Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-06-10
WILSON GOES
FOR LOBBYISTS
Warning of the President
May Cause Law for Regis
tration Of lobbyists
HOLDS SENATORS LEVEL
Direct Election of Senators
Makes the Upper House
More Responsive

WASHlNGTON, ID. e., June o.
President Wilson, following his usual
custom of striking right from the
shoulder, has warned the country that
a powerful lobby is at work trying to
defeat the pending tariff bill whichc Is
designed to lower the cost of living to
the American people. This is nothing
unusual however, for when republi
cans revise the tariff, they always re-
wise it just as the lobbyists or repre-
tate. But in Democratic revision,
they are up against sterner stuff. real
Democratic patriots, and President
Wilson's alarm has served to disarm
them by the searchlight of publicity
and already they are on the run. Fur
thermore it has called the attention
ing law compelling lobbyists to reg
lister and state what their object is in
trying to influence legislation, and if
they do not register so as to give no.
tice to the public they will be sent to
prison. Several states have such
law and it has largely destroyed the
power of lobbyists in corrupting law
makers.
Tariff and Direct Election.
The fact that in the future, sena-
tors will have to be elected by popu-
lar vote instead of through state legis-
latures, has served to make them
more responsive to the public will,
and those who are in a position to
know, are asserting. that no Demo
cratic senator can be reelected who
votes against the pending tariff bill
or who votes to amend it with Repub-
lican aid so as to make it objection
able to President Wilson. He seals
his own doom when he opposes Will
son.
Mastery Democratic Craftsmanship.
Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, who
framed the tariff bill, has shown HIM
self mastery statesman in framing
that a tariff bill is the most difficult
of all bills to frame, for while the
country knows that the tariff is to be
revised downward, it is nevertheless
sweeping on at high tide of prosper
ity not equaled for over a decade.
Underwood has publicly declared that
when the new tariff is put into oper-
alton, that if, any industry can show
that it cannot make a fair profit un-
der the bill, that the tariff will be
raised on that article if necessary.
This is as fair and square as any
business can ask, and Underwood has
served notice on the "big Interests"
that he is not going to be bullied by
them nor stand their threats OF ra-
ducing wages when the tariff is low
cred.
Department of Commerce to lnVeat-
gate.
The department of commerce LIS
served notice to these people nd
their threats, that if they attemDi o
lower wages on their employees OF 1c-
count of the new tariff, that they Il
be investigated ond will have to pr0,e
that they cannot pay standard Va IS
under the low tariff. This little H. Ell
on the part of the secretary Of l'.a-
merce has "called the blur and e
little threats" have shut us as 4. lit
as O. clam. There will be no lowe, ing
Of wages, but on the other hand Waen
the new Democratic tariff and CIR
rency laws get into operation, pros
perity will so fully peryade the entire
country that wages will have to De
raised in all lines of industry, or
when there are six jobs seeking five
men, or in other words, when there
are more jobs than there are men to
fill them, wages are bound to so up.
Railroads Are True indicators of
Prosperity.
The activity of the railroads are
always good indexes of the industrial
condition and they are all showing I'M
usual activity. The Great Southern
system has just issued a statement
showing an increase of over $4.0O0,0o0
in earnings during the past ten
months. This is most gratifying
and indicates the widespread prosper
ity throughout the South. and the
Western, Eastern and Northera roads
are showing a good increase also.