The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-31
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Dis nepbeW. B. ByeS Srssf1s d.

regard as oppressive what l regard as
wise and salutary restraint, and as ~
ranny. what | hold to be just and leSl-
innate government. We must know
what liberty is before we can know
what violates it,
Liberty. L have said. is the free and
full exercise of all my right as man.
1T is undoubtedly that, but is 1t
nothing more?
Il can conceive no broader liberty
than that"
THE rights of man as man are sim
plv his natural rights. rights which
one has by virtue of the fact that he is
a man. and which every man has equal
" with every other man. If you rec
ognize only these rights, you exclude
from your notion of liberty your rights
as a scholar. as a gentleman. as
citizen. as a proprietor. and, II such
YOU We're your right as a magistrate
as a senator. as q sovereign prince. Do
YOU hold that there is true liberty
where these rights, civil rights, adven-
titfous or vested rights as they are
called. are not secured to their pos
sessors?"
IAN men have equal rights. and lib
erty is enjoyed only where equal rights
are secured to all
LAS men all have equal rights, ana
there is no liberty where these are not
secured to all, however high or now
ever low. however rich, or however
poor. / grant; but do you wish to be
understood to maintain that liberty eX-
cIudes or denies all rights not includ-
ed in. those equal rights possessed
alike by every mani"
Liberty demands equality, and adj
mits no unequal rights or special priv
ileges."
Regarded simply as men in state
of nature as it is called. all that rs
very true. But men live in society. and
are to be regarded not as existing III
state of naturealone. In civil So
ciety they have or are supposed to nave
an equal rights, special rights growing
out of their special relationship rights
of husband and wife. of parents and
children, rights of property, rights of
position or rank, rights of office, etc
Do you deny all rights of this sort or
do YOU hold that true liberty requires
the free and full exercise of these
rights, as well as of the natural rights.
or the rights of man as man."
II know no rights, but my simple
natural rights as a man.
And these rights being equal, every
man has an equal right with yourself
to your very large. and desirable es-
to every mans wife. Either General
Pierce has no right to fill the office of
president, and to discharge it's duties,
or else every man, no matter of what
nation or country, has an equal right
to call himself president of the United
States. and to act as such. AS much
must be said of every governor of the
state. of every senator or representa-
tive. of evry magistrate, and of every
public officer. There would be some
confusion and disorder were to admit
all this Government would be impos-
sible, and civil society would be dis
solved: for civic society is possibly
only on condition that there are civil
rights. and that these rights are Sc
cured"
LAS a Democrat I assert universal
SUFFRAGE and eligibility. All should be
citizens and electors. and all should be
eligible to any and every office in the
gift of the people. One man has not
more right to be elected president than
an other"