| Show RIGHTS RIGHT AND reason is tire the handmaid of fancy said a shrewd man and a clear thinker at one time and the remark displayed considerable hard sense there is little that fancy can give birth to and look up upon I 1 on as correct but the mind will find reasons to support some P peoples ideas of right and wrong are very conf confused used ased and a good deal mixed they start out on a chase after what they call the rights of freemen and run as wild as an colt well it does doe seem a pity that men should be denied the fall exercise of that freedom which they desire to enjoy jailors jailers Jai lors penitentiary keepers and others who possess the power to keep unfortunate people under lock loek and key and do so ought to be called to strict account for their tyranny it is too bad that men should be bb shut up inside of four walls against their will and why should persons be prevented from indulging in the harmless pastimes of shooting and stabbing are they not free and have they not a right to do as they please why should they be hendred pursuing the pleasant eions of seduction and debauchery or when they need it helping themselves to a horse or a little money or any thing else around which they can find useful Is it not a cruel deprivation of right to prevent them from making money in any way they can whether by gambling swindling or retailing blasphemy misery corruption and vice from the running barrel we did think that the welfare peace and happiness of the community stood paramount that the rights of individuals stood bounded by the rights of others and that it was the tile prerogative of the people to ti 0 define and prescribe certain limits to eights sights the stepping beyond which would involve a wrong punishable by the authorities provided i and sustained by the people for enforcing their regulations we had thought that good order was essential to the well being and comfort of society and those antiquated notions have so strongly taken possession of us that we are j still inclined to hold to and defend them there are some men more dangerous than the cockatrice the poison of their hearts is covered with stolen sweets there reasoning powers become worse than the handmaids hand maids of fancy they become the tools of every base passion impure desire and corrupt thought we have said they are dangerous they are so to some but many of our people have learned by bitter experience the value of their logic their promises and protestations many who come here bring a heavy I 1 freight of fancied superiority with them they seem to imagine thao tha the mor mons are and must of necessity be fools they have been told so perhaps and it must be true we beg them to undeceive ve themselves we go to bed bedy body and adget get up id hl the morning as early earleas jus jis our neighbors labors li bors and with our eyes open we ll 11 hay v L passed through a rather serious S training trai 1 ni ng in in learning earning I 1 what are rights wh what at JE N rig right and what is wrong and most assuredly we will defend the right and oppose the wrong though three cant litigants keep wiggling at transposing the words ti till all ail their plentiful stock of wind is exhausted I 1 |
