Show INTOLERANCE Of all the evils that have infested the human mind intolerance of opinion is among the most detestable The history of man is almost one continued record of strife of discord of torture of bloodshed bloodshed bloodshed blood blood- shed caused in great part by man being ling to bear with the the- opinions opinions- and actions cf of 3 hi his fellow man It was thus at the dawn of history it has been so until the present time tithe This Thib many many- headed monster has ruled supreme and while sitting enthroned on her Ephesian car the cries of persecuted Liberty have rung through all the ages age though often in places stifled and smothered Often has this spirit of intolerance deluged the world with tears and many times irrigated fertile plains with human gore Thus were many of the ancient wars The persecutions persecutions persecutions of the Christians by the Jews by pagan Rome and by each other also aho the persecutions of the Jews by the Christians were due almost entirely 10 to that cause cause as likewise were the wars of Mohammed and the extermination of the more than fifteen millions of wor sun shippers in Spanish America under the direction direction direction tion of Spanish priests and nobles Within seventeen centuries from the birth of Christ one hundred millions of men women and children chill children chil chi dren en l had gone to an untimely death under the religious wars and persecutions of Europe alone alone lain lain in the name of God and the kingdom kingdom kingdom king king- dom of love love love-by by their fellow man During all the centuries the mind of man has suffered a as- as much a aA a. the human race Such intolerance of the Past During During- the Present let there be no place for it Man must be free not riot only must he have ha havethe the liberty to agree with the majority but he must havethe have have- havethe havethe the 1 right ht to differ and that right must be sa sacredly sacredly sacredly sa- sa ed Mens Men's thoughts habits and natures are ue very diversified and none but a a. bigoted partisan will hope for impossible unity and he must be disappointed Give man everything but liberty and you will receive no thanks thanks endow him with freedom freedom freedom free- free I dom and anci he is next to Paradise But while hile to ta him freedom is granted companion it with ith a liberal secular education for knowledge is the the- great antagonist of intolerance and to knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge is all civilization due Let the youth of our land be taught to respect the right of individuals individuals individuals indi indi- to differ and grant it openly cordially and with a good will ilI No loss of rank abatement abatement abate abate- m ment nt of character or ostracism from society must darken the pathway of the humblest seekers after truth The right of free thought free inquiry and free speech are as bounteous as the air and the ocean Without a full and cheerful recognition of this right America is- is only a name her glory a dream her institutions j hons a mockery J j 0 A |