Milford chronicle., 1935-10-04

tax on income. A seventeenth was
adopted, taking the right to elect
Senators from the Legislators and
giving it directly to the people. The
Prohibition Amendment was ratified
in 1919. followed in 1920 by Woman
Suffrage. The Lame Duck" Amend
ment was adopted in 1882. The last
adopted in 1884 repealed the 18th.
While the Constitution was intend
ed to give people the right to gov
ern themselves, it was not intended
10 give the party which happened to
be in the majority in any year the
right to do as It wished. Oftentimes,
dissimulators step forth when the
hearts Of men are heavy and cry
Change the Constitution" These OBJ
jectiOns are usually stabilized by
greed on the part of the cryers be-
cause the Constitution prohibits the
passing of a law which they favor,
and in turn. which would favor
them.
AS William Howard Taft said in
a veto message to the House of Rep
resentatives, August %, 1911, Con
stitutions are the checks upon the
hasty actions of the majority"
Our nation las been passing
through a turmoil period for the
last six years. Our financial system
has become entangled. causing a tie
up of industry and labor. Factories
and mills are closed, men are unem-
ployed. The unfortunate ones
hearts grow heavy and they look to-
ward their leaders for aid, but often
times they are disappointed. Thus, !
weakened in spirit, when the cry Of ]
Change the Constitution" reaches
their ears they become momentarily |
insane, forgetting that the great doc
ument which some seek to change.
has carried their fOrefathers through
as great as their own.
They forget that this depression, the
cause of their misfortunes, is not
fault of the constitution, but due to
a weakness of their own. They for
get it cannot be a government "of
the people, by the people, and for the
people" if each works separately and
for himself.
We, young America, have not yet
this turmoil directly, al
though we have been affected indi-
rectly through the financial circum-
stances Of our parents. Many of us,
who a few years ago thought we
would be able to complete our High
School Education and make immed-
late entries into college in order to
better equip ourselves to be the
leading men and women of tomor-
row, must pause for a year or two
before our ambitions can be carried
out 1t is hard for vigorous youth to
wait, but we, Young America, whose
minds are fresh with memories of
the efficient services rendered by our
during its one hundred
snd forty-six years of existence, are
not going to stubbornly place the
blame of our misfortunes on our
knowing as we do that
they are due to the weakness of the
wills of men. We stand and with
pleading voices beg of our parents
and of the men of the world to be
prudent. We ask them to turn back
heir gaze to the struggles of our
'orefathers in '76, to the ratification
II our Constitution in 81; think of
he IS weak states then, and now Of
he As states constituting this great
nation; think of the struggle from
IN unrecognized nation in 1776 to
he greatest nation of the world in
1885. During all this time, what has
,een our foundation? What has been
'ur guide? The answer is our Con-
titution.
As President Roosevelt said in his
inaugural address in 1888, 1T has
net every stress Of vast territory, Of
oreign war, Of bitter internal strife,
f world relation.
What more could it have done2" ]
President Calvin Coolidge said, ,
7hile addressing the Evanston, Ill (
lois, Sunday Afternoon Club, I'VE {
ave come TO our present high es- /
ate through toll and suffering and /