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Show I K"voLf Lli 'i ATTPtFH h m Progressive Candidate J Denounced In House by i Kentucky Democrat I Washington, Aug. H. The porson- 4 M and political relations of Colonel ? Theodore Roosevelt and George W Perkins, formerly of J. P. Morgan & company, wero bitterly attacked on the floor of the house 'today by Representative Rep-resentative 0. A. Stanley of Ken- lucky, who is chairman of the steel I trust Investigation committee. In sup. I porting his bill to make the Reports of the commissioner of corporations ( available for congress, Representa- i tlve Stanley charged that Perkins had protected the harvester trust from prosecution and described Per-' Per-' kins the "go-between"' of, "big busi ness" and the government. Representative Repre-sentative Stanley's characterizations of the former Morgan associate were extremely bitter. He dwelt at length on the absorption of the Tennessee Cos and Iron company by the Unlt- t ed States Steel corporation, and charged that Perkins had been able to secure from Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, information infor-mation which was denied congress The new Progressive party also 8 came hi for an extended discussion 3 '"I hear that this new partv of Pro- gressive capitalism," he said, "will j sing hymns between the tlradeB of l Roosevelt and the platitudes of Per-t Per-t kins, and that Perkins Is to be the J choir leader. I would suggest that f& they paraphrase the war cry of the t v Mussulman aud adopt with slight modification as the battle hymn of the 'faithful from Wall Street' the chant from the Turkish Genesis. "'Allah. Allah, mammon is Allah. " 'There Is no God but Mammon and Morgan Is his prophet.' " ; In his attack on PerkinB, Stanley said: ' Perkins Ardent Partisan. "For several years the chief intermediary in-termediary between big business and those who are Invested by the 'executive 'execu-tive department with the duty of in-ves'leating in-ves'leating It has been a gentleman bj the name of George "W. Perkins. For years this fanatlcallv ardent partisan has broken through all restraints re-straints that deter better men and lias unhesitatingly sacrificed every other obligation to society and to himself' lu' the secret service of his party. . "In 1004 Mr Perkins In his eagerness eager-ness to aid his part and his hero, Mr Roosevelt, actually gave .$50,000 of other people's monev to the cause. He gave his personal check to Mr. I Bliss and was reimbursed by check of the 'Now York Life Insurance companyNo. com-panyNo. 7..2S.1 payable to J. P. Morgan and company. The proceeds of this check were traced to Mr Per- kins and for this eminent service he was arrested under a warrant charging charg-ing him with grand larceny "Perkins knew the consent of tho policy-holders was necessary to have this appropriation of their funds from the guilt of common larceny and that consent was not and could not have been obtained "Who were these pilfered policy-f policy-f ' holders? The most pathetic and help- Kless figures In all this vale of tears The young mother wrapped In the black habiliments of woe. prostrate upon the new-made grave of her once loving Lord, orphans walling the name of Father above the silent dead He robbed the widow of her slender j patrimony and snatched the last crumb from tho pinched fingers of helpless children In all the loath- some annals of greed and graft there Is nothing so sordid and pitiless as the creatures who did this. "This man escaped a prison cell by the skin of his teeth for having picked the pockets of a shroud for I the use and benefit of the Republi can party " Agent of Trusts. Representative Stanley declared lhat later Mr. Perkins came to Wash. Ington as "ambassador extraordinary and minister pleipotenitarv fiom J P. Morgan of the steel and harvester trusts." t Senator Hansbrough was at that time demanding an investigation of the International Harvester company Stanley said: r "It was to silence the demands of Senator Hansbrough, and to solicit 1 the aid of the commissioner of cor porations and of the president of the United States that Mr Perkins made his unheralded appearance in Washington. Wash-ington. Here the remains for weeks, oscillating between the department of commerce and labor and the White House with a familiarity of a friend ; and the Insolence of an ally. "Upon the commissioner of fcorpora-, fcorpora-, Ijb tions ho exhausted all of his powers r of cajoling and coercing lie reminded re-minded him of his grcac service and unique liberality to the party and the precious and long standing friendship I which had been so beneficial 'o the house of .1. Pierpont Morgan and company com-pany and lo the administration of Roosevelt. "'So impressed was the commissioner commission-er of corporations at the necessity of suprcssing the Harvester investigation investiga-tion and preventing any further procedure pro-cedure against the other 'far-reaching Morgan interests' that ho forgot the seal which the law had placed upon his lips. "Facts which were withheld from bc highest lav.' making body of the land were freely revealed to tho su-perservious su-perservious emissary of the Steel and Harvester trusts." 1 Reviewing tho Information as to the absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company by the Steel corporation, corpora-tion, secured by the Stanley steel investigation in-vestigation committeo, Mr. Stanley said: Aided the Trust "The severest critic of Colonel Roosevelt can hardly conceive that he would have In twenty minutes commissioned com-missioned tho Steel corporation to crush its laBt competitor. Ho possessed pos-sessed hardlv ono-tcnth of the information infor-mation which the commissioner of corporations was afterwards forced by the Investigation of this com,-mittee com,-mittee and the pressure of public opinion opin-ion to publish to the world. As suggested sug-gested by the commissioner of corporations cor-porations the investigation of the Harvester Har-vester trust was summarily stopped. "The assurances of Mr. Porklns that tho 'far reaching Influences of the Morgan company, the Harvester and Steel trusts were not to be sneezed at,' appears to have had great weight with the chief executive." "On this occasion," concluded Mr Stanley, "the Colonel assumed the same relative position toward the masters from Wall Street that the Lord assumed toward the devil. The Saviour said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan.' and Roosevelt said, I will stand In front of you, O Steel trust, I will paralyze the strong arm of the law, I will silence the voice of public clamor and I will deliver to you bound and helpless, the industrial dominance of the south,' and for that service, worth multiplied millions to the United Unit-ed States Steel corporation, it has not been lacking in gratitude from the day of the merger until this good hour. Perkins and Gray, brothers of the Steel corporation, have been absolutely ab-solutely at the command of the ex-presldent ex-presldent of the United States. 'They were with him In the old party and they havo staged and supported sup-ported IiIb political 'Punch and Judy' performance lately pulled oft" in Chicago, Chi-cago, in which they fantastically figure. fig-ure. Roosevelt, McCormick and Perkins Per-kins play their llttlo parts, find their exits and entrances and take their cue from this insolent. combination of political and financial highbinders which did not hesitate to rob a grave for the campaign fund In 1904, and which Js now entrusted with the duty of providing provender for the 'bull moose.' " no |