Ronan requests McMaster to send him the Freeman. Due to hard time and Ronan's condition he will be forced to pay gradually during the year. Ronan mentions an editorial in the June issue of St. Louis Times which dealt with the calamities of the present administration and alludes to a bank in Boston which is agitating for the insertion of four clauses into the United States Constitution. 1 compulsory education 2 educational qualifications for voters 3 a law to force every citizen to own an American Bible and 4 belief in God as a qualification for being allowed to vote. Another bank, also in Boston, had been set up 55 years previous to pull down slavery. Ronan mentions a prophecy by Andrew Jackson that it slavery would only be stopped by amendments. Jackson also warned the people to oppose such an amendment lest the Constitution be changed too greatly by amendments. Ronan fears that these four clauses will be passed and states that his own state Maine seems to favor the first clause compulsory education and has very quietly mentioned it in addresses to public school teachers. From the worthy columns of The Freeman, Ronan has learned that New York state also favors this clause and is apprehensive lest too much Masonry will prevent the Democrats from voting it down. Governor Woodrow was called an enemy of education when he opposed such measures in the school system of Missouri. The Masons and Methodists have made it difficult to elect any man into office unless he is a Mason. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.