been and always
will be the minority, regarded by the majority as dangerous innovators
or disseminators of false theories and doctrines. In my article on
Socialism I noted the case of Mr. King, observing that:--

He in no way deserves the shameful imprisonment he is suffering;
yet the prejudice of the majority sustains the infamous law that
makes criminals of the innocent and takes not into consideration
the rights of the minority. _And what is more, the religious
press is so dominated by bigotry and ancient prejudice that it is
blind alike to the Golden Rule and the inexorable demands of
justice._ If in any State the Adventists, the Hebrews, or any
other people who believed in observing Saturday instead of Sunday
should happen to predominate, and they undertook to throw
Christians into dungeons, and after branding them criminals
should send them to the penitentiary for working on Saturday,
indignation would blaze forth throughout Christendom against the
great injustice, the wrong against the liberty of the rights of
the citizen. The only difference is that poor Mr. King is in the
minority; he is the type of those who always have been and always
will be made to suffer when the government is strong enough to
persecute all who do not accept what is considered truth and
right by the majority.

In replying to my paper Mr. Bellamy thus flippantly dismissed this
case: "Of this it may be remarked that had it happened two centuries
ago it would have been symptomatic; to-day it is a curiosity." It will
be observed that in order to minify the dangers of Paternalism, Mr.
Bellamy entirely ignored the point I had italicized, viz.: the
Christian sentiment of society was not outraged and what was more,
"_the religious press was so dominated by bigotry and ancient
prejudice that it was blind alike to the Golden Rule and the
inexorable demands of justice_." To-day we are told that this great
judicial crime is a curiosity, although the religious bigotry of the
majority has been upheld by the lower, the federal, and supreme
courts, while the religious press has, with rare exceptions,
sanctioned the persecution or ignored the case.

In vain the long-cherished idea that this country was to pass down the
cycle of time known as the land of freedom; that it was to be forever
the asylum for religious liberty and the cradle of progress, unless
the so