To the Editors of California
By Editor
Preserve for Future Reference
There have been sent to you six issues of the "Signs of the Times," dealing especially with the great subject of religious liberty — your liberty as well as ours. The "Golden State" stands as free to-day in the principles of liberty as any State in the Union. Yet there is a combination of religio-political forces that are determined to compel a union of Church and State, to commit the State to religious legislation through, first, a mild Sunday law, afterward to be made more stringent and exacting. The forces behind the movement are largely from the East, directed from New York, Washington, and Pittsburg. They have for their ideal a medieval Pennsylvania colonial Sunday law. Winning California, they feel that this nation is won. You, Mr. Editor, may not see this danger. You may feel that we are raising a needless alarm. But from a study of the question for thirty years, we assure you we are not. Let us ask of you to preserve for future reference these six issues of the "Signs" which plead for equal liberty for all men. They are not bulky; they will take little space in your archives. Be assured you will need them. You will wish to recall the voices of the past which have pleaded for liberty. If you are true and strong you will want the facts and principles presented in these issues to use in pleading for freedom. Preserve these issues for future reference.