| Show HOT CROSS BUNN gover GovEn sor BUN bunn of idaho in a red hot sizzling lin 1 anti antl 1 mormon lormon 1 messa message e to the idaho legislature exposing his ignorance of the subject and his bl bigotry 0 t intolerance and imbecility informs the assembled lawmakers law makers that the constitution of our nation guarantees to every person of whatever birt hrank or condition past or present a generous freedom in his own thoughts thought sand and religious convictions what a won ivon d erful piece of information and aud what lofty bofty ideas of 11 generous freedom burn in it tile me bosom odthe ol 01 the idaho bunn I 1 freedom of thought and freedom of conviction 1 when did they become the property of a nation or government how can that be guaranteed to ally aily one which cannot be controlled contrasted of what value is constitutional protection to 1 liberty of thought pr liberty of belief these do not require protection they cannot be assailed they are beyond the power of man thought and conviction cannot be imprisoned neither can they be crushed out no law can touch them no law can preserve serve e t them ile tle m they are independent of all law except the laws of their existence and prod production action thought is free of itself conviction is assured of its own liberty to talk then of generosity in it guaranteeing that free freedom dori dorl which all people possess aud t that h at no earthly mr athly power can rob them of esthe is the nonsense governor nuan nunn has reference to the constitutional guaranty of rell reli religious ious lous freedom and his object is to restrict that I 1 guaranty to liberty of thought and faith which need no p protecting tecal edict an and are beyond eyon evon its enfil influence ce this is is done for the purpose of trying t to trample upon the real guaranty provided la in the sacred instrument which hn he tries to pervert the language of the constitution ution often quoted is congress shall pass no law respecting an e establishment lish ment of rell reli religion lon ion or pro prohibiting Waiting the free exercise thereof I 1 nothing N there about freedom of though thought c and religious conviction for the framers trainers of the constitution were not fools jools nor intellectual babies neither were they perpetrating a jest on humanity they were patriotic large n minded men in terrible earnest and what they wished to protect was something f that grows out of thought and con conviction letlon and by which they are manifested that is the acts of people based upon their rell alous convictions tile me iree tree exercise of rell reli religion gion glon needs to be guaranteed free thought is secured in the nature of things and if language means anything acts are meant in the first amendment not thoughts establishments not convictions of religion of course there must be a limit to such actions and that limit as we have often explained comes where the liberty of religious exercise impinges upon human rights natural or acquired no mans religious freedom is guaranteed gumpad to the extent of his invasion in V a S i or of the rights of others if he keeps within these bounds no man or law hus inas the constitutional right to interfere with his religious exercises his thoughts and convictions cannot be curta curtailed cur led aed and his actions springing must not be so long as he keeps inside the line of the liberty here defined such guaranties guarantees guaran aarant ties lesof of liberty as minded like ilke governor B bunn and the latter day pharisees Pharis ees ces from whom he ile plagiarized plagiarizer his definition seek to substitute for the genuine are arc only grotesque and babbling mockeries mock eries those who holu hord them thein out as the tile bulwarks bulwa set up in the constitution are arc seeking to deceive the country and trying tying to lo trample on the instrument designed dei del deigned gued to preset ve the inherent rights rl rhth of nia man they arc are enemies to freedom fre edoin hostile liot ilot ho stile yle yie to republican government and ana foes loes of nt reil religion and of progress buim ought to n be roasted a eittle little in the fire tire of thought and the oven of experience at present he seems though awfully hot anone on one side tobe to be only about half hait baked |
