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6 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922 NEW CONSTITUTION CALLED DANGEROLS Leaders in State Speak Plainly in Asking Voters to Defeat Proposed Code 'IS STEP BACKWARD" Ickes Scores Revision of Judicial System Tuesday, December 12, is election day in New Trier township, as well as throughout the state of Illinois. On that day Illinois votors will be asked to vote for or against the adop- tion of the proposed new Illinois state constitution. Polling places will be the same as in the general election on November 7. Many arguments, pro and con, have been heard and read in recent weeks and months, and leaders gen- erally agree that the proposed organic law is at best a series of compro- mises and that the proposed docu- ment is little better, if actually any improvement, over the constitution now in force. Many thoughttur persons in the country town districts of Chicago are convinced that the new constitution is not good. That it contpins many provisions that would, if accepted by the voters next Tuesday, work an un- wholesome, if not positively harmful influence, that would be a powerful weapon in the hands of political groups. Distinctly Worse "The proposed constitution is dis- tinctly worse than the present con- stitution," says Prof. Charles H. Mer- riam of Chicago University. "it would be a long step backward." Continuing, he says: "The effect of adoption of the proposed constitution would be to re-establish a cumber- some tax system favoring very large ircomes; to strengthen the courts at the expense of the legislature and the people; to weaken the legislative body by an unfair system of repre- sentation gerrymandering many of the progressive districts in the state; to obstruct popular control through the initiative and the referendum; and __to prevent adoption of a more liberal constitution in the near future." Congressman Richard Yates, in a telegram to the Chicago Evening Journal last week, dealt a severe blow to the proposed basic law when he said, in treating the document in its entirety: "No new constitution ought to be adopted unless it is a substantial im- provement and no new constitution ought to be adopted simply because the old one is old, any more than we ought to repeal the national consti- tution simply because it is old. | advantages can be "I am, therefore, against the new thing because its chief reason is that it is new. "Second, I am against it because it is not a substantial improvement; that is, because its advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. . "Third, I oppose it because all its obtained by amending the old constitution. "Fourth, I oppose it because it makes the judicial department too strong. "Fifth, I oppose it because it looks to a reapportionment of the legisla- ture, both senate and house of rep- resentatives, which reapportionment is not as fair as the present appor- tionment. The present apportionment has lasted for twenty years and i: satisfactory universally. "Sixth, I oppose it because it i full of uncertainties. The old con- stituion has been construed and in- terpreted line upon line, precept up- on precept, but it has taken 90,000 Supreme Court decisions to do it. All this would have to be done over again before we could know what the new constitution means. "Meanwhile, no one would be bene- fited except those who thrive on un- cerainty." Harold L. Ickes of Hubbard Woods, on of the leading exponents of pro- gressive government, in referring to the section of the proposed constitu- tion having to do with the revision of the judicial system, says: "One of the worst features of the new draft is the section revising the judicial system of the state. The ju- dicial department is attempted to be built up at the expense of the execu- tive and legislative departments. Se- cure from popular control, our judges are to be endowed with autocratic power over the property and lives of the people. "And to make this power secure and its abuse both certain and safe, the court is given the distribution of more political patronage than the governor of the state now enjoys. It will be an engaging sight, if this pro- | posed constitution becomes our basic law, to see the Supreme Court house besieged by politicians insisting on | jobs for hungry placemen. "The people of Illinois have already had bitter and shameful experience of courts degraded by politics. It 1s not to be believed that they will drag the entire judicial system of the state into such a mire." Dealing in particulars, those oppos- ing the proposed basic code have sum- med up the situation as follows: "Why I shall vote NO December | 12 on the proposed constitution: 1. 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