The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-01
TIVE LOBBY INVESTIGATION

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and the keenness of it is felt at once
. by the Just and the unjust. B~4 ar,
the lobblsts, unprincipaied rascal'
. all. but what shall we say of thei1
righteous dupes and tools in Con
eress. those eminent uncomprom sins
foes of capital who have been putting
water on the wheels of the black
mailers of WALL street? The .nvesti
CATION has taken a turn that nobody
had any pre.science Of. IL the al
ministraton had been able to fore-
see the course of the probe and to
sense the mass of pungent detail In
to which It was going to penetrate
the country assuredly would nave
been denied the iluminat ng intihac.
les into which it has been fortuituous-
ly brought. The lobby investigated
II may be well to remember is mark
of Democratic candor but 1t was new.
err intended to besmirch Jealous Dem.
ocratic statesmen or to let the people
know that vicious demagogy has been
in alliance with sordd charlatanry
at the capital of the nation. Presi-
dent Wilson unwittingly made the in
vestigation imperative when to fright
en- the recalcitrants of his party to
compel them by intimidation, he pub
licly announced that those vague but
| terrible distractions, the interests"
we're lobbying against the tariff bill.
1t was in self defense that. con.
gress ordered an investigation. States
men wished It to be known that they
were not being tempered with. They
were passionate for vindication. And
doubtless they would long since have
given themselves fine coat OF white
wash III Judge Lovett had not told
of the overtures that had been made
to him over the telephone and the TN.
speakable Colonel Mulhal had not
come forward to achieve infamy by
his gratuitous treachery. SO many are
the matters of pressing interest now
claimant for investigation that every
body has lost sight of the first sub
ject of the inquiry. The tariff lobby
has been consigned to mythland. II
appears that there are other Hobbies
more deserving Of investigation. The
Lamar-Lauterbach lobby Is one of
them, the lobby personally conducted
by Colonel MulhA is another. From
what has been disclosed respecting
the first 1t appears that man com.
monty known as the wolf of Vail
street" a notorious, unscrupulous
trickster, has been able with the as
sistance of congressman to set the
financial world by the ears and api
tate business circles from one end
of the country to the other.
If the disclosures are far from CON
elusive of corruption on the part OF
congressman they at least prove that
congress is susceptible to strange in
""0hSoS anu ihuiCdle tndt lhe great
parliamentary body which longs to
arrogate to itself the power of the
supreme court is very much in need
OF guardian. AS to the disclosures
made by Colonel Mulhall they imply
something more than the self.gratu.
latory lobbyist is able or willing to
perceive. The Colonel is posing as
facile corruptionist only with a
view to bemirching his former mas.
tiers but it Is clear that he is making
out case embarrassing to the whole
administration. 1t appears that he
was employed to oppose the labor lob.
by and that he was not very success.
full, the reason being that he was un.
der great handicap. The labor lead
ers had only to inspire terror and ap.
peal to the demagogic instinct wh!c'
dominates all other instincts n the
halls Of congress. Mulhall could nc
compish nothing except among men
who were not inclined to curry favor
at the feet Of Samuel Gompers and
whatever resistance they offered to
the labor lobby Mulhall attributed to
his own efforts.
The truth of course is that Mulial'
was doing nothing to earn his salar:
that in time he was found out am
discharged. Nevertheless his disclo'
sures II not inherently deserving IF
credence are not to be despised
may not be true, what he says in one
of his letters, that President Wilson
when Governor of New Jersey prom
Used Samuel Gompers to support a
radical laborite for the senate, but
there are many circumstances ,ndi
eating that the president neglects nc
opportunity to cultivate the esteem Of
the leaders OF the labor lobby. He
has in his cabinet former Congress