The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-15
Suggests Turkish Warcry.


''r hear that this new party Of Pro-
gressive capitalism he said will sing
hymns between the TRADES OF Roosevelt
and the platltudes of Perkins, and that
Perkins is to be the choir leader.
would suggest that they paraphrase the
warcry of the Turkish fanatics and
adopt IT as the battle hymn OF the
faithful from Wall street
"'Allal. Allah, mammon is Allah.
"' There Is no god but mammon and
Morgan is his prophet
In his attack on Perkins Stanley said;
For several years tho chief nterme-
diary between big business and those
who are invested by the executive de-
partment with the duty of investigating
has been gentleman by the name Of
George ". Perkins, For years this fam
atically ardent partisan has broken
through all restraints that deter better
men and has unhestatlngly sacrificed
every other obligation to society and to
himself in the secret service Of his party
Contribution of 1904.
Elm 1904 Mr., Perkins, in his eagerness
to aid his party and his hero. Mr.. Roose-
vclt,. actually gave $4,000 OF other pco-
pies money To his good cause. He gave
his personal check to Mr.. Bliss and was
reimbursed by check OF the New York
Life Insurance company-No. 72SS-pays
able to j. P. Morgan & Co. The pro-
ceeds OF this check were traced to Mr.,
Perkins and for this eminent service he
was arrested under a warrant charging
him with grand larceny,
PERKINS knew the consent of tho poll
icyholders was necessary to save this ap-
preparation Of their funds from the guilt
Of common larceny and that consent was
not and could not have been obtained.
''Who were these pifered policyhold-
crs? The most pathetic and helpless
figures In all this vale OF tears. The
young mother wrapped in the black
habiliments OF woe. prostrato upon the
new-Inade zrave of her once loving lord.
orphans wailing the name of father above
the silent dead. He robbed the widow OF
her slender patrimony and snascned the
last crumb from the pinched fingers of
helpless childhood. In all tho loathsone
annals Of greed and graft there Is moth
ing SO sordid and pitiless as the creatures
who did II,
nls Hlun ebCdpGu a prison cell by tho
skin of his teeth for having picked the
pockets Of r. shroud for the use and
benefit of the Republican party"
Perkins as Envoy.
Representative Stanley declared thai
later Mr.. Perkins came to Washington
as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from J. p, Morgan G. Co.,
ths harvester and steel trusts.
After rec!tng that Senator Hansbrough
was at that time demanding all investiga-
tion Of the International Harvester COM
pany, Stanley said:
''It WAS to stay the department OF
Justice and to silence the demands OF |
Senator Hnnsbrough and TO solicit the
aid Of the commissioner of corpora tons
and Of the president OF the United States |
that Mr.. Perkins made his unheralded |
appearance In Washington. Here he re-
mained for weeks. oscillatIng between the
department of commerce and labor and |
the White house with familiarity of a
friend and the insolence OF an ally
Upon the commissioner OF corpora
tions he exhausted all his powers OF ca
johns and coercing- He reminded him
of his great service and unique liberalty