Milford chronicle., 1919-08-15
DEMAND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

That the people should emphaticay demand the rights
reserved to them under the Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution is declaration made by the Republican
Publicity Association in given through its
president Hon. Jonathan Bourne. Jr. follows:
"The Tenth Amendment the Constitution reads as
follows: The powers delegated the United States
by the Constitution, prohibited by it the States
reserved to the States respectively, the people
"The Constitution would have been adopted by
the States there had been understanding that it
to be amended The first session of the First
Congress proposed the amendements to States
and they speedily adopted. Like the
they all dealt directly with the liberties of the peo
pie to preserve which the Revolution had been fought
and concerning which the fathers of the country
most jealous The Tenth Amendment reserves specifca
y to the people all the powers specifically granted
the Federal Government specifically prohibited the
States
This amendment special significance at the present
time. proposal is now before the United States Senate
that the American people shall preserve the territorial
boundaries of fortyfve foreign nations, big and little;
that they shall bind themselves refuse
nations body of foreigners called a council, may
designate; that they shall submit themselves to the die
ation of body of world representatives, called an as
sembly in which delegates from such Liberia
Panama and Cuba nations created by the United States
shall have equal with America that they shall
surrender their Monroe Doctrine, which hundred
has preserved Hemisphere from Euro
immigration from such other and such num-
bers the aforesaid foreign council assembly may
dictate; that they shall conform their laws to the
decisions of the bodies regardless of their effect
upon American industries with only for the
welfare of the world; that their coastwise traffic. in
short every question of domestic nature shall
mtted regulation by the alien tribunals that
they shall surrender their liberties in score of other
directions utterly obnoxious to their Constitution and
traditions
If there time in the history Of the country
when the people should be given the benefit of the
vations contained in the Tenth Amendment it is
That section inserted the Constitution as resort
for the people in Just emergencies
today, although the trainers of that instrument never
conceived in their widest flights of fancy that
blanket surrender of national rights would present
ed to the nation appears in the league
covenant The Constitution would have receiyed
the approval Of the legislatures Of the had
guarded against limitations upon their liberties in add
tion those contained in the Constitution itself
yet the President insists that the covenant shall be
approved and its obligations imposed upon citizens
without the slightest opportunity being them to
press themselves by ballot Their lives and wealth are
to be mortgaged in favor the integrity of
foreign states of which Of them heard for
which Of them anything. 1t time for every
American who takes pride in the to up de-
mand that the projections guaranteed him the eountry
Constitution shall be observed"