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Show THE LOBBY INVESTI3ATION Tcwn Talk, San Franciico; Te lob-my lob-my Investigation Is a two-edged blude. and tho keenness of It Is felt at once by the just and the unjust, bud ar-the ar-the lobblsts, unprlnclpaled rascals all, but whftt shall we say of their righteous dupes and tools in Con-gr'esB, Con-gr'esB, those eminent uncomprom sing foes of capital who hnve been putting woter on tho wheels of tho 'blackmailers 'black-mailers of Wall street? Tho .riveitl' gMlon has taken a. turn that noWdy' had any pre-sclence of. If tbe- ad' ' ministration had been able tofrore-seo tofrore-seo tho course of tho probe and W sense the moss of pungent detail into in-to which it was going to penetrate the country assuredly would nrfve been denied the illuminatng Intlhiac-les Intlhiac-les Into which it has been fortultuous-1)' fortultuous-1)' brought. Tho lobby nvcstlghflot. It may bo well to remember Is a mark of Democratic candor but it was n,ev er Intended to besmirch zealous Dem-ouratlc Dem-ouratlc statesmen or to'let tho people know thnt vicious demagogy has been In aTanco with sordid charlatanry at tho capltnl of tho nation. President Presi-dent Wilson unwittingly made tho In vestlgatlon Imperative when to frlgnt-en frlgnt-en tho recalcitrants of his party to compel them by Intimidation, he publicly pub-licly announced that those vague but terrlblo abstractions, tho Interest," were lobbying against tho tariff bill. It was In self defenso that, congress con-gress ordered nn investigation. tateB men wished it to bo known that trley were not being tampered wiih. They were passionate for vindication1. Arid doubtless they would long since hhve given 'themselves a flno coat of white wash If Judge l.ovett had not 'told of the overtures thnt had been made to him over the telephone and the un-' speakable Colonel Mulhall had' not come forwnrd to achieve Infamy by his gratuitous treachery. So many are the matters of pressing Interest'now claimant for Investigat.on that every body has lost sight of tho first subject sub-ject of the inquiry. Tho tariff lobby has been consigned to mythlnnd. It appears that thero are other lobbies more deserving of investigation'. Tho Lnmtir-I.auterbach lobby ts one of them, tho lobby personally conducted by Colonel Mulh.-fl Is another. From what has been disclosed respecting tho first It appears that n man commonly com-monly known ns "tho wolf of 'nil street," n notorious, unscrupulous trickster, has been ablo with tho hs-slstanco hs-slstanco of congressmen to set the financial world by tho ears and agitato agi-tato business circles from one end1 or the country to tho other. ' If the disclosures are far" from conclusive con-clusive of corruption on tho part of congressmen they at least prove thfit congress is susceptible to Btronge influences in-fluences and indicate thnt tho great parliamentary body which longs to nrrognto to itself tho power of the, supremo court Is very much In need of a guardian. As to tho disclosures mndo by Colonel Mulhall they Imply something moro thnn tho self-gratu-latory lobbyist Is ablo or willing (o perceive. Tho Colonel Is posing as a facllo corruptlonist only with a view to bemlrchlng his former musters mus-ters but It is clear that he is making out a case embarrassing to the whole ndmlnlstrntlon It appears that he was employed to opposo the labrr lobby lob-by and thnt ho was not very successful, success-ful, tho reason be'ng thnt ho was un der a great handicap. The labor lead ers had only to inspire terror and appeal ap-peal to tho demagogic Instinct wh'e" dominates all other Instincts "n thr halls of congress. Mulhall, could nc-complsh nc-complsh nothing except among men who were not inclined to curry favor at tho feet of Samuel Gompers and whatever resistance-, thoy offered to the labor lobby Mulhall attributed to his own efforts. The truth of course is that MulJal' was doing nothing to earn his fialt.r: . that In tlmo ho was found out tv' discharged. Nevertheless his disclosures disclo-sures if not Inherently deserving rf credence nro not to bo despised ' may not bo true, whnt ho says In one of his letters, that IYosldont Wilson when Governor of Now Jersey promised prom-ised Samuel Gompers to support a radical lhborlte for the sennte, but thero are many circumstances ndl-cntlng ndl-cntlng that tho president neglects no opportunity to cultlvato tho esteem of tho leaders of tho labor lobby. Ho has In his cabinet former Congressman Congress-man Wilson ono of tho most nggiee-bIvo nggiee-bIvo of union men. When Secretary Wilson wna in congress ho whs put In control of tho commltteo '.of labor which wbb conducted as a fnmlly nf-fair, nf-fair, and before his election to con-gross con-gross ho was on tho executlvo commltteo com-mltteo of tho American Federation or I-nbor. Before that ho was a conspicuous con-spicuous figure in mining labor troubles trou-bles nnd was onco arrested on a charge of conspiracy in connection with n strike. Of theso things wo hnvo been ro minded by Colonel Mulhnl' nnd therefore there-fore we sav 'hat the lohbv Invesllce Men worh while and not altogether altogeth-er a blessing to tho tidmmlstrat on |