Show c w Rh L iLIr I barE RA RAYMOND YMOND PITCAIRN Again Again Again- The People Speak By RAYMOND PITCAIRN National Chairman Sentinels j of the Republic RepublicAn An event of ot unusual Import to those who would tinker with wilh the United States Constitution has occurred recently in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania- the state wherein our National Charter of Liberties was conceived and written There for tor the first time since recent efforts to our oar Federal Constitution along the lines of ot the newer political pl philosophy gained national prominence the people themselves were given opportunity to say what they thought of ot that sort of ot thing Emphatically they rejected the Idea Dominated by the vote from rural districts and the smaller cities they decided that this was no time to risk the possible writing into fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental law of various unproven theories theories theories theo theo- ries now being urged throughout America as a substitute for crystallized crystallized crystal crystal- experience The people of Pennsylvania ol ot course voted only on the question of ot revising their own state tion But fundamentally and and de despite despite despite de- de spite whatever political spokesmen on either side may claim some claim some of ol the principles Involved were comparable comparable comparable com com- parable to those brought into prominence prominence prominence nence by the wide nation-wide efforts of certain groups to our Federal Constitution Into a a. form torm more readily influenced by passing fears tears and passions In the response may be read a heartening message of ot encouragement encouragement encouragement encourage encourage- ment to all who oppose efforts to scrap rap certain essential elements of our American system of government in favor tavor of ot new and untried theo theo- ries It is That the great body of ot the people men men and women who constitute the backbone of ot America are America are not at this time in sympathy with a n policy of ot sudden changes They realize that while it was the Declaration Declaration Declaration Declara Declara- tion of ot Independence that proclaimed personal Liberty it is the Federal Constitution that assures it They do not Intend to surrender that guarantee Again the Again the People speak |