Beaver County News | 1916-08-04 | Page 8 | Economic and Social Liberty are of as Much Importance as Political Freedom

" ij Economic and Social Liberty Ara Of As Much Importance As Political Freedom By DR. EDMUND J. JAMES President University of Illinois I J Xo man is a free man who is so confined by the mere effort of earning earn-ing i::s daily bread that he has no time for thought, no time for emotion, iw lime for living a higher life, and in no country is equality existing in which men are so bound down by the mere fact of keeping bodv and siul together that they cannot live lives worthy of human beings. Political liberty is not by any means the only liberty for which the hitman being is anxious and toward which he is aspiring. Economic liberty and social liberty are just as fundamental and all-pervading necessities neces-sities of the free human being as political liberty itself. We must look forward, therefore, to the realization of this end as the ultimate ideal of the republic, and to this ideal we claim that all men who fan! into our midst and become a part of our society shall be devoted, and (hat this aspiration shall become theirs.