Show was not a trace f real fruit in its composition th that as in the mixture colored indelibly a great of cotton cloth which was steeped in a small the jell mixture with water in the committee room there was her y wll bee ever h id gathered there were pepper corna i wholly of tapioca and lampblack and there were i other things of curious mixture masquerading names of legitimate food products the 11 and the packers cf perfectly pure goods admitted the proved fact that some of their brethren honest was the stumbling block of their hopes that te pure food 11 should not be passed in too drastic a f misi in other words 1 that ras mite and could write letters 01 send did the major ahai the work in securing the passage of the national food law in the department of agriculture there Is a aub de ment called the biological s i vey it Is the duty ol 01 officials of the survey who all scientists to do they a to enlighten the countr concerning the hi of birds mammals and infects to let it be known what creatures are a benefit and just what are a me 15 to the farmer tl e market gardener and to those eng in soil pursuits generally gere rally the work of the survey has been recognized toi excellence for years at one time the house comm on agriculture decided in framing the agneu tural i VS II 11 INGTON whenever the statement Is bill that it would omit all mention of nade that during the sessions of congress biological s irvey and thus by a failure to X 7 H 1 ash ston is lull of lobbyists it seems money would wipe the survey out of existence that the general impression created is that bald that there were personal reasons for the artemi a horde of men bent i preventing the pas end the usefulness of this bureau of th government sage of good has descended up whether this is true or not is a t on the capitol fhe word lobbyists seeming a apart As boon as it was known ly has come to mean only one th ng in ys the committee had decided to kill 1 truth lobbyists are of two kinds the kind activity qa the scientists by a fai that w ants to prevent the alsage of legis t f yar to import to the house a measure that is inimical to private interest as their support some of the wast and the kind that wants to the pas y ton correspondents telegraphed sage of legislation that will redound or that jyry s of the matter to their pai it Is supposed will redound to the good S instantly the bird protection in the hotels of this city it Is an easy matter to pick out the in g the sportsmen the farmers divi duals of one specie of lobbyist they bear the ear marks of sr aal farmers individually all their business and it may be sa d that one of these ear marks or the country became busy dina rily is in appearance of sleek prosperity it is impossible to letters and telegrams of arc pick out the individuals of the other decies of lobbyist unless poured in on the committee nor you happen to be the keenest kind of a judge of human natu e the attee It tee alone the object ot in some instances the second class of lobbyists has the un every senator and every re able air of the ph lanthrop while in other cases their compan f in congress began to ion lobbyists look simply like ordinary everyday american citi f belve letters and telegrams wl zens mn of business and men of the profession s and in many 7 piled up until they were almost caseb women yond the power of reading unless aio lobbyist however wrongful may be h s 2 oming to man gave all the time at bis dispi washington fulfills the somewhat widespread idea of whose to the task members who ha pockets are bulging with babir notes with the how ng in ft knew wl at the biological survey was bagai order to demit gone member of congress to forget his duty tp his ask q ies ions they wanted to know why constituents and to his country it is a much harder matter to farmers were so interested and why the 1 crupt a congressman than antor tuna tely some people bel eve the protectors had taken the matter so duct lobbyist who would make a direct offe of money except in rare heart it did not take them long to find ou cases would get a blaw harder than any cash that he might hap the committee was unmoved by the appi pen to from the country but congress was moved the lobb st who thinks that some corporate interest ts to be when the agricultural bill was reported there were sc in lied by prospective leg and vo has been hired to bep of members ready to insert a paragraph in the meas restoring the appropriation tor the survey the ap privation pria tion was restored despite the action of the corn tee and the next time that an agricultural bill w through the money given to support the scientists was tf creased largely the farmers and the nature lovers 1 brally had no lobby in washington at that time ite i te s a resent that interest at tte capitol uses argument and not money and he dei ends for the strength of his argument largely upon the fact that laws passed to regulate the business which be represents may have a bad effect upon the commercial life of the specific d strict which the member approached represents it Is true that dinners are given at tinges to members ot congress by tie lobbyists on behalf of special interests it Is doubted if these dinners or the pleading words which pass between the courses an daiter the coffee have any particular weight the ordinary congressman who wants to stay in congress realizes that he has a duty to his constituents and that if he doean doesn t do it he probably will have to stay at home instead of buying a ticket every winter for the national capitol some time ago there was established in washington what was called the peoples lobby were u active men who on behalf of this organization watched legislation legi lation and kept the country informed as to what in tl pir opinion w as good or bad in laws that had been proposed for passage this people s lobby virtu ally has passed out of existence but there is a greater people s lobby which has been in existence ever since the country was founded and which is in existence to day and probably will last ag long as democracy lasts this lobby is public and a dozen times within the last few years it has all the arts the pleadings the arguments and the threats of the in lobbyists who have sought to thwart it an experience of some years in washington goes to show that the representatives of the people in the gibat mas are honest men and that the will of the country out weighs with them any influence or any money that can be brought to bear or used by the lobbyist who is work ing for selfish ends it is not the intention to attempt to discuss the rights or wrongs of any specific pieces of legis lation which have passed congress hut the lobb ing attempts pro and con that have been made to prevent or to tl e enactment of nation al be reco int ed without brej dice it has been said that there are women lobbyists the particular kind of worn en lobbyists which has been pictured many t mes has no existence or it sl e exists she keeps herself so well in hiding that he remains unknown td the whose u ity it is to write the news and the news comment of the day are women lobbyists however women who ale moved to lobby by what they think is right though admittedly thousands of their and their LO antry women disagree with them in specific cases in which chev have exercised their activities the woman lob bist as a r ie ts by high moral considerations as she views them to influence legisla tion take the case of the canteen in the army i of the courtr toi example it w as tl e woman lobbyist who abolishes the canteen the cornei who worked to this end did not do one tenth part ot tl air lobbying in washington it was done largely at ho ie the women thought that the ca teen V as an ever tempha tion to the soldini to dr ess and while it is true ahat most 01 the congressmen at heart dicag eed with the contention the women carried the day and tl e can teen was abol shed the versol s ho were astr in sec ieng the bassage of the law which forbade the sale of licht wines and beer at army posts as they were b a 1 agh moral aven it a possibly mistaken giuse lobby ests just as much as are the aren who strive to check leg that is go ng to hu t their pocketbooks while it 1 going to do frood to the country at large the anten tion is only to show that lobb st is not necessarily a woid of contempt the aure tood la 1 en it was in of considers con sidera ion was pod athe of tl gi adest bobbing lobbing lob bing activities ever known in coi greab the lobbyists 1 resent and at a d sta ce but p besent or absent they tf worked dav ind right with voice or by letter and tele graer to arii about the ends that they desired the man or many of them at least ma stained that tl e la as proposed was altogether too drastic while those wl took the view opposed to that of the manu fact ie s declared declai ed that the law could not be made too scie p dun ig the time of tl e consideration of the pure food lav tie loom of the committee on interstate and for eign corneice com neice the most powerful low erful lobbyist that appeared on behalf of the measure was on the center table it was a collection of prepared pie pared boods gathered from various parts f the i try and which did not live ip to the labels that were m the outside of the packages there are and were of cioper foods on the market but the foods aich the committee had assembled it toomb they n ight be called were of the kind that nobody would v ant 0 o eat representative mann of illinois was in charge of the pu e food bill and he presided over the display that made the committee room look like a mr mann had some fruit jelly or jam on exhibit on that was marked as ben g the pure product in beal t the stil was composed of some sticky sub stance sweetened and then colored with a dye there they had a great lobby at a distance and the lobbyists succeeded in doing their good work recently there came to washington on a matter connected with the rights of certain indians formerly on the rosebud reservation an indian whose name originally was Q lick bear but who now Is known as reuben quick bear some time a it was proposed by a syndicate that it buy a large tract of land from the indians at 5 an acre afterward th land doubled in val ie reuben quick bear feared that when the reservation was closed uncle sam would not allow a right and proper price the 1 which the indians were to gie up reuben began a lobby on behalf of his brethren he wrote this letter thereby showing that 1 e knew something of the ways of a certain class of white men A shyster lawyer named Is in washington stat ing that our land is not worth more than 2 50 an acre he lived in and has been sent by the people there to hell beat us in this kaffl deal it is conceded in washington ahat the most effective kind of lobbying Is that which is done by the people by means of letters and telegrams of course the corn must come in such numbers as to convince tl e congressmen that the whole country is aroused |