Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04

at its disposal to crush the common
people into submission so that they
might be exploited like animals
And so that we in America might
not have our rights and liberties a
American citizens endangered by tha1
Mind 0fs an institnSiUffs they sWr6tc fti
ITO the law, that the constabulary oi
our country was to be elected by the
people every four years; that the
members of 1t must take an oath to
uphold the laws of our country and
its constitution; that they must fur
nish a bond so that IL they exceeded
their authority under the law, the peo
pie injured could collect damages
and that they must submit themselves
to vote of the people every -four
years for reelection, SO that If in the
time intervening, they had taken any
action which the people did not agree
with. that they could vote them out
and put others in their place.
That sort Of a constabulary does
not serve the purposes of the preda
tory interests in our country now who
want to crush and enslave and exploit
the people, Hence they want the mil
itary police The one kind of an in
fuence that they know has made II
possible for the people of Europe to
be kept in subsection during all the
ages. Men who propose this, are
traitors to the United States. Men who
act to establish this thing are COM
hitting treason to the United States
and to the memory of they who died
to found our government.
The common citizenship of st. Clair
County are now seeking to establish
IA Cooperative bank of their own SO
that they will not be compelled to de-
posit their funds for safe keeping in
the hands of traitors to their country
and enemies to them and their fam
lilies
What the real American citizenship
of that county contemplate doing to
these gentlemen is what will be done
to the predatory interests everywhere
that they are taking similar action.
The real American citizenship every
where will find the means no matter
what it may be, to prevent their en-
slavement They will maintain their
rights as free men, American citizens,
will be able to make arrangements
that will enable them to live and pros
per without these Hessians or their
corporations at all.
Fifteen years ago when the Military
Police was created in Pennsylvania il
cost $425, 900 to maintain them for two
years and for the last two years IL
cost the tax payers of Pennsylvania
81, ,796, ,295. Once established, it grows
like a cancer.
At a hearing before the bar asso-
citation in Chicago. recently, when the
advocates of the Cossacks for Illinois
Working Men Law were given hear
ing, the representatives of the Con
stabulary law said that the bankers OF
Illinois favored that law. Clarence
Darrow was then called upon to speak
and among the things that Mr. Oar
row said was that he knew without
being told that the bankers of Illinois
would favor that law, because he
knew they were opposed to anybody
robbing their banks from the outside,
The inference was of course that the
bankers wanted to do all the robbing
themselves, and as they were doing II
from the inside, that it would hurt
their business for anybody to rob
them from the inside
One reason why the bankers were
able to use the so-called county farm
institutes connected with the Depart
ment of Agriculture of the State Uni
versity at Urbana, Illinois (which they
created ostensibly to help the farmer
but really 10 serve their own selfish