The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-17

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more land than he uses, make him sell 1t.
Let twelve men in the courts decide what
the property is worth. / want every man
to have a home. don't want the country
to be owned by few people, and the rest
all tenants. If q man gets rich he Is not
apt to be patriotic. He hires substitute
and cuts coupons from his bonds. / don't
want one man to have more land than he
can use. 1t you go to theater and see IuV
seats vacant and try to sit down in one OF
them, but are told that they all belong TO
Lord So and So, or Duke So and So. or 70
such a corporation or millionaire, you say
that you have not been treated politely.
are empty" Nature has invited All her
children to the earth, and so long as tnere
is room for all to sit down, no man should
have more chairs than he can fill.
1t is hardly worth while to free cages
and keep birds in prison. or TO Tree the
body and make convict of the mlnd;
So while l have had the cheerful habit OF
could for intellectual liberty. Every soul
is entitled to be free. What light Is 20 tne
eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love Is
to the heart, liberty is to the soul OF man.
Liberty is the sunshine OF the mlhd.
Without liberty man would soon go PACK
TO the dens and caves of barbarians; WIN
liberty we grow intellectually rich. Let
mon, give the best guess he can az an
times. 1t is not much to stop the nttle
spring. But stop all the springs ana soon
the creeks cease to murmur, ana Tue rivers
cease to run, and the ocean would leaVe on
the shore its last billow. If you deny TO
men the right to think, soon the great
Mississippi of thought dries up and the
great reservoir of knowledge becomes a
sandy desert. Let every man express MS
own thought. am going to do 1t sc long
as remember language.
No man has had crowns enough on his
head, or crosiers enough in MS nand, or
robes enough, or money enough, or stand
ing armies enough to prevent my saying
what believe, and giving the fruit OF my
brain and my heart to my ieiiow men.
That is my doctrine, and want every one
of you to swear that from this DAY hence
forth you will think for yourself and de-
fend the right of free speech ana free
thought. Let us not only be tree, but see
to it that all others are free.
Coming back to the text, as ministers
sometimes but not frequently do, all dark
ness is Ignorance. 1t is your duty 70 edu-
cate yourself as best you can. We have
got rid of kings; now let us get rid OF
ghosts. Let US get rid OF mistakes. Let
us get rid of that monster, ignorance. Ii
you know thing, tell your child you
know it; and if you don't know 1t, tell
him you don't know it.
Now, in order that We may be intelligent
in this country, let US stand by the schools.
Let US say that the property OF the nation
shall educate the nation. No matter how
many millions man is worth, make him
pay for the schools whether he has any
children or not. Property is valuable in
proportion as people are Intelligent and
honest. What is property worth In a town
full of ignoramuses?
Let US go on until the schoolhouse is
the finest building in town. Let the chill
dren be educated with the best possible
means, and if is possible to make my boys
know more than l do, let's do it. Let it be
every mans aim when he dies to leave
little more sense in his boys head than he
takes to the other world. want to live
until toll is honestly paid; until no person
is perfectly happy SO long as somebody is
toiling; until it will not be enough to live
in palace if woman o few blocks away
is working and stitching and praying that
the angel of death may. with cold fingers,
touch her weary heart.
| hope the time will come when men
will say, "If others are unhappy I cannot
be quite happy myself"
Teach your children to investigate for
themselves. A declaration of somebody
should be merely reason for them to inves-
tigate. all should be investigators and
none followers. There is no darkness but
"
Switzerland, and Gessler represents the
hosts of ignorance, and Tell the host of in
telligence. 1t is so now. but the arrows
shot from the bow of Tell are now arrows
of light that do not kill but develop the in
tellect. OF all words liberty is the greatest.
Without liberty you can neither worship
nor curse. 1t bears the relation to thought
that space does to matter. Take the
word of liberty from the language of
man. and there are no words left worth
speaking. Liberty means opportunity;
liberty means that you can climb little
higher than your father did; that you
must not kill the child of your brain.
When you repeat the word do so as if
there was thrill in your blood.
Liberty Think what you enjoy. There
is no liberty in Germany but on the bat
tlefeld. In Russia every tongue is
convict and every mouth a prison, and
there is Siberia for the honest man and
noble woman. There is little liberty in
the Old World. Here..we are free and we
should set the example for the nations
of the Old World / want the state de-
difference between those who represent
the people and those who represent the
crowns. | would have the representative
of the car OF Russia cool his heels in the
ante-chamber while the minister from
Mexico talked, because the minister from
Mexico represents people and not king.
l would have the representatives of repub-
lies preferred; and then place constltu-
tional monarchies and finally the car of
Russia. Let US show the kings that We be-
Heve our own doctrine. And now, ladies'
and gentlemen, we have met simply TO
celebrate the sixth century of Swiss free
dom. In a larger sense, we have met TO
celebrate freedom everywhere and during
all time. / am glad that have been hon.
ored with an invitation to address you on
this occasion. l expected merely
to speak few words: but | have
been pushed forward, and on
such occasions there is very lit
tie freedom; L want you all to feel that
there IS nothing equal to human freedom.
There Is nothing more debasing than a
slave, except the man who enslayes him.
Don't let us be afraid that somebody else
will outstrlp US in the work of life. Be
generous and helpful to all and bury envy.
Suppose you go to the races tomorrow ana
see blooded horse, looking the persona
fcatlon OF life, with distended nostrils,
blazing eyes, quivering tanks. and that
mule Is to run in the race. The blooded
horse Will not object. 1t will be some
scrub with cockleburrs in his tail that will
OBJECT, and II he feels the breath OF the
coming mule, will Jump the track. Let
every one who feels his superiority be
brave enough and splendid enough to give
all the right of competition and throw no
obstacle IN anyone's path.
Liberty is the god of my idolatry. Lib
erty, is the only diety that hates the bend
ed knee. Liberty, in the temple domed
with stars, thy worshipers do not bow or
crlnge or kneel, or crawl. The imprint
OF tne ups OF thy worshipers IS never seen
In the DUST. At thy affairs, women do not
Sacrlnce their babies or men their thoughts.