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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 6 The Utah Independent December 30, 1976 COMMON CAUSE A ROCKEFELLER LOBBY Continued from page 1 Indeed, a form letter sent out by Common Cause in the spring of 1976, under the heading of reforming Con- do indeed exercise a great deal of con- this answer: trol over our nation. Common Cause "The Rockefellers have a long has presented itself as the people's history of sponsoring and thereby opposition. controlling their lobby" organized to fight wealthy special is to disguise the goal The purpose interest" groups. W'e, for example, helped gress," boasted: so-cal- led end the outmoded and tyrannical seniority of monopoly, or the fact of monopoly. ed The existence of a loud and However, John F. McManus in a column system..." This means that Conservative Chairwhich appeared in the UTAH INDEPENDENT 'opposition' serves as of April 3, 1975, pointed out: cover. men, often Southern Democrats, are now But Common Cause, far from Nichols, writing in the January being replaced by radical Liberals. The Mary the representing the interests of 20, 1975, issue of VILLAGE VOICE, has Congressional seniority system and the common man, is instead another in a this to say about the head of Common filibuster rule (against which Common long line of organizations established Cause has also lobbied) have for decades to promote the goals of the wealthy Cause, John Gardner: held back the onrushing concentration collectivists -- - Big Government, "The sainted John W. Gardner of power so desired by the Rockefellers Socialism, and Internationalism. In has done a masterful job of keeping a word, Common Cause, like the memCause his average $15 Common and the other advocates of an Council on Foreign Relations, the ber from knowing that he is really centralized government. United Nations, and various Metro a part of the Rockefeller Family Gary Allen in his March 1975 article Government organizations, was Mafia. in AMERICAN OPINION magazine stated: commonly caused by the Rockefellers NEW YORK in Reeves And Richard and Rockefeller associates. And you "This year a number of Chairmen can be sure that they are not being magazine for December 2, 1974, revealed: targeted by Common Cause for dupedl "...Gardner is and has been for extinction were defeated. years one of the few In a lengthy and definitive article "Among them were the Chairmen of a the as trustee members of the powerful Ways and Means, AMERICAN serving in the March 1975 issue of a fact Brothers Fund Rockefeller Armed Services, Agriculture, and OPINION , Gary Allen stated: omitted from his lengthy official Banking Committees. Wright Patman, For decades the Rockefeller the Chairman of the Banking Combiographies and WHO'S WHO listing. collectfamily has been promoting mittee, for instance, had made the Just as Gardner no longer mentions foundations ivism 'through tax-frmistake of infuriating the Rockhis private income from the Rockefeller which have dumped cash into almost efellers by seeking a full audit of the Brothers Fund, he also says nothing entire Federal Reserve System.... every Socialist scheme known to man. Now they are enlisting a proletarian about his service on the boards of such "The seniority system was a key the Shell as army to demand power for the people Oil, part of the internal Congressional special interests" which through legislation ultimately system of checks and balances which New York Telephone Company, Amermeans power for the Rockefellers. had slowed the stampeding of American Airlines, and Time, Inc. Nor does That organization is called Common ica toward total Socialism. he any longer make public his memberCause, and it has been expensively FOR MORE GOVERNMENT Council LOBBYING in the Rockefeller-controll- ed packaged and merchandised as a ship REGULATION 'people's lobby. ...And their motive on Foreign Relations. in funding Common Cause is to cover As could be expected, Common Cause CONTROL OF CONGRESS IS THE AIM their grab for ever more power with lines up solidly with the Ralph Nader the carefully orchestrated cheers of interEastern Establishment The own zealots . Everything their very populist movement. nationalists have always felt that the band of environmental business-orient- ed is bad; selection of Congressmen is too important private or Common Cause, the is good. public or peoples lobby" which claims to to be left to the local voters. This has everything Congressman John Ashbrook in the represent the common man" against been their philosophy at least since 1948, March 6, 1976, issue of HUMAN EVENTS the special interests," spends more when they began a determined effort to discussed the Common Cause legislative than $2 million a year on slick mail- change the composition of the Congress order recruiting that allows it to claim by passing the hat around Wall Street" report dated October 24, 1975. Included almost 300,000 members. However, as to ensure that their kind of Congressmen in the report was Common Cause's position on a number of crucial issues and in all Gary Allen puts it: The membership were elected in the various States. the organization backed the Liberal, is strictly for show as Common Cause Common Cause has lobbied hard for cases, Government position. is a political front for the Rockefellers what it calls campaign reform," and pro-B- ig in the context of this book, and their CFR Establishment." control of lobbies." According to Con- let However, us examine the position of RockefellerTom Mathews, who helped to launch gressman McDonald, this translates into -controlled Common Cause on three Common Cause, has admitted that its control of lobbies other than Common initial funding came from thirteen or Cause the control of possible rival specific issues. Common Cause backs legislation to fourteen wealthy individuals" and that lobbies." establish an Agency for Consumer Addonation was John the largest send-o- ff to the Congressman: According vocacy. (See Chapter VI of this book D. Rockefeller's $50,000. It was the Rocke"The term 'campaign reform is for the reasons to oppose such an agency.) fellers and their allies 'who supplied the a of matter the merely changing In this connection, Congressman Ashseed money, the moneys used to buy the rules so that direct donations to brook in his HUMAN EVENTS article pointed advertisements in magazines and newscandidates of $1,000 or more are out: 'out,' but donations of far larger papers and to pay for the mailing to size are 'in,' if they are funneled "As I stated on the House floor, 2.5 million Americans soliciting $15 outfits like Common Cause. the through most relevant thing about the memberships in Common Cause. "Common Cause can provide proposed Agency for Consumer A lobbyists report on file with the enormous amounts of favorable Advocacy is the admission of failure Senate Clerk reveals that among the nationwide publicity to Congressmen of regulatory agencies of the federal who do its bidding, and are then donations to Common Cause for the last government. For years the Liberals 'endorsed' for were 1970 of the argued we needed regulatory agencies quarter following: $50,000 to protect the public. They have built from John D. Rockefeller HI; $10,000 from Through Common Cause, the Rocke-up hundreds of red-taspawning David Rockefeller; $10,000 from Martha feller combine has been able to mobilize and now they regulatory agencies come along and say we need the Rockefeller; $5,000 from the Rockefellers' political forces strong enough to overcome ACA to become involved in the same Chase Manhattan Bank, and $500 from the tradition of the seniority agencies to protect the public. The Nelson Rockefeller. Among the other system in Congress so as to shape it Liberals have met themselves full donors were: J. Richardson Dilworth, the more to their will. Rockefellers financial advisor; Amory NOTE DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITY ORDERS widely-publiciz- all-powe- rful non-fam- ily ee so-cal- led anti-busin- ess re-electi- on. pe long-standi- Houghton, ng Jr., of the Rockefeller Foundation; Howard Stein of the Dreyfus Fund; Tom Watson of IBM, Sol Linowitz of Xerox, and John Hay Whitney. Houghton, Stein, Watson, Linowitz, and Whitney are aU members of the Rockefellers' Council on Foreign Relations. Why would the RockefeUers by their financial contributions, make possible the founding of an organization, Common Cause, which claims to be a countervailing power to balance corporate influence in government"? Why would the RockefeUers create their own opposition? 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