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Show CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The reactionary papers arc constantly screaming, "Roosevelt is backed by the trusts." The best wajyito answer that charge is to point to the big newspapers news-papers of the Uintcd States "wliich are known 'to be owned or controlled con-trolled by the big interests. Not one of them is for Boosevelt, from the New York Sim down to the Salt Lake Herald-Republican. "Whenever a good piece of news is received as to Progressive victory, Wall 'street has a fit. Every straw that indicates the direction of the wind that favors fa-vors the trusts proves unmistakably that the trusts want Taft and arc fearful of Roosevelt. Much is being made of the fact that CJeo. Perkins, formerly wth Morgan & Co., is supporting Roosevelt. Mr. Perkins has retired from business and is trying to do good in many ways, perhaps in atonement for his past. ILc has become recognized as one of the greatest philanthropists of New York, his work among the poor be-iqg be-iqg extensive and well organized. His labors evidently are prompted by a desire to do the most possible good with the money at his command. Like Carnegie, he has acknowledged the obligation that rests, on a man of wealth, but he has selected a more practical course than Carnegie and, instead of building libraries, he is aiding in purifying American politics and offering to the average American a better chance in the battle of life. Our one-regret is that there are not more George Perkins with noble aspirations. |