Milford chronicle., 1935-10-04

erican citizens. but they also placed
ON them their responsibilities. The
millions of our citizens who refuse
10 participate in the government,
thereby abdicate their inherited
throne and place over the graves of
our national heroes a mantle of in
difference.
If sovereignty rests in the people,
q part of the responsibility of rul-
ing devOlves on each citizen. Our
Constitution means such responsible
ity in American life today, perhaps
more than ever before.
The paramount duty of every Am
crican citizen is 10 put in requisitiOn
every possible means for elevating
universally the intellectual and NOR
al character of our people. The in
tellectual stories of the English Ian
guage are open before every citizen.
in which he may find all the know
ledge that he will ever need to form
his opinions upon any subjects, on
which it will be his duty to decide.
A man who cannot read, is a being
not contemplated by the genius of
cur Constitution. Where the right OF
suffrage is extended to all, he is GER
tainly a dangerous member of the
community who has not qualified
himself to exercise it,
Untold millions would rejoice to
share the blessings of the Bill of
Rights, to hold alOft the banner of
and religious liberty, to en-
joy with us equality under the law.
and to share the responsibilities of
q sovereign people. These are our
rights; these are our duties.
We have been made to see just re-
Gently the mistakes of the New Deal.
Many have tried to misinterpret the
Ambition has assailed
it and faction has tried to destroy its
vital parts. But all to no avail. Gov
by subterfuge is dead and
the Constitution lives again. The
President cannot make the laws of
the land. Industrial and trade groups
cannot make the laws. Bureau chiefs
and executive officials cannot make
the laws. Congress alone can make
the laws and only in conformity with
the Federal power as written in the
Whatever we do for our
must be done for the people.
So long as our people remain vir-
iuous and intelligent, our govern
menG will remain stable. While they
clearly perceive and honestly decree
Justice, our laws will be wholesome,
and the principles of our Constitu-
ffnr1 Nrrfl1 nd fhnV,agnIvrns, I
erywhere to the common sense of
man. But should they become ignor-
ant and vicious, or should their de-
cisiOns become tho dictates of desire
and venality, rather than of reason
and of right, that very moment are
our glorious liberties at an end.
We should love our American sys-
.em of social economy which opens
10 all alike the lottery of this life;
Is hich. permits any one, however
poor, to become rich and invites any
1ne, however, humble to aspire to a
evel with the highest of his fellow
1t has ever been the pride and
coast of America that the rights for
which she contended were the rights
,f human nature.
Let us ever remember that we live
lnder a form of government, and in
state of society to which the world
las never yet exhibited a parallel.
This lovely land, this glorious lib
rty, dear purchase of our fathers,
re ours-ours 20 enjoy-Ours to
reserve-ouTs to transmit" Let us
eel sincerely how much of what we
re, and what we possess, we owe to
his liberty and these institutions of
overnment.
Let us, then, acknowledge the
lessing; let us cherish a strong af-
sction for it, and resolve to main
hin and perpetuate it ever.
The blood of our fOrefathers-let
not have been shed in vain; the
reat hone of our posterity-let it
OF be blasted. Long live the Con-
tuition.
reat were the hearts.
And strong the minds,
+ those who formed. in high debate,
The immortal league of love,
hat binds our fair. broad Empire,
State with State. =