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Is President Wilson Allowed to Know the Truth
About Our Appalling Conditions?
T* HOSE who are placed in supreme con
trol of the policies of great nations, arc
almost certain to be cut off from the main
body of the people.
A circle of courtiers confines the ruler, in
much the safue way that the walls of ancient
towns prevented communication with the
outside w/drld.
The personal attendants of the monarch
formed,/ the nucleus of his court; and, next to
theses came the favored officers of the army
ands of the State.
In this way, it naturally happened, that
the doctor who kept the king uneasy about
his health, or the barber who shaved him,
or the chamberlain who saw to his being
put to bed, wielded a greater influence over
him than did his offcial councillors.
Notoriously, the greatest of monarchs
have been under the sway of their personal
intimates, their mistresses, their confessors,
their chums who came up the back-stairs,
and who were unknown to the public.
In comparatively recent times, we have
§een the French kings ruled by Jesuit con
fessors, and by shameless Montespans, Main
itenons, Pompadours, Dußarrys, &c.
In England, the Catholic Stuarts were
governed by such Jesuits as Father Petre,
and by such strumpets as Barbara Villiers,
Is the Oath of Office No Longer Binding Upon the
Conscience ?
'THE Constitution of the United States,
Article 2, Section 1. paragraph 7, reads—■
“Before he” (the President) “enters on the
execution of bis office, he shall take the follow
ing oath or affirmation:
T do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
’faithfully execute the office of President of
the United States, and will, to the best of
iny ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
'Constitution of the United States.’ ”
Notice the significance of the word “before.”
The President cannot enter on the execu
tion of his office, before he lias solemnly
bound himself to preserve, protect, and de
fend the Supreme Law of the Union.
He cannot move a peg, until after he Jias
Ween that oath.
Does it bind him, or is it “obsolete”?
Never before in the history of this Govern
ment, did any Senatorial spokesman of a
(President refer contemptuously to the Con
stitution, as an out-of-date scrap of paper,
Until Senator James Hamilton Lewis did so,
In open session of the Senate.
Every member of Congress, every member
ibf the Cabinet, every Governor, every mem
ber of State legislatures, must take the same
Ibath of fidelity to the Constitution.
i. If they do not do so, their official acts would
Thomson, Ga t , Thursday, August 9, 1917
Louise de Querrouaille, the niece of Cardi
nal Mazarin, &c.
Later, the kings of the present - German
house were controlled by German harlots,
and by such English favorites as Airs. Fitz
herbert, Grace Dalrymple, Mrs. Keppel,
&c.
It is related of the famous Sultan, Ilaroun
al Raschid, that he used to disguise himself,
slip out of the roar door of the palace, and
roam about the streets of Bagdad, listening
to the talk of the common people.
The private secretary of Napoleon tells
us in his Memoirs, that the greatest of men
loved to put on a plain overcoat and hat,
and mingle with the crowds on the boule
vards, in the markets, and in the shops, so
that he might know, for himself, what
the French were feeling and saying.
Historians agree, that so long as the Duke
de Morny lived, his half-brother, Napoleon
111., was safe, because De Morny mixed
with the French, on the race-track, on the
Bourse, at the opera, in the legislative as
sembly, and at social functions, uW thus
kept his imperial brother posted, as to the
true state of affairs.
But De Morny’s brilliant career suddenly
ended while he was in the prime of life, and
be voidable, and they could be ousted from
office by legal proceedings.
But the oath seems to have become a mere
form*
It is a matter of the lips, only.
Yet I think of old George lll.—the tyrant
King of England whom our forefathers
fought—refusing to sign the bills which the
Roman Catholics had duped Parliament into
passing, because his coronation oath bound
him to the Protestant system.
I think of Gen. Grant, also, threatening to
resign and disrupt the Government, when
President Johnson proposed the arrest or
Gen. Lee and other paroled Confederate offi
cers.
When March 4th 1917 rolled around, and
President Wilson publicly and solemnly re
newed his oath to preserve, protect, and de
fend the Constitution, did he regard the
pledge as a mere form?
When Senators and Representatives
pledged their honor to the Supreme Law by
a similar oath, did they regard their promise
as perfunctory?
Would the President and the candidates
for Congress have ventured, during the cam-
his Emperor-brother was left without ore
true friend.
Nobody would afterwards tell him the
truth.
Those who were getting rich .off the rot
ten Empire, made it to the interest of those
who immediately enc/ircled 'Napoleon 111.,
to prevent the truth from reaching him.
The personal attendants of the Emperor,
together with the higher nobles who were
always about him, fenced him off.
No outsider could reach him.
Thus lie remained in a fool's paradise,
while Bismarck, Von Moltke, and Von
Roon were preparing his overthrow.
Dallying with his Jesuit priests, and the
loose women with whom the priests kept him
surrounded and weakened, Napoleon 111.
drifted into the German trap, although his
dying brother, De Morny, had said to him,
as a last word, of Prussia!”
Is President Wilson allowed to learn the
truth about the fearful crisis
War-Vultures have precipitated?
Can unpleasant news pass Tumulty?
Can unpalatable facts run the gauntlet
which the Jesuits and the Knights of Co-
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paign of last year, to hint any purpose of
ignoring the Constitution?
Certainly not.
Let us see what the President and Con
gress have done, since the renewed oath to
the Supreme Law was taken.
(1.) They have made military appropria
tions—the purpose being to raise and support
armies—for a term of 30 years, when the
Constitution expressly forbids it.
The Constitution says positively, that no
appropriation for that purpose shall be for
a term of more than two years; and this in
hibition was put into the organic, vnehangea
bed law, for the very purpose of preventing
the maintenance of a large standing army, in
time of peace.
When I say that the Supreme Law is un
changeable, I mean that Congress cannot
change it: it can be changed by the people of
the States, acting as States, and concurring
by a vote of three-fourths of the States.
If Congressmen could change the Constitu
tion, their oath would be unmeaning, unless
it read—
“We solemnly swear to support the Consti
tution, until we see fit to change it.”
(CONTINUED ON I’AGE THREE.)
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