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Minorities, you must remember, have no rights that ma* jo'rities are bound to respect, excepting only those provided by the Constitution. For which reason, Mr. American Sovereign, stick to that Constitution as the drowning man sticks to that proverbial straw. And glare with deep suspicion upon the intentions of any man who wants to either meddle with it. o,r make it "elastic." It doesn't require the brain of a Shakespeare to realize the doubtful value of an "elastic" rule for measuring ourrights and liberties.

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The true statesman labors to make all men equal before the law. Thepatriot puts justice forALL the people above the claims of any clique or cliques, whether they be majorities or minorities. The belief of the average employer thatthe present labor law throws them into the hands of a "kangaroo court" has cost milliours of jobs in this country in the past two years. And I mean millions ! **r&

Dark and drear, indeed, must belife's pilgrimage, to those who see in heaven no star of hope. The first religion was probably born in the heart of sorne ancient mother who knelt at the deathbed of her first born, and from that great yearning of her loving heart to meet that child again, sprang the first belief in immortality. Even the great doubter, Ingersoll, declared-in uttering the most eloquent funeral oration that ever fell from human lips,that in thehour of death "Love hears the rustle of a wing." The God-idea has been the chief underlying principle of civilization from John Stonehatchet until today. Crude it may be, but essential just the same. To many men religion is an absolute essential, without which their lives would be torture and gloom. What boots it that man be born and that women bring forth offspring in pain unspeakable, if only to eventually glut the highways of death?

In their efforts to stamp the God-idea into the dust, such men as Hitler and Stalin furnish full-fledged the weapons which will eventually bring about their own destruction.

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We debate excitedly about the wisdom of political leaders, forgetting for the moment how accidental most of them are. The average politician in high place is usually simply theresult of compromises effected by warring political gangs, and not an act of providence.

I knew a man who was a fanatical believer in fundamentalism. IIe contended strenuously that every word in the Bible was put there by the hand of God, and that every "i" was dotted and every "t" was crossed by that selfsame Power. One day I showed him the Twelfth Chapter of Numbers, where Moses married a coilored woman, and where the Lord sent terrible punishment upon his sister Miriam because she tried to draw the "color line" on her new sister-in-law. The Southern blood ofmy friend forced him to decide that some of the stonies must be allegories.

Harry Hopkins ,., ". ;;,.",,, ",, men know, utterly unfit to be Secretary of Commerce. But when the Senate Cornmittee had him squirming in his chair the other day, asking pointed questions about WPA in politics, my sympathy was with Hopkins. Last spring the Senate, under the Administration whip, refused to make it illegal to mix relief with politics. Then why attack a man for doing something they had by their own votes indorsed? Why not be direct and charge that by reason of hislack of experience, ability and sympathy with business, he was unfit to hold the Cabinet Job?

A cynic once remarn"i al"a'*,, you live in a country ruled bya committee, get on the committee. In Russia they have disproved the wisdom of that suggestion. Over there they kill most of the Committeemen.