The Penn's Grove record., 1909-09-03
DEFEAT
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

A special election will be held one
week from next Tuesday, OF the 14th,
for the people to vote on five proposed
amendments TO the State Consti. ution
which have been approved by the part
two legislatures.
The First proposed amendments is
not sc important, it being only to make
a change in the number of the sections.
The Second amendment prcpo es to
make the Governor and four citizens n
Board of Pardons, which is better than
having the pardoning power i'll the
hands of the Governor alone.
The Third Amendment changes and
simplifes the whole coult procedure of
the State. New jerseys court systems
is a conglomeration of Anticipated
English courts of different names con-
Quoted frequently by the same judges.
1t takes a lawyersome years to learn the
different courts and their procedure,
because they are patterned somewhat
after the English circumlocution office,
as described in Dickens Little Dorritt.
When a man gets into litigation his
case can be kept in the winding laba-
rinths of the law until his money is eX-
hausted. Much has been published in
favor of the adoption Of this change in
Court procedure, because it will sim
pity the law and lawyers declare it will
lessen expenses To clients. If SO why
they wish it passed is a mystery.
The fourth amendment proposes to
give each Senator and Assemblyman
81 900 a year. They now get $500. If
that would double the wages, salaries
and incomes of every one else it might
be a good thing, but when it is seen
that the Fifth amendment proposed to
elect Governor and Senators for four
years and the Assemblymen for two
years, there may later be biennial
of the legislature and the salaries would
he quadrupled.
Having deprived the people of their
separate municipal elections to please
politicians only, when there was No de-
mand for such from the people, it is
now proposed to get the people TO hang
themselves by voting the change into
the constitution SO it can never be
change by the legislature on a popular
demand of the people.
Every man who opposed the abolish
ment OF separate local election should
vote against and do all they can to de-
feat the Fifth amendment, notw it'll
sta nding there is in it tile good pro-
vision to elect Assemblymen by dis
tricts.
Instead of separating state from
national elections it proposes to forev r
tie the state and National elections
together.
This amendment is in the interest
OF incorporate interest and special
privileges. They spend large sums of
money i'll National and State elections
10 continue their special privileges.
Governor and Senator are elected for
three years and the assemblymen for
n year. They wish to further remove
the officials from a closer and more fire.
quent inspection of the peoples votes.
and win two elections by one corruption
fund.
The law use to he That statements of
local public expenditures had 10 he
published a few weeks before the mum.
icipal elections in the spring and if it
did not suit the voters they could make
a change within a month. With the
adjustment of spring elections the
people have been deprived of the right
Of voting on appropriation which led to
greater economy and tile public state
ment Of expenditures is not published
nov until two months after the election.
Consider the motives back of the
Fourth and Fifth amendments and you
will find the fine Ethiopian hand Of
plutocracy and a~ristocracy to remove
power further from the peoples and
lessen the influence Of democracy.
Vote against the Fourth and Fifth
Amen DIM 9 MIS-.