The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-07
TEACHERS URGED TO
AID LIBERTY CAUSE
Prominent Educators Hear
the Rev. Elmer |. Goshen
Advocate New Freedom.

THE Story of the Cost of Liberty was
yesterday morning at the First Congrega-
tional church in honor Of the National
Education assocla ton delegates by the
Rev Elmer l. Goshen The church was
crowded special seats being provided for
President T.. r, Fairchlld, Secretary ID, w
Springer and members OF their special vis-
iting party SO strong was the sermon
that the audience several times broke out
In prolonged applause.
The minister painted a picture OF the
rise from the brute world and the differ
ent steps toward liberty that have been
taken Egypt, he said was d contributor
toward the cause Of liberty until she shut
herself off from the other natioDs and re-
fused 70 advance; Greece with the great
est thinkers OF history. wrote another
chapter in the cost OF liberty when she
fell because she permitted the few to rule,
and Rome was destroyed by the barba
rians after she had attempted TO enslave
the entire world. Giving other ma tons as
examples Of the cost OF liberty, Dr. Goshen
came down to the present time and dis
cusSed the modern cost oil liberty. lie
said:
We think we are free and we teach
our children that the law OF supply
and demand controls the prices OF
foodstuffs. Yet we know that at the
crossroads of every American city of
decide in advance what prices shall
be paid for the food Of the masses. |
long for the day of real freedom, when
We Shall enact a mighty law that will
tell the world that here in America TO
gamble in foodstuffs Is crime.
We think We are free. and right here
in Utah we are in the midst OF 100
miles of coal lands, where there is
enough coal TO warm everybody. There
81 should 1hs have aver This f'y would M tell tell the
world that the industries In the
United States are for the people and
not for the few We call ourselves a
free people, and tomorrow night q.
900 900 child slaves, with muddled
minds and aching backs will go forth
from the factories, In country OF
its inalienable rights-sunshine. flow
ers, fields and the natural growth OF
childhood,
This week Is education week in
Utah We are proud 10 entertain the
teachers Of America, the teachers who
have il in their hands to write a great
chapter in the story OF the cost OF
liberty. Let us dare to say TO these
teachers that the school, the church
, or the state that is founded upon any
thing but liberty Is bound TO perish,
We boast today of our public
schools and we'll may we boast, Tor
of the boulevard and the child OF the
slum They throw open arms to the
boy who comes with the blue blood OF
aristocracy in his veins, and TO the
one who comes with the better and
unrecognized blood OF the artisan,
The public school is the one place
where the democracy of merit out
shines the aristocracy OF pun, But let
US all remember that this school has
been founded and preserved by those
who have believed in liberty and de-
mocraCy. Let us remember that II
this school is touched by the partisan
hands Of favoritism, that in that hour
its virtue is gone.
Let US dare TO say TO great ma
tional convention OF teachers, guard
well your liberties,
Decide your questions in the open.
and ostraciSe any man who dares to
seek TO devide them in the cloak
room.
Elect your officers because of fitness
and because of ability, and not be-
cause they suit the programme of the
designing few.
For every dollar intrusted and for
every responsibility imposed demand
account in open session. Let nc fa
vored few rule you or decide your poll
cies: remember that you are n de-
mocracy, and that the divine right Of
kings is dead. Let no policy be pur-
sued that will give any one the right
to say that the \. E, y. is an organi-
zation where pull and place and dollar
is more powerful than ability and in
tegrity and liberty.
Remember that you have a mighty
chapter to write In the story Of the
Cost of Liberty"