Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — AND BEVERIDGE APPROVED IT. [ARTICLE]

AND BEVERIDGE APPROVED IT.

Less than three years ago the Steel Trust asked Theodore j Roosevelt. then president, to givy his permission to the trust’s swallowing of its only big competitor. the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company with' its 450.000 acres of mineral lands, iortv-one developed and active, iron and coal mines and sixteen large blast furnaces. And he consented. On that subject John W. Kern said in one of his recent speeches: ' •■Would this gigantic corporation, already steeped in law violation, be permitted to still further trespass upon the laws and perpetuate this growing outrage? appealed to Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, for permission to proceed to this fina- act of destroying all Competition, giving to an already hateful monopoly more complete power to still further rob the people, and finally establish the right tp plunder the American people throughout the years to come* they and their children after them. And Theodore Roosevelt, the man who poses as an apostle of rightousness and the chapxpion of popular

rights, gave to this criminal trust, the United States Steel Company, his gracious permission to proceed in violation of the criminal laws of the country, to absorb this great rival and thereby make complete its domination over the industrial field, and gave it unbridled license to plunder and . rob the struggling masses of the American people for all time to come. It was by this conduct I and this line of conduct that Theodore Roosevelt forfeited his,Tight to the confidence or respect of his fellow-citizens.” - -v.