Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-15
Perkins Alleged Mission.

Representative Stanley declared that
later Mr.. Perkins came to Washington
as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from ]. p. Morgan &
Co.. the harvester and steel trusts
After reciting that Senator Hansbrough
was at that time demanding an investi-
cation Of the International Harvester
Company. Stanley said:
1T was to stay the Department Of JUS
tice and to silence the demands of Sen
ator Hansbrough and to solicit the aid
OF the commissioner of corporations and
of the President of the United States that
MIR. Perkins made his unheralded ap-
pearance in the city OF Washington.
Here he remained for weeks oscillat-
ing between the Department of Commerce
and Labor and the White House with
familiarity of friend and the insolence
of an ally. Upon the commissioner of
corporations he exhausted all his powers
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 ]. T..
Morgan & Co. and to the administration
of Roosevelt.
so impressed was the commissioner of
corporations with the necessity of sup
pressing the Harvester investigation and
preventing any further procedure against
the other 'far-reaching Morgan interests
that he forgot the seal which the law
had placed upon his lips Facts which
were withheld from the highest law
making body of the land We're freely re-
yealed to the superservious emissary of
the steel and harvester trusts"
Reviewing the information as to the
absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company. secured by the Stanley
steel investigating committee. Mr. Stan
ley said:
The severest critic of Col. Roosevelt
can hardly conceive that he would in
twenty minutes have commissioned the
steel corporation to crush its last COM
petitor. had he possessed one tenth of the
information which the commissioner was
afterward forced by the Investigations of
this committee and the pressure of pub
lie opinion to publish to the world. AS
suggested by the commissioner of cor
porations. the investigation of the har-
vester trust was summarily stopped.
The assurance Of Mr.. Perkins that
the 'far-reaching influences of the Nor
trusts were not to be sneezed at appears
to have had great weight with the chief
executive.
'On this OCCASION concluded Mr. STAN
ley. the colonel assumed the same rela-
tive position howard the masters from
Wall street that the Lord assumed toward
the devil
The Savior said. Get thee behind me,
Satan and Roosevelt said. Il will stand
In front of YOU o steel trust, / viii
paraiyze the strong arm of the law I will
Silence the voice of public clamor. and
will deliver TO you, bound and helpless.
the industrial dominance of the south
and FOR that service worth multiplied mil
lions to the United States Steel Corpora
ton, il has not been lacking in gratitude
from the day of the merger until this
good hour. Perkins and Gary brothers
OF the steel corporation have been alb
solutely at the command of the eX-Presi-
dent of the United States.
They were with him in the old party
and they have staged and supported this
political Punch and Judy performance
pulled off i'm Chicago, in which they fam
tastically figure. Roosevelt. Mccormick
and Perkins play their little parts, find
their exits and entrances and take their
cue from this insolent combination of
politician and financial highbnders which
did not hesitate to rob a grave for the
| campaign fund in 1904. and which is now
| Entrusted with the duty of providing prov
ender for the bull moose.