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Show i -H WOULD ABOLISH CONSTITUTION, '' iH Chicago University Professor Declares ' 'H It Is Behind the Times. vV -H Chicago. A revolutionary revision ''aHHHIIIfl of, or even the abolition of the con- r JH stltiitlon of tho United Stntes wns ad- . a vJ vorated by Prof. Charles Zucblln of ,-' ' the University of Chicago nt tho re- 'bbbbbI cent nnnunl banquet of Pal Upsllon ," H alumni. Ills topic was "The Fundn- J'bbbH mental Fallacy of Our Government." . ...,,., i H Next to the foolishness of our InstI- .i . , tutlons, he viewed with disgust tho , H lark of intelligence of tho electorate, , b 'H declining that the average Swiss '. , i as f -v Itfflq? CiJj.2UdLINJ ' sM r t bHHIH l'ordsmuu Is "thiuisiinds of feet above bbLI the average American college gradu- ibbH ate or business mini lu political Intel- H "We blue a habit of proudly apply- AiHIIIIB lug to ourselves n phrnse about 'gov- H JTiiliicnt of the peoiile, for tho people, 'ibbH by the poode,' " said tho speaker. bbLI "Wo ioall think that It applies to us. ' Abbbh We think that we elect our president, ' H but we do not. We think wo nre guv- C''bLH erued by u rongress which we elect. Ibbbv In reiillty we elect the members of n 'v pleasure liuh which meetH lu Wush- 'JbbbH lnglon nnd selects u speaker. Czar bbbI Is u modest. Iiuideiiuate term to apply 'bbbv to the speaker of the houso. i H "Then there Is the seuute. The sun- 'JH ntu will he soon elected by popular nBLI vole. Hut why should they bo elected '"H nt nil? The senate Is a sort of verm- VMbbbs I form nppeudlx to the body politic. 1 ObbbI In short, we are the most hide-bound I' "'H unthinking people thnt ever wero so I VV' :oucelted us to nltetupi self-goveru- 1 !' Ho prophoslod the coming of woman P, ". (H ' stiff ('ago, and declined thnt working- 8 H men now are practically as much ills- , y . P ' rrnhhlsed us women. t f TM Prof. Xtiehllu urged home rule and J the refoteudum us mi elghleonth con- (T!bbH tnry doeiimeut Unit by Its Influence I T Is keeping our laws In tho same con- tury Ho advocated lis radical revl- sloii or Its ubolltlon and the substl- H tlltloll Of III) linWllttofl COIIHtlllltloll, iBBBBBBsl such as Knglnnd works under. IH |