PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND TRUSTS.
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIM.
By Telegraph.—Pre» Association.—Copyright.
London, April 5. The New York correspondent of the Times says that President Roosevelt considers that the disclosure of the Harriman letter is the beginning of a defence campaign by the trusts. The intention, he thinks, is first to create prejudice against legislation intended to check the practice of over-capitalisation of railways, and second to assure a preponderance of trust and railway magnates on the next. Republican Convention. Renter reports that it is authoritatively stated at White House, Washington, that a so-called Hearst, Harriman, and Rockefeller combination has raised 5,000,000 dollars for use in a campaign against President Roosevelt.
A man named F. Hill, who until recently was stenographer to Mr. Harriman. the railway magnate, has been arrested on the charge of stealing and selling to the New York World Mr. Harriman's letter of 1905, in which he slated that he had been asked to collect funds for the Republican campaign.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13456, 8 April 1907, Page 5
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