Show IS UNION THE DEATH OF LIBERTY IT is of no DO earthly use to dispute with an opponent whose mind is so dense that lie cannot how bow two or a dozen or a hundred or more persons can be brought to understand a given idea or principle alike without losing their individual liberty yet that Is the condition of the sophist who undertakes almost daily to prove through a local sheet that the mormons Mor mons are arc and must be in bondage because they are in unity but it ought to be clear to every sane and thinking person that if two persons see the same thing in the same light a greater number of persons may also be brought to similar u understanding and if neither of the two loses any liberty by becoming convinced that the other is right light neither would a unity of faith or comprehension interfere with the freedom of any of the whole number great or small who tous thus should come to a common understanding according to the logic of this poor creat creature pre in id order to be perfectly free every individual must diner differ in all things from every other individual both in sentiment and in action the union of states must be a sign of their slavery the organization of a party means the loss of liberty to every one of its members combination of capital or of labor signifies serfdom to all who join in it education is a means to destroy freedom and the acceptance of a truth by more than one mind means the death of liberty to all the others other if a hundred students learn the multiplication table perfectly do they not all ail come to the same mind in reference to given eiven mathematical principle do they lose their liberty in their unity are believers in a protective tariff serfs because they are agreed as to that policy are A re workers for free coinage slaves lecause because they are united in a common cause if a thousand men agree as to any principle or fact or to engage in any enterprise or labor does this necessarily involve the loss of personal fre freedom edow and what difference would there be if the union of mind and of effort between a number of persons was in regard to religious doctrine and religious work our position is that the unity of faith andoe and of purpose among latter day saints such as it Is is not the result of any coercion or compulsion in any degree but of agreement in mind aided by the ahe light of the same spirit and that instead of this bring ing them into bondage it really sets them free for the truth makes men free as stated by a reasoner and religionist of old while on our r mia leading sophist and of words anti and their meaning takes the ground va virtually that truth and its perception establishes bondage and destroys liberty D es this need further argument |