Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-18
The Carnegie Lobby and
the Carnegie Attorney

The Carnegie Endowment for international Peace enjoys an
100000 Steel Trust bonds set
aside for that purpose by Andrew Carnegie
Elhu Root Carnegie personal counsel member of
the United States Senate and also member of the committee
charged with the expenditure of the endowment fund
AS member of the Senator perhaps Mr. Carnegie
counseh delivered speech renuousy urging that the Con
gre the United repeal the law granting American
coastwise ships the free of the Panama Canal
AS dburser Carnegies peace und-shal we call
lobby fundhe had $4,000 copies of this speech printed and
distributed The distribution done public cost under Sen
Roots frank As this saved the Carnegie fund something
than postage may infer that this action Sen
ator Root was acting as Carneges personal counsel
month ago Senator German fatty charged in the Senate
the Carnegie using funds and its
promote alliance the United States and Great
Britain for the individual profit of concerned Senator
acting in of his dual capacities angry denied the
charge when made the Senate by his brother Senator from
New York as personally offensive to himself
Where do the revelations of testimony before the
Lobby Investigating Committee leave Senator Root his
anger and his denial, now?
only 1000 copies of Root pamphlet
circulated but than million copies of another
designed for the purpose out The Carnegie En-
dowment constituted itself prodgous lobby with all that
probr1ous WORD implies 10 enforce Great brn VIII upon
Congress
This was in the of international Peace but the
RooCarnege idea of peace involve only educating
Americans accept British ideas and obey British commands
It does include any effort to make inhabitants of Great
Britain see the justice of the American position
President Wilson the Carnegie Endowment studously
refrains from stating the American position at all
The London Journal recently printed scholarly and
article unfolding the American contention in the
Panama matter wide circulation in England would have
corrected great part of people indifferent
to treaty obligations peace
Carnegie Endowment the leadership Root did
dertake.
There were speeches Senate the equal of Senator
Roots delivered by who not personal attorneys for
anybody taking the American side of this question Their
circulation in England might reasonable
public sentiment there that would lend itself geo
gether the part of the two But
this done by the Carnegie Root press agents
They working less reasonable peace than for
American surrender.
quite apparent that the international peace sought by
this enormously wealthy corporation only that involves
repeated continuing progressive submissions by the United
the countries shall be attained by the disappear
of the autonomy of the United States.
the ironmaster has established this great lobby
and institution for the creation of public sentiment in Washing
ton has with $1OO0000O0 Steel bonds pro
vded fund for the influencing of public sentiment-o
louuialy called "slush fund of 100000 per annum
keeps personal attorney the Senate give official authority
his proclamatons OF national subsrvenoe and serfdom
We think the Senate might go its investigation
the activities of the Carnegie Endowment 1t presents the
general appearance of very rich highly organized wholly