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Show Th e4 r.r rnrtee4 rbllellv. PpeeUl legislation liu attalnd with uaa far wl,ler range l!,an It ever hA In Kng. lanil.andour problem In regulating It I much more ilttneult In enbaequeiice Our lobby evtlt hav alio grown to much more fomiMabt proportion! than their ever reached, for they have hal an almml unre. itrlrte.1 Held for growth both In Congreat ami In our tut legtatature line tWIr (I rat appenranc la tli former In lm. until they have ntlallml a stage of development extraootliiary In the Ingenuity ami Intel eaey ot lla ramlflciUone Inmoeteaaea nowa,1iyith tebtiy't real workla notongeruone In lb tUtehoua or capltol, but In tl, t ttmarlee and hoinl. natlng convention at which tli men who ar to act aa tb lobhj' atenla In th Irglatatlro l1y ar rxlcetod The l.ir-gain l.ir-gain fur their aerv.ee la mad then, IMt election expeiiae paid for them, arnl la Ignorance of thla corrupt compact th Kopl elect them, inppoalng tlmy ar t the puhlle't lerranla. Neither tl the workot corruption which may be neeev lary later, v, ben tb tnemticr are In tea. Ion, doii directly, a formerly, about thl capltol, but IniUreetly by meant of ban qtutiaod receitlonanod In varloua other ffiruu ot t?rMonal aollclittlon carried on In nuirteri alt lately reinoied from tbepub-lldly tbepub-lldly of th lobby redact. In tact, nearly all the moat pemtclout lobby work at t ment U done elaewher than at th atat bouae or capltol and the only kind of publicity about It that will t drin.hd, and therefor cITectlve, lath kind whlrn can be force.1, at Governor Itiueell, ot MaaaachuietU, lUgRviU, at tb critical nioinent before a bill la to com up for final eg. If at that poiatirery one conroel lntbblll a welfare author, ipnnaor, agent, corporation, lobbylat could 1 forte.lun.ter oath to reveal alt that h had don for or agalnat It, In and out of the halla of irKMallon, there would t publicity of InonleilUbl valu Tlila, combloetl wllh general lam removing all the prlvaU aivl apeeUI legleUtlon po.lbl oftuch claealCcatlon front th oriutrolot legUUtlv tRMllea, would free ua aa com E lately aa IhlgUn-t hat been freed from bby evlba. Century |