Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-02-17
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SAYS VICTOR oLANDER

HI.UfIrIeI nun
7 know at Least from the In,
60 - tbat I have received
80 &c tine naa spapars. ana rom
- have heard locally, tnat there
- - more than one meet 9 II
..ss fbis particular question was
5issazsed 1t was he senator from
dis district, Senator Dunlap VINO IN 5
dsgfaak 70 father The measure, ana
he ri course, has played absolutely
-, v..b his people At least Win
49, Who belonged ta h's own par
t;SsIss Wglk of lie. and has told them
A. tets. so to business men VINO
- had tbis opportunity TO know all
- l. IN know a3aul the language
- fEs measure. and b whom Senator
Dnnfsp has told the facts, IL tney
sfi0 believe, Il is utterly useless loi
me IN talk. But it may De thaJ even
sno1g the business men OF Cham-
,.siga tbere are still those who have
- hon told what the bill contains,
b54 baqs listened 10 stories Of horrl=
b,e fr,me of bandits racing over the
.a5,ntrv highways or women being
elssol,ed In the country districts, and
Of ali those tales that make as laifly
shrdder Perhaps some nave no iuf-
tbsr information on the subject than
iii which we might have CLEANED
from The papers, or from the motion
njefl5res furnished by your honorable
senator. and which he started around
the state. presumably At his own eX-
pense. in which they show you among
other things a suggestive scene, leaY-
ing a great deal 10 the IMAGINATION,
of an assault on woman. A child
runs dawn the highday to where a
nartv af state police are camped, who
promptly 90 to the rescue. The
Thought is left in your mind that that
sort Of scene is typical OF the I'LL
NOS rural districts. Let me say to
Won. eentlement, you must know the
people Of our country districts as well
as / do, and you must know as | do
that if that sort of a scene was char
acteristic Of anything that was hap
pening along our country highways
and on the farms of Illinois, the
farmers would not be idle. We would
hear stories either of an increase in
the state police systems as we have
them now. or we would hear of lynch
ings once in a while. That sort OF a
yarn is told to play upon your pres
ent imagination, to take your eyes
away from the state police bill. The
speakers who lecture to you upon the
subject, use the utmost care not to
uncover the particular bill, but TO
concentrate all of your attention upon
stories that touch your affections
that make you resent them and nat
urally bring forth the admission that
there is evidently some need for po-
lice protection. |, and those | repre-
sent, have no objections to an in
community, and If the farmers want
more police under county control,
will do all in my power to help them
secure it. We simply oppose the idea
of state Capitalization of police au-
thorities, and for reasons that ! shall
go into more fully little later in my
talk.
say you have been told that what
the promoters Of the state police bill
desires, Is an increase of state police
protection for the state, to protect
their lives and their property, to pa.
troll, and particularly to take care OF
the farmers. said moment age
that those who are Interested in Sen
ator Dunlay, or at least in his bust
ms meetings, have knowledge as t,
the precise nature of the bill, but
presume there are some here wht
have never heard the story, so | an
going to take up this tightly sealed
box which the promoters of the bill
when talking to audiences, hold be.
fore the eyes of the people, and say
in here, ladies and gentlemen, is Z
faithful watch dog, a police that is
going to care for your women ano
children" | am going to take the lie
off that box and show you what is in
it, and | will find a poisonous political
reptile which is dangerous to any
people. To do that | will simply dis.
cuss Senate Bill 55 as introduced by
Senator Dunlap of this district in the
last session of the legislature. Ii
proposes the establishment of 6
highly centralized military police
force to consist of three military
troops, each troop to consist of 81
men, the initial number of troops t
be three which may later under the
terms of the bill be increased t.
seven. Thus we have as an initia
measure force consisting of 49,
men all told. | call your attention Il
the large military formation of thi.
proposed state polieel Groups of 81
men, each, Of course, to be quarteret
IN barracks because they tell us thai
IL IS modelled upon the military plar
oil the state constabulary of Pennsyl
wanna. Careful estimates reveal tina
at least one-third are absent on fur
ioughs, sick, detailed on special duty
or IN training. Tha eliminates one
thifd, which leaves two-thirds. Di
Fiding that into half we have 81
men. There are l02 counties in Hi
nols, and with 6j available police. W.
would have two lonesome constable.
sidfellhg somewhere over three coun
ues, and since they are for the pro
teetlon OF the farmer, and also {,
pursue the bandits who travel il
nigh powered cars, they will be lead
ing horse in one hand upon which
te mount when going to the rescu,
OF the farmers, and with the othel
hand he will be pushing a motor
cycle which he will use to captur,
mghwaymen in high-powered cars.
ot course such system cannof
possibly furnish any patrol. Let m,
say to you very blunsly, that nobod,
1.l, knows the construction of thai
Dlii' or who supports it. has ever in.
tended it as a rural bill. because in
the entire bill there are only foul
words which deal with rural patrol
and they are general in their nature
and were put there merely as an ex.
cuse SO that the supporters of the biz
may come before tbe public and say
we do intend to have some rura
patroling DONE" ! think that I bay,
said enough upon this point to con.
vince any one who mas wiped al