Show HE DOES OBJECT I J U Ii Registers His Kick Agaimistt n fmi SUtClitlOIIll EDITOU DEMOCRAT To the casual observer ob-server it would seem that in this city there are already sects parties and churches enough to guarantee freedom of thought and and speech printing ma terial sufficient to guarantee a free press and yet we see in last nights DEMOCRAT j a call to the free thinkers of Salt Lake City to organize for intellectual moral phvsical and social culture Now if there is not sufficient freedom in the various political and religious par ties of this city to guarantee such freedom of thought and speech there is certain room and a demand for such a part And experience with the various sects and parties leads me to the conclusion that each party is so tenacious for the perpetuity of their own particular tenets that they become so exclusive that free dom of thought and speech arc actually i excluded from the genuine freethinker But the question with me is if we should organize another party on more liberal i principles would that party grant perfect freedom of utterance or thought to its members If a society or party can be organized that will grant perfect liberty to its mem bers of expressing their thoughts upon all of the various topics of the day both religious and scientific it would be in very deed of Divine origin which is j to do unto others as you would they should do unto you or give to others the privileges you ask for yourself I wish to say U such a society of Liberals can be organized I will ho too clad to at tach myself to it and do all in my i power to sustain it But if the funda mental principles of Christainity the truths that are contained in the New Testamentare to he excluded I should ask to be excused for I should consider I it no better than those which are already I in existence I am a freethinker and a lover of truth and freedom J W B |