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As a nation, we have been dumbed down as the fundamentals of freedom have been removed from our schools, generation by generation. These precepts were once commonly understood. Now, we are in confusion and in crisis, because we have allowed these principles to be subverted by flowery speeches and specious arguments by evil intending, power-hungry men. If we are going to re-enthrone freedom and obtain a measure of safety as a society; we must understand and live by correct principles. We must diligently study the foundations of freedom and implement them for our own happiness, safety, and peace. We must look to our leaders and go back to the basics, that is where the answers lie. Listen to what Brigham Young said on free education. I am opposed to free education as much as I am opposed to taking property from one man and giving it to another….Would I encourage free schools by taxation? No! [1] We had to pay our own schoolteachers, raise our own bread and earn our own clothing, or go without; there was no other choice. We did it then, and we are able to do the same to-day. I want to enlist the sympathies of the ladies among the Latter-day Saints, to see what we can do for ourselves with regard to schooling our children. Do not say you cannot school them, for you can. There is not a family in this community but what we will take and school their children if they are not able to do it themselves; and we do not do it through begging in the East and telling what others have told there about this people, and about their own efforts to establish free schools here. I understand that the other night there was a school meeting in one of the wards of this city, and a part there–a poor miserable apostate–said, “We want a free school, and we want to have the name of establishing the first free school in Utah.” To call a person a poor miserable apostate may seem like a harsh word; but what shall we call a man who talks about free schools and who would have all the people taxed to support them, and yet would take his rifle and threaten to shoot the man who had the collection of the ordinary light taxes levied in this Territory–taxes which are lighter than any levied in any other portion of the country? We have no other schools but free schools here–our schools are all free. Our meetings are free, our teachings are free. We labor for ourselves and the kingdom of God. [2]

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