Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-09-17

The City Club has issued second
report on graft in the present legisla.
ture. The report shows that 204 mem.
bers OF both houses Of the legislature
required 271 special employees, di.
vided as follows: Sixty.four police.
men, 154 janitors and IS watchmen.
To pay the wages of the special en-
ployes the sum Of 3163,000 was ex.
pended, according to the finding OF the
committee. The committee says that
under the law of 1877 the maximum
amount which may be spent for
clerks, doorkeepers, pages, policemen,
etc.. for q season Of $50 days Is $685.
600, and that surely 100000 would fur.
nish liberal compensation for all that
possibly could be employed.
The additional 100000, says the
committee, would give each Of the 204
lawmakers In both houses about $500
worth Of patronage to bestow, or. II
IL was equally divided, 1t would allow
OF $4,000 In cash to be distributed to
political henchmen in each senatorial
district.
The total expended for wages In the
care Of the State capitol and grounds
for the year was shown In the previ'
GUS report of the committee to be
100000. The amount spent In Iowa
is $4,000. in Indiana, $4,000 and In
Ohio $4,000.
"The figures bear in themselves evil
dence OF the existence OF ring rule In
Springfield" says the report, "and IN
means by which the organization re-
tains its control. Obviously an early
revision of the laws with respect to
these matters is demanded"
Eight weeks from Tuesday will be
election day.
The Feeble Minded Reformers Ne
clare themselves in favor OF the RE
call" the Initiative and Referendum
and a Corrupt Practices Act"
The Recall is the greatest menace
there is to just administration o.
the law.
BY virtue OF its operation any goot
official who dared to do his duty II
the face of popular clamor, would
have his office taken away from hin
when a sufficient number Of hot heads
signed a petition and majority lei
the Recall go through at the polls.
Under it's provisions, Lincoln, who
was a minority president, would have
been recalled" several times.
With a Recall in operation Altgelt
would have been taken out OF the
goyernorshlp because he had the NOR
al courage to pardon the alleged IN
archists; Judge McAllister. the great
est jurist that ever sat on the I'LL
nois bench, would have been taken or
and disgraced when the Board o
Trade petitioned him 10 resign be
cause 1t did not like his rulings In
celebrated case. Every mayor ;ha
Chicago ever had would be removes
over and over again. The Recall
means anarchy pure and simple.
Tho Initiative and Referendum
means the recognition OF mob tyr
amy.
Il means the rule Of the majorit.
without any deliberation at all.
The founders OF our government
Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson
no matter how they differed iron
each other on many great matter
were united upon the point that
delegate government was the hes
form OF a popular government.
Under the delegate form OF GOV
eminent, every matter submitted t
a legislative body to be enacted Int
law, is carefully scrutlnized and II
effect upon the people CAREFUL
weighed before 1t Is passed upon.
In this way the rights OF minoritie
are preserved and civil and religion
liberty guaranteed TO all.
Under the Initiative and Referer