Show PUBLICITY At I Washington Peoples People's Lobby Will Sili WillBe Be n. Conducted J Different Lines Samuel in Success Magazine Maga Maga- will establish establish zinc sine The Peoples People's lobby lish Ush a publicity bureau in Washing Washington to ton on a 0 scale and amid in a manner manlier never before attempted Corporations maintaIn maintain main main- tain Lain nt at Washington a man many publicity bureaus whose business is to taint and mud corrupt public opinion A year bill was Wag a ago o when the rate railroad under tinder discussion at Washington ton the railroads maintained in Washington a publicity bureau on a scale af at lavishness lavishness lavishness lavish- lavish ness hitherto unknown The fhe connection connection tion of this bureau hureau with the thc railroads rail rail- secret Communications Com Corn roads was vas of ot course kept mu between t the thc rail railroad road presidents and antI attorneys and this bureau were made in cipher It was the time business of or this bureau to get up a n. weekly a weekly semi JY and sometimes a dally daily Washington letter leUer This Timis letter J would be sent to thousands of ot newspapers all nil over O the United limited Stales States There are a 0 great financially able many newspapers new not to maintain a Washington bureau in fact there are arc only from three to five o hundred papers in the United States State who are wealthy enough to maintain Washington correspondents Nevertheless N g these other papers published published pub puh- in smaller towns are very anxious ious bus to have Washington news and so Jh hey accepted these thes letters Jetters which were sent to them free tree of charge by bythe bythe bythe the publicity bureau of the railroads These letters rs wert weri were ver very cunningly 1 devised The rhe fIrst paragraph would d be an amusing anecdote about Congressman Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman X The Time second paragraph would be a II very entertaining one v the new mastodon skeleton in the time Smithsonian Institution Then Inthe in Iii inthe the third paragraph there would be bea a n. very nast nasty slur on the Pr President of the United States Then there would be another innocent paragraph which would be supposed to recompense i the railroads for fOl the thc hundreds of o dollars dollart which I. I h the they paid ald t to r. r maintain hura 1 This c paragraph would ouId point out that Any jiny attempt to regulate regulate- to railroad rat rates eM would bo be a acry very cry great mistake c and would lent lend to all nil kinds of or ruin rutn and panic This Is what the railroads were paying for rhe They were hoping to In- In public opinion a against aln t railroad railroad rail rail- roa road rate regulation Now Xu other corporations are arc trying I to influence public opinion in III the same way TIme The liquor interests fire are doing It it IL It has become a favorite means of corrupting public opinion to send sentI out those these tainted anut corrupted cor coy Washington ton letters The rime Peoples People's lobby proposes to send out oil a truthful Washington letter It will supply every paper Impel in tn tIme the United d States free of charge with a truthful antI and accurate account of or proceedings in con congress res When the nW newspapers f which are IC almost wholly honest can get et this accurate and truthful loiter letter th they will cease to accept the tainted letters of or the time corporations and we shall have hao honest hone t public opinion throughout th the United States s 's |