, 1922-02-02
%DENATURED AMERICANS.

DENATURED AMERICANS.
Hudson Maxim, the great inventor and wei known
patriotic Amerlcan, Is accustomed to speaking PLAINLY
tne things That come into ms mind. ms ina4gnauon
over pronioItlon's INVASION OF the nome and us tram
ping upon DAD established principles BREAKS forth In
LEis 1asnion:
OF American INDEPENDENCE, when george washington
gave some pracncai aaylee to GENERAL Draddock, mat
pomPods olncer repned: 'nlgn times, hIgn times, when
a young 6ucAsAIn can teacn a BRUSH general now to
ngnt!
The Americans of that day were pioneers of a
new civlii2ation-a CIVILIZATION In wmcn manhood
sneuid hold a hign place anu the puppet OF privilege
De eliminated.
.Inose old leathersides lived close up to nature.
Their mouse was the great outdoor, walled by the Tor
est and rooted by the sky. They wore buckskin
clothes, a DIRK knife and a gun. They drank a brew to
one another's health that would make the home-nootch
OF today seem like soda water, and yet their great
drafts OF 1t, taken with deep drafts of sunlight and
open AIR, merely helped to soften and timber up the
gram soul under the marry breast as they cianked their
giasses and pledged a larger brotherhood.
in their batting with the red indian the American
pioneers learned the science of warfare as it had new
er been learned before-every man for himself, fight
ing from cover to cover, from rock and bush and tree.
SraddocA's defeat was a lesson to the whole world IN
the military science of the young Buckskin, and even
Inc great Napoleon pronted by 1t. Modern trench
warfare is n variant of American pioneer and redskin
tactics.
'Ihe strong arm az Ssrt brain that shielded the
home nom tne red savage; the arm and brain that
1eiied tie forest and raised the rafters of the home,
we're the same arm and brain that framed the pronun-
ciamento of freedom, the Declaration of lndepend-
ence, and that architrave of liberty, the Constitution
of the United States; and the same. arm 1t was, guided
by the same brain, that raised the glass to the lips that
said Give me liberty or give me deathP and drank the
pledge OF American union against oppression
1.-The liberty to which they drank was the sort they
learned in their closeup association with nature and
with natures noblemen. 1t was individual liberty to
the full, and a liberty that did not interfere with the
exercise of equal liberty by others. Their home was
their castle, ard was inviolable.
$50 it was that, in their primal code of laws, they
recognized the home as sacred and shielded it against
violation. This code of laws shielded the individual
everywhere and at all times, against search or seizure
of personal property, so long as no act of his should
aim harm at others or infract their freedom.
But those are bygone days, and those are bygone
laws. The personal freedom for winch they stood, for
which they fought, for which they bled and died, is
row bygone; and the denatured descendant of ma
lures American nobleman now stands meekly by, with
no expression but a whimper, while he is held up on
the highway and his vehicle and baggage and the per-
sons of himself, his wife and daughter, are ruthlessly
searched for a secreted flask of alcoholic liquor. II
the flask be found, his automobile is confiscated, and
he and his family are led to Jail, and heavily fined OF
imprisoned, or both, even though the flask may have
been carried from large necessity for medicinal use
"'The d~enatured descendants Of a Daniel Boone, an
Ethan Alien, an Israel Putnam, a Patrick Henry, now
sees his home entered without a warrant, and on the
merest suspicion searched and ransacked, from cellar
to garnet, by some contemplate weasel of prohibi
ton. With all the manhood lost out of the denatured
soul of his race, the modern householder merely
NblicS dHu ibd Will hAioc ANU tIiC ~
Gle himself with free institutions, and to justify as
divine right of law, such a damnable infraction of per
sonal liberty when even to reason about such viola
ton, under such shameful circumstances, with any
countenance toward justification, is a dpeth of shame
md dishonor which could find harbor only in the mind
of a cringing, contemplate cur, unworthy the name
Of American in the old undenatured sense.
History repeats itself. In Europe, especially ii
France, before the French revolution, the common
people had for centuries been subjected to the most
debasing oppression. They had no rights whatever
v,,,.t. of aristocratic blood was hound fr
respect.
"The home of the Woodworking farmer or humble
artisan was frequently entered, the women of the
household, mother and daughters, were seized, violated
and dishonored by feather-head cavaliers out on
spree, merely to divert their jaded minds by new ad
ventures. Father and big brother stood meekly by
whimperng to themselves their cogitations, trying tt
justify the damnable transaction with divine rights OF
some sort, just as the father and big brother now stant
meekly by and whimper while their home is being VIC
lated by some accursed representative of the down-to
date aristocracy of prohibition.
80 denatured Americans, awakeni Break from tn,
thraldon that is fast smothering the last spark of man
hood in your souls. Raise a new battle cry of free
dom-personal liberty, inviolabiity of the home, ant
patriotism one and inseparablel"