The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-04

ism and toward the fullest and grand
est development of individual liberty
OF lie and thought and conscience. No
one who studies the course of human
development can fail to recognize that
the force of this current will ultimate
~ prevail over all opposing influences.
NO plan to check or subjugate the ris-
! ing power Of individual opinion in the
new state, however carefully or skill
fully it may have been designed. can
command the slightest prospect of sue
cess against the strong tide of indi-
Yldual liberty which is sweeping across
the new world from ocean to ocean.
1t is quite natural, however. that
leaders who have grown up under a
policy which set aside the rights of
individuals for the benefit of an insti-
tutlon, should fail to recognize the
dawning of a new era which makes the
abandonment of that policy impera-
tive. Some one leader, it is true, with
clearer vision and broader comprehen-
sion OF human need and human des-
tiny, may enter into sympathy with
the spirit of the new time. Where one
such does arise he will be debarred
from fellowship, and his voice will be
silenced in the councils. But that
voice thus silenced in the narrow
council hall, viii ring like the sum-
sounding board of human hearts The
light of his individual life may be
darkened by private disappointment;
but 1t will shine, strong, clear and
star-lilSe, as a guide and inspiration to
the younger generation, who in their
independent, earnest, freedom-loving
lives, will fulfill the prophecy of his
clearer vision. The clear brain and
true heart of one such man as Moses
afCtha Loo
citizens OF our rising state into
clearer comprehension and fuller real
ization of the worth of Individual
liberty Of thought and conscience.
The situation does not demand at
present the formation Of new political
affiliations, nor the reorganizing of
party lines or policies. It is not a
question of policy, but of principle. 1t
demands that every true and earnest
NE IN every party, sect, society and
class, shall support at all times and in
every way this principle of freedom.
IL is "a religious duty. The first duty
OF every human soul to God and to
itself is to develop it's own best and
largest capabilities OF growth. No
human being has the right to permit
his own development as a child OF
God to be dwarfed and belittled
ny servile obedience TO dicta-
ton Every member of a
civil government must yield obedience
to the laws of that government. This
is the very essence of his obligation as
a citizen But in the sbaping of +be
laws OF such government it is not
only the right but also the duty of
every citizen 10 assert his own indi-
Vidual opinion, untrammeled by dfeta-
Elon from any authority, ecclesiastical
or otherwise. It is, moreover. a reiig-
lCus duty growing out of the fact of
common brotherhood. The feudal vas
salage and ecclesiastical domination of
the middle ages made any true real
ization of the brotherhood of man i'm
possible. True brotherhood must rest
upon mutual recognition of one an
ctfler's right to acknowledgment ANY
interference with individual rights is
a direct blow against that brotherhood
OF human 'helpfulness which should be
the dearest aim of every religious or
ganization.
The demand of the present time is
summons to the deeps. It requires
the influence of earnest manhood and
womanhood. 1t demands that men
shall subordinate political ambition
and the desire fo~ gain and prefermert
to the assertion of their manhood.
God give us men! A time like this de-
mands
Strong minds, brave hearts, free thought
earnest lives.
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill:
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor;
Men who will not lie;
Brave men, sun-crowned, who live above
the fog,
In public duty and in private thinking.
For while the rabble with their thumb
worn creeds.
Their large professions and their little
Deeds
Mingle in petty strife. Lo. Freedom
,weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting JUS
tice sleeps.
God give US mem"