Show AS TO RELIGION A pent Rent leman discussing the exposures begun in the regarding the society called the western star or Amo rinee 0 and which have hare fit since n ce been laken up by the press and public generally expressed himself in a tone lone savoring ug g somewhat of indignation he thought anu and properly that a man has a right to his hie own views and inclinations ou any subject whatsoever and that he has a right to combine with others holding similar eio illar views for the purpose of mutual understanding and action so long as such action is not forbidden by is law w furthermore it was pronoun pronounced ceu a piece or of bigotry on the part ot of the city council or any other body or person to deprive or attempt to deprive the members of auy any such organization ot of their dally daily em by reason ot of such membership 1 I 1 lie he case is very adroitly stated but bui is somewhat too much like the argument of a lawyer who has himself with but ine ane side oi 01 a cause and given it so eo much attention that it had lab become measurably indoctrinated in him whereby he can see fee little litile or nothing commendable in the other side there is no question regarding mens mena right to combine and form either bechet or public soule ties so long as no inthac eions of legal restraints are in view they may even contemplate the avex ovex throw oi 01 a law or of any number of laws BO 93 long as the proposition is tu to be controlled in their action by the recognized aud customary procedure there are also some soine things which they way may do or latend intend to du do thit that are not far forbidden bidden by the statutes but which make wem mem ame amenable bable t public opinion and subject theato them to consequences consequence which if not punitive are at least exemplary for I 1 instance the law does not forbid two or more persons uniting in such an object ae the of another knotner or others who daveau have an ambition in a certain lawful direction and lu in compassing his ue de leit many shameful things which the laws do not may be as they often are doila but while the courts hod and their auxiliaries are silent anu and motionless regarding such nefarious proceedings it does not follow that hat that other and more powerful brizal tribunal spoken of should not act and its actions or conclusions when delber dalber abely taken against the malefactor seldom fall of justice in its most concrete and precise form it la 18 the right of a man or a number of men conjointly or separately to array themselves against the CaL catholic bolic church or any other religious orga organization rilza they have the undisputed and indisputable privilege of withholding social recognition from and suspending business re relations latimus with such or any organizations they have also the right so 40 far as the public enactments are concerned to use their separate or united influence to prevent the keople they oppose from obtaining office or employment in the community but in exercising it they must no not ooin cona plain if the letter sentiment ol of the people shall hall prevail against them and it instead of finding the wool they went in quest of they return shorn it is riot not altogether a question of their right to do the things spoken of it is a question of the good taste not to say manliness of complaining who when n proscriptive lve measures prove to lo be a bo boomerang the united 8 sates atso la is the land of free dom physical and mental whitt what is in to one must under unde r similar circumstances be freedom to another the social code by means of which we find justification for giving blows blow sex extends no protection or consol consolation atin a as a rule when we axe are subjected to taking them it is a law of retaliation of course and thus not to be commended by itself but when it to is practiced in accordance with the higher law of self preservation the od odium iu in i a w holly with the aggressors it is IN a poor business busi to put it mil ily for any one to engage io in thin hunting and hounding of a peo pie because of their religious convictions 1 vict I ions or nativity and when it la is engaged in by those who have riot not 0 ly ily intelligence and learning of their own but the light of a dozen gene generations of steady and upward human progress to guide them such proceedings ings became so assailable that they need not dot be surprised it the deri demon tiou that i they hey call up from the vasty depths of 01 dark ages refuses to be on p the terms and at the time they would prefer |