The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-08-16

says tnat Hucn ana sucn an interest
contributed 10 "our" campaign fund,
and must be dealt lightly with. the ar
gument Is effective upon many mem.
bers. The interest" gets Its protec-
ton. II pays in party contributions.
There Is no other earthly reason why
they contribute to campaign funds. II
is for immunity. And they must gen.
orally get what they pay for. or they
would have quit paying. Only very
rich concerns could stand such ex-
pense. They Of course expect to and
do get their money back off the peO-
pie whose representatives they have
led to betray their trusts Thus Il has
been that the great interests have
grown so enormously In this country
They are Democrats where the Legls-
lature Is Democratic. and Republicans
where Il Is Republican. Their agents
are known as lobbyists. They are
partisan. bipartisan and omni-partisan
They are always genial, kindly, cour-
teous and corrupt. They are cunning
and quiet They hate noise and light,
and the confusion of public discussion
Their ways are furtive, their influence
sinister, their power corroding. II
these gentry should be curtailed in
their activities two results may be ex-
pected-one. the campaign fund. so
dear and so necessary TO the main
tenance of party machine. is cut OF;
and the other the naoples representa-
tives in the Leeisla'ure would be un.
trammeled Nv tho influence Of that
body in enq0tir~ ~ q Wv notion Is
to abolish the n~~f~~-'cr7i lchby. They
bring disgrace socrcr or 'ater-as wit.
ness Ohio ard T'ino's: they bring in.
evitably corru~'icn' tNey retqrd pub
lie business: they dea's cur statutes
When you smash 49, lobby Won will
have swatted the mother of party ma.
chimes.
The business Of the pr- feseicna' lob.
byist is to either procure legislation
which his employer wants encrgh to
pay well for il or to defeat general
legislation in behalf Of the public when
It tends to curtail his 'ow'ess opera.
lions. The lobbyist works for hire
works always against the public, and
always for interests conspiring to
fitch the public. His concern is only in
his pay. But his employers concern
is much larger. Hence he and his en-
ployer fight together against any one
or any party proposing to put them
on the same footing with the rest of
the public. To be sure. they do not
maintain that a professional lobbyist
is good thing; they do not care to
discuss that issue. They prefer that
1t be not discussed. No more do they
desire the merits and dement's of their
particular business methods discussed.
But they know these matters will be
discussed unless public attention is
distracted by something else. Hence
they, and all who serve them and all
whom in turn they serve politically,
unite in a clamor to drown discussions
Of the main issue. False issues must
be raised instead. The people must
be fooled and enough additional
bought to outnumber those who listen
think and act according to clear judg-
ment. You need not be surprised
therefore in this campaign to hear me
most bitterly arraigned for all kinds of
imaginary or trumped-up things Per-
sonal abuse Is an old-fashioned weapon
that has done much service in the past
in obscuring real issues In the alb
sence of any real matter for complaint.
they will invent. lie SANDER, and de-
stroy. Do not think that the interest
which deliberately plans to plumber a
whole people would stop at any kind of
injury to him who dares get in the
way. 1t has already begun in deadly
earnest. You might look to see who
1t Is that speaks in behalf of these III
terests. They employ talent. where it
is for hire, always in preference to
stupidity. They do not always pay in
money. Office is both good and valu-
able consideration in such transac-
lions. Then by making their attack
under the name of a great political
party they can get for nothing the serv-
ices of the bigoted class of partisans-
including newspapers of that class
small men blinded by party fury and
consumed by small hatreds. Such are
their methods. and II is this fight
which Is now on in earnest before the
people of Kentucky.
Shall Liquor Interests or Constitution
Prevail?
There are a number of such interests
back of this fight against our ticket
In Kentucky this year. | will from
time to time speak of them and their
methods In detail. Today | will men
tion one only. That is the liquor inter-
est. Its concern is great. 1t is one OF
the oldest, boldest and most successful
trusts-or rather, two trusts-in the
country. The public has not concerned
itself much with the commercial fea-
lures Of those trusts, because it was
not concerned much whether the price
of drinks was high or low The con.
dition Is wholly unlike that presented
by manufacturers of other commodi.
ties. Hence the whisky trust and the
beer trust have gone along unmolested
and uninvestigated in so far as they
are simply trusts. The public has
dealt more with the question of regu-
lating the retail business, as a matter
of policing. rather than with its COM
mercial feature. Among the expedi-
ents resorted to by the public is that
OF prohibiting the sale by retail at all
in certain localities. as in sparsely-
settled rural communities. In the
neighborhOod of churches. schools, etc.
Kentucky undertook in the beginning
of the discussion to regulate, not only
where and how, but whether liquors