Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
RESENT ATTACK ON
U. S. CONSTITUTION
Many in Audience in MontcIair
Church Walk Out Dur
ing Lecture.

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! When Professor Charles Zueblin,
until recently editor of the Twentieth
Century Magazine, spoke in belit-
Ting manner in Unity Church, Mont
clair, last night, regarding the cor
stitution of the United States ne
'shocked a number of his listeners.
who Immediately left the edi1ce, The
lecture was one of the series in the
Unity eossse. Representative Gov
lernnent Versus Democracy was the
theme last night. Professor zuebler
said in part:
| Representative government, as we
know it in this country, prevents
! Democracy. The American still be.
llieves in the old slogan of the eigh-
teenth century. the greatest good to
the greatest NUMBER but this is in
adequate now, and the greatest good
for ALI is the keynote of the
twentieth century,"
He cautioned his hearers not to De
too proud of the old constitution
Alexander Hamilton he said. did
not believe that the people knew how
to govern themselves and he de-
signed a constitution by which they
could not govern themselves.
ITO prevent the will of the people
the newly elected congressman do not
take their seats until thirteen months
after they are elected. Joe Cannon
and others are today making laws for
us. although the people kicked them
out last November. Archangels could
not make a system like that work.
Alexander Hamilton, a hundred years
dead, is today more powerful than the
king of England.
Behind the Times.
Legislation, the executive and Ju-
dicial, are separated. Now we are
about to have an income tax, when
European countries are now looking
for something better. When Con-
eress passed an income tax twenty
years ago the Supreme Court of the
United States declared it unconsti-
tutional by a vote of to 4. One
member of the court was sick, and
when he got better he voted in favor
of the income tax law, but one Of
the others turned over. and it was
defeated again by to 4.
''If you were half baked anarchist
and lived in Paterson, what would
Won think of a decision like that.
The Supreme Courts dubious de-
cisions make the people suspicious
and are receiving criticism. That
dear old document, the Constitution.
needs a whole lot of court decisions
to keep it alive,
."The swiss mountaineer, who
comes down from the hills to, elect
his president. is more Intelligent than
the best American citizen
'Iincoln." he said. spoke OF gov
ernment of the people, by the people
and for the people. Who, l would
like TO know, ever heard of a gov
ernment for the people? Does IL
mean the people coming up TO get
theirs That. at least, would be
change. Our Congress passes 2oOoo
laws every two years to govern u.s.
while England during the last CEN
fury only passed $1,000 laws.
president Powerful Autocrat."
1.-THE President of the United States
is the most powerful autocrat in the
world. He has the appointive and
veto power, but no initiative We
have no government like England,
which can be put out. Our govern
ment sits there after we have told
them to get out. The President has
no initiative and has to pray to Con-
gress to pass laws that he may sug-
gest. Therefore, he holds numerous
dinner parties. He appoints his cabi-
net, which are juggled about from
one place to another. as he sees fit,
while the underlings do the work.
1--WE have got a parcel post fifty
years after other countries have had
it. Since John Wanamaker we have
had no man that knew the postoffice
business until Hitchcock, and he has
only reduced the deficiency"
He declared that the workngman
was poorly represented in Congress:
the legislation is in favor of the rich
and powerful. Yet, he said. there
are no classes in this country, as has
been handed down to us from the
Puritan tombstones.
"If all the women promised to sell
their votes the right of suffrage would
be given to them at once. We allow
women to leave their homes all day
! to work in factories, but we cannot
allow them fifteen minutes away from
| their homes to vote. The United
States needs home rule just as much
as ireland. If you want to do some
thing in Montclair. you must go to
| Trenton and ask the gentlemen from
Cape May il you can use a piece of
property in Montclair for certain
| purpose.
Eve want a simple form of prv-
/ eminent, so that we can instrust our
representatives as to what we want.
The large influx of immigrants from
Europe is driving our good American
farmers into Canada"
He concluded by asking his hearers
not to revere the old institutions, but
to work for true democracy"