No man is free who will not grant freedom; nay, more, who will not contend for freedom for his strongest opponent, politically, socially, and religiously. No Republican is a free man who is not willing to grant equal freedom to his Democratic neighbor. No Democrat is a free man who will not contend for equal freedom, right, and privilege for his Republican neighbor. And the same is true of Socialism and Populism. No Roman Catholic knows either political or religious freedom who will not demand equal freedom for the Protestant. And no Protestant knows the freedom of Christian liberty who will not demand equal freedom for the Catholic. No labor unionist is free who will not contend for the same rights and privileges for his non-union neighbor that he demands for himself, and the opposite is true. This is the Golden Rule, and it is very plain to any one who will look upon it from the only logical, consistent, primal American, and Christian view point—the man. It is to the man that God has given these rights. It is the man as a man that the State recognizes. His political views, so long as they do not contravene the equal rights of his fellows, are extraneous to his equal rights as a man. And whosoever —call him by what name we will, number him howsoever many we may—does not recognize these inestimable and inalienable rights for all, be they opposed to him politically or religiously, is himself enslaved in his own mind with a bondage worse than the chains that bound Peter in a Roman prison or fastened the dying martyr to the stake. And yet much that is called freedom in these days of multiplied organizations is freedom for the members of the organization alone, and that within the organization, and subjection on the part of all others. Such a conception of freedom is veriest tyranny. He only advocates true freedom who advocates freedom for the other man.