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
annual income 100000 derived from Steel Trust bonds set
aside for that purpose by Andrew Carnegie
Ehu Root Mr. Carnegies personal counsel is member OF
the United States Senate and also member of the committee
charged with the expenditure of the endowment fund
As member of the perhaps Mr. Carnegie
counsehe delivered speech srenuouy urging that the Con
of the United States repeal the law granting American
coastwse ships the free of the Panama Canal
As the dsburser Carnegies peace fundsha we call
lobby undhe had $4,000 copies of this speech printed and
distributed The distribution done public cost under Sen
ator Roots frank AS this saved the Carnegie fund something
more than $1,000 postage infer that in this action Sen
ator Root was acting as Caneges personal counsel
month ago German fatty charged in the Senate
that the Carnegie Endowment using its funds and its power
promote alliance the United States and Great
Britain for the individual profit of concerned Senator
Rootactng of his dual capacities denied the
charge when made the Senate by his brother Senator from
New York personally offensive to himself.
Where testimony before the
Senate Lobby Investigating Committee leave Senator Root his
anger and his denial, now?
shown that only 900 copies of Root pamphlet
circulated than million copies of another
designed the purpose The Carnegie En-
dowment constituted itself prodgious lobby with all that OPP
probricus mpksS enforce Great Brains will upon
Congress
This was done of international Peace but the
Carnegie 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.
Like President Wilson the Carnegie Endowment studiousy
refrains from stating the American position at all.
The London Journal recently printed scholarly and
well article uphong the American contention the
Panama wide circulation in England would have
the idea that great part of people indifferent
to treaty obligations But this service international peace the
Carnegie Endowment the leadership Root did not
dertake.
There were speeches in the Senate the equal Senator
Roots delivered by who not personal attorneys for
ANYBODY taking the American side of this question Their
circulation in England might have created reasonable
public sentiment there would lend itself getto
gether the part the two But
work this done by the Carnegie Root agents
They seemed be working less for 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
States England until Mr. Canegies idea of union
the countries shall be attained by the disappear
ance of the autonomy of the United States
To this established this great lobby
and the creation of public sentiment Washing
ton endowed with $100O00O00 Steel Trust bonds pro
vded with fund for the influencing of public sentmentco
loquiay called "slush fund of 100000 per annum and
keeps attorney the Senate give official authority
his procamation of national subservence and serfdom
think the Senate might go further in its investigation
of the activities of the Carnegie Endowment presents the
general appearance of very rich highly organized wholly
unpaoc lobby for the undermining of national prestige
and honor