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z honest count.of the ‘bajiot._ Big Bribes Offered. °. “Organized crime—or erime with riches as distinguished from the nor ai crime that we shall always bave ‘Swith ns—presents two other with. which iaw enforcing ageuctss e" to deal. First, it bas huge sums { tuoney for the corruption of off: cert of the law. Eecond, it haa hose sums with which to defend itself tn edurt and to terrorize witnesses. The maffect of this is to undermine the ‘very foundation stonés upon which organised society and government “At bia first point of contact with aw enforcement the vivlator with now attempts to corrupt the “Bribes offered to probibition agents bave run from §10,000 to 950,000." 3 ‘am speaking of specific inatances. Brives of $6,000 mean nothing to crime fein riches” . * Betiy bribes ru from $500 t \pt.cto are very frequent. Whes yon mber that many deputies ate paid only $1,500 & year you will ave ‘how cruct a temptation to the weak Officer @ bribe of onty $500 Hires High Priced Lawyers. ““Orgentved erime pase High for its lawyer. It buys skillful defense. 1 make 0 complaint of that, for the . woot, t 4 when it fe paid out for murder to the Hps of some witnesses for’ je government thei It becomes » real: menace. Ja @,number of cases where jefendants bavé axked for leniency. ‘1 have suggested that they tell all the fects to the court and give aid to the Tovarlably they have re- ‘used to involve others, dedlaring that jt would mean desth to éo a0.” At fist Mr. Johnson, who is the an- ithedls-e¢ the tgarrolng, bah fellow oMcia! a in hand for nearly four years, how thoroughly wnderatanding their Wot crazed and altogether vicious mental. ity, Mr. Johnson cannot understand thetr ats, which he deacribed as “un speskably filthy,”.to the men then pitiiess, - foe “They are be enié, “murderous mabs and they know they must lve ‘by ‘the’ law of the tooth and fang. ‘When robbed and betrayed they in- voke their own tribunal of death with out, giamour ts thrown over these thugs by description of them as ‘beer Barons; ‘erime kings,’ ‘alky kings, and ‘leaters in the alky aristocracy. Knowing what I do, this affects me with physical genes”. . “Bad Effect on Iounigranta- - | It does indeed, for ss the district at: | revolted by a bad sine : “The affect.” he continued, “of this! Sashy terminology upon the untutored immigrant newly arrived upoo these ' shorez is often deplorable. If he ta H murder take a piace beijliant emblems of new iand. vf “The most conspicuous ‘ful criminals fn gangéom