sed the following
language:

"It is difficult, at this day, to realize the state of public opinion
which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world
at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the
Constitution was framed and adopted in relation to that unfortunate
race. But the public history of every European nation displays it in a
manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before
been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to
associate with the white race, either in social or political relations;
and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was
bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be
reduced to slavery for his benefit. He has been bought and sold and
treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a
profit could be made by it. The opinion was at that time fixed and
universal in the civilized portion of the white race."

The Chief Justice went farther than the point at issue warranted, and
stated that the power of Congress to govern territory was subordinate to
its obligation to protect private rights in property and that slaves
were property and as such were protected by the constitutional
guarantees; that Congress had no power to prohibit the citizens of any
State to carry into any territory slaves or any other property, and that
Congress had no power to impair the constitutional protection of such
property while thus held in a territory.

The Dred Scott decision fastened Slavery forever upon the United States.
Slavery lasted just six years.

11. MORE PATCH WORK!

At the present time, Capitalism is tottering to its downfall. The world
is in chaos and revolution. The Supreme Court has handed down a decision
which ostensibly will assist in preserving established order, but the
United States is a Capitalist nation and, as Mr. Wilson himself has so
admirably put it:

"The masters of the Government of the United States are the combined
capitalists and manufacturers of the United States." ("New Freedom,"
page 57.)

Capitalism is disappearing from Europe--Russia, Germany, Austria,
Bohemia, Hungary--the list is growing from week to week. When the
President came back on his little visit to America there was one new
thing that he said, and only one new thing:

"The men who are in conference in Paris realize as keenly as any
Americans can realize that they are not the mas