The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-11

MEN look for, fight for, die for
MI freedom. They call it birth
right 1t represents an idol
in the minds eye. Heaven is
pictured as the consumation of
freedom, and, to optimists, the
hope of an age here which shall find
almost universal freedom is constantly
cherished. But freedom is not handed
down to us, but is to be entered into
by US. Freedom grows out of, and de-
ponds upon, knowledge of the truth
and is perpetuated by adherence to
the truth.
Freedom is recreated year by year,
In hearts wide open to the Godward
side,
In souls calm cadenced as the rolling
sphere;
In minds that sway the future like a
tide.
No broadest creeds can hold her and
no codes;
She chooses men for her august
abodes,
Building them fair and fronting to the
dawn"
In Civilized Society Freedom Must Be
Restricted
This is in proportion as we ascend
in civilization. The cry of anarchy
is, Down with legislatures, police
courts and law. They restrict our lib
erty. They take away our inalienable
rights. Well they went down a few
years ago in Springfield, ILL.,, when
the mob held carnival in the blood of
black men. They are down now in
many parts of Mexico. Twice in the
book of Judges we read, "In those
days there was no king in Israel, every
man did that which was right in his
own eyes" History assures us that
those were the days of greatest dark
ness and oppression-the least of real
liberty. Let every one do so in any
city today and He'll would have begun
here.
The Statue of Liberty on Bedlow
Island is seriously misinterpreted by
many coming to our shores. The re-
suit is law defiance, increased muir
der, till we have left even Turkey in
the shade, having over 5000 mob vic
tins within twenty years. How 1 wish
that the first sight of every prospec-
tive American, reaching our shores,
could be, not that colossal foreign
conception, but the real American
monument, erected to the memory of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Here is
seen the true American ideal. Around
the great pedestal sit the figures of
Freedom, Justice, Education and Re-
ligion, while surrounding all is the
colossal figure of Faith, holding aloft
in her hand the open Bible. This is
our monument of liberty, inspired and
supported by that which gives it con-
tent. The freedom of the press is a
splendid and a necessary thing, but not
when it instills anarchy or class
hatred or ridicules sacred institutions,
out of which our very liberties spring.
Freedom to buy and sell is an inalien-
able right, but not when weak and de-
fenseless ones are debauched and in
nocent ones made to suffer, or when
pagan nations are ruined with opium
or rum from Christian lands. Our
freedom must not transgress the
bounds of civilization, of law, of NOR
atty, of government Government is
a copartnership, an agreement against
which, if one prove false, its benefits
are diminished to the extent of the
influence of the wrong-doer Freedom
is allowable to virtue, not to vice; to
love, not to hate; to decency and So
berness, not to vulgarity, reveling and
shame The crime fattener, the Sc
Queer, the rake, the human vampire
all clamor for rights and denounce in.
reference. Freedom by them is sad
ly limited, improperly defined, poorly
understood.