The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-07
Uncle Jack and
Bis f1epDew.
BY Orestis III.
BrcWnScG1.

other rights, which are equal. The
equal rights are general, the others are
special, but The special does not con-
tradict the general. 1 do John Smith
no wrong when 1 employ instead of him
Bill Thompson to be my coachman.
do no wrong to Peter Hagarty' S
nephew in leaving my estate to my own
nephew instead of leaving it to him,
although by so doing l make my
nephew a rich man, and leave Peters
poor; for Peters nephew has no nat
ural or acquired right to my estate. If
he is suffering, [ am bound by the
common ties of humanity and religion
to relieve him, but not to enrich him.
so you see, dear Dick, that your
dream that men have natural right
to equality in all things is a dream,
and a very silly dream, not worth re-
lating. There are two classes of
rights, natural rights and civil rights,
or the rights of men as men and the
rights of men as members of society.
both as members OF natural society and
of civil and religious society. You and
your associates recognize only the first
class of rights, and regard liberty as
restricted to the free and full exercise
of them, and as consequence, their
right to make war on all other rights
and to rob their possessors of them.
Here is where you are wrong, and here
is why | cannot hold you 10 be true
friends of liberty. but it's enemies rath-
er Your views OF what liberty is are
too superficial and narrow. You do not
mean enough by liberty to satisfy me.
Your liberty would leave me only d
small portion of my rights, and L de-
mand liberty which leaves me in full
nnSgpSGinr1 IF oil rio pI i'm
the right in the name of liberty to dis
possess me of all my vested rights,
and in so far you make liberty a pre-
text for robbery and oppression. We
whom you call old fogies have a
broader and deeper love of liberty than
you have.
I'VE assert the natural and equal
rights of men as energetically as you
do, that we do not make common cause
with you. Are we not men as we'll as
you? And is not whatever is human
as near to us as to you? Who gave
you youngsters the monopoly of hui
manity? Who made you more alive to
wrongs and outrages upon a fellow
man than we are? Do you imagine,
because age thins the blood and abates
the fire of passion, that it dries up the
affections of the heart and blunts the
till you are old, and you will learn that
the heart of old beats as warm and as
lovingly as that of the young, and that
nothing pertaining to the soul ever
becomes scar and yellow. We go not
with you; we oppose you, because we
hold vested rights as sacred and in
violable as the natural rights them
selves, in which they have their origin
and foundation, and because you tram
pie on them and are banded together
to destroy them, and thus to take away
all our protection even for our natural
rights. We love liberty too much and
are too determined to maintain it in
its broadcast and fullest sense to be
your accomplices. 1t is as the friends
of liberty, it is in the name of liberty.
a sacred name for US, and which you
only profane, that we oppose you and
resist to the utmost your revolutionary
schemes, and your anti-liberal, your
tyrannical movements"