Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-15
STANLEY ASSAILS NOONENElH
AND his WEALTHY
ALLIES.
State TO AID TEDDY
li~hres Perkins Narrowly Missed
Occupying Cell Ia the
Pcnltentiary.

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formerly of j. +. Morgan 4 CO., were
! bitterly attacked upon the floor Of
the house today by Representative A.,
o. Stanley, of Kentucky. who II chair
man Of the steel trust Investigation
committee.
In speech supporting his bin 10
make the reports OF the commissioner
OF corporations available for congress,
Representative Stanley charged that
Perkins had protected the harvester
trust from government prosecution,
and described Perkins as "go-br-
tween of big interests and the gov
ernment.
Representative Stanlcy's character
ization of the former Morgan asso-
ciate were extremely bitter. lie dwolt
at length on the absorption Of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company by
the United States Steel corporation,
and charged Perkins had been able to
get from Herbert Knox Smith, former
commissioner OF corporations, infor-
nation which was denied congress
The progressive party came IN for rx-
tended discussion at the hands Of stan
ley.
81 hear that this new party OF pro-
grcssive capitalism" he said, "will
sing hymns between the Trades Of
Roosevelt the platitudcs of Perkins
and that Perkins Is 10 be the choir
leader ] would suggest that they
] a hpnaa b., ~
man and adopt with slight modifica
tion, AS the battle hymn of the faith
fu from Wall street, the shout OF
the Turkish Genesis:
Allah! Allah Mammon Is Allah!
There is no God but Mammon and
Morgan Is His Prophet
In his attack on Perkins, Mr.. Stan
| ley said:
For several years the chief inter
mediary between big business and
those who We're invested by the eXecu-
tive department with the duty of in
yestigatlng It has been "A gentleman by
the name OF George W. Perkins. For
years this fantastlcally ardent parti-
san has broken through all restraints
which deter better men, and has un-
hesitatingly sacrificed every other OBJ.
| legation To society In the secret service
of his party. In 1904, Mr.. Perkins, In
his eagerness TO aid his party and his
hero, Mr.. Roosevelt actually donated
5000 Of other peoples money to the
good cause. He gave his personal
check 10 Mr.. Bliss and was reimbursed
! by check of the New York Life Insur-
ance company-No. 72S3-payable to
| ]. F. Morgan a co. The proceeds 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 cf 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 be OBJ
tanned.
who were the pilfered policy hold
ers? The most pathetic and help
less figures in all this vale of tears
The young mother wrapped in the
black habiliments of woe, PROSTATE on
the new made grave of her once liv-
ing lord, orphans wailing the name Of
father above the silent dead. He
robbed the widow of her slender pat
rimony and snatched the last crumb
from the pinched fingers Of helpless
childhood. In all the loathsome an
nails OF greed and graft there is moth
] H., 4 a,
lures who did II.
This man escaped from prison by
the skin of his teeth, for having
picked the pockets of a shroud for the
use and benefit Of the republican
party
Mr.. Stanley declared that later Mr..
Perkins came to Washington as ZEN
voy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentlary from j. p. Morgan 4 Co.,
the harvester and steel trusts"
1T was to stay the department of
! justice and TO silence the demands OF
Senator Hansbrough. and to solicit the
aid of the commissioner of corpora
tions and Of the president of the Unit
ed states that Mr.. Perkins made his
unheralded appearance In the city OF
Washington. Here he remained for
weeks, ascillating between the depart
ment OF commerce and labor and the
White House, with the familiarity of
friend and the insolence of an ally.
| Upon the commissioner OF corpora
tlons 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 beneficial to the house of
J. T.. Morgan & Co.. and to the ad-
/ iministration of Roosevelt.
80 impressed was the commission
er Of corporations with the necessitat-
ing of suppressing the harvester In
vestigation 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. Fncts were
withheld from the highest law-mak-
ing body OF the land, but were freely
revealed to the emissary Of the steel
and harvester trusts"
Reviewing the information as TO
the absorption OF the Tennessee Coal
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