Show HOW A CONGRESSMAN BECOMES A BEGGAR If a n congressman does doc not bring home some sorno I pork in the shape shapo of ot appropriations fomo for public buildings pensions rivers river and tons harbor harbors army posts nav navy yards ards or orsome some seine similar piece picco of honest graft he helias has lias not pla played d the game as it is 18 played In n Washington To fo spend three quarters of oC his time begging favors for constituents was wa not nol what the constitution intended that n a congressman's duties dutes should boo bo yet ot that Is s the tho unhappy lot o of man many of oC thorn them Their constituents demand the pork and an adept be beggar nr can set got a good deal of public money for his die dis Much luch of oC it I Is II probably pure purl waste so far as the government Is concerned fO The congressman ma may know that it is not a wise expenditure but ho must get what he ho can or be left leU behind In tho the race raco There Is little use in our talk of economy econom Ito efficiency and of at overhauling overhauling over over- hauling the tho business systems of o the de department do- do while congress appropriates 52 for or river and nr harbor Improvements Improvements Improve Improve- ments and for tOr public buildings by a n system in which the tho political benefit derived from the tho distribution of oC this money has at least leat as ns much Influence u uthe as Ut the necessities of the government nt Tho The remedy for or the situation Is to change the tho rules of the tho game so that tho the more moro self sel respecting members gme will wi not nol be bo forced to tobel beg bel for or pork to distribute distribute and and so that others will wi he be prevented from doing so Herbert rt Bruce Fuller Fler In the Worlds World's Work York for Cor February |