A THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
* * *
THE Tenth Commandments and the Fifth Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States are
strikingly similar. The one reads:
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house * * *
` V nor anything that is thy neighbor’s."
The other reads:
“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or
V ° property without due process of law; nor shall
n private property be taken for public use without
A just compensation."
, It is an amazing commentary on the trend of
affairs in America that an organization should
have become necessary to enlist the citizenry for
a crusade on behalf of the Constitution or the
Tenth Commandment.
Pious lip service to these two great precepts is
given every day by those who would deceive the
American people.
“Why, of course, we believe in all that," say the
“leftwing” radicals.
 .4 And, of course, they do not.
The kind of transparent hypocrisy which these
traducers of American constitutionalism really
preach is best exemplified by the tongue-in—cheek
answer given by Professor Tugwell to the inter-
rogating legislators when he avowed himself a
“conservative," adding quickly that he wished, of
course, to "conserve" what was worth while.
_ The American Liberty
what L'b€"tY League is a call to arms.
League Group It is the beginning of a
Stands For movement which, if properly
guided and aggressively car-
ried on, will save the American people from the
forces which today are threatening to bring misery,
A starvation and disaster to the common people.
y It is a movement aimed at those who in the
‘ name of the law and in the name of government
i would rob Peter to pay Paul, who would repress
honest dollars and issue fictitious money, and who
c . would confiscate by taxation and by government ‘
competition the savings of one hundred and fifty
years of Americanism.
i It will not do to laugh off the American Liberty
League or to hurl epithets at it or to speak of it as
a return to the “old order.”
Such an attitude would be a reflection upon
A President Roosevelt himself whose great personality
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