Show the he old V id settler my dear san Jua ners ALBERT R LYMAN im going to do just as I 1 danin damn please chris declared declai ed in stubborn emphasis my right the right of every man inan anybody trying to interfere with my liberty had better look out liberty echoed old luke do you know what liberty is why anybody knows k what liberty is the boy snarled figuring that hi his s good serse sense had been called into question something ng in the heart of every man got any gumption 11 do you think every man knows what liberty is for and what to do with it why sure he knows what to do with it if he ha has s a chance chris affair affirmed med I 1 impatient in pa but a little curious to know what old luke had in mind do you thirk everybody knows enough about liberty to get out orf of it what there is in it fo for r them well they y know enough about it to get the things they want and its nobody alses business what a feller wants to get out of his liberty do you get out of your liberty the things that you really want oid luke pursued now give that a good think one thing that you want for your liberty is to keep it another is to extend it do these people who do just as they please keep their liberty do they extend it or does docs their treatment of it make it more and more narrow till they have lost the main part of it chris studied for an answer well they keep it if somebody dont take it away and they extend it if they are allowed allor wed to Is that the rule or the exception welli but maybe you youve I 1 ve got some statistics I 1 th the e boy faltered all I 1 know is what I 1 see you see enough that is there is plenty for you to see right here in school heres dick and tom who say like you that they are going to do just as they please they insist that is a part of their liberty which no one has any right continued on page 4 THE OLD SETT SETTLER LEft continued from brorn pae pa e 1 to challenge they refuse to get their ass assignments 1 because refusal is a part of their liberty and already they have cut short some of the liberties they could enjoy by making use of their opportunity they hide out and smoke some cigarettes drink whiskey raid melon patches and do a lot of thin thins things s which already have deprived them of the liberty to look people in the face as they could at one time in their lives we have here a few boys who are working with all their might to get the advantages which this school offers they too are boing being just what they please to do but they know what liberty is and how valuable it is and they please to hang on to it and extend it when you boys go out of this school three years from now who is going to have the greatest liberty and the best hold on it Is it going to be the boys who do what they please in getting their assignments or you fellows who simply do just what you please regardless chris scratched his head maybe I 1 aint got the right slant on it he admitted |