The Meeker herald., 1912-05-18
Bursting q, The Trusts

Bursting fP) The Trusts
The following Washington dispatch
shows how Roosevelt, when presi-
dent, bursted (?) the international
Harvester Trust. The farmers OF the
nation are paying for Mr.. Roosevelts
duplicity:
Now comes the discovery that
Burdette d. Townsend, one OF MI.
Roosevelt's special trust investiga-
tors, was assigned. In 1903, to inves-
tigate the harvester trust, and that
he reported that it was monopoly In
restraint Of trade; that It was hold
ing up farmers, receiving rebates
from railroads, and that all the plans
for the organization Of the trust had
been drawn up and executed BY
George w. Perkins.
The report was suppressed. The
public never heard of it. 1t died BY.
the chloroforming process In the
office of the attorney general Of the
United States, with the acquiscense
of Mr.. Roosevelt. There is every in-
dication that Mr.. Roosevelt person.
ally decreed the death Of this report
1t was Mr.. Roosevelts direct order
to his attorney general not to start
suit against the harvester trust which
resulted In the suppression Of the
Townsend report, and the granting OF
immunity from prosecution to the
harvester trust While Roosevelt was
protecting the harvester trust from
prosecution by the Federal govern
ment, that organization was being
tried, and was found guilty in Mis-
souri,. Oklahoma and other statss
whose legal machinery was not under
the domination of Wall street. s
Here are some interesting extracts
from the Townsend report:
vrhe harvester trusts business has
been increased until today 1t controls
80 per cent of the total business, and
thus a single institution has acquired
a monopoly. G. w. Perkins con-
Quoted the negotiations, and devised
and executed the plans finally agreed
upon. The Rockefellers and Nc
Cormicks own q majority Of the
capital stock.
1.-THE most effective weapons em-
ployed by the harvester trust are Of
the invisible kind. 1t is directly
allied with that group Of Standard
Oil and commercial aggregatious
commonly known - the steel trustl
the eoal trust the railroad trust, ths
fSaaltag tssiltc ~ Rsbatsxs pf4C6e
Of raw material, extension or refusal
Of banking credit can all be manipu-
lated with q discriminating favor
which is murderous to the compet-
itors of the International Harvester
company"
This then, is the kind Of informa-
tion Theodore Roosevelt had on the
harvester trust when he instructed
his attorney general not to start suit
against the trust without letting him
know, with the consequence that suit
was never started.
Considering these facts, is 1t any
wonder that George w. Perkins, or
ganizer Of the illegal harvester trust,
who might today be In the peniten-
tiary II Mr.. Roosevelt had not given
him immunity from prosecution,
paid IS per vote in New York city in
the hope Of again placing Mr..
Roosevelt in the White House.
The United States district attorney
at Denver, Colo. has caused the ar
rest and is prosecuting mail clerk
for carrying outside the mails
maiIable packet, not first-class, for
hire.
This is under the law which makes
1t unlawful for any person concerned
in carrying the mails to carry con-
trary to law any ''letter or packet"
But this same district attorney is
not prosecuting the express trust for
carrying millions Of such packets
in violation of the very next section
of the criminal law which says:
"Whoever shall establish any private
express for the conveyance of letters
or packets, or in any manner cause
or provide for the conveyance of the
same" may be ''imprisoned not more
than six months"
For violating the law once, rail-
way mail clerk is facing prison. For
doing the same thing millions of
times yearly, the express trust not
only goes unmolested, but is reward
ed with profits amounting to as much
as 100 per cent on stock that is wa
tered until 1t is soggy.
Although the prospects for COM
plete Democratic success In Novem-
ber are becoming brighter each day,
IL In nhsarxahla that the business