Show the presidential term since the november election the eastern newspapers and politicians have had a great deal to ray pay about the propriety of adopting a constitutional tut ional amendment making the presidential term six years instead offous of four arid and aith a clause prohibiting reelection election re the question hae bas once before been discussed and decided away baek back in the federal convention of 1787 17 when in ill arria in at the conclusion under which we have been working during a century the delegates delegat cs determined that four years was a long a enough term for a bad president and eight was not too long for a good one it is urged now that the quadrennial elections have bare developed into such stupendous costly dangerous affairs that the strain on oil the I 1 oly loly politic and on the he t national institutions is too great to be incur red oftener than is necessary even state and municipal elections such reformers say occur to frequently for forsbe the common good yet their evils are hot to bo be comp compared ired in magnitude with those which appertain to a national campaign they solemnly maintain that the never ceasing game of politics I 1 furnishes urnis ls employment to men whose talon talents Is might be better employed and while the gme ms becomes more bjore arid and more an all element of if danger those who are adopts adepts at it become inoc reckless and there is much good logic in this argument the fathers probably never thought that the close clone of the first one hundred years ears would witness such development of the cor apt bupt rupt and venal in that abich they called statesmanship and patriotism IBM as we nye have witnessed but on oil the other land haul they thought they threw a safeguard around the prerogative and powers of the chief magistrate though D only holding 0 office fice bour four years which we know from experience exists only in name they provided pro tided that the president elected by the people could for malfeasance in office be impeached bythe by the peoples representatives our history shows that this mode of punishment pun ishmen t is i too precarious to to he be depended on if they had had bad our experience before their eyes eye it it is doubtful doubt tul that thoy they would have constituted th the e president surrounded by ministers not responsible to anybody as an official of such unrestrained power so far from making nis his term six years they would have even hesitated about making it jour the patriots of the alast century century S V berc were endowed wi with ith more mor e than human buman huith buith wisdom they fetter better I 1 than they know knew the enlightenment i I 1 and advancement of our day 11 have ba 1 been able to suggett t but fe few 1 1 1 to llie work ay d i d dearin abe wt it seems to us there are better rear reasons ons I 1 now for maintaining the presidential atral at four years than there were then arid and those who want to wake make a change because they fear the strain may prove tou too severe can win themselves the name of national benefactors by st ruling ling to so purify arid and sini simplify our science of politics as aa to reduce to a minimum all its perils there is ie more reason in this than in giving 0 to he leader of any party two additional dit ional years of power equal to that of almost any inon monarch arch in the world ogden standard |