Bridge Player (verse)
Hanlon, John
November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 631 Elections, it is true, are generally carried by a majority within her...
...when rural population was in excess of the urban...
...examples...
...Gauging her band...
...Con- That additional bloc of city votes in the national Consider the plight of every one of our larger American gress would have had something to say on much of cities...
...yet Baltimore has over half the population and There is another phase of misrepresentation not too pays more than 6o percent of the taxes collected...
...People are not com- hardship is worked on states such as New York, Illipelled to vote but there are wise statesmen who believe nois, Michigan, and Maryland, which have one prethey should be...
...With a vote, then, have three and four...
...Even The national status is but a reflection of conditions the resources of those a beloved President called male- within the states...
...Especial be, government without the law...
...According to figures collected by William P. Helm Bridge Player and printed in the Baltimore Sun, 8,ooo,ooo people "Double no trump...
...When the count is made, a tremendous influence on venerable senators and less tiny fraction over half of that 6o percent carries the substantial congressmen and so, when certain influences day and 31 percent of possible voters can and do cry out for respect for the Constitution and the laws control elections everywhere...
...farmers had a tremendous edge, with one representa- There is no twinkle tive for each 235,000 people while the city men were In wrathful eyes...
...his job is set operate through countless agencies and exercise a out and he attends to it...
...bewails two Tricks lost...
...he is taking no The Congress is dominated by rural evangelicals who chance of sudden and unprovided death...
...Maryland is no unfair example...
...November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 631 Elections, it is true, are generally carried by a majority within her limits and is entitled to three and would of the voters, but hardly more than 75 percent of the then have enough surplus for half another...
...and as many as So percent of the registered ones turn out Los Angeles and Cleveland, with one and three, should to exercise a freeman's privilege...
...tive costs would be a bar if nothing else was...
...gets in early to be on the safe side...
...increased as the right to it under equitable apportionment has diminished...
...Such purchase could be stopped of Manhattan have been heard at intervals these almost entirely if people would only vote, for prohibi- many years...
...He sentation in the lower house by the national Congress...
...242,000...
...Her voice She (unforgiving, is reduced to one vote for 500,000 citizens while Lost years...
...The difficulties of purchase and sale ponderatingly large city, and so ominous is it that sugof political favor would be greatly increased if care- gestion has been seriously made that Chicago should less millions would give just a little thought to the secede from Illinois, and proposals for a new State duties of citizenship...
...played bridge too well that of the United States as a whole is one for each To play at living...
...men...
...glad if she makes, growth of something like 1 S percent...
...1910, the population of the twelve leading cities was some 13,150,000 and today it is almost 17,000,000, Merciless toward mistakes an increase of about 24 percent to match a rural Of friends...
...Government such as passed in pursuance thereof, surely here is one feature we get when people fail to vote is almost, as it should deserving of at least a modicum of attention...
...She peers have been added to 261 cities of 30,000 and over Over eye-glasses, between 1910 and 1920, an increase of 27 percent...
...a pout forced to be content with one for each 282,000...
...Even in 191 o the "Meant you to take me out...
...The Constitution provides for reallotment of the legislation that has been palmed off on the country representatives according to population every ten during the past ten years, and it is not unlikely our years, but there has been none since the 1920 census history would have been written in another key had and representation still stands on the basis of 1910 equal representation been granted to all Americans...
...generally understood and appreciated either...
...Chicago, with ten, should have fourinstances, in the heat of some intensive campaign, do teen...
...creased only 9 percent, giving urban localities a growth three times as great as rural ones...
...Baltimore has two congressmen wholly Jo.1N HLNLON...
...Take specific Fierce if she fails to...
...The machine voter is there first...
...The Yet, people get the kind of government they wish and drift to the cities has been strong these last sixteen if there be those who will not vote then must they be years and the preponderance of rural influence has content with the voting others do for them...
...factors of great wealth are not altogether without any Of 147 members of her legislature, 1o5 are country limit...
...New eligibles are on the books, and save in the rarest of York lacks four...
...In Deepens each wrinkle...
...Detroit, which had a population of 465,ooo, is on the brink of a million, and entitled to five Her sixty odd years tell congressmen instead of the two she has...
...The penalty of rapid urban far above the average, about 6o percent of the possi- growth is increasingly heavy deprivation of just repreble vote is cast...
...Philadelphia, with seven, should have nine...
...and sneers In the same period, the rest of the country has in- As partner passes...
Vol. 4 • November 1926 • No. 26
