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WHERE DO THESE CONSTITUTION-KILLERS THINK THEY ARE GOING?
'Wien Goorge Wolfe succeeded his brutal
German father and grandfather, as “King of
England,” his mother said to him,
^George, be a King!”
The great Whig landowners had turned the
Sbar fei out, because the Stuarts had misused, and
tv etc extending, the royal prerogative.
The royal prerogative wa« power personal to
the King, and he could exert it by personal word
of month, and by personal written proclamation.
This personal royal prerogative did not re¬
quire the approval of Parliament.
The legislative branch of the Government had
noting to do with it
It w as power inherent and, inalienable it
the King , and it was exercised by him, solely.
To show you how indifferent the people are
about some things and how much they are alive as
to others, the English hardly took notice of the
establishment of that international Cancer, called
The Bank of England, err of Nell Gwyn’s wheed¬
ling her royal lover, Charles IT.., into granting to
the London goldsmiths the royal prerogative of
coining money.
But when the next Stuart King, James II..
attempted to reintroduce Popery , the people be¬
gan to ferment , and to riot, and to make speeches
about a forcible change of government.
If Mitchell Palmer had been James’ Attorney
General, Palmer would have ordered out the
troops and shot everybody.
Governor Sproul would have had his cavalry
galloping over crowds of unarmed men, of terri¬
fied women, and of crying children.
The Lord Mayor of London would have post¬
ed placards reading—
“No further meetings or speeches in this town,
until I say when.”
General Leonard Wood’s commands would
have been “ Ship , em, or shoot 'em!”
Cardinal Gibbons would have sat on the front
page of the Daily Toot-toot, shouting, “If they
don’t like our way of scrapping the Constitution,
and introducing Roman Catholic autocracy, let
them leave the country.”
Rut our English ancestors, many of whom
had seen the.- fires of Smithfield, and had seen
burn to ashes Christians whose only criminal act
was the possession of the Bible, or of attending
a secret Bible-Class, those Protestants were nor
to be fooled by Catholic professions of change of
heart: those Protestants knew that, always and
everywhere, Roman Catholicism is a deadly poi-.
son.
Where priests are in power, they, and they
only, are sleek, red-lipped, bull-necked, and big¬
gest around the abdominal regions.
Consequenly, those Protestants were deter¬
mined to change their Government “by force an.)
violence.”
IIow else were they to da it?
Could they send a committee of the Better
Do you remember how, during Grover
Cleveland’s Administration, the farmers of Texas
asked the Government for a few thousand dol¬
lars, to buy cotton seed, in a section of the im¬
mense State where the drought had literally de¬
stroyed the crops?
Congress parsed the bill, but President Cleve¬
land vetoed it, and it could not be passed over the
veto.
Professor John Fislce in one of his fine books,
praised Mr. Cleveland for his courage, “backbone”
and so forth, in refusing to relieve the providential
calamity which had fallen upon the farmers of
Texas.
President Cleveland objected to the bill as
unconstitutional, and his objection was sound law.
Our forefathers did not fight a war of seven
years and create a Government to hand out eats
and drinks and seed corn and cotton seed and
canned soup to all the effete Kingdoms of the old
World.
While Woodrow Wilson’s ancestors and Hoo¬
ver’s—rf he ever had any—were doing their
d—dest to prevent our forefathers from tearing
loose from our step-mother, and setting up a Gov¬
ernment whieh wouldn’t send American horses to
England to be shod, those law-breaking ancestors
©f ours were building an asylum for themselves,
and for the future accommodation of Mitchell
Palmer, Albert Sidney Burleson, Emma Goldman,
T. E. Watson and Sam Wilkes.
Unfortunately, Palmer got the drop on Em¬
ma, and he sent her to Russia—where she would
have gone, years ago, if the same fool employee of
Uncle Sam had loaned her a ship for the voyage.
If Palmer takes a notion to deport me and
Sam Wilkes, I hope he will send a nice dean ship
after »fk—no cooties for me and Sam!—and take
us to from we can finance oar own
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Class of People to the White Hall, where King
James resided, and respectfully request him to
resign?
That procedure would not have had the de¬
sired effect; because His Majesty could have re¬
retired to a secluded apartment, in his Whitehall,
and he could have closed the doors on the human
race.
By royal proclamation, he might have, made
it a felony for any disquieted Englishman to ask
about the royal health.
However, King James never once thought of
letting the Government run along by itself.
His doctor was not so full of resources as
Admiral Grayson is; and, of course, poor King
-Tames’ Jesuit confessor. Petre, was no match for
Tumulty.
Rung James tampered with freedom of press,
fredeom of speech, and with freedom of action in
Parliament, and in the Judiciary.
It was enough!
English wrath boiled over; the King’s friends
fell away; his soldiers refused to serve him. in the
overturn of blood-bought, well-established liber¬
ties: EVEN HTS CHILDREN FORSOOK HIM !
A foreign army from Holland—whose virtual
King had married King Jame’s daughter-—came
into England; James could not raise an English
army to fight for him and the Pope; he fled into
Ireland where the priests raised an Irish army to
fight for the Pope.
(It was an English Pope who had sold the
Irish to an English King.)
This army of Irish Catholics was defeated
at the Battle of the Boyne.
King James whipped by his son-in-law!
Although his indomitable son-in-law had al¬
most worn out the French, in the frequent beat¬
ings they had had to administer to him, he perse¬
vered, and at last, found in his father-in-law, a
general whom lie could beat.
King James ran away from the battle-field
shortly before his improvised army did.
Even an Irish Catholic wouldn’t fight for a
cowardly Catholic King.
A mass-meeting of the great Whig-Protestanc
landowners and nobility was held, hr/ spontaneous
action of themselves, and this peaceable assem¬
blage of the people voted the crown off the head of
James Stuart and voted it on to the. head of Wil¬
liam of Orange and his wife, Mary.
The ex-King James had fled into France, to
the immenes relief of everybody in England.
This historic episode is called “The Revolu¬
tion of 1688,” and the meaning of it was supposed
to he, the birthright of the People to change their
Government, when they had become dissatisfied
with it.
These Stuart Catholic Kings, had revived
ancient taxes without the consent of the Parlia¬
ment—feuch as forced loans, which they did not
A FEW EDITORIAL SHORT STOPS
wav to see and kiss the Pope, and ease along to
Paris, where so much happened that wasn’t in the
least expected.
Instead of Woodrow Wilson emerging as the
Emperor of the Universe, the honor falls to a
Frenchman, named Bourgeois—and the heart of
the world is about to break.
Yes, President Cleveland said that it was un¬
constitutional to re-seed the famine struck region
of Texas: it is also against the law to re-feed the
starving folks in America, and to furnish at least
one good Square meal a day, to the underfed school
children of the American towns and cities; but if
any man in Europe puts his hands on his stomach,
and makes signs that it is empty, you can see
Congress send Hoover, in a rush, with a full
dinner pail and a hot cup of coffee.
But I don’t see Congress sending full dinner
buckets to the million underfed school-children
of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Dr. John IT. Girdner of New York was one
of the Garfield surgeons, and he told me that t
was with the utmost difficulty that they could
prevail upon the Government to pay their moder¬
ate bills.
But he laughed at the eagerness with which
Congress rushed the McKinley doctors their mon¬
umental fees.
When President Wilson recovers on the first
of April, as Admiral Grayson says he will—and
which I humanly and sincerely hope he will—I
want to see who laughs when these Wilson ex¬
pert medical men send in their accounts.
We had better not lend any more millions to
Europe, until we learn how much the nerve
specialists, and the glandular specialists, and the
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Harlem, Ga., Monday, February 9, 1920.
have the sense to call Liberty Bonds.
In those days, the Kings did not have much
money: Parliament was afraid to let them have
much, because they knew that the King would hire
soldiers with it, and thus overawe the people with
a standing army.
Conscription was not to be thought of!
That question had been sbttcj® forever in
thts Gkmt Charter.
(So they all thought.)
There had been a Feudal tax, called Ship Mon¬
ey, levied in cases where it was believed that the
Kingdom was about to be invaded by the Danes
or other oversea marauders.
One of the Stuart Kings, Charles I„ “visual¬
ised” an imminent danger from another invasion
of Danes, Germans, Bolshevflri, and Emma Gold
mans.
Consequently, he levied “Ship Money,” without
asking Parliament to assist him m robbing his
people.
A middle-class Englishman, John Hampden,
was assessed IS shillings, as I remember the
amount, and refused to pas/ it.
He was rich and the money was nothing to
him; hut he knew that diaries Stuart was wrong;
and that, if the King could, by personal royal pre¬
rogative , tax him 15 shillings, his entire estate
would be at the mercy of the King.
“Parliament alone can levy taxes; and the
people a?{r in the Pabliament, by representation
of elected members!”
That was the, principle that John Hampden
stood on, fought for, and died for, in battle against
a tyranical usurper.
You have heard eloquent tributes to the mem¬
ories of Hampden, Russell, Sidney, Pym. Crom¬
well—you are under an Invisible President and
Very Visible Monopolists, losing what those he¬
roic souls strove to make yorrr political estate 1
How many New England children are now
taught the reason why their forefathers venerated
the Charter Oak!
at How many of the teachers knew, it? i
Are either of the Virginia Senators familiar
with George Mason's draft of the Bill of Rights!
They act, as if aU popular rights were dead.
They are voting away the treasure, the blood,
and the liberties of the people, in a way that never
could have been dreamed of by Dabney Carr, Pat¬
rick Henry, Edmund Randolph, George Wythe,
James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson,
George Mason, and George Washington.
By the, God that made us! If England must
reduce us to the rank of one of her colonies, give
hkr also the monuments we raised to our Rev¬
olutionary Fathers, so that, they will not re¬
main here to remind us of mac betrayal and de¬
gradation.
William and Mary went the way of all flesh,
THE AMERICAN LEGION OF OEFICERS.
In Hearst's Sunday American (Atlanta) is
published s carefully written statement of the ob¬
jects of tlie American Legion.
The author is Basil Stockbridge, and I notice
that D. J. Meyerhardt’s prefatory notice of the
Stockbridge article does not refer to him as ser¬
geant, corporal, lieutenant, captain, major, colonel,
or general.
To Meyerhardt, Basil Stockbridge is nothing
more then plain Basil.
I can‘t help but see that all five commanders,
bosses*, snlutees, and grand high strutters, are
called by their given names, without any indica¬
tion of military rank.
Even Asa W. Candler is plain Asa.
Walter Harris of Macon isn’t even honored
with the “esq.”: he has shrunk to the dimensions
of simple Watt.
Ilamp McWhorter’s son is listed as Robert—
just Robert, as who would say, John Smith.
Poor Savannah! She nearly always rolls up
in the rear: she has dropped to the sad fate of
being represented in the Legion by one Sam Cann.
(Who and what are you, Sam Gann?)
Col. Basil Stockbridge - s exposition of Why
the Legion, is pleasant literature.
It is redolent of all the premature wisdom
that college-boys exhibit on the Saturdays when
they debate.. still school-boys,
On Friday, they were each
fondly believing he would become “the coming
man”: on Saturday, in the debating society, he
was that man, and he severely overruled some or
the best decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall,
and denounced somo of the best policies of Greece
and Rome.
As I perused the self-conscious Wise Essay
of the young Major Stockbridge, I thought of the
Phi Delta Hall, at Mercer, wheae I used to hear
issued Weekly
William being the survivor.
From him the Crown went to Queen Anne,
the other daughter of James II.
Parliament had vested the inheritance (Anno
being childless) in the bodily heirs of a German.
Princess (Sophia of Hanover) -they being Prot¬
estants.”
Any future Parliament will have the power
to change the sucoes.tion, and to omit the words
“being Protestants.”
As an Editor, Arthur Brisbane declares that
none hut a Protestant can ever be a King, or ■»
Queen of Great Britain.
As a lawyer, I tell him that he's in error.
A few years ago. the Catholics had a tadfigsl
advantage in Parliament, and they used it, to com
pel a radical change in the King's Oath of Office.
In a few more years, they will have strength
enough to erase the words, ‘dicing Protestants,”
front, the Act of Settlement.
It is fundamental English law, that, no Par¬
liament can make, a statute that a succeeding Pax*
liameot can not repeal.
Otherwise, the English Code would still be as
bloody as it was in the time of George ILL, when
it was a capital crime to forge an imitation of
the stamp whieh covered the cork on the top of a
bottle of potent medicine.
The Acts of Parliament had to endure a whole
lot of battering and scalping, before a Southern
girl could stand in her place, in Parliament, and
officially talk hack at her King.
Of course you will understand me to mean Chat
the “Act of Settlement,” which gave the Crown
to the Germans, is an act of Parliament, estab¬
lishing the precedent that a future Parliament
can thrust the Germans out.
At the time our 100 per cent fools refused to
buy Christinas goods “made in Germany,” I began
to suspect that the 100 per cent idiots, in Eng¬
land, would call for the repeal of the act of Par¬
liament which imported those German Guelphs, or
Woffe.
The Eleefcress Sophia did not live to become
Queen; AVnl but dSbeie her probably son George v4jC*no did.
‘ more of a duff
brute of a German that ever came out of Hanover.
He caused his wife’s lover to be murdered in
the palace, and buried in the brick flooring; and
for more than 100 years nobody but Goorge,
and George’s wife, and George’s mistresses, and
George's assassins, knew wheat had become of. the
handsome, dashing young Count Konigsmarck.
This first of the English Engs, “made k
Germany,” shut up his beautiful wife, in a dismal
castle, and he kept her imprisoned all the rcstiof
her life — some 30 -odd years.
This brutal German never even tried to lean
English, and spent much of his time in Germany,
leaving his royal powers in the hands of a Regain
cy, but taking his ugly concubines back and forth,
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the proformdest problems solved in the most saga¬
cious manner by the boys—I plead guilty of being
no better than the others.
Let me quote enough of Captain Stockhridgefs
article to give you a fair view of its statesmanlj
character:
The creed of the Legion, as set
forth in the preamble of its constitu¬
tion, contains a succinct statement of
American principles and is repeated here
for the information of everybody:
For God and country we associate
ourselves together for the following pur
poses: defend
1. To uphold and the Con¬
stitution of the United States.
2. To maintain law and order.
3. To foster and perpetuate a thor¬
oughgoing and undivided spirit of loyaiiy
t to American traditions, American Insti¬
tutions, American principles and Ameri¬
can form of government
4. To preserve the memories, inci¬
dents and associations growing out of
the participation of its members anil their
comrades in the great war against the
Central Empires of Europe.
5. To inculcate a solemn sense of in¬
dividual obligation and devotion on the
part of its members to the highest and
best interests of the community, the State
and the nation.
6. To combat the autocracy of either
the classes or the masses and to discourage
all tendency toward class animosity.
7. To make right the master of
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