| Show LIBERTT i 1 That everyman has a right to express ex-press his ideas and views eo long as they do not curtail the privileges of his fellow citzen is a fact fhich has been recognized for many years and that it should be so looked upon eve ywhere seems no more than just and right However this maybe may-be there is a certain class who deny this and were it in their power would deprive others of that which they seem to appreciate so much themselves Even the first principles prin-ciples of their liberality and freedom in thought which should be paramount to all others are here caused to assume a stunted growth which shows sfgns of early deformity from no other cause than that of strangulation Why cot let them grow and assume that strength which is so necessary to health and then if necessary to produce a change graft something into the already al-ready strong and healthy mind which will prove an assistance and act as an aid to the higher and broader growth of the whole I That the early growth should be watched carefully all will agree but this same care should not be the cause of that malformation of ideas referred to above Experience should teach those who have the training of the youth that it is dangerous in the extreme to allow any idea to take possession of the mind which at best can be retained but a Ehort time when the possessor of that idea must commence the arduous task of unlearning that which he has been taught to believe ia true The idea must go if it does not conform to reason and justice This going back makes the cdu cation of the mind one of the most discouraging tasks for by the reception re-ception of false ide B and their subsequent removal the intellectual growth and advancement are retarded re-tarded continually This fancied advancement and the return to a certain point to begin anew make the powers weary and finally they linger at some point to rest and white theie a resolution reso-lution is formed to stop and make no endeavor to advance Thus a false idea from the moment of its conception proves the first stumbling stumb-ling block on tLe roadjo advancement advance-ment A broad and charitable view of life can not be obtained by one whose ideas have been pinned and tied down until they have assumed an unnatural form There is a glorious and vigorou life to live here in these muriai agirt valleys the very air nl earth speak to U3 of thit broad and nobe life which we might Jive that life which every true man and woman I wo-man strives to make the example of their lives How they hope to seethe see-the time when that glorious freedom free-dom will be within the reach of al J when those grand institutions to much spoken of and to which all Americans point withpride will assume as-sume some definite shape and not be as now mere phantoms of the imagination when all will unite in the achievement of one great and grand purpose the proper understanding under-standing and practice of that God given principleliberty |
