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HEAR, HEAR, News Today! EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION

Our Heavenly Father supports the freedoms that were made possible in
the Declaration of Independence. Because these freedoms are for every
man, woman and child, we can know that he will support us in the effort
to maintain them.

First, I would like to read some of the scriptures on agency and if you
have a pen handy you can take down the sources and review them later or
even on Independence Day as it is coming up soon.
From the Pearl of Great Price are scriptures that will set the stage:
Chapter 4:vs. 3 reads: Wherefore because that Satan rebelled against me
and sought to destroy the agency of man which I the Lord God had given
him.... Thus we know agency of man came from the Lord.
Moses 6:56 And it is given unto them (man) to know good from evil,
therefore they are agents unto themselves... Thus we know that agency is
to reason good from evil to carry out his own dominion.
Moses 7:52 The Lord said...of men...They are the workmanship of mine own
hands and I gave unto them their knowledge in the day I created them and
in the Garden of Eden, gave I unto man his agency. Thus we know that
man got his decree of agency when he was created his creation, in the
Garden of Eden.
Moses 7:33 And also a commandment that they should love one another and
that they should choose me, their Father.... Thus we see that there was
restraint for agency in that God required as he gave the commandment of
love one another so that men could live together amicably in free
agency, recognizing that God was their Father in Heaven.
From these scriptures we know that man from the beginning received his
agency and along with the commandment that by the sweat of his brow he
should eat, means that that which he earns or grows or invents or
develops is his to eat or to live on. Therefore, life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, which is property, are the gift of God.
Government, which is the tool of man, not God, may not take them from
him without cause, nor be the distributor of them, without court
procedure, nor be the appropriator of these God-given gifts of life,
liberty or property.
A French philosopher and historian, Frederic Bastiat 1801-1848, stated
that life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws.
On the contrary it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed
beforehand that caused men to make law (and may add, to defend their
life, liberty and property) not to take them from him, except with
tyrannical governments.
President Benson has affirmed that Law is drawn to protect men's life,
liberty and property.
Bastiat says that true Law is justice and that only under true law can a
simple and enduring government be conceived.
Bastiat also stated that only in true justice can every person obtain
his real worth and true dignity of his being...and only under Law of
justice can man may achieve God's design for the orderly and peaceful
progress of humanity.
Bastiat traveled throughout America near 1835 and wondered at the many
towns having peace and serenity, the many churches, where the people
sincerely worshiped Jesus Christ and recognized him as their succor.
They were free. He wrote saying, when America ceases to be good they
will cease to be great.
Thus it behooves us as recipients of the blessings of freedom to assess
the great phenomenon of peace and freedom in the land of the United
States of America for the past 230 years.
From the national Spanish archives we learn that Columbus was lead by
the Holy Ghost in his venture West, He discovered the Western Hemisphere
in 1492 and implanted the Spanish flag. Did that give the natives of
the new land freedom? They did have a remarkable land but it was not a
land of freedom for all. Mexico Aztec emperor supported a fiendish
religion that executed 50,000 to 100,000 human sacrifices annually,
similar to that attempted upon Father Abraham as a young man. Cortez
conquered the Aztecs and abolished human sacrifice, but the Indians then
were enslaved to work in mines and fields for the new Conquistadors.
[See Prescott, The Conquest of Mexico.] Freedom has been slow in coming
to that country.
In 1498 A.D. the English put their flag on Nova Scotia, but it was not
until 1687 that Queen Elizabeth gave the Land of Nova Scotia with
allodial title, never to be taxed, to her obedient and trusted servant,
Sir Walter Raleigh to colonize and use as he saw fit. His first and
last colony, 1588, Roanoke Is. Virginia named after the virgin queen,
was destroyed. When James I took the throne, assuming "divine right of
kings" he seized Raleigh's title to the land of Virginia (Nova Scotia to
Florida) and gave it to the London Company 1607 to venture colonization
of Jamestown. Freedom began in America when out of that venture came
free enterprise and the freedom of equal representation on the local
decisions of governing the plantation. [Raleigh was beheaded in 1619,
for no reason.]
In 1621, the Pilgrim's bid to sail to America included freedom to
worship as they pleased if they could not find an Anglican Church. They
gained royal permission to join the London Company, at Jamestown, but
winds blew them off course and they landed and settled in the harbor
later called Boston Harbor. They worship their own way. This was the
beginning of freedom of worship and of conscience, of voting, no
taxation for state church (Maryland), and freedom of worship in all
colonies. A charter to the Carolina allowed slavery 1663. Slaves as
servants were introduced in 1621.
King James I died, 1625. The new king Charles I began dipping into the
treasury at will and arresting people without crime. In 1628 Parliament
issued the Petition of Rights declaring the rights enumerated in the
Grand Charter. The Petition of Rights held that persons could not be
imprisoned without due process of law, jury trial, etc. The king refused
to sign it, and dissolved Parliament. however, it became law. Charles I
ruled without a Parliament; a civil war began between the Roundheads
(Puritans) and the Loyalists. The conflict ended in Charles losing his
head 1649. Thousands fled England to live in protestant New England or
in Royalist Jamestown. These people were left to fend for themselves.
Oliver Cromwell ruled England as a Commonwealth and offered the English
representative government. The English refused as it was too new and
untried. Therefore, Cromwell ruled by military edict. Nevertheless, the
rights of the people was foremost and due process in the courts, as it
was instituted became a fastidious reform. This due process became the
standard in colonist's and later constitutional jury procedure. Other
rights protected and maintaied by Cromwell was the haveas corpus
suspension acts, even in national emergency, wherein persons imprisoned
under a warrant charged of high treason, or suspicion of treason, could
not be held indefinitely without due process. These rights and
procedures were implemented into the later American Constitution.
Because of the destitution in the economy, Cromwell taxed colonists
shipping as well as English. Cromwell rule ended in 1669.
The new king Charles II ruled with "the divine right of kings"
assumed, arbitrarily, lands (Dutch and Swedish) in America, which he
divided arbitrarily with his brothers. He imprisoned as his arbitrary
choice, for non-crime causes. Colonists suffered severe restrictions in
foreign trade when England demanded all trade to be with the home
country; prohibited were duplication in English mills. Charles II was
also challenged with a petition, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1670, covering
acts of imprisonment for causes that were not crimes, indebtedness or
for acts opposing the king's capricious political portfolio.
William Penn, a Quaker purchased land in America, 1681, as respite for
their religion. This began as "Penn's Holy Experiment" and led to the
strongest colony in industry and sustaining rights.
Charles died in 1686, at which time James II ascended the throne,
audacious in his "divine right of kings."
James II, immediately, dissolved Parliament and installed Catholics in
every high office. Being well acquainted with America, James II
performed equally despotically with the colonies. He authorized Edmund
Andros, as new governor of Massachusetts, to withdraw all charters and
rights of freedom, theNew York (formerly Dutch) charter. He attempted to
acquire the Rhode Island Charter which colonists hid in an oak tree,
believing that the charter was the key to their freedom. His open goal
was to own, personally, all the colonies outright. Censorship of the
press, loss of right to assemble, to hold court, to hold private private
property, to trade, to worship freely were suffered by the Americans and
English. His outrageous performance was challenged by Parliament; he
abdicated and fled to France.
In his place under the new 1689 Bill of Rights Queen Mary, James's
daughter, and her consort, William III of Orange (Protectorate of
Netherlands) assumed the throne and ruled England and America. The new
Queen and Consort signed the 1689 Bill of Rights, which included that no
Catholic could ever rule England. Colonists received the rights issued
in this famous Bill of Rights. The Consort established the Bank of
England and restricted right of press and certain shipping in America.
When Mary died, Anne, her sister took the throne. During Anne's reign
the Grand Union of Ireland, Scotland, and England became one, called the
British Commonwealth. American colonists were not a part of this grand
unification; they remained just colonies. When Anne died, though she
was mother of 17 children, all had died in infancy, she was childless.
Parliament searched for a protestant king, and chose a very distant
cousin, George of Hanover, Germany. George never visited England. His
rule was by suggestion. Walpole, head of Parliament, assumed the power
of Parliament, which ruled for the rest of the century. Colonists were
left alone for the most part. However, because of shortage of coin,
colonists began printing their own money, backed by gold. They
prospered rapidly. Parliament issued a bill to stop, but Americans
continued. Fined in gold, they found their gold rapidly diminishing and
the American economy with it.
By 1732 colonists gained freedom of the press when the Zenger case was
resolved.
Serious altercations between France and England erupted during the rule
of the Hanovers, in India, in Europe, and in the Ohio Valley, where the
French utilized the Indians as warriors. As the Indians burned and
destroyed colonists homes, etc., young George Washington was sent to
investigate and then to destroy the forts built in the Ohio Valley.
When General Braddock was sent to drive the French out, Washington and
colonists supported the British in the French and Indian war that won
from France, all Canada.
Circumstances changed. From 1758, seeing the industry, security, no
debt, and living free and happily in America, Parliament, the mother
country imposed the Writs, taxes, rules and laws upon the Americans.
Many halls of burgesses and legislatures were closed, denying
representation in making their own laws. The colonists resisted.
Patrick Henry preaching against the Stamp Act closed his address with
his famous, "...if this be treason, give me liberty or give me death."
Such a storm this caused.
The Continental Congress was called to assess the new stringent warring
conditions, and it was heard, as Longfellow's poem retelling the story:
"Listen, my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul
Revere, who on the 19th of April in '75, Hardly a man is now alive who
remembers that famous day and year... ". Indeed came the "shot heard
'round the world.' (See Poetry).

The Revolutionary War began and Congress assigned George Washington to
lead the colonist forces in defense of the people. In the new address
they called for a new letter. a mandate be sent to the King of England,
of the four-man committee, Thomas Jefferson was asked to write it. On
July 3 he turned in the unanimous Declaration of Independence of the
Colonies. In Congress, July 4, 1776 the unanimous Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America began: When in the Course of human
events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to
the separation--. . . . There were included 27 causes addressed to the
king.
The Liberty Bell and all church bells up and down the coast rang out
that the country was not free, And so it was the thirteen separate
colonies became thirteen states having the powers and Acts and Things
which Independent States may of right do.
Not only was the yoke of a government claiming the Rights of kings,
broken, the yoke of a government church and taxes was unyoked from the
protestant America.
The war continued, that War for Independence, for as Benjamin Franklin's
wit would have it, We must all hang together for if we do not, we will
all hand separately."
John Adams, member of the First Continental Congress and later the
second President of the United States, said of the Declaration,

"Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, my heart it to this
vote. It is true, indeed in the beginning that I thought not at
independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends; The
injustice of England has driven us to arms . . . Through the thick gloom
of the present, I see the brightness of the future... as the sun in
heaven. We shall make this a glorious and immortal day. I am for the
Declaration. It is my living Sentiment, Independence today and
Independence forever."

The Continental Congress selected Virginia Governor John Dickinson write
the new Articles of Confederation 1776, which proved good, but not
adequate to the necessities of war, nor in the following peace. When
the war ended, at the British surrender at Yorktown, three years were
dragged out in trying to hinder the truce, the cessation of the power of
England John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were principals who
saw it through. Unfortunately, the new states were haughty to their
neighbors, taxing, as did Old England.
It was seen that Spain on the shores of Georgia, France looming up from
the Mississippi, again, and England from the mount of Canada, the threat
of being taken was real and the new States were not adequate with the
Articles of Confederation which had failed in most of the needs for
leadership, money and unification.
James Madison worked with several concerned men to get a committee to
address the Articles. Which happened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in
May 1787. Through the long hot summer the Articles were snipped and
pasted and a new type of executive, a President, new Congress, House and
Senate, States rights ascertained, and the method to amend the
Constitution. This final document was signed by 39 men on September 17,
1787.
The document was prefaced by: We the People of the United States, in
Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the united
States of America.
A Bill of Rights was added to impress upon the federal house, the type
of freedoms that We the People may be assured were ours and not those of
the federal government. James Madison said that it was a miracle that it
was written. Madison said that every word in the finely trimmed
paragraphs contributed to freedom for the people. The Lord said that the
best minds of the time had been gathered to write this most fortuitous
document. ( D&C) While the document was not absolutely perfect it
proved to be adequate to provide free enterprise that was responsible
for creating the greatest nation in the world in less than 140 years.
Herein was a Constitution that provided Rule by Law.

We are the benefactors. Thousands have sacrificed and of this great
sacrifice we are free. But there is a price. The price is eternal
vigilance. How? The price is knowing and sustaining the Declaration of
Independence, that provided sovereignty for every man, and sustaining
the Constitution of the United States that denied the Federal and States
of tyranny. Thus, the benefactors must stand as witness to the
perpetuity of the Articles and the Constitution.
As Benjamin Franklin left the great hall in Philadelphia, a woman asked
of him, what hath ye wrought." Mr. Franklin said, "A republic, if ye
can keep it." Later, George Washington said, "You will have to know it
to keep it." And so it is that for 200 years our government was a
republic.
Several years ago it was common for Senator Hatch to tell the people
that they had to know the Constitution to keep it. Of course, if one
does not know the law, any property can be taken from him.
President Wilford Woodruff said that sustaining freedom in one of the
weightier matters. All must vigilant or our freedoms will be severed as
a thread on the sword.
We know that the Restored Gospel could not have been restored until the
threat of a government church was taken away and until it was assured
that life, liberty and property are sacred, assured by our Father in
Heaven. Our Republic is a government by law, not of public opinion nor
of polls, nor of assumption, nor of corporate compromise. Both the
sanctity and the perpetuity are not so because it is written but because
of the number of people who sustain it in walk, in talk, and in thought,
daily.
What can I do?
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do
something,
What I can do that I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace
of God I will do.

It cannot be by the swearing of pride and honor that we will defend our
Republic, it is in Humility, individual humility.

'Tis a gift to be humble, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come
down to the place I ought to be.
And when I have come down to the place just right, I'll be in the valley
of Peace and Delight.

How thankful I am that our Church sustains the Constitution of the
United States. Bastion wrote that the American people were great, and
that as long as they continue to be good they would continue to be
great.
I pray that each of us can be thankful to the extent that we can give
our time to learn these documents and to help other to know them as
well. I believe that knowing these is as important as food storage.
Pray for these precious documents and the people they serve and our
Father will bless us all.
Thank you.
[D&C 29:35, 36, 58; 37:4; 58:27, 58; 64:29; 88:86; 93:31; 3, 101:78;
134:2]

THE 4th OF JULY
is a celebration for all Americans? Yes, for all the world! for it
established for all nations the hope for their God-given Rights and for
the independence of their country, and has been hailed by all as the
greatest achievement in political history, barring the Constitution
which enabled and institutionalized the Declaration.

It is of prominent that we take stock of our blessings of liberty and
assess what we can do to support them. What are our commitments? For
what do we labor? The immortal passage: We hold these Truths to be
self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these
Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers
from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety.

EDITORIAL - 120 Years Ago
GLADSTONE ON SANCTITY OF LIFE--1884
"Remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of
Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of
Almighty God as can be your own." --W. E. Gladstone, 1884. [GLADSTONE
Centenary Souvenir 94].
"To Gladstone, brotherhood in action included an absorption of the
past, not as a bookworm, but as a practical politician applying its
lessons to influence and help the present. If brotherhood is to advance
international and national relationships it must "Ring out the false,
ring in the true...."
"He demonstrated in actual practice that brotherhood was more than a
Utopian ideal--when the nations were free to serve one another
prosperity was encouraged. It was service that ,made nations great
Sensuality, vanity, avarice, destroy a man of nation. Whatever
interrupted, discouraged, or retarded the mutual service of the nations
interrupted, discouraged and retarded the prosperity of all: the
struggle for the life of others was higher than the struggle for one's
own. Service to nations less favourably placed is the only true and
lasting pre-eminence. If Britain would be truly great, this law must be
obeyed...." Gladstone championed Internationalism; Disraeli championed
Imperialism [GLADSTONE CENTENARY SOUVENIR 94].

EDITORIAL Interdependent? `1976
"A TREASONABLE DOCUMENT"
1976 -- The Declaration of Interdependence is signed by a sizeable
number of Congressmen, including Les Aspin, a CFR member who has
attended Oxford University. The document declares that "we must join
with others to bring forth a new world order," and it decries "narrow
notions of national sovereignty." It further calls upon all nations "to
strengthen and to sustain the United Nations . . . and to broaden the
jurisdiction of the World Court, that these may preside over a reign of
law that will not only end wars but end as well that mindless violence
which terrorizes our society even in times of peace." On July 8 1977,
Senator Jesse Helms will write that it is "a treasonable document."
However, . . . Les Aspin was made Secretary of Defense in the Clinton
Cabinet.

EDITORIAL 1848
Karl MARX, A PLAGIARIST? A THIEF IS A THIEF IS A THIEF...
Well, New York Times [April 2003] never had it so good or bad.
Plagiarism? Author Anthony C Sutton, in his book The Federal Reserve
Conspiracy reveals that Karl Marx plagiarized the Manifesto in 1848. The
following is a brief summary of the astonishing fact.
In his 1848 Manifesto, Karl Marx, in a nut-shell, with great authority,
berailed the bourgeoisie (the middle-class), and wanted to seize their
property by force, for (to be given to) the proletariat (the working
class). He states "In the first instance, of course, this can only
effected by despotic interference with bourgeois [middle-class] methods
of production; that is to say by measures which seem economically
inadequate and untenable, but have far-reaching effects, and are
necessary as means for revolutionizing the whole system of production."
Marx's wholesale seizure of middle class property was to be
accomplished through a ten-point program of "measures" as follows:
1. Expropriation of landed property, and the use of land-rents to defray
State expenditure.
2. A vigorously graduated income tax. (16th Amendment)
3. Abolition of the right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigres and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a
national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of transport in the hands of the State.
7. Increase of national factories and means of production, cultivation
of uncultivated land, and improvement of cultivated land in accordance
with a general plan.
8. Universal and equal obligation to work; organisation of industrial
armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Agriculture and urban industry to work hand-in-hand, in such a way
as, by degrees, to obliterate the distinction between town and country.
10. 10. Public and free education of all children. Abolition of factory
work for children in its present form. Education and material production
to be combined. --(from Sutton 34).
(All of these have been merged into the living standards of the United
States people except the confiscation or denial of the right of private
property.)

The question is, was Marx standing on sand when he raised such a violent
and obstreperous, treasonous position. Marx was living in Paris, France
during this period.
In Paris, one Victor Considerant wrote his own work Principes du
Socialisme: Manifest de la Democratie au Dix Neuvieme Siecle, and
published it in 1843 and republished in 1847, a year before Marx's
Manifesto was published--while Marx and Engels were living in Paris."The
Manifesto is a blueprint for elitist control. The Manifesto favors (the)
takeover of political and economic power's by an elite." It is known
that Marx was paid to write a Manifesto, but his Manifesto 1848, had a
few changed words in paragraph two in the second chapter. The rest of
the document is exactly the same as Considerant's work 1843, 1847.
This was discovered by Mr. W. Tcherkesoff. He published his finding in
his Pages of Socialist History (Cooper, New York, 1902). He gives his
feeling of sheer unbelief in comparing the Considrant with Marx. (p.
38) So Tcherkesoff demonstrates Marx to be a common thief. The only
copy of Considerant's work, was in the Library of Congress, but it is
missing now. Any more new old lamps for sale?

You may order Sutton's book from CPA Book Publishers, P. O. Box 596,
Boring, Oregon 97007, 7.00 plus 1.50 Ship.

A BIT O' WIT 1776 STYLE
--Taken from the Compleat American Housewife 1776

Women are creatures without which there is no comfortable living . . .
it is true of them what is wont to be said of governments, that bad ones
are better than none." John Cotton p. 3

A newspaper advertisement of a Pennsylvania farmer who needs a
housekeeper:
"Wanted at a Seat about half a day's journey from Philadephia, on which
are good improvements and domestics, A single Woman of unsullied
Reputation, an affable, cheerful, and amiable Disposition; cleanly,
industrious, perfectly qualified to direct and manage the female
Concerns of country business, as raising small stock, dairying,
marketing, combing, carding, spinning, knitting, sewing, pickling,
preserving, etc., and occasionally to instruct two Young Ladies in those
Branches of Oeconomy, who with thir father, compose the family. Such a
person will be treated with respect and esteem, and meet with every
encouragement due to such a character." p. 6

The most celebrated housewife of our time is undoubtedly Martha
Danridge Custis Washington. Though some say she is not socially
scintillating, her kindness and dignity impress all. Even in the midst
of her eminent position as our President's wife, she has been heard to
describe herself as "old-fashioned" Virginia housekeeper, steady as a
clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a criket."
Her duties, as the wealthy mistress of Mount Vernon re substantial. As
part of her dower when she married the General in 1759 she brought fifty
slave. These, with those already on the estate who were not field hands
come under her particular care. Every small detail, from ...meals,
cooking, or where the pease shall be sown and in how many rows, is said
to be under her careful supervision.
Though justly famous as a hostess, she is at heart a country [lady] who
can easily assume the privileges of befitting hr and her husband. At a
recent party she is reported to have concluded the evening by rising and
announcing to the company, "The General always retires at nine, and I
usually precede him." p. 14

Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, is a housewife and hostess quite
able to match wits with any man. In writing to her husband in 1776, she
plainly expresses the new sense of confidence we women are achieving and
how we too have interest in the [Independence] movement.
"...in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for
you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more
generous to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in
the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
If particular car and attention are not paid to the ladies, we are
determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound to
obey the laws in which we have no voice or representation." p. 19

We have an English proverb that says 'He that would thrive must ask his
wife' It was lucky for me that I have one as much dispos'd to industry
and frugality as myself. She assisted me chearfully in my business,
folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen
rages for the paper makers, etc.
We kept no idle servants, our table was lain and simple,--our furniture
of the cheapest. One morning being call'd to breakfast, I found it in a
china bowl with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without
my knowledge by my wife. She thought her husband deserv'd a silver
spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the
first appearance of plate and China in our house which afterwards in
course of years, as our wealth increas'd, augmented gradually to several
hundred pounds in value. --Dr. Franklin p. 15