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...denied citizenship because they made reservations in their promise to bear arms for the United States Dr. MacIntosh "would not promise in advance to bear arms in defense of the United States unless he believed the war to be morally justified", while Miss Bland was willing to swear the oath of allegiance provided it carried the added interpolation "as far as my conscience as a Christian will allow...
...believes he does make, in time of war. With the present highly organized facilities for propaganda, everyone may rest assured that his cause will be the moral, the just, and the Christian one. It is curious that in applying for citizenship rights, one does not have to offer oath that one will make no act which may lead the country into war, that one will make every effort to contribute to peace in the society of nations. There are laws which provide for the prosecution of pacifists who talk of peace during war-time, but there...
...which seem to the untutored layman full of unrealities. Take the case of Professor MacIntosh of Yale, just passed upon by the Supreme Court of the United States. A Canadian, he had applied for American citizenship, but naturalization was denied him because he would not take an oath to bear arms in defense of his country, under all circumstances. He wished to reserve the right to decide whether a given war was justified. That plainly involves a legal principle, but one that appears to be entirely remote from the personality of the man. He is not a conscientious objector...
...inalienable rights which a citizen need not surrender." But the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Hughes strongly dissenting, is that an applicant for citizenship must be willing to support the Government in a time of war. There can be no mental reservations in taking the oath of allegiance. While it is true that this decision follows the precedent set in the case of Rosika Schwimmer, it was argued before the Supreme Court that the circumstances were different in the application of Dr. Macintosh. But all was to no avail, and the majority of the judges laid down...
...Washington was initiated into a Scottish lodge at Fredericksburg, Va., in 1752. More important to the meeting of celebrants last week was the fact that when Washington was sworn in in Manhattan as first President of the U. S. the Grand Master of the New York lodge administered the oath and the local Grand Secretary was marshal of the day. From then on, so many U. S. officials were Masons that in 1826 an Anti-Masonic Party was organized. It did not succeed; Freemasonry has prospered. But it is not even paralleled...