The Winkest Link

If you haven’t already please read the Prelude, Part 1, and Part 2.

The Sage Hen
Evangeline S. McAllister
July 2, 1936 (Part 3 of 3)
(from The Minatare Free Press)

If the “one hundred percenters” would only get the old United States history down and look in the back of the book they would see written in the Constitution that “the rights of no citizen shall be abridged because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” … that no religious test shall be required of them. How do they reconcile their “Americanism” with that of the framers of the constitution?
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It seems odd, but if you talk to one hundred men and women … take them as they come, Methodists, Baptists, Democrats, Republicans, farmers and sugar tramps … ninety-five out of the hundred will be strong for the rights of free speech, free assembly, and free worship, so long as they apply to them and theirs – but will be utterly astounded when you suggest that they should also apply to their neighbor who goes to the other church, or votes the other ticket. Five out of the hundred will still admit that, to be of much value, the bill of rights must apply to all citizens. But four of them will waver when it comes to an actual showdown in which there is a balance of two cents coming to the other fellow … Yet united we stand, divided we fall applies as surely to American citizens today as it did in the days of Poor Richard.
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We needn’t expect to be able to ride our neighbor on a rail with impunity, and then holler for help to the courts we have flouted when it comes our turn.
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Law or lawlessness. We can pay our money and take our choice, but we can’t have both … not at the same time anyway.
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That’s enough on the constitution and the flag.

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