The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-07
HOW MULHALL'S ILK PLIES ITS
 DARK CALLING Washington Overun With Lobbies and
 Paid Agents Like Oliver Twist, Special Pri- ViIege Always Comes Back
 Crying for More
: (By Our Staff Correg.)

1 will always be found with it's plate 1 out shouting Justify for more
 l It is this never-ceasing demand for l governmental ''pap'' which causes Hobbies to be organized and maintain 1 ed at the national capital. The scan l da1 will not be abated until we strike l at the root of the evil-until we de- 1 clare a war to the death on all forms 1 of special privilege. Through the 1 tariff the government has been saying l to favored individuals and corpora
 tions, You may tax all the people of
 this country for the benefit of your 1 own pocketbools. When the people | protest against the iniquity, 1t was
 natural that the beneffciaries of the
 robbery should band together to safe
 guard their graft.
 l So they formed 1obbies and em-
 p1oyed men like Col MlhaI1 and ''The Wolf Lamar to set up in Washington an Invisible Government which should control the governm ent which you and believe was established by 1 the fathers for the benefit of all the people.
 But representative of the tariff 1 interests could not maintain the ttIn- visible Government without assist | ance, so they formed combinations 1 with the banking lobby. the ship buiId;ig lobby, the railroad lobby, and the hundred and one little Hobbies
 
 city.
 This condition, according to the confessions of it's hired men, under took to control legislation pending be- fore Congress and which affected the interests represented by the combina- ton. It seems to have held the lead CTS of the Republican organization in the hollow of it's hands and 1t was not without it's friends on the Demo- cratic side of the chamber. It was enabled to dictate the makeup of committees and when it feared a test of strength on the floor of the House it had obnoxious legislation chloro- formed behind the locked doors of committee rooms.
 It rewarded the Congressman who favored it's schemes and it punished those who dared to offend it's repre- sentatives. Champ Clark clamored for tariff reform and che country listened. The Invisible Government decreed his political death and Mulhan was sent into his district in 1908 to con- duct a tgumshoe'' campaign against the Democratic leader The latter was overconfident He left his own district and ca.mpaigned in the ''ene+ my's country" He did not know that the enemy was at his doorStep3 The Speaker escaped the highbinders but it was by a narrow margin. Two years later, MuLhan again invaded Missouri, but Clark had learned his lesson and sounded the alarm in time to rally his friends
 The lobby which was headed by MuIhan was financed by the National Manufacturers Association, made up of men who controlled a capital of $10 900, 100000 and employed an army of millions of men. He confesses to have expended $2O0, 900 with his own hands, but this did not represent the one-hundredth part of the corrupt ex- penditures of the organization.
 It must also be remen bered that the National Association of Manufac- turers was only one division of the army of graft maintained by the tariff 1 interests. The Sugar lobby, and the Woo1en lobby and the Steel lobby and i the Cotton lobby maintained their own headquarters and employed their own corruptionists. Selfish interests com pe11ed them to cooperate but each had its own slush fund and each boasted of it's group of owned Sena- tors and Representatives.
 What tale would be unfolded if a Nfulha1I from each of these Hobbies were to suddenly decide to turn states evidence and give the Inside story'' of the work he did for his masters? Of course, Special Privilege will en- deaxore to discredtt MulhalI and his tory. We will be told that he is a
  5ording to his own confession he should be in the penitentiary. All of which is true, but we must remember that Mu1hau was paid a handsome salary and given an unlimited expense account because he was a crook. An honest man could have never given -he country the information contain ed in Mulha1l's confession. Honest men are never employed to perform he duties assigned to him by those who availed themselves of his ser vices
 Fortunately, we are not compelled % rely on MulhalPs unsupported word. He preserved 20, 900 letters and eIegrams which passed between him self and the men higher up. These < will be placed in the hands of the In- { Testigating Committees of both Houses ,f Congress and through them will be aid before the people of the country. ];
 This mass of evidence was scruti- lized and verified by the editors of he New York World and the Chicago ' foremost Democratic , and the foremost Republican paper In f he country-before 1t was given to he public. It is said that they paid 1 MulhaI small fortune for his story lnd by doing so they rendered the american people a most important service. We must fight the devil with ire occasionally.
 When the President made his fam r ous demand for the appointment of a s Committee to inquire | nto the activities of the various lob ' pies, it is questionable if he realized i where the trail would lead. He only s lnew that powerful interests were en- $ leavoring to prevent the redemption 8 If Democratic platform pledges on e he tariff and currency questions by a F Democratic Congress. He knew some I hing of the work of the Sugar lobby. Y or these gentry operated openly and g