twenty years from now, or fifty years from now, it may be religion, or
some other domain of life which at the present moment seems free from
the danger of attack. The time to call a halt is now; and the way to
call a halt is to win back the ground that has already been lost. To
do that will be a splendid victory for all that we used to think of as
American--for liberty, for individuality, for the freedom of each man
to conduct his own life in his own way so long as he does not violate
the rights of others, for the responsibility of each man for the evils
he brings upon himself by the abuse of that freedom. May the day be
not far distant when we shall once more be a nation of sturdy
freemen--not kept from mischief to ourselves by a paternal law
copper-fastened in the Constitution, not watched like children by a
host of guardians and spies and informers, but upstanding Americans
loyally obedient to the Constitution, because living under a
Constitution which a people of manly freemen can wholeheartedly
respect and cherish.

THE END