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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 27.

Lobbying

Lobbying.— Colonel Mulhall of Baltimore, a paid lobbyist for years, makes some very severe and far-reaching charges against the National Association of Manufacturers, and the lobby which they have supported for years in connection with Congress. In these charges, which it is averred are fortified by letters, telegrams, reports, expense accounts, and memoranda, he says that the National Association of Manufacturers, comprising 225 organizations capitalized at $10,000,000, has for ten years played an important and oftentimes decisive part in promoting tariff, labor, and general business legislation. He declares that this association was solely responsible for the creation of the tariff commission during the last administration, the object being to forestall tariff reduction. Nearly fifty prominent politicians are named in connection with his charges, among whom are Ex-President Taft, Senator H. C. Lodge, the late Vice-President Sherman, former Speaker Cannon, former Senators Foraker and Aldrich, Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin, and others from almost every state in the Union. What this investigation will disclose it is difficult to learn. Surely the words of the President, that an “insidious lobby” was working in connection with Congress to defeat legislation that is beneficial for the people seems already clearly proved.