The American (Randlett, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1922 Page: 3 of 4
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"Sovereignty of Our State Rights"
(Continued From First Page)
With the attack upon Fort Sumpter began the last and final struggle of State
soverignity against National soverignity There followed a four year war costing
millions of dollars and lives There was no middle course Either the national gov-
ernment was surpi'eme and soverign or each state was soverign power The states-
men of each faction thought they wsre right and many great and heroic men were
to be found on either side Which of them had the clearer conception of moral truth
in government is not a question for Americans today to quarrel about On that rainy
day at Appamatox when General Lee surrendered his sword to Grant State Soverign-
ity ceased forever to be an issue and the sovereignity of the nation was by force of
arms established With the return of the rebellions states to the union we became
not a confederation of soverign states but a NATION one and inseparable forever
As it exists today our governmental scheme if one of a nations partaking in
some respects of the nature of a confederation We have a constitution which excites
the admiration of such eminent economists as Sir James Br ice who says of it "It
ranks above every other written constitution) forthe intrinsic excellence of its scheme"
And in the Words of Gladstone "It is the greatest work ever stuck off at one time by
the mind and purpose of man" Our states have rights expressly denied to them Un-
der this constitution they have rights expressly deligated to them under this consti-
tution but soverignity they have not nor ever can have under the provisions of the
constitution of THE UNITED STATES
Soverignity as defined by modern English dictionaries means Supreme power
independence or dominion A soverign state owes no allegienee to any higher author-
ity on earth is subservient and coralliary to none No stats in the American union
his any right to assume this independence or dominion that alone is the right of the
national government What then can be the meaning of this clamoring for "The
soverignity of our states rights?" Either it is the babbling of an utter ignoramus or
it is an attempt to revive again an old issue which has once cost this nation a war
with its aftermath of hatred that has not aft er 60 years entirely died out
Can we the citizens of America afford to permit these old hatreds to be engen-
dered and renewed?
SPLINTERS
Sm the wort ee i
Assertion U 00 proof
Heroes art ever modest
Guilt fears Iti own shadow
East or west homo lo boat
Bo not ashamed of your craft
No war was ever started by Intel-
Ugeneo
' Truth Is always the strongest ar-
fcument ' Never bo In too big a hurry to bo
careful
More men die of Idleness than of
bard work
! Conceited people brag bat they sel-
dom gossip
1 One enjoys baby talk only when
baby does It
' When you say a thing Is Impossible
It Is for yon
"No legacy If so rich as honesty"
'-Shakespeare
Women can guana stralghter than
Van can reason
! Generally things that are free hart
n "trick ending"
i It's a wise man who doesn' repeat
his own wisdom
Cheerful liars are often an enduring
joy to the downcast
Labor worketh a harshness upon
sorrow— iMontalgao
Saint and sinner each think the
other must envy him
Power la powerless unless yon art
conscious ot your ability
' Don't blame the smoking lamp If
it suits the indolent owner
The fool wlU be wise and the laay
man Industrious— tomorrow
Tli man who can't work or won't
take advice la beyond help
The poorest diet In the world to
try to live on Is a reputation
That which Is kept In selfishness la
apt to turn sour In loneliness
It's all right to lovt yonr enemies
out don't slight your friends
The common friend of an engaged
couple has a hard row to hoe
Beyond the Alps lies Italy but hoe
the weeds In the backyard first
Matrimony would be all right If
the fools could be kept out of It
A wise look wont carry a fellow
through Ufa unless ho dies young
Which Is more essential pep or re-
pose T On can scarcely have both
Keep stiff upper Up and to bo
physically fit a straight backbone
There is one thing which still may
be borrowed without security— trouble
Flatter a woman and she will love
you pity her and she will hate you
Long Weir to Rubbers
Rubbers will wear -longer If a half-
Inch layer of tissue paper Is crashed
Into the heeL The paper will form n
cushion for the hard heel of the shoo
and lessen the wear on the rubbers
i Steam Lamp Chimneys
Lamp chimneys can bo quickly
cleaned by holding the hand over one
end and putting the other end over the
spout of a simmering kettle Bub at
once with tissue paper
Like Bread In Long Loaves
The largest lonves of bread In the
world sre those baked In Franco and
Italy They are often as much as six
feet In length
One Explanation
A magazine writer aaya nearly all
great men are silent That may be
the way they got their reputations—
Exchange
Carbon Plates Warm Bath Water
Featured by three carbon plate elec-
trodes an electric heater has been In-
vented for warming the water In a
bath tub
Typloal of the Fool
The condition and characteristic of
a fool Is this— he never expects from
himself profit nor harm but from ex-
ternals— Eplcteths
Peary's First Venture
Peary's first North polar expedition
lasted four years 1888-1902 during
which period he failed to get nearer
than 848 miles to the pole
Good Definition of Wisdom
Wisdom Is that attribute of man
through which every action of a man
receives Its Ideal value and Import—
Schllermacher
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Shirley, Jerry M. The American (Randlett, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1922, newspaper, October 6, 1922; Randlett, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1767108/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.