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I t r IIe rJcer 4 tlIJEGRASS LADEEDITED BY A HEATHEN IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD MORALS PUBLISHED WEEKLY 100 A YEA t r VOL XII NO 17 LEXINGTON KY SUNDAY JUNE 14 E M 303 1100 A YEAR TermslOO per year In advance foreign subscription S150 Five copies one year 250 Make all Money Orders Drafts and Express Orders payable to the Blue Grass Blade Lexington Ky When you change your address v vise this office giving your old as well as the new address When you send your subscription say whether you are a new or old sub scriber The address slip on the paper will show expiration of subscription and serve as a recelpt as the date changes as soon as the subscriber pays I SUb crlptlons to this publication are notTdbreonjltmedfat expiration uhlesB t 1 uJ uuUJilUtV HritCi tr COliftS Invariably llOlda subscriber responsible to the publisher for the subscription price of all papers received until the paper Is paid for in full up to date and ordered discon tlnued Office of publication 161 East Third street near Walnut Entered at the Post Office at Losing ton Ky as Second Class Mall Matter Address all communications to 3LUE GRASS BLADE P BOX 393 Lexington Kentucky Fayette Telephone 619 Cumberland Telephone 307 THE DAMNED STUFF CALLED ALCOHOL believe that alcohol to a certain degree demoralizes those who make It those who sell It and those who drink It believe from the time it Issues from the coiled and poisonous worm of the distillery until It empties Into the hell of crime death and dishonor it demoralizes everybody that touches- It do not believe that anybody can contemplate subject without be coming prejudiced against this liquid you have to do Is to think of the deathsof the suicides of the Insan ity of the poverty of the Ignorance of the distress of the little children tug at the faded dresses of weeping 1and despairing wives asking for bread of the men of genius It has wrecked of the millions who have struggled with Imaginary serpents produced by this devilish thing And when think of the jails of a f the almshouses of the prisons and of the scaffolds upon either bank do not wonder that every thoughtful man Is prejudiced against the damned stuff called alcohnl ROBERT G INGERGOLL Keep Church and State forev- erleparateGrlt In no sense whatsoever Is this government founded upon the Christian rellglonWashingtonThe Church and State should be absolute Garfield f COLLEGE of MED ClN r r SURGERY Chicago Four years Graded Course I Laboratories fully equipped Abundance of Clinical Material PEEP MODERATE Fall term opens In September Write today for Catalog to r f FLORENCE DRESSLER M Say 245247 Ashland Ava Cbieaa III 1Vf k1 r rv f NEWSNOTES FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY Tho most expensive collection of clerical brieabae ever assembled on this continent Is tho Presbyterian fitLosgels seems quite an appropriate place to hold It for in religious parlance the nexUlhing to an angel Is a sain No city on earth Is so favored as Loa Angeles Is at present peopled with angels and Mints anyonethatsaints have known have been like other people sometimes did not im press me os favorably as ordinary saints now assembled In the heavydraft bytheannounces that this General Assem bly will cost the church 75000 In other words it is costing 7000 a day but it may be worth it for they have finally ousted the infant damnation from the creed for good Infant damnation is taken from the creed in the following words That concerning those who are saved In Christ the doctrine of Gods eternal decree is held In harmony with the doctrine of His love to all it Is not to be regarded as teaching that any who die In Infancy are lost We believe that all dying in Infancy are Included In the election of grace and are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit who works where and how He pleases Rejoice and bo glad The babies are saved But what a pity this salvation did not come sooner Millions of Infants that were elected to eternal damna tion from the foundation of the world have added to their eternal torment the regret that they were born before the Los Angeles General Assembly and millions yet to be horn will have cause to bless the delegates to this heJ4C1onfsheets to thq Pope of Rome in lurid language but the New Confession throws a boquet of dog fennel to the gentleman on the Tiber in these Lord Jesus Christ ia the only head of the church and the claim of man to be the vicar of Christ and the head of the church is unscriptural without warrant In fact and Is a usurpation dishonoring to the Lord Jesus Christ There may be a little more policy In this than Christian love since the world is lining up in two columns for the final conflict between Rome and Rationalism In that day Protestant Ism of every brand will be so disin tegrated It cannot be found Hero is another overture tho rres byterians make to tho Papacy Resolved That this General As sembly hereby enjoins all ministers under its care and authority to re fuse to perform the marriage ceremony In the cases of divorced per sons except as such persons have been divorced upon the grounds and for causes recognized as Scriptural In the standards of the Presbyterian church In the United States of Amer icaThey may yet be forced to declare with the Roman Catholics the Indisso- lubility of the marriage tie for any how a lot of men will have the audacity to legislate on the laws of marriage and divorce One would think that men alone were parties to thetofontract and in millions of cases it Ia great pity they are not A few million women would thereby be re lieved of an Incubus that wreck their happinEss and blight their lives One of the most enjoyable things of this General Assembly was an ex curslon to Long Beach which came near tbowlng the saints into spasms Fifteen hundred Presbyterian preachers and elders attended and under the inspiring music of the band forty couples swung out on the dancing platfoMirln a mazy waltz The saints were paralyzed at such worldly con duct and they could only head off the dancers by silencing the bandNo such catastrophe has befallen the Pres byterian church since that related In tho old song And a Presbyterian preacher Danced like the devil At Mccartys ball It Is only a womans Idea but have often thought If tho Presbyterians had Alone less with burning flaying Im prlsoning and persecuting and more dancing the world would be better off Of course the members of the Creed Revision Committee must have held personal conferences with God to learn his will and good pleas ure regarding revision Perhaps God line repented of somethings he de creed should be in the old confession The Bible says that God once re pouted that he had made man and title may be the day of His second repentance for being so hard on his helpless creatures Surely the mil lions who were elected to eternal pun ishment before this reversion came were unfortunate that they lived too soon The General Assembly Is wisely con sidering the abolition of three of their theological seminaries and the idea is advanced that 1800000 is too much money Invested for the educa tlon of Presbyterian preachers Of course abolish them all and put the money in manual training schools bath houses and soap factories the world would bo greatly benefited What ever else the Los Angeles General Assembly will do relating to spiritual things and the will of Al mighty God their trust In the al mighty dollar will be emphasized and their best effort expended In devising the best methods to tap the pockets of the laity News from the Los An geleS General Assembly will be awaited with Interest JOSEPHINE K HENRY Versailles K- yPREACHER GIVES THE PREACHERS THE HOT END OF IT Cincinnati Ohio June 7A Morn Ing with the Preachers At the Vine Street Congregational church pas tor Herbert S Blgelow told of a morning which he spent with the members of a ministerial association discussing social problems Mr Blge low said In part It was In the city of J I hap pened to be there for a course of ures and accepted an invitation to speak at the preachers Monday morn Ing meeting My theme was the labor problem I attempted to show that millions of our fellow creatures by reason of their scant wage are compelled to work and live In conditions which stunt the mind and discourage if not prohibit the formation of moral char acter I declared that It was the plain duty of the preachers to encourage every wise and Just plan of economic betterment in order that the discour agements to right living may bedl minished and a more wholesome end vlronment provided for he masses According to the custom in this as sedation the address of the day was followed by a general discussion Then it was my turn to listen hat general discussion threw no light on a 1fioodtQfr wuuout me sagntetu snaue uicoi orlng I want to report the suhst lCO of their remarks on title important preacher with breezy ism brushed aside my contentiop as to low wages and bad conditions with the assertion that the miners in the neighborhood of J were getting 34 a week It seems that he had heard of some miner who was said to have made that much He could not tell how many weeks during the year he had made that He could not tell how many If any helpers this miner had with whom he was compelled to dl vide his It is true that the spec ial commission appointed by the President reported that the average wage of the contract miner is frcm fourteen to sixteen dollars a week This commission ought to know But this preacher thought the commission must have been mistaken because he had heard of a miner who got more How trutstful men are of any evi dence which justifies their prejudices The next speaker was still more optimistic His assertion was that la borers In and around J were mak ing from 250 to 10 a day More over said he If there are a few who do not get enough we cant remedy the matter I believe Baer and Mor gan and Carnegie and Rockefeller are good conscientious Christians and are doing as well as they can for the workingmen What do we know about business How can we give them any suggestions tell you the preachers are all right The trouble Is with the people They need more of Jesus In their heart Thats whatS the matter If the people will treat Jesus right he will treat the people right This remark elicited vigorous Amens from the brethren Almost every precher who took part In the discussion voiced this senti ment that the thing needed was not economic betterment but Individual salvation One and all they declared The great need of the workingman Is Jesus Christ and him crucified What truth Is there In this thread bare phrase If a worklnglmm were dissipated and conversion to Christianity made him a sober to that extent his economic condition would be im proved But suppose he is already a sober and hardworking man How will his conversion raise his wages There can be no general and perma nent Increase In wages save through legislation which destroys monopoly and thereby Increases the opportuni ties for renumerative employment But that cannot be done without a knowledge of political economy Will conversion to Christianity teach a man political economy Will It teach him to run an engine Will It teach him to pilot a steamer It quires thought to exercise intelligently tho rights of citizenship The man who does not give earnest thought to the problem of Improving the social conditions of his fellowmen Is a bad citizen although ho may be a good church member or even a preacher Another preacher referred la his remarks to the parable of the man who having been relieved of one devil was possessed of seven other dev lilt The application he made of the pirable was this The workingmen many of them get beggarly wage That he conceeded He affirmed that they ought to get more Indeed he want so far as to assert that It was the dutyof the preachers to see that they got more But said he suppose should Increase their pay what then There would be just that much more that they would have to squan dr on the saloon and theater If we d nothing more than to Increase their wage we would make them sev en times more devilish Let us pveachers demand more pay for the worklngmen but let us also demand that we have some control over their wages let us have charge of their inane let us save It and invest it fqr them for we know better than they how to take care of it These preachers look upon them selves as the shepherds of ther flocks until they get to thinking of the pee pie as sheep They are long on bene volence and short on liberty They n ver doubt the fitness to manage the affairs of others They would be fcs tqr fathers rather than brothers to tie multitudeThe who thus delivered Mmself was one of the leading clergy Ren of the city If ttte teachers are livable of such childish utterances mini eau t4 eAiit Jitu oi tujtiii pup is 7 If the light that Is In thee be dark ness how great Is that darkness If the men from whom light Is supposed to come are so hopelessly Ignorant what chance Is there for the Illumina tion of the mass Still another preacher deprecated the agitation of these questions since there was danger of the poor becom ing fled from her jealous and cruel mistress and took refuge in the desert it is said that she was visited by the angel of the Lord And the angel of the Lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands That was a bogus angel To the workingmen who are trying to escape from a condition of virtual slavery this preacher like that false angel would say Return to your masters and submit your selves Under their hands IToo long that has been the cow ardly advice of the clergy And still the preachers wonder why workingmen shun the church LITTLE ITEMS ABOUT RELIGION A millionaire Infidel named Norton has lately died In Loulsvlle Ky He gave the money to build the Norton Infirmary and also tho money to build a will he said that he wanted no religious services at his funeral but wanted his remains taken to Cln cinnati to be cremated and to be carried In a Pullman car with a num ber of his friends and plenty of cham pagne So far as I know Mr Norton Is the largest giver to charity that ever lived in Louisville and still the Christians will ask What good has any Infidel ever done for the world Recently at Richmond Ky the at torneys on both sides of a case asked Judge Smith to retire from the bench during the trial of a case offering as their ground of objection that he was a Democrat and a member of the Christian church Judge Smith retir ed The plain Implication Is that In Kentucky to be a Democrat and a member of that church known also as Campbelllte makes a man in sense cases unfit to trust as a judge CONVENTCRUELTIES t Is the title of a phamphlet by a mer monk Besides the Introduction the pamphlet discusses How Girls Become the Brides of Christ A Peep Into tho Convent The Con vent Horror Taking the Veil etc Its tales are thrilling For a sample copy send 10 cents In silver to HENRY SULLIVAN 209 W Madison St Chicago Ills 942 IS THE NUMBER OF COPIES OF DOG FENNEL IN THE ORIENT SUBSCRIBED FOR TO THIS DATE t i m l APPLIED CHRISTIANITY THE MAS SACRE AT KISHINEFF By HARRIET CLOSZ We hear much nowadays about the sageConfuciustitle to practical Christianity by its precept but in doing so we overreach the mark and become humanitarians thIslatestbring the nations to a realization that so long as we accept the Bible as a guide and Jehovah as our God and ex emplar we are under obligations to commit the most dastardly and hein ous crimes against men and the most monstrous and beastly assaults upon do not expect decisions In the courts of today In direct opposition to the statute books then why should RuslsiandlabolIsmswas David that mighty man of valcr the man after Gods own heart the man of many Immoralities who saved bringtldlThe man who came unto the house of the Lord and worshipped and Im mediately fell upon the children of Arnmon and brought forth the spell of the city In great abundance And then brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and harrows of Iron ana under axes throughthethe cities of the children of Ammon Rememberinghis insignificantaffairs that are recorded In the inspir ed book The Associated Press records a bytheDoroschewkl national hospital physi clan at Kisheney after he had exam- Ined the victims Here is one A Jewess named Lura Fonarschi was brought here with two nails seven brainfnIndeed though done in the heat of rioting but turn to Judges Iv 21 and read of the woman Jaels deliberate treachery Then Jael Hebers wife took a nail of the tent and took a hammer In her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nail Into his temples and fastened It Into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary So he died The following chapter declares that this woman smote oft his head after throughhisloudly sung for the act Further dallies state that A Jew named Charlfon lost his upper and un der lips which were cut away with a kitchen knife after which his tongue throughhisanother named Selvzer were cut off and his head battered In twelve places A carpenter was surprised at his work and both of his hands were sawed off with his own saw But refer to the accounts above mention ed of David In which thousands met onlytwoago a similar massacre occurred on the Chinese frontier and 5000 China men were drowned or had their brains beaten out with clubs and yet civil ized nations listened to another bloodthirsty Russian Christian Duchess Vladimir proclaim in public that not a Chinaman should be left alive while there is a Russian to kill him These royal perverts are keeping very close to the divine guide and ape plying Christianity In a way calculat ed to open the eyes of the blind The account continues A Jewish girl was assaulted by several of the brutes who then cut out her eyes with a pocket knife One woman after try Ing to defend her children was thrown on the pavement disemboweled and feathers and horse hair stuffed Into her body We shudder to read these horrors and yet we read without the tremor of a muscle the account in Num xxxi of the spoiling of the Mid ianltes under the direction of Moses and Eleazor the priest In which thir tytwo thousand virgins were saved alive for the use of Gods chosen peo pie the Israelites and we are com pelled to admit that this Jew baiting affair Is mighty Insignificant and that we are still a long distance behind the exploits of our revered Jehovah Those of us who deplore the assaults made upon women should read the ac count of the Levite who sought to es cape personal Injury by turning his wife over to the Benjamlnltes for a vile purpose and when arriving at home He took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones Into twelve pieces and sent her Into all coasts of Israel Judges xix The Incidental losing of an ear or lips or tongue or limbs Is overshadowed by this grew some tale that bears the seal of In spiration A little while ago Baron Von Kette ler was tortured by Chinese and Christendom resounded with protests against the Pagan retaliation and forcedtopersonalapologyfrom the Christian Czar for the Inhu JewsNodoctrineChristlanized12000000 lives and declared Better fehhereticsthe Jews must become Christians or itleave the country This leaves anJ twhogave only the choice of becoming V JTheing from the fate of the 10000 victims of Charles IX and his mother who planned the massacre of St Bartho fiholythe desolate march of the crusades with death awaiting on the Journey or at either end of the line The despis hardshipsfares i9Theshalt not suffer a witch to live tens of thousands of women paid andJChristian penalty The Inconsistency of the Czar olas In calling a peace conference and rthroughouttiCtradlctlonswhich he draws his supply of inspire tion and his policy of banishment for the lovers of freedom conquest of weaker nations Imprisonment of po litical suspects Intrigues with court attaches and humiliation of women chattels Is in perfect accord with the teaching of the Christian church bol stered by the priesthood and backed by the God of the Bible An Iowa editor recently remarkedcIn referring to this massacre of Jews Jbeencre Another says We need more Christianity In Russia IChristianizedtrate the most horrible cruelties against each other and against the heathen and history will bear me out In the statement It will bo claimed of course that such results do not flow from the right Christian spirit but the records show facts and must be accepted and when our Christian rl Ieth not shall be damned we need search no further for the spirit of the Inquisition I deny that we need more Christianity In Russia or any where else We have too much of it alreadytThe practice of its tenets has placed the deadly dagger of annihilation the heart of nations poisoned the milk of human kindness made fiends of parents and outcasts of children Its applied dogmas have filled prisons and brothels and barracks and mad houses with unfortunate ignorant fear and faith filled fanatics and so long as we cling to its infamous congruities Jew baiting and cruelties of all kinds are bound to continue When a mediator stands ready to forgive wrong acts upon a simple promise to believe In Him as the maculately begotten son of God wo shculd expect that Injustice will be done In his name Why will people rmealn blind to the fact that Humanity and not Christianity is needed in this old world of ours Helpfulness and justice and knowledge are what we need Instead of Ig norant faith and belief In divinely declared dogmas t A MODERN MIRACLE The Hartford Day Spring says Two years ago a Polander who lives on Nubbin Ridge Calif swallow ed a grain of wheat Last week he was attacked with a fit of coughing and coughed up a fifty pound sack of flour and 100 pounds of bran Ancient Miracle Now the birth of Jesus Christ was In this wise When as his mother Mary was es poused to Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost St Mathew 18 Truth Is mighty and will prevail A JOHNSON San Francisco Calif KOREA GINSENG NURSERY Doolln Prop ts SEED FOR PLANTING A SPECIAL r TY Office and Nursery at ETNA Pulaski County KY 5O Cts High BridgeAND Return SUNDAY JUNE 14TH VIA Queen en Crescent Route Ask Ticket Agent for Particulars i fI 1 f r at tii lll Ift1t IIt r t j t fj I f DS BLUE GRASS BLADEI= f Sex Tyranny By JosepHi A clear cut note containing practical suggestions was struck by Walter Hurt in the Blade of November 23rd Whenever Mr Hurt pushes his pen he says something worth pondering and ho knows how to say it Speaking of the work of Liberals MI Hurt says It does seem time they should tire of carelessly casting stones nt Jehovah and for an Interval turn their attention to things moro immediate insistently the urto wrongs that cry gent need for reform To my sense of justice no form of oppression equals that of sex tyranny Yet it has the sanction of law and the forcible support of organized au words of Walter Hurt ring with truth and should arouse bsolve re among Freethinkers everywhere practical work of attacking this most brutal of all tyrannies and par r alyzing it by exposing it in sucli a sentiment will that publici manner overpower it Many forms of sex tyranny can be found in every com munity and among all classes of peo pIe It is of all from the requirements of the selfconscience head of the family to the brute that manages his wife with the bullet the bludgeon and the knife There are millions of crushed and cowed women are the victims of a refined type 14who who do not dare express opinion for fear it will antagonize fjan opinions of their liege lords who make their families understand they are infallible in wisdom and judgment though the world estimates them at y their proper worth as possessing There are men who if neither one ithey are nonentities in the outside cater to their vanity by com t elling women in their power to slav iJ shly obey their commands accept their lives ac ideas and shape itheir to their commands and strange to say large classes of wo submit to all these indignities iimen keenly conscious ofthey are their own mental and moral superior I ity to the men who rule them This disposition to tyrannize over women has its tap root in Bible teaching and a man does not live up to his Chris r than privileges unless he is a domestic r fin tyrant The man who has the most religion Is the greatest tyrant stnThe slavish submissIveness of the of selfimportant egotistic I am f preachers attest this thollerthanthou plous deacons elders laymen have crushed and broken 1and of women wrecked their lives and put them under the sod Yet the average tyrant thinks he is a model husband and tho average woman is t taught by her religious teachers to suiter her wrongs in silence and the moro wrongs she endures the better HChrIstian she Is rnv t- ncat in all tie tel to family uj less degreeor life The husband rules wife brothers constitute theI censors over the morals of though they possess only bad morals themselves If the father dies the and sis subordinate the mother sons ot the manipulators ters and become acting on the genes i their finances financiers that men alone areidea of families have been re Thousands duced to poverty because women havE not been allowed to exercise theIr 1 In finnncial natters Sex f rjudgment Is exercised In a countless flnanclcs number of ways regarding have been and millions of women rightful wronged and robbed of their inheritance by this diabolism Men exercise perfect liberty of ac t n tion in they going please and coming To question when their and Uero Yiyn In this regard although they at the saloon or the brothel bring lIP of their thus wrecking the InfrIngement Is considered anfamilies+ r on their human rights desiro to leave Women if they nome for any purpose are expected it of the permission of the men to gain of sence length tho family regarding finances etc Volumes could be filled with the exposition of sex tyranny from Its most revolting please to forms so petty that neither tho men who exercise them nor the women who suffer them realize their diabolism so engrafted the and woof of are they Into warp our social system that takes on the Tho sex tyranny ferocity of the wild beast is dally re corded in the press Mr Hurst in his article cites the case of the Cov who abused his wife Ington Ky man with unusual cruelty and drove her from home with a pistol She obtained employment In Cincinnati Her husband learned of her whereabouts asked the police to arrest her A policeman accompanied him to the fugitives room There the sight of tho wife throw the husband Into a violent temper and before a word had been spoken he attempted to selzo her by the throat She tried to defend herself with a heavy whip but the policeman disarmed her Tho pall were then taken to police headquar tens There the woman refused to have anything further to do with her husband She was given the alterna tlvo of going with him or being ed above is hut one phaso of sex tyranny Think of a woman being in tho power of two such brutes one of them her husband and tho other an officer of the law both Imbued with the idea that a wife belongs to her husband and is subject to his com pmanila Negro women during slavery in the South were not more abject or outraged slaves than this woman who because she is n woman Is de nied any voice in tho marital laws 5that outrage her person and human rights or the civil law that hunts y her as a criminal and deprives her of her liberty Tho above case Is not an isolated one They are occurring community and not more In every t 1L K Henry than a small per cent of them ever como to public notice Hlght here In my own county of Woodford caso of blood curdling bar barity has recontlyUiken place The Versailles paper gives the following facts In the case George Honaker Gets a Life Term Tho jury in the case of Common wealth vs tcorgo Honaker for mali ciously striking and wounding his wife Joslo Honaker with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill charged with two former convictions for felony on Friday afternoon re turned a verdict of guilty and fixed Honakers punishment at life ImprIs- onment In the penitentiary Honakers1 crime against his wife as shown by tho evidence was fright fully brutal Last May Mrs Honaker on account of her husbands cruelty to her and threats to take her life left her home near Sellers Mill and rode horseback to Versailles to go to her mother at Paris Honaker followed her and overtook her at the Southern depot and by tender promises of complete reformation on Ills part persuaded her to accompany him home When they had gotten away from town ho whIp- ped their horses Into a mad pace and then with curses and abuse lashed his wife with a rope bridle all the say to Sellers Mill Several times tho woman was knocked from her horse and bruised and lacerated On the threshold of their home Honaker with oaths and threats knocked his wife down twice with a locust bludgeon HonaUer and his wife wore married four years ago In Bourbon county and came to Woodford two years ago They leave ono child A motion for a new trial for Hona ker was overruled An appeal will taken f r This horrible crime against p defenseless woman only receives this short notice recording the proceedings Circuit Court in the town paper The brutal husband got his just deserts but in largely the majority of such cases the offender goes free The public conscience Is not aroused against such crimes because It has grown callous on account of their frequency There are nine churches in my town of Versailles supported and attended chiefly by women yet not ono word of protest has ever Been uttered in one of them against thE atrocity against a defenseless wo man yet anathemas are constantly hurled against a band of savage Jews whom it is preached crucified to myth leaD Christ two thousand years ago We hear of neuner sermons from pulpits nor charges from judges to grand juries demanding the rooting cut of injustice and crimes against women Where is the preacher who will dare ntnr nulplt wi h the Holy Bluje In Ills hand ium ueiuuuu usuc t women in tho church the State or the family Where is the judge that will dare charge a grand jury to hunt cut the wrongs against women in our social system or demand that they be allowed a voice in the laws that tax them to pay the wages of judges or Jurors or demand that woman when on trial for life or liberty he allowed a Jury of their peers Tho preacher dare not do It because his Bible commands the subjection of woman and the Judge dare not d o It because his position depends upon the votes of men who whether they know It or not are tho victims of re ligious and political tyranny and sup erstition Women have no votes there fore they can bo wronged and robbed without danger of unfrocking the priest or disrobing the Jurist No man is good enough or wise enough to rule a woman Each individual of either sex has enough to do to rule herself or himself The Bible says He that ruleth himself Is greater titan ho that talc cth a city yet ic emphasizes the sub jection of woman to man when It says The husband Is the head of the wife even as Christ Is the head of the church Sex tyranny sends Its deadly virus through every vein of our social sys temWoman under all systems of reli gion and government has been the victim of sex tyranny from tho He man law giving the husband absolute power of life and death over the wife to tho pampered wife of tho rich American who is never trusted with a dollar in cash but is required to ploIt her husbands credit to suppl ler needs because custom says men alone shall hold the purse Tho head of the household theory has well nigh turned the domestic system Into a Pandemonium But I may be asked are there no women yrants I answer numbers of them but numerous as they are tho great wonder Is that there are not more Tho ruling power does not reside wholly in the male nor wholly in tho female Consequently woman horn with tho same human nature as man makes a ceaseless struggle to release herself from his tyranny Many methods are adopted by tho sex to secure freedom and equality The ruder types of women Ignore their sworn pledge of marital obedience to a male head and go into the ruling business themselves rid fug rougu shod over tno wishes or commands of their yokc fellow if he happens to be of the nongiving tlloor keeping up a state of civil war if ho be Insubordinate A more peace loving female bornruler of necessity resorts to one of many lives of policy She may rule by keeping her subjects so well fed entertained And comfortable that she rules tim without his knowledge The deceitful woman of tho rUling class resorts to the administration of doubledistilled daily doses of flattery as to her plans and actions and falsehood If sho bo detected It is asserted that women are more deceitful titan men Yt may be that women practice moro deceit than mon not because they are by nature more deceptive but becauso laws and customs of society and ot church and State havo always trampled on their human rights and made them tho victims of sex tyranny of every form A class In bondage whether they ho women or men always practice deceit and strategy to protect or wrest their human rights from a ruling class Falsehood and deceit havo no sex Tho Bible does not have a very high opinion of either women or men for It says woman Is tho cause of all tho evil in tho world and Psalms says put not your trust in men or princes and that all men are liars I never could unreservedly accept this text In Holy Writ It seems to ino it should have said Nearly all men and women are liars with sometioubt about the veracity of the rest No stronger proof is needed to es tablish tho fact that women are tho victims of sex tyranny than this A nan was never heard to express tho wish that he were a woman for the reason that the human righ is ani lib erties of women even the ownership of their bodies are denied to them in Christian civilization while millions of women rebelling against their en slaved position have wished they wore men and for no reason but that men have more liberty than wonieTi The most unjust type of sex tyran ny Is the double code of morals This is general The woman with even a suspicion against her chastity is a so cial outcast with a red letter branded on her forehead while a man steeped In moral leprosy is a toast In social and political circles and has the au dacity to demand that his wife and female relatives be as pure as ice and chaste as snow Lord Brougham spoke the truth when he said Wherever the canon or civil law touches woman It degrades nero These have been the canker at tile heart of civilization Every cruelty and Injustice that has been paralyzed through the ages has been done through the Influence of freethought What matters It to a suffering world what the barbarians of Bible times did or said Better would It have been for humanity if their cruelties had never been recorded Sex tyran ny Is a curse to the human race and Freethinkers can do no more prac tical work than to expend heroic fort to eradicate It root and branch out of theology civil laws and social customs When the faith of wdman Is weakened and her reason aroused she will not be content with the pre sentation of a masculine God or the demands of masculine priests or Ers All selfrespecting women should be in the vanguard of self assetU Sex tyranny makes our social irob lems Insolvable Rooting out every typo of It will recast Ute religious economic and social organism It will reinstate the fundamental law of in dependence equality and comrade shin between men and woinen andes tablish justice and liberty The pow er of freethought has practically destroyed chattel slavery Its practical wprk today iis the destruction jot u rrersaille Kr DUSTMAN COMES DOWN WITH THE DUST Berlin Center Ohio May 26 303 Blue Grass Blade Lexington Ky Dear Sirs Find enclosed money or del lor five dollars for which please forward by return mall to my address ten of those subscription cards for the Blue Grass Blade Hurry them forward as soon as possible as I have taken several subscriptions for the Blade I have only been a reader of the Blade for three months und I like It very much It Is dead easy to get subscriptions for the Blade all you have to do is to show them the paper tell them about the subscription cards and they go down in their pockets at once for the half dollar There Is no reason why tho Blade should not have a circulation of 100 000 in a short time Let every reader of the Blade wake up and go to work for five dollars at once by sending worth of subscription cards Certain ly every reader of the Blue Grass Blade has enough pride about them to help give the Blade a good big and healthy circulation Please mark me down for one of Charles C Moore Dog Fennels C M DUSTMAN Comment I have always believed that that is just what could easily be done His name Is Dustman and he comes down with the dust and that Is what friends of the Blade must do Christians talk a great deal about the power of prayer and a lot of rot of that kind but when they want to make their religion go they put up their money Just the same Is true about Infidel propogandlsm We have- got to light the devil with flro meet Christian dollars with Infidel dollars and Christians will begin to wqalen and Infidels begin to strengthen when and only when all parties see that wo are going to bath our views by our Dustmans letter head shows that he is a manufacturer of stone ware and probably is in a fine hush ness There are people like that all over America who believe as tho Blade doesand they are Increasing all tho time Let such be sought out by dur friends and gain their Influence for the Blade and the possibilities of this paper are Inestimable +We Cant Tell Your Fortune but wo have publications that will lighten you about Texas and its great possibilities Other Katy publica tions the Golden Square The Coming Country Old Mexico etc will bo mailed on application Address KATY Wainwrigbt Bldg St Louts Mo The Earth and the Man have close relations and Farming In uo Great Southwest is a true expo nent Write for copy of this and other publications bearing on for moneymaking on tho line of tho M K T Ry Adrress KATY 611 Wainwright Bldg St Louis Mo 1i vt LMISS GIBSON Of the Blade Club Replies to Mrs Henrys Request 312 Post ave St Elmo Tenn May 28 1001 Editor Charles C Moore Dear Friend have seen In the Blade Mrs Henrys kind request that I shall be one of four to write articles for next weeks Blade I am a nurse and have only been at home once since tho N L P Congress My Blade had not como and borrowed one to read while was on the cars to swer a call and among the first things that I saw was that I was pected to write something for the Blade My time Is all taken up but I do not like to say cant There are several things needed that are not mentioned by our writers Ono Is dress reform from Infan cy to old age Infants are dressed al most to death If they escape the dressing and dosing and reach their teens tho female half are all put on French heels In stays and under millinery They must also wear a mocker collar Tho ills caused by such follies become local and the half that are satisfied with tho ills they have oho out a sort of nervous existence that they call leaving a good tlmo until they fare called upon to become mothers then they bear he roically all the pain caused by this foolish form of dress and unhygenla living and go into n fit of hysterics over an unexpected sound or the sight cf a mouse The other half dissatisfied with the ills they have fly to those they know not of and aad to tho above list trains lowneck and nosleeves I not describe the sufferings that I see from this combination and I ask that some one give us a more sensible style of dress- think can design a simple and comfortable costume for the Infant and the grandma will somo one give us sumo for maids and matrons Since beginning this havo had to lay It down a hundred times und cffcr this as my apology for not writ ing take this occasion to send the dollar for the Blade ordered to my atlterI all Impatient to read Dog Fennel Did you bring all of those souvenirs If so break Capt Burns In two He Is my oldest friend made when can first remember and am sure he wont mind it since it is for meconceit for you I want Dr Wilsons poems when they are published With best wishes and love I am your real friendMISS L M GIBSON +THE DOLLAR Hits the Bulls EyeMoney Talks Los Angeles Cal June 1903 Mr James E Hughes VEhclosed Is 50 cents for extra pa PCrlSipfthe Atheistic number and Mil how Indifferent Freethinkers are t sustaining the papers devoted to mental freedom and when I read of the hundreds of delinquents on your Hat I feel to say Damn em why dont they pay up There is nothing of more importance than a free and untramelled press for ideas find the widest and cheapest circulation through papers and magazines of any method of dissemination If we had no papers devoted to Freethought we would see mighty quick how Ignorance and superstition would thrive and flourish without opposition Ideas must be kept in motion to produce results and If we want to see pro gress and advancement in human fairs we must sustain radical and rational publications Christianity is preserved and perpetuated by untiring zeal and persistence in keeping it before the people by proclaiming It in every possible manner If we wish for the spread and increase of Free thought we must push It along and keep advocating It and not let our pa pers die out and starve those who manage them I do hope the appeals made for assistance will be heeded and you will at least get what is duo on overtime subscriptions Always Yours CHANNING SEVERANCE Comment I do not want to bo brag ging all tho time on what the Blade has done though even if I do so I am certainly not taking the credit all toj myself for anybody can see that when was thousands ofmiles away and did not know what It was saying it well and probwas doing certainly as ably better than when I was here The lines In that letter that strike me aro If we had no paper devoted to Freethought we would see mighty quick how Ignorance and supersti tion would thrive without opposi tion When I started the BlueGrass Blade In 1881 It was regarded In the South that Infidelity was one of the Northern Issues that aro advocated by longhaired men and shorthaired wo menI had never heard of Brother Shaws Independent Pulpit then but my town Lexington Ky spoke for the whole Soutii when it said it would bo damned if It would let an Infidel paper start here So it started with personal assaults of me and Insults and threats on tho streets made by Christians that they would kill me and a public meeting in the Court rouse in Lexington represented by tho pulpit and the saloon all working like hand and glove together and all of this cheered and supported by tors and papers of that day in Lex ington and that are now obsolete Then they tried Imprisonment begin ning with putting mo In Jail and then in tho penitentiary and now oven at this day have a second peniten tiary conviction on the books of the United States Court against me and it gives me so little uneasiness that I coula not tell now which of several cases against mo It was that I was convicted on I havo completely triumphed over I rc j nilor my enemies and all of them have been seen by the world to bo just what I said they were and death and drunkenness and oblivion have re moves tiicm from public attention froUlIthofurther fit myself for efficiency In peoplthat of cor dually welcomed home than have been by good people of all kinds Christians and Infidels and the Lox ington Leader by far the most Influ ential papers that Lexington over had or seems likely to have is my cordial friend in every thing that under take though that paper is owned and edited by tho son of a Presbyterian preacher who as United States Revenue Collector has charge of the whisky Interests of this State and tho preachers and tine whisky men have been combined as my enemies It is certainly true that Infidels can only enjoy the rights that the Constitution of this government grants them because Infidel papers are lucre to fend those rights and if these Infidel papers were all today all over tho United States to fall at once for tho want of support Christian fanatics would run riot over tho liberties of this country Remember that only a few years ago a Methodist preacher In Lexington imported here to preach a few years a man who told me that lie owed 95000 had me put in jail In Lexington for blasphemy against the Holy Ghostno charge that had violated tho rights of any human be but that did not believe as ho did and because all ghosts look alike to nie Certainly it Is your duty to stand by Mr Hughes with your money not merely your words for words dont 30 as collateral In our banks and ceries and for newspaper supplies and see that he can keep up this work that he has so faithfully done and with such meager compensation until any Infidel any where in the United States shall have just as much right to express hIs opinion as any Chris tian has- Lenin to make sumo sacrifice for our cause Spread Blades at cents a year on tine club plan dont ask you to give him one cent I simply ask you to pay him In this way 50 cents a year for as good an Infidel paper as was ever printed 11 ANY PORT IN A STORM Harlan Iowa May 16 1903 Mr James E Hughes Lexington Ky Dear ComradeIt was I who secured the first Harlan club for the Blade and It consisted of eleven subscribers When the time expired somo of our club asked mo to renew their sub scription but I did not know then that could get the old club rates besides some of the subscribers have to be solicited and somo did not wish the paper any longer and altogether did not wish to deprive others of the fun of getting up a club So gave my 50 cents to another and told him to get up the club which he did but got only five subscribers Now for some time I think the club Is in arrears and though a few are GSiorav herdttbcontlnlle- yet I cannot find the man business and I e that If I dont take it in hand it willnot be done I lilted your plan as proposed with gard to the cards and I will say this If you will mall me five cards or ten I will try to dispose of them as soon as I can Think I can get ten but in a reasonable time if I do not dispose of all I will return those not sold and remit you the balance due I do not ask any commission or premium only dont wish to advance you the money nor run any risk of paying more than 60 cents a year If I cannot of five subsecure the fun number scribers I think I can get twice five but I cant work for nothing and pay postage and money order fees and then Insure the full number I will male those who are in arrears date back or else pay Yours truly J K P BAKER Comment Yes we are willing to do that willing and glad to do so In some rare Instances we would lose by doing that either from mere negligence or indifference of people but In the large majority of cases all such propositions are made in good faith and in many instances they will be observed all the more punctilious ly by thos we trust just from the fact that wo do trust them We want to show our faith In the integrity of our people by showing our confidence in them in a case like this there Is no risk except from acci dent or oversight as the party is a tried and approved and known friend of the Blade but we are willing tq do this in cases where wo do not know tho parties well Give us a trial and do by us as you would have us to do by you YOU CAN SEE HAIR GROW WITCHHAZELI SOAPI IT MAKES THE IT MAKES TUB IT HAKES HAIR JROW UEAUTIFl trulyblessing aIand becoming bald This soap is a anti vitalizer it stimulates and acts as a gentle tonic to the weak and sick roots and gives them new life and vigor It promptly removes dandruff scales humor andall sores of the scalp Give this a fair trial and if there is a particle of life In the roots this soap will stimulate and Invigorate them into new life growth Of course you know that MunyonlWitch Hazel Soap for the complexion and for the toilet superior to any French soap made It makes the skin softtas velvet and keeps one free from eruptionsIfyens Blood Cure It will drive all im purities from the system and make goo IIrich red blood If your liver is sluggish and you have a sallow complexion use Munyons LiverICure These two remedies taken ternatlon willsoon rid the blood system of all impurities nrd give life andIvigor to the whole body cad when used In conjunction with the ap makes the skin glow with youthful hnen SOLD EVERYWHERE IS FOR THE BLADEIIdana Kansas May 14 303IMr Charles Moore Brother Heathen and Editor of tho Blue Grass Blade am called a heathen by the ghost worshippers because I take tho Blade and read It The Blade is worth more to me than the Bible is The Blade Is for humanity and freedom and liberty and the Bible Is not The Bible upholds priestcraft and super titian I believe in the God of ture All things are natural but the orthodox Christian God and Saviour Jesus Christ I think are myths- wish through the columns of the Blado to send my thanks to the Lib eral brother who sent me the books the Ago of Reason and Facts Worth Knowing will use them for missionary work- I am in arrears on my subscription to the Blade I send them ney with this article I hope iT lll be cavedbrtheIItad iyi66MgrXg htho Blade is received me I wish you a long and happy lifetand that you may do much good In this world while you live When you are ready to send mo your book Dog Fennel in the Orient the dollar is saved to send you Fraternally Yours THOMAS DUELL +Making A Country Home Interests everyone The M K d T doesnt claim a clear recepe but Its publications treat of the enormous growth of fruit culture In East Texas the 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JJ jtt l t f IT r IIIII L j r 1 4r r It r1trtl IfrV BLUIGRASSBLA13J3I u SSex Tyrannyf 7 3 By Josephine K Henry A clear cut note containing practi cal suggestions was struck by Walter Hurt In the of November 23rd Whenever Mr Hurt pushes his pen worth pondering ho says something and ho Knows how to say It Spealdng of the work of Liberals Mr Hurt says It laOS seem time they should tire of carelessly casting stones at Jehovah and for an Interval turn their attention to things moro Immediate insistently the urto wrongs that cry gent need for reform To my sense of justice no form of equals that of sex tyranny oppression Yet It has the sanction of law and io forcible support of organized au thority These words of Walter Hurt ring with truth and should arouse a re among Freethinkers everywhere thsolve practical work of attacking this g most brutal of all tyrannies and par 5alyzing It by exposing It In such a sentiment will manner that publlc forms of sex overpower It Many In every com tyranny can be found munity and among all classes of peo pIe It Is of all from the requirements of the selfconscience head of the family to the brute that manages his wife with the bullet the bludgeon and the knife There are millions of crushed and cowed women are the victims of a refined type 4 Vwho who do not dare express an opinion for fear It will antagonize the opinions of their liege lords who make their families understand they r are Infallible In wisdom and Judgment though the world estimates them at their proper worth as possessing neither one There are men who If they are nonentities In the outside world cater to their vanity by com pelling women In their power to slav obey their commands accept e5Ishly lives ac Ideas and shape their cording to their commands and strange to say large classes of wo men submit to all these indignities I when they are keenly conscious of their own mental and moral superior- Ity to the men who rule them This disposition to tyrannize over women has its tap root In Bible teaching and a man does not live up to his Christian 1 privileges unless he Is a domestic t The man who has tho most Bible religion Is the greatest tyrant- The slavish submissiveness of the wives of selfimportant egotistic I am holier thanthoU preachers attest tills fact and overpious deacons elders and laymen have crushed and broken wrecked their lives hearts of women and put them under the sod Yet the average tyrant thinks ho Is a model husband and tho average woman is taught by her religious teachers to suffer her wrongs In silence and thoI more wrongs she endures the better Christian she Is g liiiyj N v llq tn n CTgatyr or less degree In all the relatlo family life The husband rules the wife brothers constitute themselves censors over the morals of sisters though they possess only bad moralsI If the father subordinate the mother and sis sons the manipulators oi ters and become their finances acting on the general 5Si Idea that men alone are financiers 4Thousands of families have been duced to because women havt exercise theirtoallowednot been Sex In financial matters iJ Itjudgment Is exercised In a countless flnancles number of ways regarding SSS- and millions of women have been and robbed of their rightful wrongedJ J diabolism inheritance by this of Men exercise perfect liberty and coming when and tion in going theirTo question where they please right In this regard although they at the saloon or the brothel bring up i the of their riS families thus Is considered an Infringement their human rights witon Wonton if they desire to leave some for any purpose are expected of the men of to gain the permission of sence tho family regarding length finances etc Volumes could be filled with the r exposition of sex tyranny from Its Smost revolting phase to forms so petty that neither the men who exercise them nor the women who suffer them realize their diabolism so engrafted the and woof of are they Into warp our social system- Tho sex tyranny that takes on the ferocity of the wild beast is dally reo corded In the press Mr Hurst In his article cites the case of the Cov Ington Ky man who abused his wife with unusual cruelty and drove her from home with a pistol She obtain ed employment In Cincinnati Her husband learned of her whereabouts and asked the police to arrest her A policeman accompanied him to the fugitives room There the sight of the wife throw the husband Into a violent temper and before a word hart been spoken he attempted to seize her by the throat She tried to defend herself with a heavy whip but the policeman disarmed her Tho pair were then taken to police headquar tore There the woman refused to have anything further to do with her husband She was given tho alternative of going with him or being lock fSed above is but one phase of sex tyranny Think of a woman being In the power of two such brutes one of them her husband and tho other an officer of the law both imbued with tho Idea that a wife belongs to her husband and Is subject to his commands Negro women during slavery In the South were not moro abject or outraged slaves than this woman who because she Is n woman Is de J nied any voice In the marital laws that outrage her person and human rights or the civil law that hunts her as a criminal and deprives her of her liberty The above case Is not an isolated one They are occurring oInevery community and not more t IIo i than a small per cent of them over como to public notice Right here In my own count of Woodford a ease of blood curdling bar barity has recentlytaken place The Versailles paper gives tho following facts In the case George JHonaker Gets a Life Term Tho jury In tho case of Commonwealth vs George Honaker for mall ciously striking and wounding his wife Joslo Honaker with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill and also charged with two former convictions for felony on Friday afternoon urned a verdict of guilty and fixed Honakors punishment at life Impris onment In the penitentiary Honakerg crime against his wife as shown by tho evidence was frightfully brutal Last May Mrs Honaker on account of her husbands cruelty to her and threats to take her life left lien home near Sellers Mill and rode horseback to Versailles to go to her mother at Paris Honaker followed her am overtook her at the Southern depot nod by tender promises of complete reformation on his part persuaded her to accompany him home When they had gotten away from town he whip ped their horses Into a mad pace and then with curses and abuse lashed his wife with a rope bridle all tlTe way to Sellers Mill Several times tho woman was knocked from her horse and bruised and lacerated On the threshold of their home Honaker with oaths and threats knocked his wife down twice with a locust bludgeon Honaker and his wife wojc married four years ago In Bourbon county and came to Woodford two years ago They have one child A motion for a now trial for Hona ker was overruled An appeal will taken s This horrible crime against a de fenseless woman only receives this short notice recording the proceedings Circuit Court in the town paper The brutal husband got his just deserts but In largely the majority of such cases the offender goes free The public conscience is not aroused against suck crimes because It has grown callous on account of their frequency There are nine churches In my town of Versailles supported and attended chiefly by women yet not one word of protest has ever tieen uttered In one of them against this atrocity against a defenseless wo man yet anathemas are constantly hurled against a band of savage Jews whom It Is preached crucified a myth leaD Christ two thousand years We hear of neuner sermons from pulpits nor charges from judges to grand juries demanding the rooting cut of injustice and crimes against wont en Where is the preacher whQ will dare ntnr Ill nniplLwijth the Holy Blbje Iin his band nfl uciuuuu justic7i women In the church the State or the family Where Is the judge that will dare charge a grand Jury to hunt cut the wrongs against women in our social system or demand that they be allowed a voice In the laws that tax thom to pay tlje wages of judges or Jurors or demand that woman when on trial for life or liberty ho allowed a Jury of their peers The preacher dare not do It because his Bible commands the subjection of woman and the Judge dare not d o It because his position depends upon the votes of men who whether they know It or not are the victims of ligious and political tyranny and sup erstition Women have no votes there fore they can bo wronged antI robbed without danger of unfrocking the priest or disrobing the Jurist No man Is good enough or wise enough to rule a woman Each Individual either sex has enough to do to rule herself or himself Tho Bible says Ho that ruleth himself Is greater than he that tak cth a city yet it emphasizes the sub jection of woman to man when It sa sliThe husband Is the head of the wife even as Christ Is the head of the church Sex tyranny sends Its deadly virus through every vein of our social sys tom Woman under all systems of reli gion and government has been the victim of sex tyranny from the He man law giving the husband abso ute povcr of life and death over the wife to the pampered wife of the rich American who Is never trusted with a dollar In cash but Is required to ex ploit her husbands credit to supply her needs because custom says men alone shall hold the purse Tho head of the household theory has well nigh turned the domestic system into a Pandemonium But I may be asked are there no women tyrants I answer numbers of them but numerous as they are tho great wonder Is that there are not more The ruling power does not reside wholly In the male nor wholly In the female Consequently woman born with the same human nature as man makes a ceaseless struggle to release herself from his tyranny Many methods are adopted by tho sex to secure freedom and equality The ruder types of women ignore their sworn pledge of marital obedience to a male head and go into thp ruling business themselves riding rougu shod over tuo wishes or commands of thelr yoke fellow If ho happens to be of the nongiving tlleor keeping up a state of civil war If he le insubordi nate A more peace loving female bornruler of necessity resorts to one of many lives of policy She may rule by keeping her subjects so well fed entertained ftnd comfortable that she rules ulm without his knowledge Tho deceitful woman of tho class resorts to the rUllngI doublodlstllled dally doses of secrecy as to her plans and actions and falsehood If site bo detected It is asserted that women are more deceitful than men It may bo that women practice moro deceit than men not because they are by nature more deceptive but because laws and customs of society and of church and State have always trampled on their human rights and made them tho victims of sex tyranny of every form A class In bondage whether they be women or men always practice deceit and strategy to protect or wrest their human rights from a ruling class Falsehood and deceit have no sex The Bible does not have a very high opinion of either women or men for It says woman Is tho cause of all the evil In tue world and Psalms says put not your trust In men or princes and that all men are liars I nover could unreservedly accept this text In Holy Writ It seems to mo it should have said Nearly all men and women are liars with some 3oubt about the veracity of the rest No stronger proof is needed to es tablish tho fact that women are tho victims of sex tyranny than this A man was never heard to express the wish that he were a woman for the reason that the human rights and lib erties of women even the ownership of their bodies are denied to thorn in Christian civilization while millions of women rebelling against their en slaved position have wished they were men and for no reason but that men have more liberty than women The most unjust type of sex tyran ny Is tho double code of morals This is general The woman with even a suspicion against her chastity Is a so cial outcast with a red letter branded on her forehead while a matt steeped In moral leprosy Is a toast In social and political circles and has the au dacity to demand that his wife and female relatives be as pure as ice and chaste as snow Lord Brougham spoke the truth when he said Wherever the canon or civil law touches woman It degrades lie These have been the canker at the heart of civilization Every cruelty and Injustice that has been paralyzed through the ages has boon done through the Influence of frecthought What matters It to a suffering world what the barbarians of Bible times did or said Better would It have been for humanity If their cruelties had never been recorded Sex tyran ny Is a curse to the human race and Freethinkers can do no more prac tical work than to expend heroic fort to eradicate It root and branch out of theology civil laws and social customs When the faith of wdmafl Is weakened and her reason aroused she will not be content with the presentation of a masculine God or the demands of masculine priests or rul ers All selfrespecting women should be In the vanguard of selfassertion Sex tyranny makes our social problems Insolvable Rooting out every typu of It will recast tho religious economic and social organism It will reinstate the law of in terdependence equality andcomrado shin between men and women and es tablish justice and liberty The Er of freethought has practically de stroyed chattel slavery Its practical work today Is the destruction f t rrmsatV i DUSTMAN COMES DOWN WITH THE DUST Berlin Center Ohio May 26 303 Blue Grass Blade Lexington Ky Dear SlmFlnd enclosed money der for five dollars for which please forward by return mall to my address ten of those subscription cards for the Blue Grass Blade Hurry them forward as soon as possible as I have taken several subscriptions for the Blade I have only been a reader of the Blade for three months and I like It very much It Is dead easy to get subscriptions for the Blade all you have to do Is to show them the paper tell them about the subscrip tion cards and they go down In their pockets at once for the half dollar There Is no reason why the Blade should not have a circulation of 100 000 In a short time Let every reader of the Blade wake up and go to work at once by sending for five dollars worth of subscription cards Certain every reader of the Blue Grass Ulade has enough pride about them to help give the Blade a good big and healthy circulation Please mark me down for one of Charles Moores Dog Fennels C M DUSTMAN CommentI have always believed that that Is just what could easily be done His name is Dustman and he comes down with the dust and that Is what friends of the Blade mufjt do Christians talk a great dea about the power of prayer and a lot of rot of that kind but when they want to male their religion go they put up their money Just the same Is true about Infidel propogandism We have got to fight the devil with fire meet Christian dollars with Infidel dollars and Christians will begin to wqaken and Infidels begin to strengthen when and only when all parties see that we are going to back our views by our Dustmans letter head shows that ho Is a manufacturer of stone ware and probably Is In a fine busi ness There are peoplellko that all over America who believe as the Blade does and they are Increasing all the time Let such be sought out by dur friends and gain their Influence for tho Blade and tho possibilities cf this paper arc inestimable +We Cant Tell Your Fortune but wo have publications that wIn lighten you about Texas and Its great possibilities Other Kitty publica tions the Golden Square The Coming Country Old Mexico etc will bo mailed on application Address KATY 510 Wainwright Bldg St Louis Mo The Earth and the Man have close relaUons and Farming In tue Great Southwest Is a true expo nent Write for copy of this and other publications bearing on for moneymaking on tile line of thoM K T Ry Adrress ICATY 611 Wainwright Bldg St Louis Mo tr L MISS L GIBSON Of the Blade Club Replica to Mrs Henrys Request 112 Post are St Elmo Tonn May lOOI Editor Charles Mooro Dear FrlendI have seen In tho Blade Mrs Henrys kind request that I shall bo one of four to write articles for next weeks Blade am a nurse and have only been at homo once since tho N L P Congress My Blade had not come and borrowed ono to read while was on the cars to swer a call nnd among the first things that I saw was that was ex peeled to write something for the Blade My time Is all taken up but do not like to say cant Thero are several things needed that are not mentioned by our writ ers One Is dress reform from In fan cy to old age Infants are dressed al most to death If they escape the dressing and dosing and reach their teens the female half are all put on French heels In stays and under millinery They must also wear a checker collar Tho lIs caused by such follies become local and the half that are satisfied with the Ills they have eke out a sort of nervous exist elide that they call having a good time until they are called upon to become mothers then they hear he roically all tho pain caused by this foolish form of dress and unhygenla living anti go Into a fit of hysterics over an unexpected sound or the sight cf a mouse Tim other half dissatisfied with the ills they have fly to those they know not of and aod to the above list trains lowneck and nosleeves I can not describe the sufferings that I see from this combination and I ask that some one give us a more sensible style of dress- think can design a simple and comfortable costume for the infant and the granuma will some one give us some for maids and matrons Since beginning this have had to lay It down a hundred times and tftcr this as my apology for not writ ing take this occasion to send the dollar for the Blade I ordered to my motherI all Impatient to read Dog Fennel Did you bring all of those souvenirs If so break Capt Burns In two He is my oldest friend made when can first remember and I am sure he wont mind It since it is for me Conceit for you want Dr Wilsons poems when they are published With best wishes and love I am your real friendMISS L M GIBSON +THE DOLLAR Hits the Bulls EyeMoney Talks Los Angeles Cal June r James E Hughes EnClosed ls 50 cents for ext- rartti pa AtiilsUo aumber an- dhaicuii qthfl how Indifferent Freethinkers are ti sustaining the papers devoted to n ntal freedom and when I read of the hundreds of delinquents on your llit I feel to say Damn em why dfcnt they pay up There Is nothing of inore importance than a free and untramelled press for Ideas find the widest and cheapest circulation through papers and magazines of any method of dissemination If we had no papers devoted to Freethought we would see mighty quick how Ignor ance and superstition would thrive and flourish without opposition Ideas must bo kept in motion to produce results and if we want to see gress and advancement in human fairs we must sustain radical and rational publications Christianity is preserved and perpetuated by untir- Ing zeal and persistence in keeping it before the people by proclaiming It in every possible manner If we wish for the spread and Increase of Free thought wo must push It along and keep advocating It and not let our pers die out and starve those who manage them Ido hope the appeals made for assistance will be heeded and you will at least get what Is due on overtime Yours CHANNING SEVERANCE Comment I do not want to bo brag glng all the time on what the Blade las done though even If I do so am certainly not taking the credit all to myself for anybody can see that when was thousands of miles away and did not know what It was saying It well and probwas doing certainly as ably better than when I was here The lines In that letter that strike me are If we had no paper devoted to Freethought we would see mighty quick how Ignorance and superstl Ion would thrive without opposi tion When I started the Blue Grass Blade in 1884 it was regarded in the South that Infidelity was one of the Northern Issues that are advocated by onghaired men and shorthaired wo menI had never heard of Brother Shaws Independent Pulpit then but my town Lexington Ky spoke for tho whole Souiu when It said it would je damned If It would let an Infidel paper start here So It started with personal assaults of me and insults ind threats on the streets made by Christians that they would kill me and a public meeting In the Court i ouso In Lexington represented tho pulpit and the saloon all working IIko hand and glove together and all of this cheered and supported by edi ors and papers of that day In Lex ngton and that are now obsolete Then they tried imprisonment begin ning with putting mo In jail and then- In the penitentiary and now oven at this day have a second peniten tiary conviction on the books of the United States Court against me and It gives me so little uneasiness that coulu not tell now which of several cases against mo It was that I was convicted on I have completely triumphed over LL all of my enemies and all of them have been seen by the world to bo just wfiat I said they were anti death anti drunkenness anti oblivion have re niovcu tncm from public attention and today when have returned from tho Orient to which have gone to further fit thyself for cfllclency in combatting tho inlluenco of people of that kind no man has been more cor dually welcomed homo than I have been by good people of all kinds Christians and Infidels and tho Lex- Ington Leader by far the most Influ ential papers that Lexington ever had or seems likely to have Is my cordial frlond In every thing that under take though that paper Is owned and edited by tho son of a Presbyterian preacher who as United States Revenue Collector has charge of the whisky Interests of this State and tho preachers and tho whisky men have been combined as my enemies It is certainly true that Infidels can only enjoy the rights that the Consti tution of this government grants them because Infidel papers are hero to fend those rights and if these Infidel papers were all today all over the United States to fall at once for tho want of support Christian fanatics would run riot over tho liberties of this country Remember that only a few years ago a Methodist preacher In Lexington Imported here to preach a few years a man who told me that he owed 95000 had me put In jail In Lexington for blasphemy against the Holy Ghost no charge that had violated tho rights of any human be ing but that did not believe as ho did and because all ghosts look 11Ile to nie Certainly It Is your duty to stand by Mr Hughes with your money not merely your words for words dont 30 as collateral In our banks and ceries and for newspaper supplies and see that he can keep up this work that he has so faithfully done and with such meager compensation until any Infidel any where In the United States shall have just as much right to express his opinion as any Chris tian has- Lenin to make sffmo sacrifice for our cause Spread Blades at 50 cents a year on the club plan dont ask you to give him one cent I simply ask you to pay him In this way 50 sents a year for as good an Infidel paper as was ever printed t ANY PORT IN A STORM Ilarlan Iowa May 16 1903 Air James E Hughes Lexington Ky Dear ComradeIt was I who secured the first Harlan club for the Blade and It consisted of eleven subscribers When the time expired some of our club asked mo to renew their sub scription but did not know then that could get the old club rates besides some of tile subscribers have to be solicited and some did not wish the paper any longer and altogether did not wish to deprive others of the fun n of getting up a club So I gave ray 50 cents to another and told him to get up the club which he did but got only five subscribers Now for soine time I think the club Is in arrears and though a few are- A iziiorltizaethGcbcozttInuett business and I suppose that if I dont take it in hand it will not be done I liked your plan as proposed with re gard to the cards and I will say this If you will mall me five cards or ten I will try to dispose of them as soon as I can Think can get ten but in a reasonable time If I do not dispose of all I will return those not sold and remit you the balance due I do not ask any commission or premium only dont wish to advance you the money nor run any risk of paying moro than cents a year if I cannot of five subsecure the full number scribers I think I can get twice five but I cant work for nothing and pay postage and money order fees and then insure the full number I will make those who are tn arrears date hack or else pay Yours truly J K P BAKER Comment Yes we are willing to do that willing and glad to do so In some rare Instances we would lose by doing that either from mere neg- lIgence or Indifference of people but In the largo majority of cases all such propositions are made In good faith and In many Instances they will bo observed all the more punctilious ly by those we trust Just from the fact that we do trust them We want to show our faith In the Integrity of our people by showing our confidence in them in a case like this there Is no risk except from acci dent or oversight as the party is a tried and approved and known friend of the Blade but we are willing to do this In cases where wo do not know the parties well Give us a trial and do by us as you would have us to do by you YOU CAN SEE HAIR GROW MUNYONSWITCHHAZEL SOAPiIT TuB HAIR IT THE HAIR STRONOJIT HAKES THE HAIR Itblessingand vitalizer it stimulates and acts as a gentle tonic to tint weak and sick tools e and gives them new life and vigor It promptly removes dandruff scales humor I and all sores of the scalp Give this soap a fair trial and if there is a particle of In the roots this soap will stimulate and a Invigorate them into new life and healthy jIgrowth Of course you 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long and happy life and that you may do much good intthis world while you live When you are ready to send me B your book Dog Fennel In the Orient the dollar Is saved to send you Fraternally Yours THOMAS DUELL + j Making Country Home Interests everyone The M K T doesnt claim a clear rccepe but its publications treat of the enormous growth of fruit culture in East Texas the moneymaking possibilities in the gas oil lead and zinc regions of Missouri and Kansas and the delight ful climate of Texas and Old Mexico Ask for them Address KATY 514 Wainwright Bids St Louis Mo The Blade in clubs or rive or more Is now reduced to 50 cents each Frisco System WILL HAVE ON SALE AT St Louis CiO Memphis CHEAP ONEWAY and ROUND TRIP Homeseekers Rates FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAYS OF EACH MONTHSTo ARKANSAS MISSOURI KANSAS 0 OKLAHOMA TERRITORY INhcDIAN TERRITORY and TEXAS For rates and information address III McGUIRE W R POWE th Tr Pass Agent General Agent th CINCINNATI OHIO th CHOCTAW OKLAHOMA GULF RR Combines the Advantages of Eastern SldlWith the Opportunities of a ly WESTERN COUNTRY DIRECT LINE m Memphis to Little Rock Hot Springs IndianJUand Oklahoma Territories Texas Col co orado New Mexico Arizona Old Mexico and the Pacific Coastbleesl WIDE VESTIBULED TRAINS 9 PULLMAN DRAWING ROOM SLEEPING OARS III IPULLMAM TOURIST SLEEPINQ CARS TI RECLININGCHAIII CARS t Iii1I I lilt Pus tUI L I 1 L tlltliull III Uttli haL LZkIIULSW U u r JIr 4 tgFteL3 WfIf If BLUE GRASS BLADE 1DR BARNES CONCLUDES HIS ARGUMENT FOR ANARCHY 1A continuation of quotations from noted men In support of Anarchy Anarchism as defined by Anarch Jsts Is the belief In the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty In other words the belief In every liberty except the liberty to Invade It Is an Implication of this definition that Anarchism alms at tho abolitIon of government and the State as defined by Anarch- Ists are debarred by their nature from allowing the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality and are necessarily being defined as the subjection of the noninvasive Individual to an external will and tho State being defined aa tho embodiment of the principle of I Invasion In an Individual or a hand of Individuals assuming to act as representatives or masters of the tire people within a given area All tho foregoing definitions are taken from the textbooks Tho purpose of Anarchism then Is to put an end to every form of Invasion and to estab lisle a condition of equal liberty Benjamin R Tucker am an Anarchist All good men are AnarchIsts All cultivated Jdnd ly all gentle men all just men are Anarchists Jesus was an Anarchist Elbert Hubbard Dont waste your energies In any party fighting Dont believe In the politicians who Is climbing to place and flower dont believe In the phrase makers and Tote Beakers whose office It Is to please and flatter you and keep you at war with one another dont believe In State gifts or State privileges either for popr or rich- dont spend your lives In regulating and restricting each other Get rid of the education persecutor the drink persecutor the sanitary persecutor 1the State morality persecutor Use no State coercion except only to fend the person and property of each citizen Vote down all compulsory rates and taxes Train yourselves voluntary services for the State safe guard all property and win for yourselves through voluntary association and the resistless power of your com bined pennies Dont take part in had useless wars between labor and capital trust to the widest possible liberty to self ownership and self guidance to free trade to peace and friendliness and to voluntary asso ciations of every kind for satisfying wants and winning wealth Follow no body fear nobody coerce nobody love freedom be ready to make rifices for her and believe In her to overcome all difficulties and LiftjIn London by Auburn Herbert For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life it freedom fail We are all of us in the realm of of religion Anarcfcjst Dr Lyman Abbott It costs the gd ilment eight times more to carry the malls than It costs the express companies to have their matter hauledW J Bryan Where is one cure and only one for social upheavels and that Is jus tlce and If culture Is to devote Itself to the discovery of substitutes for justice It will have Its labor for It- spalnsE H Crosby To try to better the condition of people by repressive and restrictive laws and taxation Is as if I were sit on the neck of a man and hav sing quite crushed him down compel him to carry me and will not alight from off his shoulders while I as sure Inset and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his condition by every means in my power except by getting off his back story of mankind is never owInjustice oppression and wrong re ever fortified and entrenched ere are lawyers with specious argu tints and endless briefs To prove hat black la white that wrong Is Ight Here are judges In high places eady to maintain existing things ere Is the State which protects the tong and subverts the liberties and tural rights of the disinherited and lesplsed And here is the press with s million brazen tongues its tongues malice of envy and of spite ready defile the truth to proclaim false hood and error to the world and to posh to madness the passions and the of men And hero Is the church now as of old the home of the money changer and trafficker the church raises Ita voice with the cry of the mob and proclaiming to the world that whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound In heaven nd that whatsoever ye loose on earth hall be loosed In heaven And now is of old truth crushed and bleeding nd helpless has no tongue to speak ind no voice to raise Clarence S Darrow Whatsoever mounts the throne Jdng priest or prophetman alike govern In the higher conditions of society towards which mankind Is unconclous ly advancing men will shun all re- sponsIbility for an arbitrary control over tile conduct of others as sedu lously as during past ages they have sought them as the chief good Wash ington declined to bo made ling and the whole world has not ceased to make the welkin ring with laudations of the dlslsterested act The time will cone yet when the decllnaturo on all hands of every species of governmen tal authority over others will not even be deemed a virtue but simply the plain dictate of enlightened selfInter this I know that every law That men have made for man Since first man took his brothers life And tho sad world began Biit strews tho wheat and saves the chaff With a most evil fan OWWILDEjJ To be governed Is to be watched inspected spied directed lawridden regulated penned up Indoctrinated preachedat checked appraised seiz ed censured commanded by beings who have neither title nor knowledge nor virtue To governed Is to have every operation every transac Lion every movement noted registered counted rated stamped measured numbered assessed licensed refused authorized Indorsed admonish ed prevented reformed redressed corrected To be governed Is under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general Interest to be laid under contribution drilled fleec ed exploited monopolized extorted from exhausted hoaxed and robbed then upon the slightest resistance fined vilified disarmed hunted down pulled about beaten disarmed bound Imprisoned shot judged condemned banished sacrificed sold betrayed and to crown all ridiculed derided outraged dishonored Plerle Pond lion Politicians are a set of men who have Interest aside from the Inter eats of the people and who to say the most of them are taken as a mass at least one long step removed from honest men say this with the great exit freedom because being a politi clan myself none can regard it as personalA Lincoln When a white man governs himself that Is selfgovernment But when he governs himself and also governs some other men that Is more than selfgovernment that Is despotism What do mean to say ts that no man Is good enough to ern another man without that others consent Lincoln Did you ever notice that all the In teresting people you meet are Anarch IstsJullan Hawthorn All men aro Anarchists in degree They are Anarchists as far as they are privileged to be Every revolt every revolution every protest against evil In government Christianity has joined wtlh all history in inspiring me with a jiecu liar dread and abhorrence of the pas sion for power for dominion over men It Is the most satanic of all human passions and has inflicted more terror on the human family thou all others It inns made the name of king and priest the most palling In history Herbert Spen cer How common and how deplorable and depressing and discouraging it Is to hear men say in selfcondemnation and humiliation am a sinner I do many things that aro wrong that I ought not to do and so do you so does every one I do many things my conscience condemns me for Such sentiments and feelings are depress ing and demoralizing My good friend you who are so selfcondemnatory and so condemna tory of others are greatly In error- Sou may err I may err We both do many foolish things for want of knowledge but that they are sins In the sense they are commonly under stood to be I dispute Conscience Is partly intuitional and largely a crest ire of education Sometimes you do a thing that your Intuitional sCience prompts you to do which Is usually nearer right and your cated conscience condemns as wIck- ed Much more than half the socalled Tina or wickedness of the world afe net so They are simply convention ally sins or wickedness If we could eliminate many of the conventional sins Into the ragbag of oblivion it would cast many heartaches and self imposed disgraces Into Innocuous uetude There Is a simple Invariable rule by which right and wrong virtue and vice may be determined Happiness Is the only good ery Is the only evil lie who promotes the happiness of others as well as himself Is right He who produces pain to any one Is wrong It Is sinful wicked No one sins who does not Impose on another that which Is ob noxious to himself No one sins who Invades not the equal freedom of other No one sins who attends to his own business and exercises no violent ccerclve measures against another Some peoples consciences are cated to regard as sin many harmless pleasures that render no one misera ble Though I never play any game am not offended nor made miserable by others who play cards or any other game Though I never swear and mIre good language yet I cannot say that socalled swearing or using Gods name In vain Is sin for It cannot harm any one nor Is an ungrammatl cal in expression sin though owing w education both grate harshly on my sensitive ear like a discord in music While do not regard swearing In grammatlclsms nor Inharmonic sounds as wicked yet they should not be In dulged In to the discomfort of educated ears They are all three the result of Ignorance the absence of knowledge Swear words are not words used to fill up space In a tence or make It more euphonic but usually to give emphaslp to an asser tion and are often accompanied with anger The anger Is the sin Be ye angry and sinn ot Let not the o down upon your wrath We have been educated to regard many things as wrong or wicked that are not some are really good and some are negatively so and do not concern any one but the participant Let us take one of tine roost universal sentiments and analyze It and see how much good or bad there Is In It mean the sentiment of detestation of tho act of selling a vote A vote Is an individual volition of the one casting It It Is not public property Tho voter has a right ast It for who he pleases or to cast a blank or none at all It is his sov reign property- Suppose tho question arises to be determined by a majority vote as to which Deity God or the devil has most power and which Is the better person John Smith who has always his prayers appealed to good Lord and good devil not knowing whose hands he may fall Into cannot for his soul tell or form any conviction from reading his Bible and listening to preachers as to which Is the best person So along comes Comstock and gives him a V to vote for God Smith accepts and Is happy Comstock Is happy for he got tho worth of his money Two are happy and no one Injured Whoso business Is It Take Smith again In politics He listens to Bryan and McKinley reads a lot of literature and for his life he cant form a conviction of which Is right He Is a little inclined towards McKinley not being of a logical anel discriminating mind and as McKln ley never struck above the belt hut promised a full dinner pall he Is In clined towards him and Mark Hanna comes along and gives him a V to vote his way thatThe might have done any way and Smith Is happy and Mark Is happy and whose business is It Suppose he was Inclined towards Bryan and Mark bought him over did not bout sides appeal to the mercenary motives of voters Was there any question of principle at stako ween the parties Did not both par tie want a commodity money of gold and sliver Did not bout want a tar itt Did not both want war if it suited their party Was there any differ ence between them No only a destruction of present In perfidy Were not the great parades ot numbers and flamboyant flourishes of flags and torchlights an appeal to the cupidity of people Did not tho longest pole get the persimmon Suppose Smith did sell his vote Can a jury of twelve men be picked that would agree that any onto hat been Injured And can be proven that any man ever did sell his convic Lions May bo he Intended to vote as he did anyhow But Is he not tak ing money for nothing A free ex change Is no robbery The man who paid the money got the worth of his money or he would not have purchas ed Tho franchise Is a farce any Ve say we will settle a question by ballot and then say who shall vote Take a hundred people men wo men and children promiscuously and twentyone are allowed to vote Six vote the Republican ticket five the Democratic four the Socialist three the Prohibition two the populist and one who knows more than of the others does not vote at all Two vote the Republican ticket because their fathers did one is bought and three vote Intelligently The man they vote for sells out to Mark Hanna and yet we call ourselves a selfgovern ing people At best three men gov ern the other 97 and we call this a democratic government and boast that we are so much freer than a archy True we are a freer people than tho populous countries of Eu rope but only because we have more free land here We need to have our conscience corrected our minds renewed with the great truth that nothing Is sinful wicked or wrong for which we should feel remorse but the invasion of some ones else equal freedom in the par suit of happiness and that happiness consists of the free exercise of our faculties the gratification ot our de sires rC1JAlhlJ I Hinrisboro Ill 303lDear SirHave just read Mr mans appeal in behalf of the Blade and I feel that It would be a loss Irreparable to allow he Blade to suspend It ought not anti must not be done The world is perishing for just such food as Dr Wilson Mrs Henry and Mrs Closz and other able contrlbut ors are giving It through the Blade If the Blade suspends the Liberal Party and the Blade Club two young but destined to be powerful agents for good will lose their main support their medium of communication What can we do at once to carry the Blade over Its present crisis will an appeal to the delinquent subscrib ers be sufficient No Mrs Henry has made that as strong as It can be made in last Issue of Blade and out of the 800 delinquent subscribers not over 25 will respond Such subscrlb ers are a burden and no benefit to the cause which the Blade represents Many of them subscribe on the sly read on the sly and when the tesl comes you cant tell where they stand Not having the money to pay up is nc excuse If there Is any Liberal In tho United State too poor to rake up a year to pay for such a paper as the Blade such person needs help and the readers of the Blade will cheer fully help any such person on satis factory evidence of such poverty It you havent a dollar to pay up gt borrow it If your credit Is not good for one dollar get out of our ranks and go join the church Mr Hughes cut off every delinquent that dont pay or report poverty ln ten days Now say we cannot depend on these delinquents not much will come from them so those who have already paid up must do something I lave this suggestion to make Let one hundred persons subscribe for five years In vance at cents a year they might have that amcunt of credit placed on their own subscription or sent to fivI different persons That would 250 at once I havent a single dollar In my pocket to enter such an obliga tion but my credit Is good and will forward the 250 any day you call for It So put me down for one of the cue hundred persons for five yearly subscriptions to the Blade due when ninetynine others have made like my name on tho Blade club Bro Hughes you are a hero tc stand so faithfully by the Blade Wish had money to help you With best wishes to you and yours am Your friend JESSE RUSSELL +WEBSTER CITY May 1903 I have Just received through Peter Ecker a box of books Age of Reason and Facts worth knowing for dlstrl button Anyone desiring one or mort copies please notify me I hereby extend thanks to the donor and shall endeavor to place them where tidy will do HARRIET M CLOSZ God in the- Constitution Tine world seems to be getting more and moro into contention and strife and amongst other contentions and probably tho most to be feared is tho religious fanaticism which pears to be on the rise in these Ited States It Is said that a ster move Is to be made on our Con gross at the next session to have some recognition of God Inserted In our Constitution which our fathers omitted for wise and prudential reasons and that 00000 petitions are now In circulation by which It Is ed to sway Congressmen We are Informed that these petitions are being signed by the thousands without gard to age color or sex and probably twothirds of hose signing are children and others Ignorant of what they are doing It therefore be comes the friends of religious liberty to bo on their guard All the instrumentalities of eccles iastical power comprising all Sunday sCHools churches Christian Endeavor Associations Womens Christian Temperance Unions Young Mens Christian Associations etc are being set In motion and the religious lib erty for which our fathers fought Is to again be imperiled The right of citizenship will be made to depend on manmade beliefs and those not so believing will again be anathema tized and persecuted It Is said His tory repeats Itself but we had thought that religious fanaticism would never again curse this country as religious liberty and church and State forever separate has been Its watchword from Its beginning until the present time But the dark clout of fanaticism and superstition has arisen and may sweep us to ruin as It has the of past ages The call Is for the friends of liberty and free government to be vigilant and ward off the terrible incubus of religious bigotry and bondage that now threatens us as n nation We all know It was thought best by the founders of this government to establish it on a secular basis en tirely as religious persecution had run rampant In New England shortly before and had demonstrated In a snail way the dire results of a mingling of church and State No man was to be compelled to pay for any religion Citizenship was not founded on any belief but on obe dience to tho Constitution and the laws For the Instruction of those who are seeking to make our govern ment a theocracy we quote from from some of the fathers of our re public and later our patriots In no sense whatever Is this gov ernme nt founded upon the Christian re iglorWashingtonIt to pel any man to support a religion in which lie does not believe Thomas tAthat depends upon the S atqujqr support for thaJLreaaon a bad religion Franklin Rell on arid the manner of dis charging It can be directed only by reason and conviction and not by force oJ violence Madison We fight not to enslave but to set a country free My religion Is to dc jcod to all mankind Thomas PaIne The great and rect end of ernment Is liberty Patrick Henry Keep church and State forever sep arate Gen Grant The divorce between church and State should be absoluteGen Garfield My hope Is that a government by the people for the people may not oerlsh from the earth Abraham Lin coIn No man shall be compelled to sup art any religion Constitution of the United States No man shall bo compelled to pay or any church any religion nor any ministry Constitution of Maryland So let us obey the voice of patriot sm We want no vague and unmean ing words Incorporated at this late ay In our Constitution Our government has been run on a secular basis or over one hundred years free from he clamor and strife of sectarian re Iglcnlsts that have cursed and devas ated the governments of the old vorld with Internecine war and blood hed All those religionists wanting God In the Constitution are at Tiber y to implore the blessings of heaven ndlvidually or collectively upon our country They have full liberty un ler our present Constitution to do so l they believe It will do good but hey should not have the liberty to In corporate In our Constitution words that will produce contention and strife E LIVEZEY Baltimore Md WOMAN OF THE BLADE CLUB West Sutton Mass May 27 303 To tho Editor In the last Blade I observed Mrs Henrys suggestion to members of the Blade Club and being among the first tour on the list respond accordingly Though in doing so it must in ray be construed to mean that I have contracted that tired feeling from rending either Mrs Henrys or Dr Wilsons numerous articles They can but command words of appreciation from all who follow the footsteps of their pens So Mr Moore we must not allow the idea to prevail that your redders are annoyed by the few writers appearing weekly but that on the contrary they justly pride themselves on being wise enough to stand by quality rather than quantity on arty line To bo requested to contribute some account of my labors and experiences places me somewhat at a loss at this period of my efforts to say the least am Just a grownup country girl differing from those about me chiefly In that am of a radical turn mind on most questions of the day IdeaS that doubtless were Innate lOt me fostered perhaps by a moth teaching and later by observa in life have led me to champion tho right and just sjde of any cause especially womansto a limited ex Inabilitybetter of within My parents being Liberal I am minus tho experiences related by many of how when a little child they found Jesus and again later on when they found reason to forsake Him So you see the various prevail ing superstitions never have had any terrors for me and suppose Imagi nation cannot express to me In a true IIgnt the troubleous times they have who see these obstacles recognize them as such and after an honest but severe mental conflict succeeed In thrusting them from their intellectual pathway All honor to their strength of character for that act It means costlyWhenevercoring to my sense of justice needs leveling up or teat reason says needs a straight edge application It Is lowed by a desire to help to meet those requirements hence my excuse for occasionally intruding on the umns of some newspapers In saying this Ive said all and cheerfully leave further space tc those who can show us nearly a lifetime of active service for the betterment of humanity and Incidentally give the fresnmen some pointers how best to follow in line which would help them materially to fulfill their hopes of a worthy record LUCY WATERS PHELPS CHISTIANPROHIBITION Ottawa kansas May 4th 1903 Mr Hughes Dear SirEnclosed find ten cents for which please send me the twc numbers of your paper that have the articles In them written by Mrs J K Henry where states there are the United States two or more factor lea who make Idols and ship them tc Japan China and other heathen countries one of the factories being Philadelphia think they were the papers some time In February send them by the first aftei you get this letter as want them be fore next Sunday I thought hat the two numbers until looked foi them today but cannot put my bane on them just now want to use the articles for a purpose next Sunday Yours for all JEFF- ERIESPremiums+ For New- Members A great many Liberals Incline to unite with us but from the habit cl delay do not send in their names In order to reach these as well an to stir up an interesting competition and to awaken endeavor and thusiasm Especially among ouyounger members we offer the fol lowIng awardsthe contest to close September 1st E M 303 The Conditions Ar- e1The person joining must be a new member and the fee of one dollar accompanying his name The names should be sent In at soon as gotten 3The contest Is open to all old members except the President First Second and Third Vice Presidents Secretary and Treasurer IThe contest Is open to all new members Premiums- To the persons securing the larg est number of members we will award forFirst Prize Ingersolls Complete WorksDresden Editionvalue 30 Second Prize Palnes Complete Worksvalue 1000 Third PrizesWalking stick from the Paine tree Fourth Prize Walking stick from the Paine tree Fifth Prize History of the Chris Ian Religion to the year 200 by Judge C B Waite Sixth Prize Rfstory of the Chris tan Religion to the year 200 by Judge B Waite Seventh Prize History of the Christian Religion to the year 200 jy Judge C B Waite eighth Prise Wettsteln Gold Pin Ninth Prize Wettstein Gold Pin Tenth Prize Wettstein Gold Pin Elevelth prize Dog Fennel In the Orient by Charles C Moore Twelfth prize Dog Fennel In the rlent by Charles C Moore Thirteenth Prize Dog Fennel in the Orient by Charles Moore Fourteenth Prize Napkin ring tram the Paine tree Fifteenth prize Napkin ring from the Paine tree- Sixteenth prize Napkin ring trot tho Paine tree- Seventeenth prize Penstock from nine tree- Eighteenth prize Penstock fron he Paine tree- Nineteenth prize Penstock fron he Paine tree- Twentieth prize Full figure rail of Capt Geo W Loyd standlm y the side of Palnes chair Send all communicatlonc direct h the Secretary By order of the Exec itlve Committee MORRIS SACHS Sec Atlas Bank Building Cincinnati Ohio ++WHY AM AN ATHEIST I am an Atheist because I cannot conceive of that being called a god cannot see that an almighty God who Is supposed to have made this world and all therein can be selfish enough to allow his children tc struggle then In this world as they do the Injustice of which drives them to all sorts of crimes I cannot con ceive of a God creating men allowing them to be driven to such extremes and then committing them to satantc be tortured after death as they had endured torture before It As to the hereafter I should like to have some thing better here as I have no faith 711In it believe that things cannot be created or destroyed I believe that matter therefore man Instead of be Ing destroyed evolutes Into something rIIJandjArcannotter by religion Their belief in a fta rhimmakes them cringing cowards Poorypie commit all kinds of sins and then trthink that by offering prayers to theirrGod they are forgiven cannot be lieve In such a pest as that one prey + Ing on the people today the pest of religion Because cannot conceive of a being with as cold a heart as that God crave the honor of class Ing myself with all common sense people and therefore of calling my self an Atheist ANNA FRIT years old San Francisco Calif FREE BodKS Hnrdyvllle Ky May 303 Air Hughes have for free distribution about copies of Palnos Age of Reason anti several hundred of Facts Worth Knowing This little book should bo In the hands of every Liberal reform er and scattered knee deep over the itcountry Mrs Henrys deadly par allel between Jesus Christ and Jes eus Chrlshna the Hindoo saviour Is the most complete and unswerable explanation of the origin of ChrIstian- ity that I have ever read Both books will be sent to any one tree for six cents to pay postage or the last named for cents each These books are sent out by the Brooklyn Philosophical Association of Brooklyn through Peter Eckler JESSE RUSSELL DRINK HABIT CURED Home treatment for cure cunran LIQUORCURErestorer nil one makelTIt wo Kunrantee It to cure any case the drlnlc habit on enrtli Vend it to any address in United States upon receipt of arid guarantee cure or refund money first hank reference given Cur business atnotly confidential Address or 44 LEXINGTON EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY Time Table- No Daily No pm a mrLexington 225 745 Lv Winchester 310 826 Lv Btvllle Junction 511 1029 Ar Jackson 616 1130 Ar Cannel City 1245- Westbound No1 Dally No3 Ex Sunday Daily a m p m Lv Cannel City 105 Lv Jackson 625 225 Btvlllo Junction 726 32r Lv WI uester 923 61 Sr oxington 1020 60a Nos and make close connection- at 0 K junction for Cannel City tad points on Ohio Kentucky Rail Nos onu 2 connect at L E unction with Chesapeake Ohio far IrfJRMu Sterling and local points Nos and connect dally ex iIjsept Sunday at Beattyvlllo Junction with 1 A Ralway for Beattyvllle t iJ R BARR Gen g rAULiS SCOTT G P A fT H MORGAN S P 1Lr mn1D1JTHE WELLKNOWN PHYSICIAN Cures Where Others Fail FOR PROOF READ HIS BOOK i v Mt = l withr Lone or chares celenfentalandPbyslcnlDebllityand booiletwlllbosenttotbelradilressrot ten cenm givtngcauseenunaTmptomsofthetom pnanneandadescd tnonofthoDoctors Important Out wnrd AppIliatlonapoennnvecuretheonryrem- edyof the ebtencewith sun cess Address DR n P FELLOWS this ndver hoi cured so many advanced and difficult of a private nature which were looked upon incurable that he is now considered far and near as the most reliable and vorthy physician his specialty Editor mean Journal of Health Dr Fellows has for a number of years held an enviable reputation In the medical line and has made a specialty of a number of diseases thereby becoming familiar with them and enabling him to treat them suc cessfully He Is wellknown as a pro nounced advocate In all lines of free profession loorr THE LltyEwo i A is41 tlr ftf tJI I 1 rif BLUE GRASS BL tEhuBARNESu CONCLUDES HIS ARGUMENT FOR ANARCHY A continuation of quotations from noted men In support of Anarchy Anarchism as defined by Anarch Jsts is the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty In other words the belief In every liberty except the liberty to Invade It is an Implication of this definition that Anarchism aims at the abolition of govermner and the State as defined by Anarch- Ists are debarred by their nature from allowing the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality and are necessarily Invasive government being defined as the subjection of the noninvaslvo Individual to an external will and tile State being defined as tho embodiment of the principle of t invasion In an Individual or a band of individuals assuming to act as representatives or masters of the tire people within a given area All the foregoing definitions are taken from the textbooks The purpose of Anarchism then is to put an end to every form of invasion and to estal llsh a condition of equal liberty Benjamin R Tucker am an Anarchist All good men IIAnarchists All cultivated kind all gentle men all just men are Anarchists Jesus was an Anarchist Elbert Hubbard Dont waste your energies In any party fighting Dont believe In the politicians who Is climbing to place and Power dont believe In the phrase makers and vote sealers whose office It Is to please and flatter you and keep you at war with one another dont believe In State gifts or State privileges either for popr or rich dont spend your lives In regulating and restricting each other Get rid of the educationpersecutor the drlnl persecutor tho sanitary persecutor the State morality persecutor Use no State coercion except only to fend the person and property of each citizen Vote down all compulsory rates and taxes Train yourselves voluntary services for the State safe guard all property and win for your selves through voluntary association and the resistless power of your com blned pennies Dont take part In had useless wars between labor and capital trust to the widest possible liberty to self ownership and self guldanceto free trade to peace and friendliness and to voluntary asso clatlons of every kind for satisfying wants and winning wealth Follow nobody fear nobody coerce nobody love freedom be ready to make sac rjflces for her and believe In her power to overcome all difficulties and hall all sufferings From Free Life organ of voluntary taxation published In London by Auburn Herbert For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fall We are all of us In tho realm of I of Anarctjst Dr Lyman Ab19UWIt costs t le gyvtnuwEui eIght times more to carry the malls than It costs the express companies to have their matter hauledW J Bryan There is one cure and only one for social upheavels and that Is jus tice and If culture Is to devote Itself to the discovery of substitutes for justice it will have Its labor for Its E H Crosby ofNlaws and taxation Is as if I were sit ting on the neck of a man and haying quito crushed him down I compel him to carry me and will not alight from off his shoulders while as sure inyset and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his condition by every means in ray power except by getting off his back story of mankind is never injustice oppression and wrong ire ever fortified and entrenched Here are lawyers with specious argu ments and endless briefs To prove hat black la white that wrong is right Here are Judges in high places ready to maintain existing things Here Is the State which protects the trong and subverts the liberties and atural rights of the disinherited and Despised And hero Is the press with s million brazen tongues its tongues- f malice of envy and of spite ready to defile the truth to proclaim false hood and error to the world and to lash to madness the passions and the hates of men And here Is the church now as of old the home of the money changer and trafficker the church raises Its voice with the cry of the mob and proclaiming to the world that whatsoever ye bind on earth shall bo bound In heaven and that whatsoever ye loose on earth shall be loosed In heaven And now is of old truth crushed and bleeding md helpless has no tongue to speak md no voice to raise Clarence S Darrow Whatsoever mounts the throne king priest or prophetman alike shall govern In the higher conditions of society towards which mankind Is unconclous Lly advancing men will shun all sponsibility for an arbitrary control over the conduct of others as sedulously as during past ages they have sought them as tho chief good Wash- Ington declined to be made king and the whole world has not ceased to make the welkin ring with laudations of the dlslsteresled act The time will come yet when the decllnaturo on all goernmenIbe deemed a virtue but simply the plain dictate of enlightened selfInter this know that every law That men have made for man Since first man took his brothers life lAnd the sad world began but strews the wheat and saves the chaff With a most evil fan O W WILDE L t tJl f its To ho governed is to be watched Inspected spied directed lau ridllen regulated penned up Indoctrinated preachcdat chcckcu appraised selz cd censured commanded by beings who have neither tltlo nor knowledge nor virtue To bo governed is to have every operation every transaction every movement noted registered counted rated stamped measured numbered assessed licensed ro fused authorized Indorsed admonish ed prevented reformed redressed corrected To be governed Is under pretext of public utility and In the name of the general Interest to lJe laid under contribution drilled fleeted exploited monopolized extorted from exhausted hoaxed and robbed then upon tho slightest resistance fined vilified disarmed hunted down pulled about beaten disarmed bound Imprisoned shot judged condemned banished sacrificed sold betrayed mid to crown all ridiculed derided outraged dishonored Plerle POUd lionPoliticians are a set of men who have Interest aside from the Inter ests of the people and who to say the most of them are taken as a mass at least one long stop removed from honest men I say this with the greatest freedom because being a politi clan myself none can regard it as personalA Lincoln When a white man governs him self that Is selfgovernment But when he governs himself and also governs some other men that Is more than selfgovernment that Is despotism What I do mean to say ts that no man Is good enough to gov ern another man without that others consentt Lincoln Did you ever notice that all the in teresting people you meet are Anarch IstsJullan Hawthorn All men are Anarchists in degree They are Anarchists as far as they are privileged to be Every revolt every revolution every protest against evil In government Christianity has Joined wtlh all history In Inspiring me with a peculiar dread and abhorrence of the pas slon for power for dominion over men It is the most satanic of all human passions and has Inflicted more terror on the human farilll than nil others It has made the name of king and priest the most ap palling In history Herbert Spen cer r How common and how deplorable and depressing and discouraging It to hear men say In selfcondemnation and humiliation I am a sinner I do many things that are wrong that ought not to do and so do you so docs every one I do many things my conscience condemns me for Such sentiments and feelings are depress ing and demoralizing My good friend you who are so selfcondemnatory and so condemna tory of others are greatly In error You may err I may err We both do many foolish things for want of knowledge but that they are sins In the sense they are commonly under stood to be I dispute Conscience Is partly intuitional and largely a creature of education Soflietimesyou do a thing that science prompts you to do which Is usually nearer right and your edu cated conscience condemns as wick ed Much more than half the socalled sinS or wickedness of the world are net so They are simply conventionally sins or wickedness If we could eliminate many of the conventional sins Into the ragbag of oblivion It would cast many heartaches and self imposed disgraces Into innocuous uetude There is a simple Invariable rule jy which right and wrong virtue and vice may be determined Happiness Is the only good Mis cry Is the only evil Ho who promotes the happiness of others as well as himself Is right He who produces pain to any one Is wrong It Is sinful wicked No one sins who does not Impose on another that which Is ob noxious to himself No one sins who Invades not the equal freedom of an other No one sins who attends to his own business and exercises no violent icerclve measures against another 3cme peoples consciences are edu cated to regard as sin many harmless pleasures that render no one mlsera le Though I never play any game am not offended nor made miserable y others who play cards or any other game Though never swear and ad mIre good language yet I cannot say that socalled swearing or using Gods name In vain Is sin for It cannot harm any one nor Is an ungrammatical in expression sin though owing m education both grate harshly on ny sensitive ear like a discord In I do not regard swearing In rammatlclsms nor Inharmonic sounds- as wicked yet they should not be In dulged in to the discomfort of educated ears They are all three the result of Ignorance the absence of knowledge Swear words are not words used to fill up space In a tence or make It more euphonic but usually to give emphasis to an asser tion and are often accompanied with anger The anger Is the sin Be ye angry and sinn ot Let not the sun go down upon your wrath We have been educated to regard many things as wrong or wicked that are not some are really good and some are negatively so and do not concern any one but the participant Let us take one of the most universal sentiments and analyze It and see how much good or bad there is In it mean the sentiment of detestation- of the act of selling a vote A vote Is an individual volition of thin one casting It It Is not public property Tho voter has a right to cast It for who he pleases or to cast a blank or none at all It Is his soy reign property Suppose the question arises to be determined by a majority vote as to rhlch Deity God or the dovll has most power and which Is the better person John Smith who has always- In his prayers appealed to good Lord and good devil not knowing whose hands he may fall Into cannot for his soul ten or form any conviction from reading his BIble and listening to preachers as to which Is the best person So along comes Comstock and gives him a V to voto for God Smith accepts and Is happy Comstock Is happy for ho got tho worth of his money Two are puppy and no ono Injured Whoso business is It Take Smith again In politics Tie listens to Bryan and McKinley reads a lot of literature and for his life lie cant form a conviction of which Is right He Is a little Inclined towards McKinley not being of a logical and discriminating mind and as McKii ley never struck above the belt but promised a full dinner pall he Is clined towards him and Mark Hanna comes along and gives him a V to vote his way tliafhe might have done any way and Smith Is happy und Mark Is happy and whose business Is It Suppose he was Inclined towards Bryan and Mark bought him over did not both sides appeal to the mer cenary motives of voters Was there any question of principle at stake tween the parties Did not both par tie want a commodity money of gold and silver Did not both want a tar- Iff Did not both want war If It suit ed their party Was there any difference between them No only a destruction of present In perfidy Were not great parades of numbers and flamboyant flourishes of flags and torchlights an appeal to the cupidity of people Did not the longest pole get the persimmon Suppose Smith did sell his vote Can a Jury of twelve men be picked that would agree that any one had been Injured And can It be proven that any man ever did sell his convictions May be he Intended to vote as he did anyhow But Is he not tak Ing money for nothing A free change Is no robbery The man who paid the money got thin worth of lila money or he would not have purchased Thin franchise Is a farce any way vo say wo will settle a question bj ballot and then say who shall vote Take a hundred people men wo men and children promiscuously and twentyone are allowed to vote Six vote the Republican ticket five the Democratic four the Socialist three the Prohibition two the populist and one who knows morn than all of the others does not vote at all Two vote the Republican ticket because their fathers did one is bought and three vote Intelligently The man they vote for sells out to Mark Hanna and yet we call ourselves a selfgovern Ing people At best three men govern the other 97 and we call this a democratic government and boast that we are so much freer than a mono archy True we are a freer people than the populous countries of Eu rope but only because we have more free land here We need to have our conscience corrected our minds renewed with the great truth that nothing Is sinful wicked or wrong for which we should feel remorse but the Invasion of some ones else equal freedom In the pur suit of happiness and that happiness consists of the free exercise of our faculties the gratification ot our sires J r jCTBAKWEb Hind boro 1Hardyvllle Ky May 10th 303 Mr James E Hughes Lexington Ky Dear SIrHave Just read Mr Kauf mans appeal In behalf of the Blade and I feel that it would be a loss Irre parable to allow he Blade to suspend- It ought not and must not bo done The world Is perishing for Just such food as Dr Wilson Mrs Henry and Mrs Closz and other able contrlbut ors are giving It through the Blade If the Blade suspends the Liberal Party and the Blade Club two young mt destined to be powerful agents for good will lose their main support their medium of communication What can we do at once to carry the Blade over Its present crisis will an appeal to the delinquent subscrlb ers be sufficient No Mrs Henry has made that as strong as It can be made In last Issue of Blade and out of the 800 delinquent subscribers not over 25 will respond Such subscribers are a burden and no benefit to the cause which the Blade represents Many of them subscribe on the sly read on tho sly and when the test comes you cant tell where they stand Not having the money to pay up Is nc excuse If there Is any Liberal In thin United State too poor to rake ur a year to pay for such a paper as tin Blade such person needs help anti the readers of the Blade will cheerfully help any such person on satisfactory evidence of such poverty II havent a dollar to pay up gc borrow It If your credit Is not good for one dollar get out of our ranks and go Join the church Mr Hughes cut off every delinquent that dont pay or report poverty to ten days Now say we cannot depend on these linquents not come from them so those who have already paid up must do something have this suggestion to make Let one hundred persons subscribe for five years in vance at cents a year they might have that amcunt of credit placed on their own subscription or sent to five different persons That would raise 250 at once I havent a single dollar In my pocket to enter such an obllga tier but my credit Is good and I will forward the 250 any day you call for It So put me down for one of the Otto hundred persons for five yearly inscriptions to the Blade due when Inetynlne others have made like subscriptions Please put my name on tho Blade club Bro Hughes you are a hero tc stand so faithfully by the Blade Wish had money to help you With best wishes to you and yours am Your friend JESSE RUSSELL +WEBSTER CITY May 1903 I have Just received through Peter Icker a box of books Ago of Reason and Facts worth knowing for dlstrl utlon Anyone desiring one or more copies please notify me hereby extend thanks to thin donor and shall endeavor to place them where they will do good- HARRIET M CLOSZ jr God in the- Constitution Thin world seems to be getting more and more lute contention and and amongst other contentions anti probably the most to be feared Is tho religious fanaticism which pears to be on the rise In these Ited States It is said that a mono ster move is to he made on our gress at the next session to have some recognition of God inserted In our Constitution which our fathers omitted for wise and prudential rea sons and that petitions are now In circulation by which It is hon ed to sway Congressmen Wo are Informed that these petitions are beIng signed by the thousands without gard to age color or sex and probably twothirds of those signing are children and others Ignorant of what they are doing It therefore be comes friends of religious liberty to be on their guard All the Instriimentuliiles of eccles Iastical power comprising all Sunday scnools churches Christian Endeavor Associations Womens Christian Temperance Unions Young Mens Christian Associations etc are being set In motion and the religious lib erty for which our fathers fought Is to again be Imperiled The right of citizenship will be made to depend up on manmade beliefs and those not so believing will again be anathematized and persecuted It is said tory repeats Itself but we had thought that religious fanaticism would never again curse this country- as religious liberty and church and State forever separate has linen Its watchword from its beginning until the present time But the dark cloud of fanaticism and superstition has arisen and may sweep us to ruin as has the people of past ages The call is for the friends of liberty and free government to be vigilant and ward off tho terrible Incubus of religious bigotry and bondage that now threat ens us as a nation We all know It was thought best by the founders of this government to establish it on a secular basis en tirely as religious persecution had run rampant in New England shortly before and had demonstrated In a small way the dire results of a com mingling of church and State No man was to be compelled to pay for any religion Citizenship was not founded on any belief but on obedience to the Constitution and the laws For the instruction of those who are seeking to make our govern ment a tliteooracy we quote from from some of the fathers of our public and later ciur patriots In no sense whatever Is this gov ernmesnttonnded upon the Christian rellglollT Washington It Is wlclted and tyrannical to com pel any man to support a religion In which he does not believe Thomas jAthat depends upon the StntofSor suDDort for that reasoniil L bad religionFranklin Relit on midi the manner of dis charging it can be directed only by reason and conviction and not by force oi violence Madison We fight not to enslave but to a country free My religion Is to dc cod to all mankind Thomas Paine The great and rect end of gov ernment Is liberty Patrick Henry Keep church and State forever sep arateOen Grant The divorce between church and State should be absolute Gen Oar field My hope Is that a government by the people for the people may not perish from the earth Abraham Lln man shall becompelled to sup tort any religion Constitution of the United States No man shall be compelled to pay or any church any religion nor any nlnlstry Constitution of Maryland- So let us obey the voice of patriot sm We want no vague and unmeaning words incorporated at this late ay In our Constitution Our govern ment has been run on a secular basis or over one hundred years free from he clamor and strife of sectarian re Iglcnlsts that have cursed and devas ated the governments of the old vorld with Internecine war and blood ihert All those religionists wanting God In thin Constitution are at liber y to Implore the blessings of heaven ndlvtdunlly or collectively upon our ountry They have full liberty un ler our present constitution to do so f they believe it will do good but hey should not have the liberty to In jorporato In our Constitution words that will produce contention and itrlfe E LIVEZEY Baltimore Md WOMAN OF THE BLADE CLUB West Sutton Mass May 27 303 To the Editor In the last Blade I observed Mrs Henrys suggestion to members of this Hade Club and being among thin first tour on the list I respond accordingly though In doing so It must in nc vay be construed to mean that I have ccntracted that tired feeling from reading either Mrs Henrys or Dr Vllsons numerous articles They can but command words of appreciation from all who follow the footsteps of their penS So Mr Moore we must not allow tho Idea to prevail that your readers are annoyed by the few writers appearing weekly but that on the contrary they justly pride themselves on being wise enough to stand by quality rather than quantity- on any line To be requested to contribute some account of my labors and experiences places mo somewhat ab a loss at this period of my efforts to say the least am just a grownup country girl differing from those about me chiefly In that am of a radical turn of mind on most questions of the day Ideas that doubtless were Innate with me fostered perhaps by a mothers teaching and later by observa dons hi life have led me to champion 1 J the rlghtand Just side of any causeespecially womansto a limited ex oClJettcrwithin My parents being Liberal I minus the experiences related lJy unsay of how when a little child they found Jesus and again later on when they found reason to forsake prevailingterrors for me and I suppose hnagl truellgotrecognizethemsevere mental conflict succeeed In thrusting them from their Intellectual pathway All honor to their strength of character for that act It means costlyWhenevercoring to my sense of justice needs leveling up or that reason says needs a straight edge application It Is fol lowed by a desire to help to meet those requirements hence my excuse for occasionally Intruding on the col umns of some newspapers- In saying this Ive said all and cheerfully leave further space tc those who can show us nearly a lifetime of active service for the betterment of humanity and Incidentally give the fresnmen some pointers on how best to follow In line which would help them materially to fulfill their hopes of a worthy record LUCY WATERS PHELPS +A CHISTIAN PROHIBITION Ottawa Kansas May 4th 1903 Mr Hughes Dear Sir Enclosed find ten cents for which please send me the two numbers of your paper that have the articles In them written by Mrs J K Henry where shfcstates there are In the United States two or more factor lea who make Idols and ship them tc Japan China and other heathen coup tries one of the factories being In Philadelphia think they were the papers some time in February send them by the first after ycu get this letter as want them be fore next Sunday I thought hoc the two numbers until looked foi them today but cannot put my hanc on them just now I want to use the articles for a purpose next Sunday Yours for all JEFF- ERIESPremiums+ For N e- MeDlbers A great many Liberals Incline to unite with us but from the habit cl delay do not send In their names In order to reach these as well an competitionandthuslasm Especially among oyounger members we offer the lowing awardsthe contest to close September 1st E M 303 The Conditions Ar- eITbe person joining must be a new member and the fee of one dollar accompanying his nam- e2The names should be sent In as soon as gotte- naThe contest Is open to all old members except the President First Second and Third Vice Presidents Secretary and Treasurer IThe contest Is open to all new members Premiums To the persons securing the largest number of members we will award forFirst Prize ingersolls Complete WorksDresden Editionvalue 30 Second Prize Palnes Complete Worksvalue 1000 Third PrizesWalking stick from the Paine tree Fourth Prize Walking stick from the Paine tree Fifth Prize History of the Christian Religion to the year 200 by Judge C B Waite Sixth Prize History of the Christian Religion to the year 200 by Judge C B Waite Seventh Prize History of the Christian Religion to the year 200 jy Judge C B Waite Eighth Prise Wettsteln Gold Pin Ninth Prize Wettsteln Gold Pin Tenth Prize Wettsteln Gold Pin Elevelth prize Dog Fennel In the Orient by Charles C Moore Twelfth prize Dog Fennel In the Jrlent by Charles C Moore Thirteenth Prize Dog Fennel In the Orient by Charles Moore Fourteenth Prize Napkin ring from the Paine tree Fifteenth prize Napkin ring frou the Paine tree- Sixteenth prize Napkin ring from tho Paine tree- Seventeenth prize Penstock from nine tree- Eighteenth prize Penstock fron he Paine tree- Nineteenth prize Penstock fron he Paine tree- Twentieth prize Full figure por rail of Capt Geo W Loyd stand In the side of Palnes chair Send all communlcatlonc direct tt he Secretary By order of the Exec itlve SACHS Sec Atlas Bank Building Cincinnati Ohio ++WHY AM AN ATHEIST I am an Atheist because I cannot conceive of that being called a cannot see that an almighty God vho Is supposed to lave made this world and all therein can be selfish enough to allow his children tc struggle then In this world as they do the Injustice of which drives them to all sorts of crimes I cannot con elve of a God creating men allowing them to be driven to such extremes and then committing them to satan be tortured after death as they had endured torture before It As to the hereafter I should like to have some f 4 gypihtcreated or destroyed I believe that beIngelse and that matter is uncrentnblo and Indestructible Lastly observing every day life I hettelofhim u makes them cringing cowards Peo pie commit all kinds of suns and then theirOod t a have In such a pest ns that one prey b f Ing on the people today tho pest of religion Because I cannot conceive of a being with as cold a heart as that God crave the honor of class ing myself with all common people and therefore of calling myttself an Atheist ANNA FRIT 14 years old San Francisco Calif FREE BOOKS Hardyville Ky May 31 303 Mr Hughes have for free distribution about r copies of Palnes Age of Reason and several hundred of Facts Worth Knowing This little book should bo i In tine hands of every Liberal reform er and scattered knee deep over the country Mrs Henrys deadly par allel between Jesus Christ and Jes ails Chrlshna the Hindoo saviour Is the most complete and unswerable explanation of origin of Christian ity that have ever read Both books will be sent to any one free for six cents to pay or the last named for 3 cents eachAThese books are sent out by the Brooklyn Philosophical Association of Brooklyn through Peter Eckler a n JESSE RUSSELL DRINK HABIT CURED IuarnnteedNerve strenifthesur blood puriiier ituliood restorer nil in one make sell it wo guarantee It to cure tiny case of tho drink Imbit on enrth We send it to any nctureasin the United States upon receipt of moneydKtstrictly confidential Address or PO 44 LEXINGTON EASTERNrRAILWAY COMPANYtsyTime Table No2 Dolly No p m a m Lexington 225 745 Lv Winchester 310 826 Lv Btvllle Junction 611 1029 Ar Jackson 616 1130 Ar Cannel City 1245- Westbound 3 JtNo Dally No 3kEx Sunday Dally a m p m Lv Cannel City 106 Lv Jackson 625 225 Utvllle Junction 726 talitNos 3 and 4 make close connection at O K junction for Cannel CityYmd points on Ohio Kentucky jjUY Nos Trrnr 2 connect at L E eI unction with Chesapeake Ohio for Mt Sterling and local points Nos 3 and connect dally ex ept Sunday at Benttyvlllo Junction Kith I J tItlBS SCOTT O P A T R MORON S P A THE WELLKNOWN PHYSICIAN Cures Where Others Fail FOR PROOF READ HIS BOOK tit 7 c TholeIIcelenrentaland 1frslenl are t sent to thetraddresslot ten cents plalnenelopelf1givingcausesaaleymptomsofthecom Im bPn tIIsuettcured advanced and difficult of a private nature which were looked upon as incurable that he is now consideredrfar and near as the most reliable trust speclaltyEditorAmerman Dr Fellows has for a number of years held an enviable reputation In the medical line and has made a s specialty of a number of diseases thereby becoming familiar with them and enabling him to treat them sue cessfully He Is wellknown as a pro nounced advocate In all lines of free profession THE BEST LINE 1 TO r ora t J l 1 JiJJf l t PP I r rI r d c I- 1e BLUE GRASS BLADE n Why I Am An Agnostic God To the earnest Is there a who has left the searcher after Itscenturieslefttrack ofbeaten boldly venandquagmiresruts and that leaf be tuna Into the byways onotto such anwherenotknows falls tothatthere Is the delight adventurer and explorer reglonstllOIunfamiliarandInto new vista ofbrightening fairer and ever spread before the thlnldng life that progressive mind Is In sharp contrast landscape of Bup r to the He stltton that ho has left behind finds manyandfartravels well testedtruthnuggetsnuggets of of reason and expel In the crucible tllough lenco and found genuine and far above enriched by possessions with goldpossessions that endow good will to men love of nature of rest he Is still far from that haven becl content The unknown still Thewants more truthHeons on found lodgment thatof progressgerm in the brain has grown and become an expansionist of potent restless en pushing on and on reaching out orgy hasItto conquernow worldsfitter and braved the Jungles of superstition It has slainovertriumphed fear It has seized and appropriated- proo and silenced doubt Tho conquest thus far has been Is wide A the universegreat but of possl seemingly shoreless ocean fotlltles lies before What And where All questions merge Into onoIs there to a God Some there are who seem find a satisfactory answer In the part revealed partly read book of ture lyi no there Is no God being the conclusion I believe of the majority of Liberals a conclusion carrying with It no doubt a sense of satlsac forming a resting tlon and completeness place as it were for the search- Ing wanderer But Is he not resting on shifting sands The tendenc of belief Is strong the human mind to The hereditary influence of a thous rind ages Is not easily outgrown It is a matter of common observation that people who auandon a bellef whether on religion or politics or anything else are prone to go to the farthest extreme not stopping untII reached May not the opposite Is this tendency to the opposite partly explain tho swing from orthodox tc Atheism A change from one bellet to another directly opposite the potus of motion carrying one beon the view point of strict Rationalism and again on the grounds of credullt and belief With the Atheist It Is thE belief that nature as the five sens recognize It Is the all In allthat nc God exists With that belief he stops with that conviction he ignores thE proposition that we have learned but tho alphabet of tne universe But granting that wo know morE and that we have read many volumes of the library of nature and obtalnc i f her operations aUl have beliefs abdllatf ors Ydt tnr myriads of beliefs have been swept by the remorseless hand o iawayscience Is It not more rational to of the universe stili hold the problems In question granting the uncertainty that generally clings to partial Idence4 Man know thyself Is gdod but we can not claim to be thoroughly ac qnalnted with the ego Can wo claim to ho acquainted with nil cosmic forces that brought him Into being But thanks to science we are learn- Ing She Is constantly giving us now discoveries and hints of things yet undreamed I for one do not forget that we are laboring under dUficul ties and limitations yes lamentatii too we are limited In our knowledge and understanding of many tIllngs even under close observation In our Inherited tendency to belief and It might bo added conceit shall we presume to have unveiled infinite ton Briefly I am an Agnostic becausE the more a man learns the more he sets there Is to learn Utterly tlnable oven in boyhood to accept the Bible God that hideous monstrosity caUed Jehovah I asked might there not be some other kind of God One that de cency could tolerate and reason sanction some force or Intelligence or power that It may be cannot be recog nlzcd by the senses perhaps evening Iy beyond the recognition of reason and understanding in Its present stage of unfoldment I am an Agnostic because nature made me one The conditions of time and place bolng favorable to development thus far with tho outlook one of hope that ture may yet yield the great secret and In the shorelss vast of time nnd space I may yet say I know the eternal principle of evolution may solve the problem and give the swer B LEE Mtilhall Okla CommentThe circumstances have been and still are such that I have had no opportunity to take any part In the very Interesting discussion of Atheism that for some time has lice conducted In the Blade But the ahoy Is so beautifully and conservative saidthough ordlnarly I do not Ilk conservatismthat I must trench a little on my time for reading for Ical errors my lately finished book In order to give It my heart sanctionI Atheist Tho word Agnostic Is not strong enough for me and ir one sense I think Huxley made a mis take In Inventing that word and that Ingersoll made a mistake In using It to express his own Intellectual status as to the existence of a God one sense of the word we are all Agnostics and Agnostics about everything because really nobody knows absolutely knows anything anything None of us knows that Iiahout Is round and neither Huxley a nor Ingersoll knew that there were no such things as witches Tho Bible says plainly that there aro witches and American Judges and Juries decided from the evidence ad deuced that there were witches and j t vti i J = executed tis being witches seemed only to be old womU as W y were plainly directed by the nIblo to Andyot the world Christian just as as Infidel has concluded there are no such things as witches And yet there Is not a man In the world that can know that there are no witches even at this day For all practical llOw over we proceed on tho supposition there are no witches and just exactly in the same way while no body can absolutely know that there no such existence as the Bible God Intelligent creatures we ought to proceed upon the supposition Umt there Is none Just as we proceed up on the supposition that there aro no of us absolutely knows that the world Is round and the Dible teaches that It Is fiat and yet an man would be very silly at this day who would base any sort of a busl ness transaction on any hlJOthesls other than that the world Is round So tnat If In discussing the qlles tlon of the existence of a Got we mean by the word the kind of a God described In our Jewish Christian Bible It seems to mo plainly the pnrt of Intelligence and Integrity to sn that there Is no God To oppose tho Christian rellglon Is not merely a matter of Interesting debate and Intellectual prowess It a duty that we owe to humanity and an Inalienable right for our selfde fenceI been for years experiment- Ing In plans of meeting Christian aI gumont rent or socalled and I haye lately In my travels had largo perience In that line I have found It most expedient Just to say to the Christian apologist that There Is ne God and t1lenthen he asks as he always will do Who made the unl verse tell him that It never was made but has existed from nil eter nlty and will exist to all eternltr and tills throws him on the defensive where he legitimately and logical belongs and there Is no ad captan dum vulgus about that for that what science seems to Indicate But then there are other great minds like Paine Franklin Jefferson and Lincoln who while they did not or do not believe In a God like that one of the Blbje did or do beHevc In a God of nature and devoutly be Hove It and there are bright men like Bro Lee here who think there may be such a God as the God of ture Strictly speaking there is no more a God of nature than there Is a God of the Bible There are laws and principles of nature but It Is a misnomer to per sonify them and call them God the are nothing but laws and prlnclplCE of nature that account for all the phenomena of nature without any od of nature any more than a God of the Bible A Family Man or1e4d t President Roosevelt Dear SIrKnowing that In your strenuous lifo you have not t to read carefully all letters sent you I call your attention to this o letter written to you fromC Crick West Vlrglnny Knowing your condition and fears of race suicide feel that tills letter will In a measure allay your fears and cheer you up a bit Surely this man has done as much for his country as If he had scaled the heights of San Juan course he had some assistance from the weaken sex but In Increasing the population of this glorious count1j mothers dont count from opoltlcal standpoint when an election Is ap Broaching They are only useful In lignlfylng the fathers of tho countr and paying taxes As I am a woman and have no vote rut am classed with lunatics idiots ind criminals have no political infiu trace and I cannot expect a request of nine to be granted but I hope j vlll recognize the services of Ezn Jlddles and reward him with an Ico commensurate with them Sureh 3zry Is doing his duty In carrying out the Rooseveltian policy and I feel sure ou will after reading the following otter reward him accordingly Hoping you will see your way clear to help this family man I remain Respectfully Yours JOSEPHINE K HENRY Versailles Ky AN OPEN LETTER Chicago Tribune Coon crick west Vlrglnny Feb 18th 1893 Presldunt of these here Nun t ad Dere sur an Trend See n by the papersas how you surten Ilks to see a man wot has a big fat bly an that yu Inten to do all you canto Incurrage same take my pen in hand to write yu these few lines to let yu know am well an hope yu are salm at this ritln As to big famblli want to tel you that ha the llig gest in these parts bar none I have onley bin marrld 2 yeres I wuz a bachlor oath then this wuz becos first luv mary SIddles got mad at mo In tho foil of 73 an marrldd a fe IeI by tho name of Jo Doakes who didnt treto her rite at oil but w dlde endurln the spring of 91 an o the ole luv returned as the pote st z after oil wlc h an so marrld mary bl this time she had foreteen durn of oil sizes an ages the smolles bolng one yens oled an about one foot Inches hi Now wot want to say Is that marts oldest son ho got mat rid yung an he has 8 chlldrun an be dottor liz she got marrid to an sh has chlldrun an now las week wot does her son henry do but run awn with tho wider Jones at tho cross- rodcll an she hind nine boys an gurls by various marrlges so the- upshot Is that they are oil lIvn with me an every 1 of them cells mo paw- now wot want Is releef the fellei wot has the postoflls hero now Is a ole IJ helor an he has a halrllpp an crost eye an nobody alnt goln to ma ry him an say honnor to who hon 4 not Is due and help tho fambly man as you say and have sed If as be you cant glv mo the posterns mob bo the government can uso mo sum other way or you can sugest some thin oil want as i say Is releef nn want that quick If It makes It I stronger mlto add that In my fambly there Is alsoe six dogs an one of them Is tho best coon dog In tho stalt an anuther is a dandy burd dog Nex time you are In the naburhood como aroun and will sho you the dogs and the chlldrun an alsce sum good huntln country as wel as the postoms so no more at present from Ires truly EZ11Y GlDDLES SWIVWWVV NV1nNWNWH t Blades t Club s I1NV11 Mrs Josephine K Henry Vel sallies Ky Lucy Waters Phelps West Sutton Esther A Van Riper Circle ville Ohio Mrs A Thompson 436 Oak St Chattanooga Tenn E Davis Houston Heights Tex Mrs Vina Hodges Salado Oregon Mrs Ella Wood Fonddulac WI Jean Harmon Paris Ky Ada L Smith Harrison Okla Mary E Crigler Bartow Fla Mrs Krone Cincinnati o Helen Collins 639 E 21st St Los Angeles Calif Emily Jones East Lynne Mo Everett Phelps Epperson Ky Mrs Lyndall 196 S Grant Ave Columbus Ohio Mrs Lee Blue Earth Minn Elizabeth Henry Sparks Carllse KyjMiss Ora L Baughman 540 W Hal ler St Lima Ohio Mrs Nellie Evans 540 W Haller St Lima Ohio Mrs W Royster 426 W Durall St Jacksonville Fla Alice Roby Caplinger Mills Mo Laura Roby Caplinger Mills Mo Lucinda Roby Capllnger Mills Mo Ella Roby Caplinger MJIIs Mo John F Clark Arlington Md Mrs E Marked Belleville Kan Mary Emerson Oak Center Wis Mrs C Kelsey Bellvue Fla W Harp Kathleen Fla Andrew Cook Manatee Fla F L Church Essex Mich Mrs R Pape 12 Vine St Lexlng on Miss Elizabeth Wiley 4069 Page Ave St Louis Mo Marllla Ricker Dover N H J W Ringing Diamond Ala Sirs Aline Wright Ornton Texas Robt G Wright Denton Texas Mrs Eliza Martin Mableton GaJ W Byler Comlns Mlcfi Minnie Lowry Woolsey Ind Ter Mrs Jessie Hazelilgg Ryan Iowa vjas Davis 526 Prospect J3t Lima rS Musgrove AKnettsvi le W Mary E Collins Cincinnati Ohio VaI Geo W Loyd Ne Rochi New oYrkIcMrs E Oades Olymn la Wasj1 20 St 11Thomas F Flood Barrs Mills Corrigan Texas Wm Emmitt Johnson McLeans bo ro Hans F Hanson Eslef Minn Mrs Isadora C Davis 528 Prosptc Ave Lima Alberto Fisher New Haven Gibson 112 Post Ave St Elmo Tenn Miss Lula Gibson Viz Post Ave St Elmo Tenn Mrs C Gibson 112 Post Ave st Elmo Tenn L Hassler 1849 Mullanphy St st Louis Mo Mrs Rachel Grober 105 W Fourth St Covington Ky Mrs Pefferle Ontario Ore Mrs Sarah E Richards Ashlar- Wm Richards Ashland Ore John Wulf Exchange St Mil ford Mass Milllam Jones Mary and Patton St ivlngton Ky Harriet Closz 537 Bank Sreet Webster City Iowa Hortense Malcolmn Phelps Otter vllle Ont W Simpson Ft Wrangle Alaska Mrs Jean Pohl and Dr Gustav Pohl 96 Lemon St Buffalo N Y Mrs Caroline Rowell 30 Locust St Buffalo Mrs Carrie Becker 27 Harlow St Buffalo N Y Mrs John Lawrence 113 Spauldh Ave Buffalo Y Mrs R Ausln 410 E Fayette St inellsvillc Penn rances Praetz Rochelle Ills Mrs Mary Preatz Rochelle Ills Margaret Coppock Indlananolis Ind Anthony Nelson Box 879 She ton Wash Vm Martin Mableton Ga L Shoenfleld 118J4 N 19th Ave Birmingham J D Todd 1831 Avenue Gina Ingham Ala Mrs Eliza Wheeler Logan Utah Mr and Mrs John Weisdorfcr Hai per Iowa Chas W Hackbart St Ansgar la W Ritchie Bodie Calif rank Smith Bodle Calif JUdge Hakes Bodie Calif Mrs Rose and A Luterman Ackley Iowa lIDR POHL SHOWS HOW yITCAN BE DONE Buffalo N Y May 4th 303 Charles C Moore DHar Sir and BrotherAs I amJl firm believer In tho trueness of the words of our lamented friend Robt G hgersoll that Tho hands that are better far than lips that 11help I consider your appeal In the Dlndo for tundto carry on tho good aj t work of that paper best answered by tho money order I herewith enclose for five dollars for ten new ers I have today only five send you but wilt not keep subseribj Ing for the other five am like many other si Ing with great want of superfluli of this worlds goods but have an Inex haustlblo storo of energy and good will which I cheerfully place at tho disposal of tho causo of hnmanltarlan Ism I have now within a few months added fifty new subscribe all paid ui to the Blade For the Information of such who wonder how I do It I would say my modus Ollel and Is something like this I thlnl over the number of my nCIualntances where rational independant thinking Is being cultivated as part of their dally lives or where upon talltlng over the matter so near to my heart find them wavering and gropln In tho twilight of mental awakenln put their names with addresses on 0 slip of paper which I send to the Blade together this is essentl with the requisite amount to Clwer subscriptions which I advance from my own pocket to Insure you aguinst any such delinquencies as have neces sttated this recent appeal of your to us cocalled liberals Let us be lib oral In fact not only in name As soon as I think they have received 0 opy or two of the Blade make them a friendly visit put on m wave smile and say to them Are rou getting a weekly paper called the 31uo Grass Blade How do you like It Dont you think Its good rational reading Worth 50 cents to you Isnt It for the good you can get out t It will be an encyclopedia of Informa Ion to you In helping you to meet In a logical way the silly stock argu cents with which the Christian min sters load the old blunderbusses of heir unthinking flock to bo fired at the defenders of unbelief I am Invariably reimbursed not for my financial outlay but willI the greater satisfaction of having one something toward rousing thE unthinkIng from their lethargy teach- Ing them to do a little thinking of their own and having contributed von If only In a small measure for very little helps and tells towar the mental moral and physical lro ress and betterment of this world hats how I do It I am convln If every reader would make a littlE effort and on every occasion talk the Blade explain what we are worl Ing for Separation of church State taxation of church property extermination of superstition etc ltr apporters soon would be numbere by tens of thousands Its a good per engaged In doing good work a noble cause and must not be ed to die an Ignominious death fron lacle of funds due to Inertia an Indlf of those whosE hence on the part sty It Is to uphold Itmorallyand nanclally The worst criticism have so far heard upon It was Itf jry radical strong language but Itt good common sense It certainly md Its Influence Isff felt wherever Is read and as a preliminary to independent thought and Iti wti LHzlngthc banefo Influence of lhe fables and faJsehooai 1the absurd lnd dangerous superstition 4hiates- laving and debasing the ho masses under the mlsnonVer tho religion of Christ So fellO erals shoulders to eput your heels push It along Its a goo tlng and with the stimulating en grg of enthusiasm the chariot win tile race mid we who have helped will share the victory Dont let Christians sneer and trlum phlngly say Theres not enough life left In the Freethought movements In great land of liberty to support I Freethought paper Shame the thought Enclose a short obituary of Stuart Robson tho actor =another lufidel who has done much to gladden the- hearts of humanity- With good wishes that all will come- out satisfactorily GUSTAV A POHL M D Comment Some time In the last- year I saw tho printed statement of iOme Christian propagandist that canvass of the city of Buffalo had- been made with a view of obtaining Its religious status and that there- were only thirteen Infidels In that clt That certainly was discouraging for an Infidel propagandist and in a city that where there lived such ller sonal friends of Ingersoll as Dr Wet- more and his wife who is also a Doctor I know that Dr Wetmoro was all Invalld and I could not reasonably pect him to do much propagandlsm low right on top of these facts Pohl undertakes to help the Blade and gets 50 subscribers for It and says be has lost no money In doing so and has enjoyed It I do not count myself anything In this matter My friends have already- done for me far more than I deserve But Dr Pohl sees that ho Is undo just as much obligation to help In this- work Mr Hughes Is and It seem to me that there certainly ought to be among all the readers of the- llIado not less than 1000 men and wo men who can do as Dr Pohl has done You all must learn to make som all of you who call yourselves friends of this paper try to do something to emulate the grand ample of Dr Pohl- CENTRAAL CHURCH- ck By Lighting Sunday And Tower Damaged During the thunder storm Sunday- lightning struck the tower on the- Central Christian church and damag cd It to the extent of several dollars A number of bricks and stones were- Imocltcd off and several loosened It Is dangerouS to walk along Short Stlcot near the church as more are very apt to fall Tho damage will be rcpalred In a few days Lexington Ieader or course the fact that tho Central Christian church the newst and finest In LexIngton has been struck by If mW +1+ ++ +HS+ MY PRICES o For COMPARISON v In 123 or 4 Ounce Silverlno crew Cases Prepaid o o HsYPden size Special John H23ancock3221 same 21 DeUb 24 RWay 23 jls 26 J8 Deuber W Co 21 Jls 19 same 17 Jls 16 Elgin Verltas 23 Jls 29 same or No 149 150 nil jls 25 Father Tlme21 Jls or new Vt Raymond 19 Jls 20 Raymond 17 jls 1850 Waltham Vanguard 23 jls 29 same Jls 25 Crescent Str us 20 Appleton Tracey CoPremier new 17 us 1850 same not Premier 17 Jls nickel The above guaranteed to pass Way Inspectors Waltham P S Bartlett r Elgin Wheeler 17 Jls nickel aO Elgini850 more than silverine cases ling IDEAL GENTLEMANS WATCH Small 12 size Hampden elegant artistic handchased oren Juergensen stylealways nice goldfilled hunting t case guaranteed 25 years Genl Stark 15 Jls 15 Deuber Grand Jls adjusted 1750 John Hancock 21 Jls extra fine 2850 In open face hinged case 50 cts screw case less 4 All watches guaranteed new perfect cases latest designs hand tchased no diework engraving and accompanied by mfrs and my + guarantee pay freight and watches kept In order one year If well used Send for prices of ladles 16 size solid gold sliver and other watches not listed above Diamonds Opals Sliver Plated and Opt cal goods Music Boxes Jewelry Chains Clocks Freethought and other badges Ingersoll Spoons and my tract Theism In the cible fr- eeOTTO WETTSTEIN i i La Grange Ill +jjjij jjjAjia ++ t4NHi4i4ii +iMi MMW Illinois jCentralRailroad fJSUMMER EXCURSION TICKETS NOW ON SALE VIA TO 0 ST PAUL MINNEAPOLIS and the NORTHWESTY COLORADOUTAH fr GRAYSON SPRINGS DAWSON SPRINGS and CERULEAN SPRINGS KY h tJ AT REDUCED RATESfi t THROU PERSONALLY CON DUCTED E EUIIStDNS1EtEi ERS TO CALIFORNIA TEXAS NEW MEXICO AND RIZONA if TWICE A WEEK t5 1 REDUCED ONEWAY COLONIST AND HOME SEEKERS EX CURSION RATES TO POINTS SOUTH AND WEST FIRSt AND k THIRD TUESDAYS IN EACH MONTH FRtLANDSENED FOR CIRCULAR DESCRIPTIVE THE SOUTH ASK LOCAL TICKET AGENTS FOR THROUGH TICK ETS AND FURTHER INFORMATION OR AD- DRESSFWHARLOW 1ft ifLouisville VERY LOW ONEWAY AND ROUND- TRIP RATES TO THE NORTHWEST VIA THEIsNorthern Pacfic Railway ONE WAY COLONIST RATES ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 15 1903 ROUND TRIP HOMESEEKERS TICKETS ON SALE FIRST AND tTHIRD TUESDAYS APRIL MAY AND JUNE AT RATE OF ON j EfFARE PLUS 200 FOR ROUND TRIP FOR RATES DETAILS AND GENERAL INFORMATION WRITE TO CHARLES S FEEGENERAL PASSENGER AND TICKET AGENTJ Saint Paul MinnCorrespondence and Inquiries are given our prompt attention lightning does not prove that God Is trying to destroy a churchdoes not oven prove that there Is any God Bu It Is a fact that the people tit Lexlng ton can only recall two cases In which lightning has struck houses in tha town and tho only other Instance Is when the lightning struck the steeple on the Catholic church on Limestone street and burnt the steeple off of it tight diagonally across the street from that church is the saloon of Ton Lyons a Catholic Irishman who lot years has been a friend of this paper and whoso business conducted at that same place for many years before that church was built there that church tried by law to suppress because the church said Toms busi ness Interfered with the religious SOl vices of that church Tom made money enough to buy church If he wanted to and run as a saloon lit William McCarty a member of that Christian church was to have seen hung a few days ago for mur boring his wife but he took poison sod died from It 23 minutes after the time he was to have been hung and- o Rev Spencer the pastor of that church had stated his readiness to neet his Savior t r1kk t fyI dJiiiC Close to that church Is street devoted to houses of I never heard of the Ing one of them The courso Is In a very high 0hirhigh buildings on it and I of lightning striking it big fine new tall tobacco In Lexington The lightning struck it ft The Christian argument Is that 1 loves Christians and wants churches built but I do not see how any ra tional people In view of such facts as these that appear la all newspapers all over the country can claim that God cares any more for a church than ho does for a saloon or hoiut Ill fame or race course or tobasv factory It Is true that the lightning maj itrlke the Blade office any darbut- If God wants tho people to belleveli ho Christian religion how does Ikl1 ap pen that ho picks Sunday the day chi voted to his worship to damage bj lightning the finest church la the city of Lexington and leaves the of Ice of this paper unhurt still to malci Its arguments against the Christian ellglon and oven against tho exist ince of a God- I cant see It can your y

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