New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-04
liberty AND LAW.

One hundred and ten years ago, In small
room, fifty six men signed paper which
brought into being nation now the most pow
eiful and the most prosperous on earth Inc
source of the prosperity and the power is known
to all the wold and yet there are men who do
not comprehend it, even of the citizens who
share the blessings and the glollcs OF the great
republic 1t is land OF liberty, they say, and
forthwith they claim the right to take away the
liberties OF others. 1t cost civil war to con-
vince certain citizens Of the Republic that Id
erty did not mean the right TO hold other men
in slavery 1t may cost the conviction ana I'M
piisonmcnt Of many besides the Doycotters
sentenced on Friday, to convince leaders OF or
ganized labor that liberty does not mean the
hight to deprive other men of fIedom to wo.k
Men who do not comprehend what liberty
means, whether they come here from other
lands where liberty is not known or come nom
parts of our own country where false ideas OF
its meaning have prevailed, need only the
golden ne us an Interpreter OF the Declaration
of Independence. Whatever hight one Amcn-
can citizen has by virtue OF his freedom, every
other also has, and ii can never be mole than a
right to Do unto Others "a you would they
should do unto YOU" The master would LOT
have thought it land OF liberty Tor him, II he
had been held as a slave, and the boycotteI would
quickly see and resent the tyranny Ii all EN-
ployers should boycott him But how many there
are, who know 10 little of Liberty that they
think it a right to do as they please, whether
they wrong other men OF not How many
there are, who think liberty SETS up then oWl4
will against the law, their own passions o.
nd -f,..
count it tyranny ii the law Will not let them rob
Others, just as those who deny the Laws OF God
falsely call them elves " free thinkcr,.'
1t is not that sort OF Liberty which our fathers
proclaimed in Independence Hall. IL Was not
that sort OF liberty which they won by heroic
endurance at Valley Folgc and by brave ex-
posure of their lives from Bunker Hill to York
town. People who want that sort OF liberty
ale not yet tit for a part Ill sell government
because they have not begun to govern them
selves They are entitled to no shane Ill the
glorious heritage ol 49, because they deny that
equality of rights which is the veIycorneI- tone
of American freedom. No man has night 10
be free who does not respect the night OF others
to be free, and he who tiies 10 tylannize over
others, OF to deny them any tights winch he
claims for himself, only proves that he has not
grown out OF mental and moral infancy, ana
still needs over him the pdteinal Iod OF some
strong government rebellion OF slave holders
had to be crushed the wouli- he tyrdnts who call
themselves labor organizers or socialists When
they Try to deprive others of their freedom To
work. are as truly enemies alike OF free labor and
of free government a. the Slave hodels and the
Anarchists deserve the dungeon and the halter
even more at Chicde 90 than at ST. Petersburg,
because justice at Chicago means respect for the
equal rights OF all.
The great Republic is the worlds schC DIN .stcr
A. it has taught the Nations that free government
Is strong government, it must teach those
who come here ignorant Of freedom, and only
wanting to escape from restraint, that the law
of equal rights for all and equal justice to all
undciles and gives shape to all human laws
that have any business to survive. If they can
not obey the law willingly, and respect the
tight, of every other man, labOler o. employee.
without the restraint of armed policemen and
years in prison cells, it goes hard, III every
good school, for those who are slow to learn,
and trades tyranny at the north, denial of free
dom to vote OF 10 SPEAK, aud denial of freedom
to work OF To choose wolkmen for their merit,
will 20 down before the strong and steady
hand of Government OF the people, for the
people, and by the people, that the doctrine vi
the Declaration OF Independence may every
where prevail throughout the land.