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mansion at 23,034 Railroad avenue.
“It \\u5ld break up the home.”
“I am opposed to Socialism,” said
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“It is against the marriage relation.”
“I atn opposed to Socialism,” said
Johnny Yeggman, as he deftly threw
his leg over the window sill, ‘‘It stan
ds for dividing up. "--Exchange.
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BY J. HILL.
(Air, “Meet Me To-night In
Dreamland.’’)
“One little girl, fair as a pearl,
Worked every day in a laundry;
All that she made for food she paid,
So she slept on a park bench so soun
dly;
An old procuress spied her there,
She came and whispered in her ear:
Come with me now my girly,
Don’t sleep,out in the cold;
Your face and tresses curly
Will bring you fame and gold,
Automobiles to ride in, diamonds and
silk to wear,
You’ll be a star bright, down in the
red light,
You-’11 make your fortune there.
Same little girl, no longer a pearl,
Walks all alone ’long the river,
Five years have flown, her health is
gone,
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She would look at the water and
shiver,
Whene’er she’d stop to rest and sleep,
She’d hear a voice call from the deep:
REFRAIN.
Girls in this way, fall every day,
Aud have been falling for ages,
Who is to blame? you know’ his name,
It’s the boss that pays starvation wages
A homeless girl can always hear
Voices calling everywhere:
Come with me now. my girly,
Don’t sleep out in the cold;
Your face and tresses curly
Will bring you fame and gold,
Automobiles to ride in, diamonds and
silk to wear,
You’ll be a star bright, down in the
red light,
You’ll make your fortune there.
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THE RECALL
OE JUDGES
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PROCEEDINGS OF A SESSION
OF THE ILLINOIS STATE BAR AS
SOCIATION ,APRIL 26, 1912, 8 o’cl
ock P. M.
The Association convened pursuant
to adjournment, President Tenney in
the Chair.
THE PRESIDENT: The purpose of
this particular session of the meeting
of the State Bar Association I thinjc
has been so far indicated that it is. un
necessary for me to take any of the ti
me, which cau better be given to those
who desire to speak, to state the purr
pose of the meeting.
This, subject of the Recall is one par
ticularly appropriate at a Bar Associat
ion, meeting, and owing to its interest
and importance the Executive Comm
ittee has arranged what they regard as
an orderly and effective method of sec
uring a discussion, and then, an expre
ssion of opinion from the Bar Associat
ion upon the subject.
vWhen I say a discussion, I mean a
discussion of both sides and, therefore
the Executive Committee in order to
be sure that it was discussed o n both
sids, has asked some gentlemen
whose names are on the program, to
lead upon the opposite sides of the
question. They have also formulated
for presentation and discussion the qu
estion to be discussed and as the sub
ject of Judicial Recall naturally
divides itself into two branches, they
have separated it into those two ques
tions so as to permit the question of
the Recall of Judges and the recall of
Judicial Decisions each by popular vote,
to be presented, and the questions
as thus phrased and presented by the
formal action of the Executive Comm
ittee, are as follows :
Is the Illinois State Bar Association
in favor of the Recall by popular vote
of Judges in Illinois; second,
Is the Illinois State Bar Association
in favor of the Recall by popular vote
of decisions involvin g constitutional
questions?
Now as to the method of obtaining
an answer to that question.
The question upon each branch of the
discussion refers to the opinion of the
Illinois State Bar Association, and as
the time to-night can be most profit
ably devoted to discussion, and as all
the members of the State Bar Associat
ion are not here, we have arran ged
this method of procuring the answer
of the Association to these questions.
We propose, not to take any vote at
this meeting, but at the conclusion of
the meeting to have the disc ussion,
which is being reported, immediately
printed and sent to every member of
the State Bar Association, with a ballot
containing these questions, and the us
ual arrangement of return envelopes, so
that each member of the Association
throughout the state will get in the
fiist place the benefit of the discussion
by having it printed and furnished him
and in the second place the opportunity
of expressing his view upon each ques
tion,
The by-laws of our Association give
the right to members to speak for five
minutes, except when there are special
speakers requested to speak upon any
question. We have invited here to this
meeting the representatives of other
state bar associatious of the country,
and a flattering number of those assoc
iations have to speak upon this question
under our five minute limit. The right
to vote, however, as the questions call
for the decision of the State Bar Assoc
iation is in the end limited to those
who are members of the Association.
In the division of the subject we
have invited Judge Wanamaker, of Ak
ron, Ohio, to speak upon the subject
of the Recall of Judges, and in favor
of that proposition. We have asked
Mr. Wilkerson to speak npon the other
side of that proposition. . . . Judge
"Wanamaker is a visitor from another
state, and we accord to him thirty min
utes; we accord to the others fifteen
minutes. . . I have no discretion on the
five minute rule and, therefore, I shall
be compelled, as to those who speak as
members of the Association and as
members of these visiting delegations,
to enforce that rule automatically, and
five minutes will mean five minutes.
So first we will begin with the presen
tation by thfcse speakers of each side of
each question, and then both questions
will be open for discussion, by those
who have the right to discussion, and
any member desiring to speak can speak
upon either or both questions within
the limit, I have the pleasure of pres
enting Judge Wanamaker, of Akron,
Ohio. (Applause.)
ADDRESS ON THE RECALL OF JU
DGES BY R. M. WANAMAKER, JU
DGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO
Mr. President, Fellow Judges, Fellow
: Lawyers and Members of the Illinois
State Bar Association: If I shall have
when I conclude, one quarter of the
cordial greeting you have given me as
I appear to discuss this subject, I shall
feel abundantly repaid for coining to
Chicago. \our representative, &r. Jo
hnstone, called on me a lew weeks ago,
and asked me to present some views
upon the question ol the Recall of Jud
ges by popular vote. He conlioeniiaily
advised me that the Illinois btate Bar
Association were doubtless hostile to
v
such a proposition, but they wanted it
discussed. 1 finally agreed, upon these
terms, that 1 should have thirty minutes
to open and ten or hlteen minutes to
close, the burden being on tile affirma
tive. It was so agreed and 1 shall
proceed, with your patience and your
courtesy, to discuss the question.
That 1 may not be charged with tal
king unuer Utlul ■ impulse or passion, 1
have applied the compass and chart to
my remarks, and you will indulge me
i
I with some patience while 1 reier, at
times, to my manuscript. I am now' at
liberty to present a view that is some
what hostile to your convictions and
your traditions, in view ot the tact that
1 have heard during the atternoon and
forenoon sessions of your Association a
more severe indictment presented aga
inst the bench and bar tor their handi
work in the courts ot civil and criminal
procedure throughout the country than
any that 1 can present here to-night.
What 1 shall say to you is true or false
not because 1 say it, but, because it tits
or misfits the facts. What I shall say
to you is right or wrong, not because I
say it, but because it accords or dis
cords wiih right or reason. *
If we shall first review whence we
have come we shall the more clearly
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view where we are and w'hether we are I
tendiug.
If we shall first consider those facts
of our political origin and development
that cannot be fairly denied, we shall
more clearly understand the facts now
in apparent or actual dispute.
In this discussion I shall try to be
as fair and faithful to the facts as I
shall be frank and fearless in present
ing my view of the facts.
When the fathers in their wisdom
wrote into the Federal Constitution the
words “We, the people of the United
States, in order to form a more perfect
Union, establish justice,” etc., they
adsolutely abolished lord and king.
And when the fathers solemnly declared
that “to secure these rights (life, liber- i
ty and the pursuit of happiness), gov
ernments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,”
they forever fixed the place of all pol
itical power for the first and., foremost'
American democracy, to-wit, in the i
hearts, heads and hands of the Ameri
can people. J
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Likewise when the fathers made their
several state constitutions, not merely
for Maine and Massachusetts, New Yo
rk and New Jersey Indiana and Illinois
Missouri .and Montana, Colorado and
California, but in every single instance,
the fathers who made these state con
stitutions recognized as did the fathers
of the Federal Constitution, that “all
political power is inherent in the people
; and that the powers enumerated in
Federal and various state constitutions
were simply delegated powers, the wis
dom of such delegation to be worked
out by the logic of time and experience.
Lincoln summed up the whole mat
ter in that immortal speech at Gettys
burg when he spoke of us as a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
lor the people.
Under our American democracy,
government is simply the art and sci
ence ol managing tne public business
lor tne interest 01 tne people, and not
lor the people of the interests.
Ail private business of any magnit
ude must of course be done by the re
presentatives ol the financial stockhol
ders, snch as employe clerk, superin
tendent, manager, board of directors;
so an pumic business of any magnitude
must likewise ue done by the represent
atives oi tne citizen stockholder, the
quoiic omcer, whether he be law-maker,
law-interpreter or law-administrator.
lo mane private business successlul
it must be conducted by real repres
entatives ol the citizens.
now to make our government really
representative and to keep it really
representative of all the people
was tiie one great problem before the
miners and is tne one great problem
oeiroe their sons, grandsons and great
grandsons.
A government of, for and by the
people was tne dream oi a Washington,
the ueciaration of a Lincoln, 'lo-uay it
is Uie determined demand of n l n e t y
millions ol sovereign citizens.
in tnis they no not mean some gov
ernment or part government, but ail
government—legislative, executive and
judicial.
experience of the centuries has tau
ght us tnat we cannot have govern
ment lor all the people until we first
have ail government by the people.
With lew rare exceptions everybody
concedes this representative character to
the legislative bodies, likewise to th
executive bodies, but in seme quarters
more or less diatinguislied there has
been an effort to make an exception
of courts.
After briefly stating the objects of
the Federal Constitution they divide
governmental power into legislative,
executive and judicial branches; desig
nate the officers, confer jurisdiction
upon them, for their selection, and one
thing more—listen! Article 2, section 4
of the Federal Constitution, reads: “The
president, vice-president and all civil
officers of the United States shall be
removed from office on impeachmtnt
for a conviction of treason, bribery or
other high crimes and misdemeanors. ’ ’
The fathers knew full well how pub
lic officers of the past, both in Am
erica and in the mother lands, had ab
used their governmental powers, had
been guilty of misconduct in office,
had been unfaithful and derelict in their
public trusts. They therefore wrote
into the organic law the right to re
move them all, and delegated the
power to remove to the federal congress.
Remember another thing! They did
not say “the legislative officers” shall
be removed, they did not say “exec
utive officers” shall be removed, they
did not say “all civil officers except
ing the judges,” but they made it as
broad and sweeping as official life.
They realized that the power to select
good officers without the power to re
move bad officers would be a fatal de
fect in any scheme of government.
But some one says, oh, that was im
peachment! Well, now, do not let us
quibble or juggle about forms and nam
es. Let us deal with facts and sub
stance.
(To be continued;