Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-11
POLICE BILL
CAN'T STAND
THELIGHT
investigation Changes At
titude of Former Sup
porters of Bill
tRy John II. wALkERl


Illinois on a one.si,ied presentation OF
the case by Senator Henry MoRteith
Dunlap. endorsed the Military Police
bill.--yoirsl that n military govern
ment should be set up in Illinois 10
supercede the civil authorities, and
that a military ausSsracy be created
and put In charge Of a military auto
erat 10 be recruitea by himself from
, amongst the men thai suited hiIn. 10
do as he pleased. he was 10 be given
this power for life Even the governor
could not remove him or control his
action. This Is provided in the state
military police bin tha; Senator Dun
LAP has introduced.
/ AT the following meeting q week
later. that action was reconsidered
and a motion carried unanimously 20
! lay the police bill ON the table. The
representatives of the interests who
are spending millions of dollars TO
get this bill enacted. had II published
in every newspaper that they could
get II published in, that the Rotary
Club had endorsed this hill. but not a
word has appeared in any newspaper
about the action OF the club repudi-
ating the bill
| The Lion Club of Peoria, Illinois,
also endorsed the Military Police bill
on the onesided presentation or mis-
representation of this bill. and then at
the following meeting, reconsidered
the Military Police Bill
| The same procedure took place as
did In the Rotary Clubs case. All the
newspapers that they could influence
to carry the endorsement by the Lions
Club Of Peoria of this bill. published
II. but not a word was carried I'm those
newspapers Of their reputation OF IL.
Robert Jones. Secretary OF the
Chamber of Commerce OF Lawrence
vile. Illinois, is waxing wrath The
cause of 1t Is that the interests back
| ing the Cossack for the Workers Of
Illinois bill. made the statement In
their publication that the Lawrence
willie Chamber OF Commerce had en-
dorsed IT,.
Bob says thatsthe bin was not even
Icunsideretl. that had II sisesu essaalds
ered, Il would have been repudfated
This is in the keeping with their
very questionable methods for the
four years that they have been making
this enormously costly campaign for
this measure In all OF the industrial
states within the United States OF
! America.
| The Aldermanic council Of Quincy.
| Illinois. went on record at their last
meeting, by a vote of seven 10 three
! as opposing the Dunlap Cossack bill
The Indiana state legislature has
just killed this infamous proposal 10
insert an entering wedge TO assasi-
nate the American Republic
People are becoming aroused They
see the danger of military auto
craey being set up in our state aud
extended to the nation. They are
determined that the rights and liber
! ties guaranteed us by the fathers who
founded our government, shall not be
taken from US by the cunning hirelings
and tools OF the reactionary corpora
tion exploiters of the common people
defendants OF they, whom our fathers
freed our country from.
Mr., Dunlap Is touring Chicago now
with a moving picture company. all
the expensive paraphernalia and ac
coutrements and the retinue OF diff
ferent artists. mechanics and labor
ers. Where Is the money coming from
to pay these expenses?
Their magazine is sent to thousands
of people free every month. II Is q
very extensively gotten up magazine.
Where is the cash coming from to de-
fray this cost?
III by any other methods. anyone
proposed to set up military autocra
cy to supersede the civil authorities
in our federal government, the people
would rise up in arms, those traitors
would be shot. Yet. that is what
Dunlap's bill proposes to do with the
state OF Illinois.
Even the most dense farmers are
beginning to see now that hundreds of
thousands OF miles of rural country
roads could not be paroled by an army
of five or six hundred men day and
night in either two or three shifts.
and at the same time. police cities,
strike zones and threatened riots.
There are three thousand vacancies
in the position of constables and dep
uty sheriffs in the state of Illinois.
Everyone knows that the farmers in
those districts would fiji those posi-
tions If there was any. need for them.
in order to save taxes. because they
don't need them, they don't have those
offices flled.--ye those officers have
every police power that the people
can safely confer on any police officer
and with the coordination of those
forces without question, they could
cope with any situation. If they were
needed. without question. these Off
GERS would be put on.
A careful searching inquiry into the
buying of lands in connection with
the state university letting OF con
tracts for putting I'D buildings. letting
of contracts for materials. the activi-
ties OF the university corporation poll
ticians in this connection: the money
they make out OF il that would rise
out OF the building OF a military bar
racks at the university headquarters
as well as the m.,i:G-izing OF the Illi-
nois State University, would be mighty
interesting at this time, particularly
as il would relate 20 Senator Dunlap