[ ←66]Lobby—a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.
[ ←67]A decade before this speech of Everhard's, the New York Board of Trade issued a report from which the following is quoted: "The railroads control absolutely the legislatures of a majority of the states of the Union; they make and unmake United States Senators, congressmen, and governors, and are practically dictators of the governmental policy of the United States."
[ ←68]Rockefeller began as a member of the proletariat, and through thrift and cunning succeeded in developing the first perfect trust, namely that kn own as Standard Oil. We cannot forbear giving the following remarkable page from the history of the times, to show how the n
