The northwestern bulletin., 1923-11-10
Timely Topics

The United States Is a Republic.
not pure Democracy or Autocracy.
Autocracy is a state wherein absolute
unlimited power is in one person.
The pure democracy is a state in
which the people exercise the powers
Of sovereignty. directly.
A Republic is a state in which the
exercise of the sovereign power is
lodged in representatives, elected by
the people.
The American people made the
Federal Constitution and this Re-
public with their votes, whether we
agree with the Constitution, criticise
1t or are ignorant OF 1t, 1t Is still in
force. Broadly speaking, 1t is writ
ten around one principle. the securi-
ty of many's individual rights. While
the people are the source of sover-
eighty, they have conferred the ex-
ercise of all powers of government
upon the President, the Congress and
the Judiciary ttheir representatives)
This form of government was plan
ned by delegates, fifty-two in all, ap-
pointed by the people and assembled
for the purpose, in the year 1887,
Washington. Franklin, Hamilton,
James Wilson and George Morris be-
ing among them. The Constitution
was then adopted by a vote of the
people, and it has been in force near
ly century and a third. During this
time the individual, being secure in
his rights. has progressed material
things that make life easier, in dis
covery aud invention, beyond parallel
in history. Perhaps made greater
progress than in all previous time.
We have advanced from the candle
to the electric light, from an OK team
to a train of cars, from the needle
and thimble to the sewing machine,
from the village shop to the great
manufacturing plant, from the mail
carrier on horseback to the night let
ter. the telephone and the wireless.
We have conquered the air and the
bottom of the sea. We have gone
far in conquering disease. And equal
or greater progress has been made in
many other directions. In the pres
ence of the evils, the misunderstand-
ings and great unrest of the present
hour, when the ship of state is being
rocked, the American people should
turn to the Constitution and study it
as never before, because 1t has
worked well for humanity and IL
rightly followed will continue to
work well.
1t should be framed and hung in
every school. college, church, lodge
room, shop, factory and public place
in the land. Not only that, but it
should be taught in every school, COL
lege, church, shop, factory and lodge
room in the land, until our people
know 1t as the Revolutionary Fathers
knew it. The justice and equity of
its principles and plan safeguard the
present and the future. 1t is based
on the doctrine expounded by the
sotics of equity for the slave, as well
as for the Master, written into the
Roman law of old, into Magma Charta
and into the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Equity for all, is and will
be the governing force of the world.
We respectfully dedicate this
decalogue to the X. X. KS, the So
cialists, Communists, I. w. WIS, the
radicals, with crimson vision, and all
those who are either ignorant of the
provisions and amendments to the
Constitution or are Indifferent to the
sacredness of the document and its
enforcement with the hope that a
better and safer feeling or rights and
duties toward all citizens may ensue,
regardless Of nationality, creed, color
or previous condition of servitude.