The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-09
Illinois Manufacturers in Frenzied
Fight Against Child Labor Amendment

is such a screeching and yowling and
bowling out there that the rural legis-
lator must think that the devil him
self and all his imps are after him.
Every purchaseable country editor
in the state has been through
the placing Of paid advertising mat
ter-to assist in adding to the uproar
The draft Of the constabulary bill
as presented to previous sessions of
the Illinois general assembly was re-
garded as the worst piece of legisla-
tion of its kind ever attempted in any
state in the union. The proponents
of the proposed measure are expected
to duplicate their previous efforts at
the forthcoming session and are pre-
pared and willing to turn loose flood
of money to accomplish their purpose.
They already have spent very large
sum Of money for advertising space
in the rural press of the whole state,
and the legislature is not even in ses-
sion yet
Bill Means Death to Freedom
Victor A. Olander, secretary treas
urer of the Illinois State Federation
of Labor, said of this proposed vicious
legislation:
I'm this measure it is proposed to
enact a law which is to provide as
follows: That there shall be estab-
lished in Illinois military state
police system under the command of
IA military chief who is to be appoint
ed for life and who may be removed
only for one or more of three causes
named in the bill This military chief
is to have complete and autocratic
control over his subordinates, who are
to be appointed for such periods as
he may decide upon and who are to
be employed, promoted, denoted OF
dismissed at his will
/ "These troopers are to have com
| plete power to enter any local com
munity regardless of whether THEN
presence is desired by local authority
or not and to exercise everywhere 9
species Of physical force that has
never been permitted in America dur.
ing times of peace. In effect it is
proposed to put the state under {
form of permanent martial law
Force Given Broad Powers
"The bill not only confers upon tn,
military police troopers the usual au
thority exercised by peace officers, bu
it further provides that they shall
have authority to arrest and detair
any person against whom they ma!
entertain suspicious or claim to enter
tain suspicious.
"The promoters of the measure
have widely advertised it as a rura
police bill intended for the protection
of the farmers. But upon reading tn
; bill itself it will be discovered that n
reference is made to rural police pro
lection except that which is containe
in about three words without specifi
direction or meaning.
II have never heard a single pre-
ponent of this measure undertake t
describe its precise contents to an
public audience. They talk loudly &
the necessity for increased police pre-
lection in some of the communities {
the state and then, figuratively speal
ing, hold up to the public view
tightly sealed box which they ave
contains faithful watchdog. Whe
we uncover the box, that is to sa,
when we examine the language of tt
: bill, we find that it has within it M
| a watchdog, but a venomous reptil
J a political rattlesnake whose BIZ
t means death to our free institutions
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