SENATOR WADSWORTH versus THE PEOPLE

...This, mind you, when the Calendar is overcrowded with measures of vast and immediate importance to the economic and industrial life of the nation...

...Think of it...

...To meet tliis difficulty, Ohio, Oregon, California, and other States issue a publicity pamphlet, mailed direct to the voters, containing the official texts of proposes* measures and with arguments for and against the same, as may be submitted by the proponents and opponents of this measures...

...Why Impossible...

...a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress to snbmit, and three-fourths of all States to adopt...

...The State Legislatures are deprived of their power to act on Federal amendments...

...For you never can tell which of the two effects of this tea is going to hit you first...

...It seems that the hired man was giving the library of the club its regular Spring cleaning, when what do you suppose he found...

...must be confessed that A mei h am are |n many respect* liv-ing under a polity system which...

...SENATOR WADSWORTH versus THE PEOPLE By JUDSON KING TO put it mildly, when we compare their opinions on the amending clause of the Federal Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall was a reckless radical as against United States Senator Wads-worth, and Patrick Henry was a left wing Bolshevist...

...Right now, shooting is one of the two major sports of Herrin and the thought of a citizen of that fair enough to raise hair on the head of Charles Dana Gibson...

...Newspapers cannot be depended upon to furnish tin-/Mased information on both sides...

...They had been sitting with copies of the unexpurgsted edition of the "Arabian Nights" snd the works of Henry Van Dyke on their laps ever since last November and nobody had said a word to them on account of the sign which reads "Silence...

...Over yOO legal djpsions are cited as illustrations in sifbstarit rating the fact that the lives, welfare and happiness of counties...

...I took around the Message to my favorite bootlegger and read it to him the other night and explained to him how as one of the 100,000,000 Americans who are just rolling around in wealth, I was entitled to hang him up for a bottle of gin, but he was thick and couldn't get it through his head and I had to con tent myself with drinking the new tea that Greenwich Village is crazy about...

...And, of course, you haven't forgotten about the Kentucky man named Floyd Collins, who went down into a cave and rolled a boulder on his leg to get publicity for the cave...

...The Convention system, which has never been used, is retained...

...Anticipating the rejoinder that those who do not like the decisions of the courts should change the Con"Inasmtryffierefore, 1^ Ui* f'on-' stitutio|tft»Pttt|Jtotssratate» is, on account, WI3A*Wnii1!|Bite(i procedure^ and the Ta'rjre majorities required, very difficult, if* not impossible, of amendment under ordinary conditions, it...

...Four members quite dead...

...The present struggle over the adoption' of tha pending Child Labor Amendment is a striking example of the soundness of Dr...

...rr That law had been enacted after a struggle of many years by a) movement led by the Natipnal Child Labor Committee, whose sponsors were such men as William Howard Taft, now Chief Justice of the U. S. Su----_- * i ¦ . • ¦¦preme Court, and if ever there was a law that tended to justify our aspirations toward a Christian civilization, that waa one...

...I hate to think what's going to happen to Herrih, 111., when the first consignment of tea hits that shooting-gallery...

...Whether intentional or not, that result is sure to follow...

...so astutely managed and powerfully supported that it may well be accomplished as far as Congress is concerned by tsfi time this bulletin reaches its readers...

...As a captivating slogan they dubbed this proposal 'The Second Bill of Rights" or "Back-to-the People Amendment," a bit of humor at which they themselves must also necessarily laugh as coming from themselves...

...Goodnow's contention ana warning...

...haa been framed upon the theory that society is static rather than dynamic- (page 4.) The whole purpose of the book proves the danger and inhumanity of permitting such a situation to continue...

...Neither is the Referendum made mandatory: it., all hinges upon the pleasure of the State Legislatures, which, of course, would have power to require, say, a two-thirds majority for adoption, or impose other restrictions of a like destructive character...

...After another long struggle the Congress was induced to submit an amendment to the Federal Constitution, enabling it to deal with the Child Labor evil...

...Those acquainted with the efforts of State Legislatures to hamstring the "Initiative and Referendum" in the States where they now obtain can safely predict exactly what would happen in this case...

...Of course, you must admit that It takes a real detective to sort the quick from the dead in the Union League Club...

...It is absolutely essential now and it may be safely predicted that Senator Wadsworth and his backers would fight such a proposition to the death, because they want a "Referendum" they can control I Bourgeois Bedtime Stories, McAlister COLEMAN HAVE you heard about the terrible dung that happened at 11 U,e Union League Club...

...In the midst of the struggle in the various States over the adoption of this amendment the conservative elements in both houses of Congress and in both Republican and Democratic parties, at this short term of Congress, suddenly, without apparent reason, became interested in Article V of the Federal Constitution, i.e., the Amendment Clause...

...good for the nerves that they pave it to the German army so they could shoot better...

...The provision that all educational agitation for the adoption of a proposed amendment is to cease when fourteen States have rejected it, is such a manifest determination on the part of Senator Wadsworth to copper-rivet and steel-jacket for all time to come the minority rule now existing as to need no further comment...

...So the next time you get asked to a tea-party in Greenwich Village lug along your shooting irons and your dress-suit...

...te be noted later, has always provided for a similar pamphlet by the U. S. Government, so that the people could have opportunity of iptowing the facta and by them being able to form their opinions...

...haa been successfully scotched, their kidneys just went blsm on them and they up and died...

...thousands of the American people are now being put in jeopardy.,jn this twentieth century for the r«spn aiwo set forth...

...Tha Supreme Court Legislates...

...it carries its own rebuttal...

...So that simple candor requires us to condemn this so-called Referendum feature as merefy a patent fraud, as one might expect from "Greeks bearing gifts...

...It is an assaul...

...Also, mind you, after amendments on the same question, introduced in every session for the past ten years by such men as Senators Cummins, Owen, La Follette, Congressmen Chandler, and others, had been completely ignored...

...Senator Wadsworth in leading one of the most subtle but astounding assaults on American principle...

...Senator Wads worth's proposal has no such provision...

...Well, to get back to the tragedy...

...JLfT/ i After two drinks of It the writer himself called up Elsie Ferguson and made a date and shot two insurance salesmen on the wing...

...Frank J. Goodnow, now President of Johni Hopkins University, a conservative constitutional lawyer and polilttal scientist of international stemfhg, whom even Senator Wadswoflh weuld not contend Is a KadDal,'jfrinlc a notable book en-titled "flkReform and the Constii..i.....lutnesu 11 disclosed by the first senlfftcij...

...of the factory, system hare brought with tliia^(u>bJem« whoi» boIuUoh seems tffc^iBiI»o*lf6Je uidar tn« l»rinci plaTMfWUfH war* segard-ed iev iH^jhJUJ'Oinatir and peimanent-Iv enduflEcat the end of the eighteenth rttfhtry " Dr...

...That law was declared unconstitutional by a 6 to 4 decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, which decision was but another confirms tion of Dr...

...Senator Owen's proposed change in the amending rfsnss...

...My dear, if was awful...

...of Government this generation haa yet seen...

...Four years before the war, in 1911, Dr...

...It has the effects of an aphrodisiac, if you get what I mean, and at the same time it is so...

...I he Wadsworth Propossl a Step Backward The restrictive features of the old Constitution which have made amendment so difficult, snd about which progressive thinkers and statesmen have always protested are retained by Wadsworth, vis...

...h\ justification of these state ments, your attention is invited to the following considerations...

...Just what a cave does after it gets publicity is not clear to this writer...

...idge), and I'm still a bit hazy about this prosperity stuff...

...20th Century Life i shall the dead unwittingly rule the living...

...l ; ¦ : A Fraudulent "Referendum" • i t just no progressive has been or w^ll be deceived by this camouflage, because the vital principle of a true referendum is carefully omitted} that jk the people have no power by petition to force a vote...

...absolute 'igtfonlnce of the plain facts regarding the Child Labor Amendment, because of the flood of falsehoods circulated by the highly financed propaganda of the Manufacturers' Association, and others, to which even respected clergymen and .college professors loaned their names...

...Cool...

...I suspect, however, in addition, a far deeper purpose, since the Child Labor Amendment Is only one of a score of similar problems which cannot be Anally acted upon by Congress without changing the Federal Constitution...

...The point of the game is to guess from the looks of the members of the club who are sitting in the window which have died...

...When-they heartf'tlrot...

...The alleged progressive feature that is new and on which the slogan of-"Back to the People'* is based is contained in the - provision that proposed amendments may be ratified or rejected "through the direct vote of their people at elections to be held under the authority of the respective States/' This, it is held, provides for the "Referendum" and should- insure'the support of progressives...

...It is significant that it had the active backing of the American Constitutional League, the Sentinels of the Republic, the Constitutions...

...In fact the conflict is— 18th Century Legalism vs...

...It is fair to nots that the Wads worth-Oarrett Amendment was first Introduced in April of 1921...

...the 'Wsdl Menace as represented by Robert Mi La Follette (you boys remember the name don't you...

...It became necessary .as a matter, of national welfare for the Federal Government to enact a law for the protection of children...

...That's what I call a dirty trick...

...And then there Was The Eminent Citizen who went and fell down the elevator shaft of the Union League Club and died on top of the elevator and got carried up and down most of the afternoon until the operator realized that this overhead was getting excessive...

...No Publicity Provided For Any intelligent advocate of the Referendum in these days knows that adequate official publicity Is absolutely necessary if the people are to vote intelligently upon questions submitted to them...

...Whether such provision was prepared to place in the Federal Constitution in past years Is beside the question...

...Gentlemen of the Congress, Why So Sudden...

...For - example, in Massachusetts Hi on sands of voter* were in...

...Every morning when we go by on the bus we play a game with our wife...

...You've heard about that tea, haven't you...

...Goodnow's statement in this same book that "The Supreme Court of the United States has become a political body of the Hupremest Importance, for upon iU[determination depends the ability .of the national Legislature to exer-ejt'e power...

...whose exercise is believed by many to be absolutely nee essary to our existence as a dam oeratfc Republic...

...Child Labor—And More Beyond Friends of the Child Labor Amendment charge that this railroading process was evoked to throw a red herring across the pathway of the pending Child Labor Amendment because it adopted and made a part of the Federal Constitution considerstion of the pending Child Labor Amendment must cease...

...Liberty League, the Massachusetts Public Interest League, not one of which has ever been known to support a truly progressive or democratic measure...

...I didn't know I was half as well Off as Calvin tells me I am...

...The tremendous, change in political and.serial conditions due to the adoptioit]ySb>prstvs4 means of transportation;, ^nd to entaAlishnieiil...

...And all the while they had been very dead...

...But then, a lot of things are not clear to this writer...

...That amendment is now pending, and the men and women who represent the progressive mind and conscience of the nation are awakening to the truth that the Federal Constitution is practically unamendable with any degree of celerity "under ordinary conditions," in the face of any highly organised and well financed opposition to which the political power makes obeisance...

...It now appears that these four members had died the day after election on account of excess emotion brought on by reading of Calvin Coolidge'a wonderful victory...

...A resolution Introduced in the Senate by James W. Wadsworth, Republican, of New York, and in the House by Finis J. Garrett, Democrat, of Tennessee, was by special rule placed upon the Calendar for passage at the last session...

...apdnow's contentions are nut based Son guesswork...

...I thought I had won hands down the other morning when the man I had picked for a sure corpse scratched his nose...

...He nev.-r could understand Daylight Saving or what advertising men meant when they talked about "Service/* or why Bishop Manning should be or the love affairs of W, E. D, S^s*^ ,-4r/ I have just read the report of the Chairman of the Board to the Directors (sometimes called the, Inaugural Message of Calvin...