Show REVISION OP OF TIlE THE CONSTITUTION In it a a written carefully editorial the New York Sun calls attention to the fact that six States namely Colorado Nevada Michigan Oregon Idaho I and Montana l have passed and sent to Congress Congre s resolutions calling for a convention to revise the Constitution of the tile Unit United d Stat States States' As the tile Sun un remarks if twenty four more could be induced to todo todo todo do the same thing Congress Congre s would be compelled to call the convention What then would b be likely to become of the Constitution of the Fathers under which the nation has bas grown from the tile status of a weak weal group of provincial communities hugging the Atlantic coast to the proportions of an empire and the tile strength wealth and influence of a great world Power It would be an evil day for this country upon which elected delegates from various arious States and sections with divergent divergent- interests ideas and traditions traditions traditions should assemble to undo and do over the work of the grand men who made this nation Nobody could guess the result of such a gathering Direct Directly ly iy or oi indirectly it would give all the unpractical doctrinaires fanatics and cranks in the Union the opportunity of their lives and it is needless to say that the uncertainty as to our future basic law it would create would be more disastrous than a dozen panics of 1893 rolled into one It is it natural enough for people to argue that thata a scheme so paretic could not be carried to mation But the truth remains 1 that six sovereign States have pronounced for it and if six why mig might t not enough no gh more be found to make up the tile necessary two thirds The movement has had too much of a start not not to be considered dangerous |