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PERSONAL LIBERTY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 46.

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PERSONAL LIBERTY.

(Archbishop Ireland, in North American Review.)
A MAN'S right to work is one of the most intimate rights of his being. It is the right to the exercise of his mental and bodily faculties. It is more—it is the right to his life, which depends for sustenance on the fruits of his labor. It is for the same reason the right of his wife and children to their lives. Of this right no man can, with any shadow of equity, deprive another; neither can any man by his own authority dictate to another when and how this right is to be used; else this other were his subject, his slave. And when, in order to deprive a man of this right, violence is done to him and bodily injury inflicted, then there is no measure to the injustice put upon him; all semblance of liberty is effaced; physical force becomes the ruling law in the relations of man to man.