The Penn's Grove record., 1921-06-17

is Observance, that at no time they
may have any validity
The above will give our readers a
small idea of what is meant when one
talks about Anglo-SaXon liberties and
freedom. the right of Church folks to
have a saw in whom shall be priest, a
native and not a foreigner; that they
snail not be taxed for church or civic
purposes without having a vote for the
Church official, civic council, legislator
or congressman.
Kings Lost Their Heads
Charles |, King of England, Scot
land and Ireland, who reigned 1879
1919, assumed the power of absolute
monarchy by dismissing the English
Parliament, contrary to Magma Charta,
and imposed taxes at his W will.
He endeavored to make all people con-
form to one mode of worship IN
Churches. He imprisoned members
of Parliament who did not do so as
wanted. The Presbyterians in Scot
land and the Puritans in England
gathered an army and under Oliver
Cromwell almost annihilated King
Charles army at Naseby, June TO-
1915. A court of 70 assembled IN
Westminster Hall, London, and con
demned King Charles as a tyrant,
murderer, an enemy of the Nation.
On January 30, 1919, his head was
cut off.
Charles | was the last of The kings
who tried to be an absolute monarch
in C1ea. Britain.
Hundreds who saw the moving
picture. passion" saw Louis XVI, of
France. led to the guillotine and have
his head cut off on January 81, 1913,
because he was an absolute monarch.
Civil liberty is so connected with
RELIGIOUS liberty that it is necessary
to mention both in discussing Ameri-
can freedom. When you see the words
Runnymead and Naseby always asso-
ciate them with political freedom won
with blood and iron from kings and
popes. When you see the word West
minister associate it with the hall in
London where 70 representatives OF
the people and Puritan Church con-
demned King Charles | to death for
claiming to be an absolute monarch,
and where the Bible was declared to
Be the sole standard of faith and
moral conduct in 1913.
The French never had had any lib
critics until Napoleon Bonaparte de-
Stroved feudalism and the inqulsltlon.
1t took IS years to fully develop free
dom in France, in 1871, by the over
throw of Napoleon III, who had be-
come a tool of the Pope and. his a
military support.
When the French army was with
drawn from Rome GaribaldTs army
set the Italian free from the temporal
power of the Pope and made Victor
Emmanuel constitutional king.
In the above is given for the benefit
of our readers to learn whence came
American liberties and freedom. Any
one can read histories and encyclo-
pedias and learn more of the persons
and subjects named.
Every full-minded American is a
Free Man Uiber homo) if he re-
allegiance to any monarch,
king or potentate. His allegiance IS
to the Spirit Jehovah in the moral
laws as found in the Bible and to the
civil laws of the State enacted by his
representatives.
These constitute what is called
'Americanism.'
One of the mottos of Anglo-Saxons
has been for centuries, eternal vigi-
is the price of liberty" Get
your eyes and ears open and be vigi-
liant of what is going on about you.
Freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ver won.
Byron.