New Britain herald., 1929-11-02
GOALS ARE GAINED BY MANUFACTURERS
Lobbies Usually Successful Bingham Doesn't Stand Alone


 Washington, Nov. 2.-The Cara , way committee can continue it's loh- py'hs investigation until the capitol dome crumbles and 1t will not dis cover anything more important and relevant than the fact that business gets what it wants in Washington. There is nothing new or strange about that
 Lobbying is only one phase of the \ game. It's game between politi- ''ans and business interests of You scratch my back and I'll scratch Nours.' There would be no lobbyists , here If there were not politicians susceptible to pressure or persuasion or glad to obtain the lobbyists aid. Aside from the straight lobbying mere are at least two other im- nortant phases to consider:
 Under Political Debts
 |. A large number Of senators and representatives come here already . bound to aid special interests which are going to want favors in Wash lngton. Through their own business connections, through their indebted {. ness for campaign funds and other support or through the political or sanlzation which controls them. which is itself often openely allied with special interests, their position ' IS such that they don't have 10 be threatened or persuaded.
 ?. Many or most government off, clals and members of congress look onward to business careers after ieavlng the public service. A large number are promised lucrative jobs with corporations before they step , out. Some of them openly court these jobs by granting favors to special in- terests while in the government service. The higher their position in , me government the more important faVors they can dispense and the bigger the jobs they can expect in private life.
 All men In positions Of public trust do not administer their jobs with view to future remuneration, but there are innumerable examples.
 The exposure of Senator Bingham ot Connecticut, who had employed an ofhclal of the Connecticut Manufac- turers' association as his secretary and took him into secret meetings of i the finance committee to work on tariff rates for manufactures. furnished a shining example of how business ties up with politics and legislation. Bingham asked the Manufacturers association for one of its men and he got him. He arranged 10 meet the president of the asso- clation at the office of J. Henry ) {oraback, republican boss of Con- ncctiCut, one of the states most prominent business men and a pow CT magnate.
 Down here Bingham represents Inc Connecticut manufacturers and power interests. But in that he is no horrible example. He has been be- labored because he had the nerve to | put MT. Eyanson on the government payroll ard take him into the com- mittee room. Every important in dustry has men in Congress who } can be depended on to work for it here. Industries Of national rami- tcations often have a large nnm- Der of men under their control. Few members there are who don't take orders from someone. Even the re- publican progressvos are responsive 10 the demands of the farming in dustry.
 , There isn't much that can he done about the system except per haps In an aggravated case like Ringham's The same thing goes as 10 the practice of rewarding mem- v hcrs Of congress and government of icials with fat jobs for their previ- ous services,
 Goodness knows how many ex- senators and cX-representatives are in Washington working for profit making interests which they favored with their votes while in congress. { And all through the government de- partments and bureaus one finds men doubling their incomes by leav- ing the service to enter the employ , of the business interest with which / they have been in contact as govern mcnt officials.
 Business Pays well
 One even observes that as many as six important officials of the for cign service have recently resigned to enter the banking or oil business. The government pays low wages. , Business pays high wages.
 You can't brand every government official who resigns to take better paid job. Probably most of them are honest enough and doubtless so are , the corporations which employ them.
 But there are enough temptations and enough men to succumb so that you can realize why, in Washington, ] prosperous business interests get most of the breaks.