New-York tribune., 1911-02-28
CALLS SENATE USELESS
Socialist Speaker Diagnoses 1t
as Needless Appendix.
DENOUNCES CONSTITUTION
Saws It Probably Was Good In
strument for Generation
That Adopted It.

Tho real treat of the Socialist mass meet
,rE In Cooper Union last night came after
mos, OF the chores were done. The Senate
NJ the United States had been referred TO
ss a needless appendix OF our body polite.
Morris Hillquit made the diagnosis. The
constitution of the United States might
have been a pretty good instrument,
thought Mr. Hillout. for the generation
that saw its adoption. But there was no
cspitanstic argument so immoral. so
vicious as that the Constitution OF the
United States was a sacred thing. There
was nothing magic in the Constitution Of
the United States. Mr.. Hillquit delivered
himself OF these remarks with almost pain
fu earnestness.
Algernon Lee held identically similar
views on those two subjects. and his
method Of educating the foreign born
Americans was no less fraught with the
life is real, life is earnest" style Of
defamation than Mr Hillouits had been.
7, was not until after the collection and
the safe, though not unanimous, passing
o. appropriate resolutions that the most
popular man OF the evening was introduced.
His necktie was red four-in-hand, q
duplicate. IL seemed. OF the one worn by
Mr.. Lee. Meyer London was his name.
he meant everything he said. too, but
there was an originality in his metaphor,
= recklessness In his description OF things
ss he saw them, that vastly pleased the
tired, sleepy mass meeting that had been
100 mild hammered for a really successful
socialist rally, until Mr.. London let him
self 60
Mr. London said the United States Sen
sre was a thoroughly undemocratic insti-
tItion. a danger % the welfare OF the
people He said he did not think that the
American people were all bad But he
would like 10 be placed on record as being
smart enough deeply 10 appreciate that
he was living in d dollar-ruled, dollar
inspired United States of America. Il was
4 country where devotion to the dollar
oIossomed into buildings forty stories high
that scratched. he said, and teased the
very feet OF the angels
Take England or France and read th'
tchoolbooks There children we're taught
how some poor boy struggled until rinallN
he learned some great secret OF nature o'
evolved some invention OF incalculabl'
neneAt N his fellow creatures Take thi:
dollsr-choked countrv. read It's schoo
literature, implored Mr.. LONDON. ana INV
how the children are taught that Johnny
a poor boy. runs errands after school
works as clerk and ends nv running &
factory OF his own, employing three hun
6red hands
Mr.. London was down on the Senate, and
shouted at the TOP OF his voice that 1t was
2 thins that ought 10 he stopped because II
was "monkeyed after the House OF Lords.
And as for the Constitution OF The United
states he said II ought 70 be declared un-
constitutional.
Busy" Bedford. chief of the Minute Mer
~ America, offered some resolutions hav'
irr for their object the arraignment OF
RYAN and Belmont, and demanding thai
tho construction Of the new subway be not
delayed until the United States Senate ant
the United States Constitution we're abol
ished.
And then all lights were lowered.