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view, to patronize only such business men as will work 

 hand in hand with us." Tliey expend money freely to 

 accomplish their purpose at the polls. " By direct testi- 

 mony from the liquor campaign managers it has been as- 

 certained that in the Rhode Island contest of 1889, $31,000 

 was paid for the single object of manipulating the news- 

 papers." "It is known that in the Amendment campaign 

 in Pennsylvania in 1889, $200,000 was contributed in the 

 city of Philadelphia alone " by the liquor dealers, while 

 the brewers of New York added $100,000 more.^ The liq- 

 uor lobby at Albany, New York, at the session of 1878-9, 

 admitted before a legislative committee that they had ex- 

 pended about $100,000 to influence legislation. From 

 the confessions of an old liquor dealer and lobbyist ^ we 

 learn bj^Avhat methods legislation at Albany Avas "influ- 

 enced " a quarter of a century ago. After the election 

 and before the legislature convened, " Our correspondents 

 throughout the state gave us special and truthful descrip- 

 tions of every one of the opposition members, their mode 

 of life, their habits, their eccentricities and their religious 

 views ; whether they were approachable ; with a thorough 

 analysis of their characters in every way, so that we 

 might understand our subjects in advance." If the stiff- 

 necked legislator could not be induced to vote directly 

 against temperance measures, or persuaded to 

 " dodge," he must be convinced that he was sick, threat- 

 ened Avith diphtheria or something else, and unable to 

 leave his room. A sworn affidavit of the doctor to this 

 effect cost "anyAvhere from $25 to $100, according to the 

 size of the lie SAvorn to. " These cases of sickness never 

 proved fatal, and recovery Avas alAA-ays rapid. " I w^ell 

 remember a senator Avho AA^as in great distress about a 

 mortgage that AA^as being foreclosed on his house, amount- 

 ing to about $1,500. This man's trouble came to the 

 knoAvledge of the lobby. Suddenly one of the lobbyists 



' The Cyclopedia of Intemperance and Prohibition, p. 382. Funk and 

 Wagnalls. 

 2 C. B. Cotton, in Tlif Voice for February 5, 1885. 



