Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-17
DOWN WITH DEMOCRACY"
Tho People Are Unfit For Self Government"
II, rARI u. THOMPSON.


Down Nth democracy
Tie people are unit ter SELF rule.
Abolish these uostlums and patent
Wctleiaes Ia goNuumcpt#sbr mll,a.
tive ana referendum
These are kaleo u .he secret baftlc
cries, samC i ,he inside feasVus of
the hsg mteWsts N this state fur
desiring thc adoption Vl the proposed
constitution. 1hey 40 met give eut
these iease 60 ,ae public, et course,
Nou vii ues Hud them iu taeir ueWs.
papeHs. nog hear them iu their public
addres seH; aer viii ypU hnd any hint
of purposes 81 tbs kind Ia the elli.
Ulal literature put eot In the ple-
poueuts oG thp constitution Bei 10
the literature tHat gees eut fof eone
sumption h9 The inner clUles of tie
big Interests lheMsehcs. some at
which has fallen intp oug hands, We
get the real purpose af these who arc
back 81 this proposed constitution ana
who an now ae vigorously and fever.
lshls urging its adoption
Read this. for example. takou from
"A bulletin of one ef tine well known
Rrm members ol the Chicago Board
OF Trade, circulated among the faae-
uonarN interests. We presume, ami
probably mol inttuded t0G the ewes nf
the general public
Let us set the fact firmly
fixed IA cur minds that the Unit
ed States OF America Is, and was
intended te be. a Republic II j.
not. nor Was II intended 10 he
Democracy" Rule by
the people has wrecked every
government in which the expert
meni has been attempted
THE popular demand for the lni
tiatipe and Referendum aud Re.
call are comparatively recent IN
stances of these attempts Ito
make the form Of government
mote domoem;iel while the opz
Grafton of the Direct Primary
law Is evidence Of the mcom
potency of The people la the mat.
ter of self rule p
But these laws the initiative and
referendum, and the direct primary
bad a. they are, In the view of these
gentlemen, are not SO bad as the
direct election az United States aena.
tors. The adoption of this law on
May 81 1913 WRa, they ay,
"fhe entering wedge Of de
stfuetiop driven into our eongtitn
ton, II SOME future his,
tonan should ever write THE
Rise ,sfssl Aala af she ReIrahsie NJ
the United stalea Of America,
May, 81, 1918, Nill hb the date
recorded as the beginning of the
fall"
And again, as expressing the real
views of the interests, the bulletin
referred 90 quotes apnfoMngly the
letters OF the EnglishmaB Maeauley
SAYING
Il have long been convinced
that institutions purely dcmos
cratic must, sooner or litter, de.
stfoy liberty or civilization, or
both
So there you have il citizens. Ae.
eording 10 these genllemont, demo
cracy l. all wrong, the initiative and
referendum, the direct primary and
the election Of United States Senators
by direct vote of the people are a
Reputation of the republican form of
and are Destroying the
Republic. a government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the peo
Pile" Is a snare and "a delnsion and
must be prevented al al hazards.
Down with democracy Away with
these vicious measures that give the
people power to govern themselves.
With these facts before Us Il isl
perfectly clear just what the reaction
ary interests intend by urging the
adoption OF Section n Of the proposed
now statc constitution. which feads;e
'1he Republican form Of gov
enmout Of this state shall never
be abandoned, modified on
abridged