The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-08-30
STANLEY LASHES
GEORGE ". PERKINS
Declares He "PiCked Pocket of
a Stroud" With Colonel
Looking On.

WASHINGTON, August IA. The
personal and political relations of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt and George w. Per
kins, formerly of J. p. Morgan & Co.,
were bitterly attacked on the floor of
the house today by Representative A.
o. Stanley, OF Kentucky, who is chair
man of the Steel Trust investigation
committee. In supporting his bill to
make the reports of the commissioner
of corporations available for congress,
Representative Stanley charged that
Roosevelt had protected the harvester
trust from government prosecution, and
described Perkins as the ego between -
of "big business and the government.
Representative Stanley's character
izations of the former Morgan asso-
ciate were extremely bitter. He dwelt
at length on the absorption of the Ten
nessee Coal s. Iron Company by the
United States Steel Corporation. and
charged that Perkins had been able to
secure from Herbert Knox Smith, for
mer commissioner of corporations. in.
formation which was denied congress.
The new Progressive party also came
in for an extended discussion.
81 hear that this new party of pro
gressive capitalism" he said, twill
sing hymns between the TRADES of
Roosevelt and the platitudes of Per
lSins, and that Perkins is to be the
choir leader. l would suggest that
they paraphrase the war cry of the
Turkish Jani2aries and adopt it rs the
battle hymn of the faithful from Wall
Street:
Gallant Allah Mammon is Allah
There is no God but Mammon and Nor,
gan is his prophetic
In his attack ON Morgan, Stanley
said;
For several years the chief inter.
mediary between big business and those
who are invested by the executive de.
partment with the duty of investigating
it has been "A gentleman by the name
of George w. Perkins.
"For years, this fanatically ardent
partisan has broken through all re.
straints that deter better men and has
unhesitatingly sacrificed any other oh.
| legations to society and himself in the
secret service of his party.
! Gin 1904 Mr.. Perkins, in his eager.
ness to aid his party and his hero, Mr.
Roosevelt, actually gave $4,000 of
| other people IS money to his cause. He
gave his personal check to Mr. Bliss
and was reimbursed by check of the
New York Life Insurance Company
number 72S3-payable to j. p. Morgan
& Co. The proceeds of this check were
traced to Mr.. Perkins and for this emf
nent service he was arrested under 0
warrant charging him with grand lar
ceny.
"Perkins knew the consent of tn,
policyholders was necessary to saw,
this appropriation of their funds from
the guilt of common larceny and tina
consent was not and could not hay,
been obtained.
"Who were these pilfered policyhold
ers? The most pathetic and helpless
figures in all this vale of tears. TIL
young mother wrapped in the blacl
habit of woe, PROSTATE upon the new
made grave of her once loving lord
orphans wailng the name of fathe
above the silent dead He robbed tn
widow of her slender patrimony am
snatched the last crumb from th
pinched fingers of helpless childhood
In all the loathsome annals of gree
and graft, there is nothing so sordi
and pitiless rs the creatures who did il
"This man escaped a prison cell b
the skin of his teeth for having pickle
the pockets of shroud for the use an
benefit of the Republican party"
Representative Stanley declared tina
later Perkins came to Washington n
Convoy extraordinary and ministe
= plenipotentiary from j. p. Morgan
Co., the harvester and steel trusts"