed and graft. there
is nothing SO sordid and pit1less as
creatures who did it."