Show UK III J ns rill COMAH H. A ia crnKo rn e I 1 l Con rt i o for fur lii ln- ln t Act etlou lull Take your Jour crag average congressman What Whal Is he lie lIe Ho is a 1 commonplace person who is desperately desperate I t eager er to hold on to his job Perhaps he wants the lie money moncy a atmil time ho perquisites perhaps ho craves ts tIme the publicity publicity pub pub- and anti appearance of or power perhaps per per- haps Imps II he lie Is vitally interested In pro his own or 01 another mans man's bu business nut But no matl matter whatever r the olI original motive moU he lie minted the time Job Joh lie he got II It and ammil now he lie proposes I lo to keen it H. Possibly ho he was I even elected on a reform ticket et In imm which event ent I pH him from time the bottom of or m my heart tom for there thero Is no moro mOIo biting lilting scorn than that of oC the limo practical cong congressman for Cor the tIme J Idealist if IC the time ambitious young follow is int interested III in really constructive legislation be lie Is u a heaven ln I sent butt bunt In the eyes of time tho old timer Unless ho lie submits to lo the party whip amid Ial olex voll'S as he lie Is 1 told lold he lie will bo be put on Oh no flO committees and will n never nOver er be recognized cco on tho tIme floor lIe He soon foon I learns uns t that ha l ho lie is to do no thin thinking Ii at tall all that the thinking is OIl by tho time lead I ers by the machine Until he lie submits j be lie Is a pariah Ho lie la is offered a few of those pleasant little social opportunities ties tics which conic come so easily to the tho regu l e ulal u. u lam lar young oun mun and to tho tire rc regular ular young mans man's wife Under time tho- present rules there is simp simply no chance at all 1111 that he Ime will have the time slightest sJ Influence ence fiCO on omi legislation The Whole universe seems against him And 1111 so mat I er e every r lime hue ho lie submits Ho Ito puts on tho collar Ten years more and ho Is t u a Con congressional rc huck spiritless wind-broken wind warranted to stand without with with- SLit out in fn In short lin Its Is It your aver average 3 age c congressman Ills His one overmastering desire I have o said I Is to keep his uk j Job Joh h. h This Is n nOt tal i ways easy How does docs he lie go about It If Two WO things nrc are essential to 10 success at the game o of pleasing pleasing- hl hits his constituents I Ione i ione one lo to dip 1111 doop lOop In th time j pork barrel which means to put through ap ill ill- for federal buildings S river I and harbor Cm Improvements Irrigation works or In iii tome some other nt way ivay to induce tho timo federal government go to spend mone money I tree freely In his Iris district t the lie other to ge set get U public Jobs for the tIme men who worked for or his l election eJection The These c two tivo things your our average a con con- gIc man certainly does doe with all aU his Imis might and main But theio Is another element in lit l cO congressional success which Is Isery very ery er much moro important he must please e the time little group of corporations who pu t up the tIme money which elected him nor tor It costs monc money to run Iun a cam cam- Office hire hulls salaries of ur spell binders an and amid l mysterious workers work worl I ers ens printing sign painting advertising advertis In lug ing traveling expenses expense brass bruSH L bands an l torches and uniforms and mind vote ote buying which Is more than our friend would care to lo admit even to himself IO these expenditures 1 soon 0 n rim run runaway away up tip into Inlo tho the thousands s l terms s ot of I He to must have havo that monc money Popular subscriptions would I never fetch It It never never in fn tho tIme world But Cut It can be got got ot at a price The rho manufacturer manu I who wants tariff protect the corporation which simply mu t havo have this hits or 01 that form Conn of or special lal legislation in order to plunder the time public will gladly put lint U up ull tIme the mone money It If our OUi friend will agree once he lie Is h safe saC In iii congress to deliver the time goods It seems to be a 1 cu case e rl right ht at tho ho hostart start of or put on tho collar or stand for lor defeat Ho Ito fe puts on omm tho tIre collar and II enters time the south wing of tho the national capitol plc pledged to defeat the lie popular will wherever corporations are con con- which Is II pretty nearly every every- wl today loday And there you have ha him In nil mill his gol To get money find and 1 which Is h also Important to lo get Jet big speakers our friend the congressman must go o to lo that subdivision of or the machine ma ma- chine which 1 I Is known time the as IM Congressional Committee and which I Is mn made Jo up of oC time tho house leaders He lie ma may noVer er hear th so pledges I cl-I discussed Jil He lie mu may never nevel face out the tho truth In his his- own heart but let him try Just once to throw off the time corporation yoke and Soc see what would hit lilt him What hat would Joo Joe Cannon say a to him What hat would tho time niblo Sereno Payne say say what whal w would uld G sa say What hat would Dalzell Dalzeil say Samuel In Success bucce |