The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-04
Is Il Treason?
CONGRESSMAN Stanley, Chairman
of Steel Trust Investigating
Committee tells what he Knows
of Roosevelt and Perkins.

Several years agoSenatOr Hans.
brough introduced a resolution in
the senate to investigate the Har.
yester Trust. The Department
of Justice employed Mr.. Burdette
T Townsend to look into that af-
fair. He filed the most compre-
hpnsiye and conclusive indict-
ment have ever seen drawn
against one Of these interstate
corporations, as you call them,
and | think | have some enperi-
ence. He charged that the Har-
vester Co. was receiving rebates
from the Steel corporation; the
existerce of interlocking direc-
tors serving the Harvester Trust
and the United States Steel Cor
poration at the same time: that
the Harvester Trust was robbing
the farmers of this country of
millions of dollars every year:
that the corporation was organ.
lied by J. Pierpont Morgan & CO.
at profit of over 5000, 600:
that it was conceived in sin and
born in lniquity.
If the Harvester Trust had not
sold single reaper or binder or
mower, it would have been pro-
ceeding in violation of law. He
explained how the Harvester Co.
had practically the same finance
committee as the United States
Steel Corporation: how the Steel
Corporation sold steel for the
manufacture of wagons and parts
Of harvester machines and twine
binders so much lower to the Har.
Vester Trnst than to any other
manufacturing concern that the
agricultural implement people
came to the Steel Corporation and
demonstrated with them. but in
Yaln' how this conspiracy had
put the small makers of wagons
and agricultural implements outI
Of business.
When that whole matter was |
ABOUT to be investigated, these
Twin trusts senta man down here
from New York who had earned |
thedeatbless gratitude of the Re. |
publican Party by his princely
eonlfloutlonsto!ts corrupt funds. |
Fer several years the chief in. |
'efmedIary between big business
ana those who were invested bv
'ne executive department with
lne DUTY of investigating it was
'lls same Mr.. George w. Per-
NUS 10 pry into the secrets of
bureau clothed with plenary in
q0'SlVoflal powers and directed tol
reveal the results of it's invests.
so''ohS only upon the order of
uie resident of the UnitedStates
anu TO keep the interests most
soH'erhed as to the progress of a
presumably ~ secret inspection of
s' "iel' al1alrs and the probable re-
sqi, ~ !, and attitude of the officersI
u The law, who were sunnosed
,JasI Jlepof, Its violations to the pres
;aeAl ;o only, was at best an inyid-
w.. saS TASK Tor which Mr. Perkins
,lsa previously demonstrated his
peculiar fitness. ''''
dent de partisan had broken ,,lI',g thro,nh aa
bs batto.e ene restraints which deter
" sse, sacria aien and had unhesitating-
ton t S'splI,ced ta saa; every other obliga-
the tIus' sodS 70 Society and to himself rf in
In In lsea sSsclet Mt service : of his party,
ne Ness s9Va ~ a: Mr.. Perkins, in his eaper. eu
M MS Pos . aid his party and l his shero hero
Sc, ,oN0 o%N01pssevelt, ns actually donated I
New yol,,' Of other peoples MONEY {
and and for luads) ,d: to the good cause use I
Vas l,r sr,enI THIS eminent service aI he
ehsrg$pprn arrested under a warrant rT ,nt |
/ ds5sns Do nnE him i'm with grand iarcenv hrcenv' t
cuIlsan" VIII III read what Chief Inst;ss, gIrsths,
New yS' Yo,L sl the court Of appeals aIs'o Of
Judaroe aers, KS said about him. "
. ou'len' in People ex rel .