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Foreword

The purpose of this hoo\ is to present in connected, reasoned form such an explanation of the basic principles of the institutions of American society, and of the republican form of m self -government originated by this society, that the American youth and men who study with the book will understand why they are and remain by free choice original Americans, and why they are not and will not be reversions to types of other nationalists, or proselytes to their degenerate political spawn of socialists, anarchists, Soviets or reds.

The Author.

Chapter I. Their The American People were originally subjects

Ongm. £ t k e xcing of Great Britain. They lived in the

lands of thirteen American Colonies of his Kingdom which were situated between Canada, another American Colony of his Kingdom north of them, and Florida and Louisiana, American Colonies of the Kings of Spain and France,, south and west of them.

Declaration The beginning of the American People was

°f made by their Declaration of Independence on

Independence. j uly ^ m ^ By thig Dec l arat i on t he subjects

of the King of Great Britain living in these lands held themselves thenceforward to be free and independent of the King, and held that they, and not the King, thenceforward possessed all dominion over the lands.

Beginning as a white race People.

They assumed the Title of "Citizen" indicating equality.

In their beginning the American People held that only those persons living in the lands lately of the thirteen American Colonies who were of white or Caucasian race, immigrants from Great Britain and other European countries, and their descendants, became the American People by their Declaration of Independence. They declared themselves equal as persons in possession of the dominion over the lands, and adopted or assumed the title of Citizen as expressing their equal right of dominion.

Those who were inhabitants of their dominion.

Negroes were slaves.

Foreign slave trade of American People stopped.

Restriction of domestic slave trade.

At the time of their beginning the inhabitants in the territory besides themselves were persons of the black or Negro race, immigrants from Africa, and their descendants, and persons of the red or American Indian race, natives of the soil. There were no persons of either the yellow or brown races — Chinese or Malays from Asia — among the inhabitants.

Persons of the black or Negro race, inhabitants of the dominion, were most of them slaves possessed by persons of the white race. Slaves were held by the American People to be property of the nature of chattels. Slaves had been held to be property of the nature of chattels in the Colonies before the Declaration of Independence.

In 1808 the American People stopped their foreign trade in slaves. Prior to that year Negroes were an article of their foreign trade, imported, from Africa principally, and exported to Cuba and Brazil principally. The stopping was effected by an Act of Congress under tuthority of Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

The immigration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to 1808.

From their beginning the American People restricted their domestic slave trade by limiting the territory of their dominion within which slavery was permitted.

The part of them constituting the seven northern of the thirteen independent States, which they

Abolition of Domestic slave trade.

established in place of the thirteen Colonies, very shortly after the Declaration of Independence stopped the domestic slave trade in their own territories by force of acts of their respective Legislatures abolishing slavery in them.

The Ordinance of 1787, made by The United States in Congress assembled, the committee of the thirteen States provided for them by their Articles of Confederation before their real union under the Constitution of the United States, further restricted the domestic slave trade territorially by prohibiting slavery in the lands north of the Ohio River, in which the new States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota were afterward created.

The Missouri Compromise in 1820, under which Congress admitted the State of Missouri, with slavery permitted, added to the territory from which the domestic slave trade was excluded by prohibiting slavery in the lands west of the State of Missouri and north of the parallel of latitude thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north, the line which has since become the southern boundary of the States of Kansas, Colorado and Utah.

The creation of the State of California by the inhabitants of the former Territory of Mexico, in 1849 further limited the domestic slave trade by the prohibition of slavery within the State, half of which was to the south of the parallel of latitude thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north.

In 1865 the remaining domestic slave trade of the American People was abolished by force of the decision in the Civil War between the States.

Negroes made subjects of the American People.

Negroes made Citizens.

Indians held to be subjects of the American People.

Indians held to be wards though made Citizens.

The record of this decision by war force is the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, made in that year.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Beginning with the war decision the American People ceased holding persons of the black race to be property, instead, holding them to be subjects.

In 1868 the American People made their black or Negro race subjects part of themselves, Citizens, by force of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Persons of the red, or American Indian, race who resided in the lands over which the American People had taken dominion from the King of Great Britain were held to be their subjects. The Indians had been held to be subjects of Great Britain's King before the Declaration of Independence. They changed rulers, but not their condition as subjects.

Later, the American People ceased holding the Indians to be their subjects, holding, instead, that they were part of themselves, Citizens, but with the reservation that they were wards of the rest of the American People. The relation of

Aliens made Citizens by Treaty covenants and by Naturalization.

Aliens made Citizens by Treaty with France.

ward and guardian is becoming more and more restricted territorially, and is likely to become abolished altogether with the disappearance of the tribal relations of the Indians.

Besides the increase of the number of American Citizens through their making over of some of their subjects into Citizens, a further increase has come about through their admission of aliens to become Citizens. This has been done in two ways: first, by treaty covenants with foreign states, providing that certain citizens or subjects of the latter, as the case might be, might become Citizens of the United States by force of the covenants ; and, second, through individual aliens, citizens or subjects of foreign states, first making settlement and residence in an American State, and then individually, without first taking consent of their former state, declaring independence of it and of the ruler of it, and accepting, or rather receiving, the right and status of an American Citizen in a form provided by law and referred to as naturalization

The Treaty with France for the cession of her Colony of Louisiana to the United States, made in 1803, covenanted that,

The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens.

Aliens made Citizens by Treaty with Spain.

The Treaty with Spain for the cession of her Colonies of Florida to the United States, made in 1821, covenanted that,

Aliens made Citizens by Admission of Texas.

Aliens made Citizens by Treaty with Mexico.

Aliens made Citizens by Treaty with Russia.

The inhabitants of the territories which his Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights and immunities of the citizens of the United States.

In 1845 the independent State of Texas, the Citizens of which were largely and dominantly former Citizens of the United States, originally of the American people, was admitted to the Union of the United States by Act of Congress, the Citizens of Texas becoming thereby Citizens of the United States. Mexicans residing in Texas became Citizens of the United States by its admission.

The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, at the close of the war between the United States and Mexico, for the cession of her territories of California and New Mexico to the United States, made in 1848, covenanted that,

Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as denned by the present treaty, . . . who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens or acquire those of citizens of the United States.

The Convention with Russia for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, made in 1867, covenanted that,

Aliens made Citizens by naturalization.

The interest of foreign states in the A merican Peoples' naturalization of their Nationals.

The inhabitants of the ceded territory, according to their choice, may return to Russia within three years; but if they should prefer to remain in the ceded territory, they, with the exception of the uncivilized native tribes, shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States.

With the avowed purpose of increasing the population of their States, the American People, from the time of their Declaration of Independence, have made over into Citizens of their States all aliens of the white or Caucasian race who, as individuals, settled on their lands and renounced their former allegiance to the foreign states from which they had emigrated. The American People purposely made the naturalization of aliens easy for them. The King of Great Britain had made the naturalization of aliens in his American Colonies difficult. This was one of the reasons given for the Declaration of Independence.

He (the King of Great Britain) has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the Naturalization of Foreigners.

The American People have always regarded themselves and the individual alien as the only parties having any interest in their naturalization of the alien. The foreign state in which the alien was citizen or subject did, however, consider that in many cases it had a material interest in its National which the American naturalization did not extinguish. This interest was most often a claim to military service, which

American naturalization is not a release from a service owed to a foreign state.

A merican states an asylum for aliens seeking escape from militaryservice.

its citizen or subject was held to owe to it at the time of his emigration.

The American People have been generally and generously misled into believing, incorrectly, that their naturalization of an alien rightfully discharged him of liability for any military or other service he might, at the time of his emigration, be owing or about to owe to the state he was leaving. The contrary is the fact. Should the alien, after his naturalization, re-enter the dominion of his former state, the former state may rightfully enforce payment from him of his debt to it of military or other service, despite his American Naturalization.

The lands of the American People have always been considered as a safe asylum for citizens or subjects of foreign states who intended, in leaving them, to escape military or other service to them. These citizens or subjects of foreign states have not even had to be naturalized to take advantage of the asylum the American States offered. But while the land has been a safe asylum, the American ship at sea has not been a safe asylum. By the common law of nations, a ship has been regarded the same as the soil of its state, but the American People have rarely had the disposition and naval power to make the common law of nations effective for them on the sea, so citizens and subjects of foreign states, even though naturalized, have not found American ships a safe asylum. The officers of their foreign states have always seized them and taken them off American ships when they wanted payment of their citizen's or subject's debt of service.

Hyphenated Citizens.

In 1917 the lands of the American People ceased to be an asylum for alien Nationals who came to them to escape payment of their debts of military service to the foreign states of their birth.

All foreign citizens or subjects who became naturalized American Citizens before paying their debts of military or other service to the foreign states from which they came, have not held that their naturalization released them from payment of their debts to foreign states. Many have become naturalized American Citizens, intending to pay their debts of military service to the foreign states whenever the foreign states called on them for payment. They hold themselves bound to pay their old debts of service to the foreign states, as well as bound to pay their new debts of service to the American State which has adopted them. These men are real hyphenated citizens, though the term is commonly applied to naturalized Citizens who try, through their naturalization, to avoid payment of debts of service altogether. Plainly, the kind of hyphen- • ated citizens who would pay both debts is to be preferred to the kind who would pay neither.

A requirement of the alien applying for naturalization, that he shall prove himself as owing no debt of military service to the foreign state to which he would forswear allegiance, would prevent the making of hyphenated American Citizens, and the requirement should be made.

Original The American People at the present time

purpose of regard their past naturalization of aliens as

naturalization ■, *• ■, j • , • • 1 e

having accomplished its original purpose of of aliens accomplished.

Aliens incorporated in American territory by treaties not now made Citizens.

Changes in race and ancestry constitution of A merican People which have been made.

increasing their population. They are now beginning the restriction of naturalization, directly, by excluding from right of naturalization aliens of the yellow and brown races — Asiatics and Malays — and, indirectly, by excluding from right of settlement in their lands aliens of the white race who do not measure up to, and on examination pass, certain physical, moral, occupational, educational and property standards made for the purpose by acts of Congress.

The belief of the American People that the further increase of number of Citizens by admission of aliens is not desirable, has restrained them from making over into Citizens the former subjects of the King of Spain inhabiting the ceded lands of the islands of Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Instead, the American People hold the inhabitants of these islands incorporated in their territory as subjects.

In the progression of their self-development the original homogenity of race and ancestry of the American People has become changed. From being originally all of the white or Caucasian race, a very considerable part is now constituted of persons of the black, yellow and brown races. From there being a very great preponderance in the white race of those of Anglo-Saxon and British ancestry, the present preponderance is comparatively small. The increase of persons of the Latin, Germanic, Slavic and Grecian ancestry has been relatively much greater than the increase of persons of Anglo-Saxon and British ancestry.

Further change of composite of races in American People not desired by the present dominant element.

Exclusion of aliens from settlement and prohibition of land ownership.

Further racial change in the composite of the present American People through the relative increase in the number of persons of the yellow and brown races is not regarded by the persons of the white race as desirable. An increase relatively to their own number of persons of other white race ancestry than Anglo-Saxon and British is not regarded as desirable by the latter.

The natural law of land settlement by aliens.

Neither the absolute exclusion of aliens of the yellow and brown races from settlement in the lands of the American People, nor restricted admission with prohibition of land ownership 3y those admitted, would permanently operate to prevent the relative increase of persons of the yellow and brown races to persons of the white race. Neither means is politically practicable to prevent an increase of the proportion of persons of other white race ancestry than Anglo- Saxon and British to the latter.

Persons of that race who can support themselves by the consumption of a less part of the produce of the land than persons of the race in present possession, in the end gain the exclusive possession of the land, make permanent settlement of it, exclude persons of the race in present possession, and ultimately will take dominion of it. This is another way of saying that persons of the race or people having the relatively lower standard of living, or living at the relatively lower cost, in the end get the possession of the land or labor field, pushing out and excluding persons of the race or people having the rela-

Prohibition of alien ownership of land ineffective to prevent alien colonization.

lively higher standard of living, or of living at the relatively higher cost. This is the natural law of colonization by an alien race.

The American People cannot avoid the effect on them of this natural law of alien colonization if they continue to incorporate aliens with themselves either as Citizens, or as subjects, or as residents with the Citizens' right of private land possession. Prohibition of ownership of land by aliens would not prevent the effect of the natural law. Possession of the land would be obtained without taking the title, and the alien colonization would follow.

Absolute exclusion of aliens from settlement.

The American People cannot avoid the effect of the natural law by total exclusion of the aliens from settlement in their lands. The exclusion would prevent invasion by the aliens in peace, but, the difference in the standards of living between the aliens in their own lands and the American People in theirs continuing, the colonizing invasion by the aliens would ultimately come, or be attempted, by way of war. Whenever the excluded aliens with the lower standard of living become forced to accept starvation, that is to say a still lower standard of living, in their own lands, or to accept the alternative of war with the American People for the right of colonization in their lands, they will fight before they will starve.

The only present effective way to restrict alien

colonization in peace so that it shall be impotent would operate , - . - 1 t1 . . ,.

to restrict alien to change undesirably the present proportions ol

colonization. races and race ancestry of the American People,

Laws permitting entails is for them to make their best lands more valuable to hold themselves than to sell to aliens. This can be done by State laws permitting entail, the voluntary creation of a prescribed order of inheritance of land without right of alienation or sale. The best lands will immediately become so valuable for entailed estates that aliens will not then, as now, be offering the highest price for them. Through entailed estates an enormous number of Citizens would become attached to their soil exclusively and permanently. In the aggregate the entailed estates would include so much of the best lands that restriction of alien colonization would be brought about naturally. There would be comparatively little colonizable land for the aliens.

Amendment of The States are now prohibited from enacting Ordinance j aws cre ating entails by a provision of the of 1787. Ordinance of 1787. The Ordinance of 1787

is the instrument of the compact of the original thirteen States with new States which would thereafter be created. All the States are bound by it. To empower the States to enact laws of entail, the Ordinance of 1787 will first have to be amended. All of the States will have to adopt the amendment.

Limitations Such amendment in terms should provide that

of entailed on ] y ma j e Citizens of a State, born in the estates and United States could create or hold a str J c t the privileges, ' . i ,i

immunities and entailed estate which would then pass by the

obligations. entail to the male heir next in life. The extent of an entailed estate should be limited — forty acres or less. It would not have to be in one piece or in one place, only all in one State. The leasing or letting of an entailed estate to aliens

Effectiveness of laws of Entail made by the limitations and privileges.

Obligations with entailed estates would operate to create American race instinct and the power to perpetuate it.

should be prohibited. Entailed estates should be exempt from all inheritance taxes and from execution. The obligations of the title holder should include military service to the State and the United States, and the taking of an oath to support the Government in maintaining its republican form. The penalty for failure to fulfil the obligations should be forfeiture of the title to the heir.

The limitation of an entailed estate to a comparatively small area would prevent land monopoly by means of entailed estates which was the original purpose of the prohibition made in the Ordinance of 1787. With such estates so limited there would be land enough to provide for all American Citizens who would want to create entails. The prohibition of leasing and letting to aliens would absolutely exclude them from settlement on the great body of the best lands without the complications which could come with exclusion from residence in the territory. The exemptions from inheritance taxes and execution would be such valuable rights that no American Citizen who could, would fail to create an entailed estate to have it a place of refuge in death where tax assessors, tax collectors and tax attorneys could not come like flocking buzzards to their eats.

The obligations of the oath of fealty and military service with entailed estates would operate to create an American race instinct springing from its only possible source, permanent attachment to the soil, and a big force of willing-to-fi,8"ht American men bred with that instinct. These, together, would maintain the

American republican form of government and the American dominion of lands against the destroying forces of other men of the inhabitants — against disruption from within. They would, too, be the heart of the military force which would resist alien colonization when it would be attempted, as it will be from time to time, by way of war. The holders of the titles to the entailed estates would consciously breed men with the race instinct to hold them. Each successive holder of the title would want, besides a direct heir, at least one alternate for him in the direct line.

Chapter II. NATURAL RIGHTS AND RULING RIGHTS

King of Great Britain deprives his American Colonists of their rights, causing the Revolution.

The colonists' doctrine of their rights.

The King's Doctrine of his colonists' rights.

The cause of the American Revolution, made by the Declaration of Independence, was the injury done by the King of Great Britain to his subjects in the Thirteen Colonies when he took from each of them separately rights of the person, and from all of them collectively rights of ruling or governing.

The colonists held that each of them had certain rights of the person which were unalienable natural rights coming and being with each person by Nature, and so inseparable from his person. They held that these certain natural rights were the equal possession of each of them, and as well that all other men had them equally with themselves. The colonists also held that collectively within their certain several lands, the grants of ruling or governing rights theretofore made them by Kings of Great Britain in succession as paramount lords of the land, could not thereafter be taken away or revoked by a King of Great Britain.

The King of Great Britain held contrarywise, that his American colonists had no rights of the person which he was bound to let them hold, and that the King's grants of ruling rights, together with the incidents which had been

NATURAL RIGHTS AND RULING RIGHTS created by the colonists' exercise of them, were revocable and destroyable by the King as he willed from time to time.

Colonists win Through their victory in the War of the War, regain Revolution, the colonists made their doctrine of

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rights of They retook the rights he had taken away and

dominion secured their regained possession by taking from

over them. ^he King all his overlord rights of dominion or

ruling in the lands of the Thirteen Colonies, so

making the Colonies Independent States, in

which they held all the rights of dominion or

ruling.

American Citizens have two kinds of rights.

Importance of distinction between the rights of possession of the tivo kinds of rights.

American Citizens in their lands thus possess two kinds of rights — natural rights and ruling rights or rights of dominion. The natural rights they possess are also possessed by their subjects and by aliens while residing in their lands. The ruling rights or rights of dominion the Citizens alone possess. Neither their subjects nor resident aliens have any part by right in the ruling rights of American Citizens, except as American Citizens, by their laws grant ruling rights to either of them, or by sufferance permit their exercise.

The distinction between the rights of possession of the natural rights and of the ruling rights is important. That there is such a distinction has not been very much considered or acted upon by American Citizens. Even the distinction between natural rights and ruling rights has not been sufficiently considered, and which are natural rights and which are ruling

Right to attack the Government or persons administering it is a ruling right.

rights, firmly settled. American Citizens, in consequence, has not been firm in maintaining their exclusive possession of, and sole right by right to exercise, the ruling rights in their lands.

The right by way of published speech or writing to attack the manner or mode of the exercise of the Citizens' ruling rights by themselves, or to so attack the persons through whom, as legislators, officers or courts, they exercise their ruling rights, is a ruling right possessed only by Citizens as a right. Subjects have the right by sufferance. Aliens residing in American lands have nothing of the right.

Aliens resident Published speech or writing by resident aliens

m American attacking the Government or the persons admintanas can be • . ', 111.1 1 1^1 punished when ls ^ nn S * can be absolutely suppressed, and the they exercise auen s punished by American Citizens, on the this ruling ground that the aliens residing in their lands right. have no ruling rights whatever by right. Instead of suppressing the publication of the alien's speech or writing which attacks the rule of American Citizens on this unquestionable ground of no right of the alien, such attempts as have been occasionally made at suppression, have been made on the questionable grounds of the nature, or of the effect, of the matter of the published speech or writing. These grounds are questionable because opinions will differ as to the nature or effect of any speech or writing published.

Right of organization and association in labor unions is a ruling right.

The right of persons to organize and associate in labor unions or other industrial units of like nature and purposes is a ruling right, not. a natural right. Only Citizens possess this ruling right. The organization of resident aliens into

NATURAL RIGHTS AND RULING RIGHTS

labor unions, or their association with Citizens in labor unions, which has been permitted by sufferance, can be prohibited and suppressed by Citizens through exercise of' their ruling rights, on the ground that the resident aliens have not the ruling right to organize or associate in labor unions. Citizens may grant resident aliens this ruling right just as they grant resident aliens the right to be shareholders in their corporations. They have not yet, however, granted resident aliens the right of labor union organization and association in this mode, but have, for the time, permitted their organization and association by sufferance. The Congress has the power to grant aliens the right to associate in American trade or labor unions under the immigration clause of the Constitution.

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization.

Natural rights The natural rights of men are all equal rights

are equal between all men. The measure of the extent of

rights. any of them ig b y the mle that every man ' s

natural right ends, is at its limit, at the point in its exercise where it meets any other man's natural right without conflicting with it. In another form this rule is that no one may so use his own natural right that it deprives another of his natural right.