Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-25

COSSACK BILL
is EXPOSED
Where Pennsylvania Co.'S
sacks Are Stationed, and
What They are Doing
DUNLAP BeLITTLEs POLICE
Says They Are Hired To Keep Them
From the Poor house--couldn't Ar
rest Person II They Wanted To.

Says They Are Hired To Keep Them
From the Poor House--couldnt Ar
rest Person II They Wanted To.
Henry Dunlap OF Savoy. Illinois. the
Illinois State Senator. who introduced
the Constabulsry Bill In the Illinois
State Senate during the last session
OF the Illinois Legislature. and who
has introduced II In this session CT il
known as Senate Bill Mo- h5l very
badly exposed himself and the real
purpose of his bill. at a meeting before
the Civil Engineers Club OF Spring
field. Tuesday night. February 18th.
1921.
In making his arguments in favor
OF military police TOR the State OF
illinois, he yiciously attacked the pres
ent Civil Police officers of this state
He said that the average police officer
IN the different villages and towns of
Illinois were elected to those positions
as an act OF charity, because they
we're not able to make living any
other way. leaving the inference that
the average police officer in Illinois
was elected to that position by the
people to keep him out OF the poor
house. He said the average police OF.
ficer could not arrest any one il he
wanted to. because physically he was
unable to do II. and he said that he
would not arrest anyone II he could,
for fear Of losing his job He said
that the sheriffs were eleefed In
pretty much the same manner and
for the same reason. and that they ap-
pointed deputies for the same reason.
r No enemy of our government
could have made any more unjust or
unpatriotic an attack on our govern.
ment than that did the so.called father
OF the Constabulary bill, Senator Dun.
lap He said that an elective law en-.
forcing body, responsible to the
voters for their action, could not be
depended upon to enforce the law.
His argument was really an attack
against government OF the people, by
the people and for the people. and
was an argument In favor Of an autac-
|1g MY SrS g Rlfar5 d IN eHeasHaa fisaaf xsast'
lof Illinois. part Of the u. 3. Govern.
ment II made the real Americans I'm
the audience blush for shame to think
that such a man had been elected to
that kind OF = position.
In newspaper picture showing the
map OF the State OF Pennsylvania and
the location or the military police troop
stations. 1t was discovered that two
of them were In the antracite field,-
one In the upper and one In the lower
region. where the men who work In
the coal mines are possibly working
for lower wages today than anywhere
in the United States, and where this
constabulary has been repeatedly used
to intimidate, terrorize and beat up
those men when they showed an inten.
| tfon OF attempting tc compel the coal
operators to give them the wages,
hours and conditions they were en-
titled to. This Is the same antracite
trust, notorious for It's robbery OF the
people. by charging extortionate
prices for coal. and that Baer, the
trusts mouthpiece, declared that
they had been given control of the
antracite coal field and the people
as the trustees OF Almighty God
Dunlap did not go quite SO far as to
say God sent them the Cossacks.
| One other troop station was In the
steel district close To Pittsburgh
where the United States Steel Corpo-
rations' largest non-union plants are
| iOSdtcut NhCtC lhVu NVih tno
est. the longest hours, for the lowest
wages In the United States, and where
they are driven and treated like ami
mails.
| Another Is located at Greensburg,
where the steel trusts non-union coal
mines and coke plants are operating.
where something like $4,000 men have
been kept in bondage by that, and as
sociated corporations for years, where
they are not permitted to join the
union, to hold meetings. speak or to
tell the people of their grieyous con-
ditions, in the press.
| The other troop Is located close to
the capital city of Harrisburg. There
was not a single troop in the rural
districts of Pennsylvania. The audi
ence knew that most OF the farmers
| In Pennsylvania never saw a trooper
| military policeman), that they had
been kept where the big non-union la
Dor crushing corporations operated
their plants, where men and women
were compelled TO work longer hours
for lower wages and were driven
harder than anywhere oB earth; the
brutal hypocrisy of Senator Dunlap's
plea that such a constabulary be
granted Illinois for the benefit of the
rural districts, became at once OBJ
He said there were more crimes be-
| ing committed in Illinois than there
bad haau I'm fha mast and that more