Now. do you leant me to test the law, and
make an earnest effort to save the lives of
YOUR SONS?
Do you want to make this country “safe
for democracy?’’
Do you want to administer a rebuke to the
Representatives who fawned at your feet for
your votes, last Summer, and who, this Sun
mer. have voted away the lives of your soiisA
If so. act now ’
Congress is not omnipotent!
The President is not an absolute King.
The constitutional system of govern
ment, wheih our forefathers made in 1787,
HAS A BALANCE WHEEL.
There is a power which can say to crazy
Congressmen, “halt!”
There is a power which can say to a White
House autocrat. '"Thus far shall thou go, and
NO FARTHER."
There is a power which can translate into
words the spirit of the Constitution, and say
to usurping Bureaus, ‘"Depart! Z never knew
you!''
The Federal Judiciary is that power, and
we must appeal to it.
All over the land, it is being appealed to,
and it is responding !
Two U, S. District Judges have decided the
very points raised by The Jeffersonian, and
boll) of these Judges sustained our position.
This fact is certainly encouraging.
If you will act now. we can file the test
cases at once, obtain an early hearing in the
District Court, and the cases will be ready for
final decision of the U. S. Supreme Court.
this Fall.
The President has announced that the Con
scripts will not be sent to Europe until next
year.
Therefore, a final decision in the case may
be expected before the conscripts are ordered
abroad.
If we win, we save the lives of at least a
million young men.
Is it worth the trial?
I most assuredly think so.
