Show What Wha t the Editors Think Mr Wilson and an the e Lobby I The Denver News J I rl rn g IS ISSO i I. lI nl 1 1 0 far tal nothing has haH come to the surface to Justify S SO the sweeping fg charge of or the Pr President that I there 1 J is evor every evidence nce that mone money la is being spent to maintain this lobb lobby meaning an nn organized d bod body of ot professionals for special Interests at Wash Wash- Jn ington ton The foundation which was look looked d for tor to sustain the Indictment of oC Mr r Wilson has not ma ma- Ills kiss bomb for tor lobbyists of or all kinds has dwindled to the sputtering proportions of or a a. firecracker The President will have a broad sympathy in his desire to cleanse Washington ton of oC the troupes of I professional lobbyists who have infested d it for years CArs But nut he should have directed his balt batteries a against th lh them m particularly He lie made a mistake I when he Included In his denunciation Individuals I and representatives ls who are arc in Washington In their rapacity capacity of or American cl citizens using r their unquestionable un unquestionable questionable prerogative of ot citizenship to n reason with their th ir representatives In Congress and show them If IC possible that some of or the proposed legislation legislation legis legis- lation Is harmful to th the Industries they represent It i is unjust to those thotH men and would Indicate that I Ithe the President did not give a n. very careful consid consideration Ii to the grievance he had In view before he launched his broadside e against all lobbyists In I Washington ash I i New York Herald i en C Cg AM g J J. POLITICS F E EVERY VEIn consideration of oC business In this country coun coun- I try try every every In Interest great rea t and small small requires i the thc speediest action on oa the Underwood tariff bill by tho Senate Those who are arc obstructing It t know that It will pass eventually There are distinct indications In In- In In various arlous parts of oC the countr country that the tho lon long deferred pa passage age of the tariff bill Is having having- a a. bad effect Let Lct President Wilson study the signs of or the times and then con consider sider whether hether Instead tead of ot ofa ota a somewhat amusing attempt to investigate the lobb lobby he would not servo the countr country better by br sending a ringing message to Congress Cons demanding action within a a. month and holding holding- the Senate to toa a a. strict accountability te I Chicago Inter IN Is I IT rr A A TO 10 DI DEFEND I T THC lIE iii Senate has begun a systematic hunt for that insidious lobby of or whose the tho J presence President President Pres Pres- es ident recently and publicly complained and which he accused of or constantly interrupting interrupting- tho the calm c. progress ogress of oC debate and of ot spending mone money without withOUt without with with- out limit to bring about modifications of oC the Woodrow Wilson bill When such assumptions arc are made and when slanderous accusations accusation against reputable men are emitted we necessarily Inquire What divino di Inspiration in inspiration In- In l of or the Woodrow Wilson bill makes malies it sacrilege sacrilege sac sac- e to question Its utter wisdom and when has it become a crime for tor American citizens to use any la lawful tul means in defense of ot their property and their business s1 New York Tribune I I IX Is T TilE WORLD ORI D NOT OT Ol Ol Ob IT HE detachment from rom tho the ordinary concerns of or orliCe THE life liCe exhibited In the answers of or various arlous senators senators senators sen sen- to tho questions put them In Jn the lobby quiz qui Is more than gravely gravel an and 1 austerely heroic It Is engagingly and meltingly Id Idyllic According to their testimony some of or the conscript fathers would hardly be able to recognize an object named in tho the Underwood bill or the Payne pane law if tho they met it walking down Pennsylvania avenue on four legs or saw aon It carted by b in a delivery wagon walon A senator whose term of ot service ser goes oes back to the pas passage abe of the Payne law and who was required ro- ro to sa say whether he was s financially interested interested inter inter- ested In the production manufacture or sale of or an any article mentioned in iii that law as well as In tho Underwood bill or any other measure considered In InGon Gon Congress while he was a member declared d yesterday yester yester- yesterday ester ester- day dR that the only oily point of contact which lie could r remember was his ownership of a n life Insurance o policy dividends s paid to him on which sibly be taxed under one construction of tho income tax tan provisions of or the pending tarl tariff measure ta la I P St. St Louis Globe I WILSO LIKES BAILEY DAILEY HAT Mi lr Wilson ilson has adopted tho the Bailey Failey Idea T that In tariff legislation a a. principle ends where a detail begins seems proved by his effort eUort to put I Ithe the taint of ot lobb upon all efforts of or people outside of Con Congress which clash with his personal I views There Is an undertone of ot resentment In the statements made by a number of ot Democratic senators sona- sona tors tora on finding themselves tell tellof tellof I l cs under pressure to I of ot their theft own business associations and Investments j jas I as a a. means of ot clearing themselves of or the tho lobby lobb- I taint But nono none has dared speak peal openly tho the indig indignation nation he t feels el r The They have have- found that they are j dealing with a man who remembers tha that in the I nursery tale Simple Simon fooled the fire only onh I because ho he got the pl pie before he had paid the price i iThe The moral of that old story Is that tho I must always get his pa pay in advance Wherefore f 1 t I much swallowing of or wrath In Washington ton and t I the loud view halloo over footprints In the sands 1 of ot time which everybody who has over been to I Washington has seen The Tho Indian lobby is in full tull I retreat The Panama lobby Is Js dead And there Is no other In sight it itI I Pittsburgh Dispatch I 1 I WHAT VII IS A LOBBYIST f IT I ITHE T THE HE senatorial pur pursuit uit of ot that ln insidious lobby I A referred to b by tho the President got through the tho thoA I IA I A and Ba Bs and a n few Cs C's yesterday It wC would ild be I premature to as assume that the tho rest of ot the senators II whose names begin with other letters will have ha hacas as little information to offer but so 0 tar far the I nony mony has developed chiefly senatorial opinion as asto asto to what is t not insidious lobbying Altogether the tho investigation so far has been I The list of ot senatorial callers on the t tariff given by the witnesses represented constituents constituents I In hi search earch of ot Inform information or offering it with I f Interest ranging ranging- from lemons to An Angora ora goats i I There is is Just a touch of resentment in tho the s attitude toward this presidential probe The f courtly Senator tor Bacon Bacon- out t o of ot i an abundance of ot caution affirmed that he ho wanted no duty dut on e Pipe because ho happened to be interested In its Us I manufacture Senator Bradley Bradle disclosed his life I Insurance policy as likely to be affected by bv tho the Income Inn In- In come tax T but maintained a it would not touch his I n personal or attitude J Ude Senator Bryans Bryan's citrus i inn led i him only lly to correct an tn error in the thc size of S lemon at crates CS BUt perhaps tho the l tubby lobby bb insidiously r began n at the thor other end or of the alphabet It would I be odd ir it if It u should have been beon the he so Pan plainly vIsible to White nn an and c 1 yet et have escaped an notice nonce any t I it aU all from flom M the legislators legislators' on B Wh whom ni It U was suppose sup sup- J. 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