The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-02

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iu,asIous aud protect lho frontier
ffom hostile lurnfsiou hs Indians OF
other predatory band. The ranger
force Is NOT part ~ the militia.
There are rules and regulations by
which the militia Is governed there
are no rules and regulations FOR the
ranger force This latter body can
nullify the hill Of rights with the ut
most impunity. ns recent events testi-
.fy
\ ranger force operating in an or
eauized county contrayeues the gem
us OF free Institutions. Carried to It's
Legitimate end. It would mean the
horrors of Kischneff repeated here IN
a land dedicated to freedom
Governor Campbell Is violating
every principle of what is called An
glo4Sax freedom. At Ruunymede
in the beginning Of the thirteenth
century king OF England signed
away the ancient fiction of the divine
right Of kings and now, after the
lapse of centuries, it i'll becomes a
governor of Texas to undertake its
revival. Here is one OF King Johns
promises: no freeman shall be TAX
en- or imprisoned, or disseised, or
outlawed, or banished, or any ways
destroyed, nor viii We tJohn, King
| of England send upon him, unless
( by the lawful judgment or his peers,
or by he laIlf the land Gayer--1-pr
--''''.rr1 UT,T r U1ing what the king of
England dare not do.
Again, John, King of England,
made this promise: 'As soon as
peace is restored. we will send out
/ of the kingdom all foreign knights,
cross-bowmen and stipendiaries
who are come with horses and arms
to the molestation of our people 80
The invasion Of an organized coun-
ity by q ranger force is in essence the
same as those foreign knights
(which Old John had to send away.
The bill of rights which the Eng
Iish people proclaimed Ia the seven
teenth century made Of that country
as avs Samuel Gardiner practically
republic" BY reason Of the bin
OF rights, as says Green, the histor-
ian, AN English monarch is as much
the creature Of an act Of parliament
as the petHest taX-gatherer in his
realm" The bill Of rights, by its
own terms, Is "for the vindicating
and asserting their Che people's) an
cieut rights and liberties, and here
Is one of its express declarations
THAT the pretended power Of sus-
pending of laws or the execution OF
laws, by legal authority, without CON
sent Of parliament, is illegal
Has Governor Campbell legislative
warrant for his practices? If so, It
Is up to the people to choose a leeis-
lature that will have more regard for
their ancient rights and liberties. -
Among the things charged against
King George in the American Dec
laration OF Independence were the
/ following
"He has kept among us, In times
Of peace, standing armies without
the consent Of our legislature
"Hc has affected to render the
military ndepedeut of and superior
to the civil power.
A standing army has It's limita-
tons state police pursues accord
ing to its own sweet viii and pleas
ure
The constitution OF the United
States. as IT at first was drawn, did
not contain a bill of rights. Mr., JEFF
ferson was not satisfied with the
document as it stood, and he set in
motion the movement that resulted
in the first eleven amendments, one
of which says that "the right Of the
people to be secure in their persons
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