Arizona republican., 1922-04-24
BY Fdererie J, Haskin

are q great many ways OF MAKING
money without working for it and
without giving anything real for the
money received. There are the time
worn gold brick schemes and other
hoary old tricks of the past of which,
however. the public generally never
appears to become aware, because
they go on and on turning in rich
harvests of gold to the crooked pro-
moters and manipulators.
washington rather than New York
probably furnishes the best field for
this kind of dishonest work Of high
grade-if that term can rightly be
applied to It. In the unpublished
history of washington for the past
80 or 40 years, if it could be written,
are some amazing and often amusing
incidents OF this sort.
One source Of revenue has sprung
from the fact that often there come
to congress men of wealth who have
little else to commend them. One OF
these men-and he did not come from
the backwoods, but from very close
| to Broadway and Forty second street
was 50 guliibie that he paid a good
round sum to unscrupulous men he
met to "buy'' the influence and good
will of certain Washington news
papers. Needless 10 say, the news
papers did not know that their
| friendship was being sold on the
streets of washington. and II they
exhibited any good will toward TINS
particular man it was by saying notn-
| ing about him
I Another-and in this one members
~ congress figure as WELLS to Sc
cure the introduction of some reso-
luton or bill proposing drastic ac-
tiong or laws of some kind. Then the
alarm is sounded, and money often
rolls into the Golfers of the originator
| Of the scheme, who organizes a. So
ciety 10 fend off the awful threat
contained in the piece OF proposed
| legislation. It can be assumed tna'
| tlne congressman is innocent OF du-
nIicitv in this matter. Membership
| in the society are sold probably az
| a dollar apiece.
There is another case of consider
able amount OF money being nade oul
of a diplomatic appointment. Mnen
this occurred this particular diplo-
matte post was going begging. No
| one seemed to want II. Inere was
general impression that because .,
conditions existing then, no one coulo
himself with much credit ana sioss
| in the position. -.
Sure Thing Gambling
| Tn 4biS situation the man who uili-
matelv made money out of the deal
/ suggested to the wife OF a cellaih
| wealthy man that he seek the ap-
noinfment. Then the manipulatoi
gave careful directions how TO pro
| coed Dinners must be given, with !
/ carefully selected guest list. nc
| ,,,ontion must be made of the NacanI
nost in the diplomatic corps. All o.
| this was done. In the meantime, TINS
ma ,inulator. who really did have Ger
| tain standing and Influence mere, nau @
| ascertained beyond doubt tnat .ns
most would go to anyone VINO SO liiuel' =
as intimated that he would accepl ~
Naturally, the dinners mean .lus., To-.
49,, That was inst to make the thine
inol hard and as If influences were az
,sso,.l- under the surface to obtain tne
| ;ob At the proper time the appoint
nent was made. By prior arranse
naant-not with the man apppolnteu
MT with his wife--the maniuiatoL ~
| this thing was paid sum rumoIeo
! ~ he no less than $4,000.
All of these things-most OF tns1n
! 81 anv raten-are quite Wltnln lhs
Low No criminal statute is fractures q
hv the operations. 1t is just silcA
work ,.+a;,,
event that was to occur III a L@.lt- ~. :
| American country in whlch 1ns
| American government nus ,est.
| fo,sced ~ take a sort of elder prom
al, ;nteregt. Disorders were teareo,
r. WAS felt that only the Unlteo
| states could guard against this. one one
| faction Of the politicians IN TINS
eo,,ntrv had a private representative
| IN Washington. He sought OUT al,
obscure but supposedly influentlal
man ia helm him. This man did nave
| : wide acouaintance, and was aoie
~ ascertair quickly that the Ameri :
| can government had made up It's
nsind months before to take the de-
sired action. This man had to make
| tbe lob look hard, OF course, ana
made daily reports of fancied deVei-
| opnents to the representative Oh the
| Latin American country. In the
| fulIness of time, the thing for whlch
he had been engaged. naturally trsn-
so;rad and he collected his fee-that
| Is he got half Of it. Some hitch de-
yeloped. and 1t was his frenzied ef-
| forts to get the rest that brought the
| transaction to the attention of few
people, at least.
There is a we'll remembered case
of a newspapernlan in washington
who abused the condolences and
privileges which all of them enjoy
Naturally. a great many newspaper
men in Washington often are the
possessors of information In confi-
dence which would be of great value
to certain corporations If they could
learn it in advance of general pub-
lication. a congressional inVestisa
ton brought out this mans connec-
tions. He was drawing down. in
! retaining fees from biz corporations,