Graham guardian., 1912-08-30

has unhesitatinely sacrificed every
other obligation to society and to
himself in the secret service of his
party.
"In 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 per-
sonal check to Mr.. Bliss and was re-
imbursed by check of the New York
Life Insurance Company-No. 1928
payable to J. P. Morgan and COM
pany. The proceeds of this check
were traced to Mr.. Perkins and for
this imminent service he was ar
rested under a warrant charging
him with grand larceny.
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 these pilfered policy
holders? The most pathetic and
helpless figures in this vale of tears.
The young mother wrapped in the
black habiliments of woe, PROSTATE
upon the new made grave of her
once loving lord, orphans wailing
the name of father above the silent
dead. He robbed the widow of
her slender patrimony and snatched
the last crumb from the pinched
fingers of helpless childhood. In all
the loathsome annals in greed and
graft there is nothing so sordid and
pitiless as the creatures who did it.
This man escaped a 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 an envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary
from J. P. Morgan & Co., the har-
vester and steel trusts" After re-
citing that Senator Hansbrough was
at that time demanding an investi-
CATION of the International Harvest
er Company, Stanley said:
1t was to stay the department of
justice and to silence the demands
Of Senator Hansbrough and to So
licit the aid of the commissioner of
and of the president of
the United States that Mr.. Perkins
made the unhearlded appearance in
the city of Washington. Here he
for weeks. oscillating be-
tween the department of commerce
and labor and the White House with
the familiarity Of friend and the
insolence of an ally. Upon the COM
missioner of corporations he ex-
hausted all his power of cajoling and
coercing. He reminded him of his
great services and unique liberality
to the party and the precious and
long standing friendship which had
been so beneficial to the house Of
J. P. Morgan & Co., and to the ad-
of Roosevelt.
"On this OCCASION" concluded Mr..
Stanley, the company assumed the
same relative position toward the
masters from Wall street that the
Lord assumed toward the devil. The
Saviour said: Get thee behind Me,
Satan," and Roosevelt said: Il
will stand in front of you, 0 steel
trust; l will silence the voice Of pub
lie clamor and l will deliver to you,
bound and helpless, the industrial
of the south. and for
that service, worth multiplied mil
lions to the United States Steel
corporation, it has not been lacking
in gratitude from the day of merger
until this good hour. Perkins and
Gary, brothers Of the steel corpora
ton, have been absolutely at the
command of the ex-president Of the
United States.
They were with him in the old
party and they have stayed and sup
ported this political Punch and
Judy performance lately pulled off
n Chicago in which they fantasti-
,ally figure. Roosevelt, Mccormick
and Perkins play their little parts,
find their exits and entrances and
lake their cue from the insolent