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Show "INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM." The current number of an Eastern periodical quotes from the speech of Former Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah concerning the i ommercial conditions con-ditions established and maintained by the Mormon church. It pays him the compliment of heading his speech "A Battle for Individual Freedom. ' fn one partlCUlai phase of the gresf question the designation is correct But the speech WBI more t was an appeal for the relinquishment of commercial tyranny by a church over Individual rights and for the enfranchisement of a State, and the work of the American party Is the practical effort to carry out that Idea of setting Utah and her Individual citizens free from a fanatic's control. No liberty can exist, In the highest sense of the term, when the Individual In-dividual Is deprived of the rights which his fellows enjoy In other parts of the country. If a man p.ay not establish salt works In I tah because a bigoted ri i lesiastical king decrees an inhibition. if he may not speak freely on the subject sub-ject afterward without punishment, j then the words "Individual freedom" I are without value except as a satirical reflet Hon upon conditions here. This is a struggle for Individual free-dom free-dom and for recovery of honor hy a State. It Is a battle which will finally place ( (.in back in the high esteem of the Nation and th- Nations best cltl-1 cltl-1 zenshlp. I ntll the contest Is won there Is no Individual freedom, nor In the commun- lty anything less than a satrapy of a . monarch who sits on a throne of fa- nntlclbni and wields B scepter of super-i super-i stltlon. |