The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-10
PERKINS NOT PROGRESSIVE.
Real Progressives Not Deceived.
Lions Do Not Become Lambs

SiVe pretenSlOnS or George w. FER
kins, chairman of the executive
committee of the Third-Term party.
kins continues his connections with
the Harvester Trust and other trust
interests can he truthfully proclaim
himself a progressive of the type
acceptable to thoughtful men. Mr..
Perkins progressiveness, according
to Mr.. Spreckels, is fifty per cent.
sham and fifty per cent. desire to
win public favor in his new role.
Mr.. Spreckels says:
Lone of the curious shams of
the present political campaign is
the pose of George w. Perkins as
a friend Of the progressive cause.
Mr.. Perkins, although prominent
promoter of industrial and financial
trusts, asks that he be accepted in
the progressive ranks as truly rep
resenting the principles embodied
in this cause. But to thoughtful
men his pose is neither convincing
nor expressive. To those who see
beneath the surface of political
pretense, he is merely the agent of
Big Business at the Third-Term par
tvs council. Underlying Mr.. Per-
kins' real aim is a desire to control
the machinery of government in an
to legalize the monopolies he help
ed to create.
He is chairman of the finance
committee of the International Har-
vester Company, trust that was
investigated by the Federal Gov
eminent and charged with being
was Mr.. Perkins who interceded
with Herbert Knox Smith, the Com
missioner of Corporations, with the
result that Mr. Roosevelt held up
the report upon which the Govern
ment's prosecution of this trust
was to be based.
IlOW Cdu Cl hluS SuSI hlo
pretensions of interest in the well
fare of the wage Garner when in
reality he is an officer of a corpo-
ration which has been VIGOROUSLY
oppressive of the wage Garner? He
is aware of the intolerable condi-
lions existing at the Osborn Irvine
hold Of hn
vester Trust-revealed by the New
York State Factory Investigating
Commission. Sworn testimony be-
fore that Commission showed that
women and children were required
to toll twelve hours a day for 81
and SO a week. These women were
employed at night and their hus-
bands labored corresponding num-
Der of hours in the day time. In
short, the conditions imposed on
labor in this Harvester Trust plant
furnished one of the worst indict-
ments against an American business
man l have ever known. When
these conditions were brought to
Mr. Perkins attention his answer
was characteristic He said in sub
stance that this company was COM
PEELED to work it's laborers as it
did because it must earn a certain
income to pay on the capital inves
ted. What he said was merely the
familiar doctrine preached by men
of his classrmen who place the
rights of capital above the rights
of humanity. And yet, Mr.. Per-
kins would have US believe he tru-
ly represents the progressive cause.
1T is not hard to understand why
Mr.. Perkins should stand at the
head and front of Col. Roosevelt's
party. Both are in accord on one
thing-that while they want the
votes of all men, business man and
worker alike, they offer no promise
to any save the monopolistic corpo-
ration and the special privilege
seeker. Having had success in form
Az SiSoI II uolo, anu Ill
loading hundreds of millions of
watered stock upon the public, Mr..
Perkins is encouraged into believ
ing that he can capitalize public
opinion through the formation of a
great political corporation, to which
he and Col. Roosevelt have given
the misleading name-Progressi
Party-which name was undoubted-
ly chosen in the hope that it would
bring support from the masses
among whom the progressive senti-
ment is strong. Aided by Boss"
Finn, in Pennsylvania, and Boss"
Woodruff, in New York, Mr.. Per-
kins and Col. Roosevelt are now
endeavOring to unload their over
valued political stock upon the I'M
suspecting voter, by inviting all to
join the Third Term party, the con-
troll of which, like the control of
the great industrial and financial
trusts, will be retained by the pro-
motors.
In his pose as progressive, Mr..
Perkins claims to be the friend of
both the business man and the
worker. Yet, as far as anyone can
discover, his conversion to the
workingman's cause came only when
he realized the need of the work
ingman's vote in aiding Col. Roose-
velt's third term ambitions Mr.
Perkins now breaches equal oppor-
tunity to all, when, as a matter of
fact, all through his long career as
trust servant and trust promoter,
he thought only of the opportunity
to business created by monopoly.
What Mr.. Perkins and his kind
are seeking to do is to foist upon
the people a scheme for legalized
monopoly which must, in q short
time, drive out the small manufac-