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Show TAFT THE CENTRAL FIGURE. Expresses His Views on the Liberty of Religious Beliefs. Norwich, Conn. President Taft was the chief figure on Monday in the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this historio old New England town. In an address ad-dress to the people, after a fine military mili-tary parade and civic display, the president, finding a theme in the church influence in the foundation of Norwich, expressed his views on the liberty of religious belief. He pleded that every man should be allowed to worship God in his own way. The president, declared amid laughter that the American forefathers fore-fathers came to this country ostensibly osten-sibly to escape religious intolerance, but as a matter of fact, in order that they might follow out their own religious re-ligious ideas in their own way, and with a large degree of intolerance toward to-ward any other form of belief. "We have passed beyond that now," said the president, "and are coming more and more to relize the right of the individual to worship God as he may choose." |