Religious Liberty in Jail
By Editor
The matter of religious liberty is a live question nowadays. It crops up almost everywhere. It really comes into the very jails themselves. For instance, recently in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the editor of a Socialist paper was for a while made prisoner at the county jail, and has now brought suit against the warden, Mr. Lewis, for $10,000, alleging that last November, because he would not attend the religious services at the institution, he was kept in solitary confinement during those services, and at subsequent dates while in prison, he asserts that he was compelled by force to attend the services, and claims his rights of religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States were violated. It would be worth while for the friends of religious liberty to see how this claim terminates, and how it is regarded by the courts.