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trial, like a purgatory, to explain getting
talk-w orn
and hungry ganixation;
it w a s im p o s s ib le t o pessary to be very careful
about
or to compel to cure the imperfec- — Prof. T. B. W akem an, of L U. O. make bones out of gristle.
The the facts
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tions and correct the m istakes th a t as an advocate of Science and H u- true method was to work and wait
7. But all the pleas alxive m ade
would otherw ise dim , and render m anity. was requested to put up for the results of growth,
were mere underbrush; we now
ineffective in the future, the halo seven counter iutrenchm ents to
o. His eulogy of Blaine, when come to the Objector’s big tim ber.
of the sain t who is sure to be. Con- stand as an answ er to those throw n living; and of C onkling when dead T h at is, th at orthodoxv is d e a d -
sider then what he s a y s ;-to -w it:
up by the objector, and they are a. the invitation of the l e g i s l a t u r e and th a t the fight h e f o u g h t « «
G reat an d exceptional n atu ra l these:-
of New Y ork, „ a s in no sense a no fight, and really
liHle ,,r uo
endow m ents, .Deluding the tr.ck
1. Tht- great and exceptional ‘•prostitution” o f his greet powers, consequence.
On the contrary as
an d m agnetism of oratory, are only n atu ra l powers and endow m ents in Both of them sym pathized «U h stated above I n g e r s o l l r e g a r d e d
so much against him , unless he a m an are, in them selves, the high- him largely in his Liberal views; S uperstition as , be m other of ig
made the highest an d best use of est and most glorious product of both of them had rendered great norance, the prevalence of which
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So his declining or pursuing a adm irable, hut useful in the
the Union and the rem oval of chat- realize any other reform or step of
course which defeated honors and est degree, and the necessary foun­ tel slavery.
T hey were not mere progress.
T hat he* was rig h t in
w ealth, counts little if he did not dation of all th at m akes for the partisans. The speeches of both, this, the facts and results plainly
reach the highest calling of th a t good and glory of M an .
and especially B laine’s book on show. The great masses of the hu-
course.
2. The man who thus endowed Events during his career iu Cor.- man race are sunk, as it were, dead
3. He did not devote his great declined honors and wealth for gress, plainly shows this.
H is and buried in superstition,’ and
gifts of n atu re to the removal of some purpose th a t he deemed o method of including “ reciprocity” so they aro rendered utterly unable
chattel slavery, like G arrison, nor greater w orth— thereby lays the as am ong the trea ty m aking pow
to appreciate a n y th in g true, good
to the removal of wage slavery like foundation of heroism and sacri­ ers of governm ent was the first in ­
or noble. A fnw thousands only in
P hillips.
His war service was an fice, which is the condition of the troduction of the “ Golden R ule”
Europe and A m erica are really
honorable, but not an exceptional use of great n atu ra l endow m ents into in tern atio n al economics, and
em ancipated.
Because it seems
service,
when
com pared with for hum an good and piogress; and will m ake hi3 nam e glorious when so easy for us to see and
enjoy
others.
so raises a strong presum ption th a t the tariff system s are modified or F reethought, it seems th a t it m ust
5. He p ro stitu ted his great pow­ such use was in fact made of them. pass away. D eath and the m ag­
be equally easy f„r others. But of
ers to glorify the political am b it­
3. No person can generally nanim ous words of Ingersoll closed all the em ancipations, self-em anci­
ion of Blaine, and then at the call safely devote his short hum an life th eir riv alry and healed the bitter
pation from Gods, Devils, S pirits
of the legislature of New Y ork, he to more than one great reform or feud of their p artisan s in out g reat­
and Spooks is the yery h ard est to
placed the w reath of praise and social movement. The devotion of est state.
It was not onlv a ser- achieve;yet not m uch can be o th e r­
eulogy upon the pulseless breast of G arrison to the abolition of Black vice to his p arty and state, but to wise done practically for m an k in d
his selfish and heartless rival slavery, and of Phillips to slavery, the whole country.
The Devil’s | u n til those illusions are brushed
Conkling.
both black and white, are rightly Advocate lost, and deserved to lose aw ay; W ith them before the eyes
6. In the great fight of our age honored; but th eir efforts have the sym pathy of all fair m inded no th in g can be seen as it really is,
for in d u strial freedom, he was not yet resulied in successful em an- men and women when he called and uo thing wisely done.
This
quiet; but such power and influ-1 cipation of either blacks or whites, this service a “ p ro stitu tio n .”
reform m ust proceed or progress
ence as he had he gave to the rich The reason why is evident; they,
6. It is not true th a t Ingersoll with all others, or they will surely
as against the poor. The rich were I the em ancipated, are both so ig-
was “ q u iet” in the g reat struggle end in disappointm ent.
“ th e good com pany” he sought and n o ran t th a t they cannot m anage for in d u strial freedom and sided
liven in Europe and America it
k ppt.
for, or tru st them selves or each with the rich against the poor; or
is sim ply childish to think “ this
7. The issue which he under- other. W hy this ignorance?
Be­ th a t he was a snob in his conduct fight is over.” At the very mom
took to fight was dead.
There is cause they are blinded and enslaved toward the rich or the poor.
Let e t it this learned advocate was so
now no tight f o r religious lib e rty ,! b superstition. They know little
any one read his “ Lay Serm on” in proclaim ing, thousands of men in
for we have th a t; but there is a j o r nothing of the actual world in which he quotes K ing L ear’s words C incinnati were standing in th e
fight for economic liberty.
Ortho-1 which they live.
Ingersoll saw
on the sufferings of the poor; and rain, around a cath ed ral, “ crowded
doxy is dead and th e fight of Ing- I the futility of try in g to m ake a d u lt
his m any sim ilar utterances; and to suffocation,” in which a cere-
ersoll is finished. Creeds set light- and independent men and women then let him h u n t in vain to find a m ony of fetichistic cannibalism
ly on men and women, and the out of m ental slaves, eith er black vote or a word of his in favor of was being perform ed, of which an
power of the clergy is gone.
A or white. U ntil m ental em ancipa- tie rich as ag ain st th e poor— and ape would never be guilty.
The
negative L iberal organization is Gon is far progressed, the social hen let him say if the one m aking tru th is th a t this fight is little more
useless.
The L iberal who refuses : and economic em ancipation is sim- his charge was not a tru e “ D evil’s ' th an begun.
Even w ithin our
to recognize the new b attle is as ply im possible; and the attem pts Advocate?”
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I own circle of friends and --
much a S ectarian back-num ber a s 'a t it will often make m atters
Nor was Ingersoll a snob in any tances, how few can we find, who
a C h ristian.
¡worse.
Ingersoll once said, ‘‘If I sense of the word.
He loved the are not more or less afflicted with
T hus we condense the speech of had a m illion of dollars tonight to com pany of cu ltu re and power for spook ism?
an hour, and during it the tongue I devote to the welfare of my fellow
itself and because thus only could
In
this darkened world, ju9fc
of m any a Liberal rose to the fore- beings, I could not use it sensibly, he keep his power and influence for touched by the tw ilight of T ru th ,
teeth for a hiss, but th a t in a sit- other th an I am doing, bv efforts to his good, and to do good to and Ingersoll raised the b an n er of Sci-
ting judge would not do, and silence break the soul bondage of their for each other.
But he never had ence and H u m an ity and proclaim ed
took its place.
stupid su p erstitio n s.” All reform s the snob m anners of sacrificing his an intellectual fight and war to the
Then to th e front came the bril must begin there.
E m an cip ate Liberal and poor friends and ad- finish.
To say th a t he did thia
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gifted,
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destroy
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4. He thought th a t his influ- orthodox or th e rich or powerful, the sun in the sky. To so assert
K entucky, and for nearly an hour, ence for real and beneficent eman- He stood up for them on every oc- shows th a t the assertor knows very
w ith shot, red-hot with em otion she cipation would be stronger by act- casion; he was as accessible to little of the actual world in w h ich *
riddled the seven breast-w orks ing with the Republican p arty
so them as to any, an d m ore so. H e he is living, and u tterly discredits
which had been throw n up by the as to have some effect on its
as- advised and fought for m any, as he his judgem ent and perspective.
Advocates Diaboli.
H er reply sumed control of public affairs.
In did for poor R eynolds, and then
Ingersoll became a t once th e
will go into p rin t and so be .con- this he differed from m any of his paid his fine.
H e did not appear great leader in this war ag ain st
densed for the Torch, for it was to o . best friends; but the result of th e as counsel for the Chicago “A nar- the powers of superstition and ig-
great and good to be eith er em as- last election has convinced m any chists,” for the reason then stated norance—in a word, the powers of
cuiated or lost.
of them th a t his judgm ent was th a t his doing so, would, because darkness.
Then Mr. C. S. Sparks, of Cin wise. In a sim ilar way he regard- he was a L iberal, do them far more
T h a t he lead in this w ar wisely
cinnati, m ade a flank m arch th at ed as prem ature the attem p t to in ju ry th a n good. He m ade mon- and well, and with all of the effec-
compelled the enemies entrench- tu rn the Liberals into a political ey like a prince and spent it like a tiveness of his grand n a tu ra l en-
m ents to be abandoned as no longer party.
They would be a sm all benefactor, and died com paratively dowm ents is becoming more and
tenable.
H is address will also go m inority - which
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the m ajority more decided and op-
The Devil was alw ays a liar, a n d '
Finally, when the judges w*ere pressive.
And so in regard to or- when one holds his brief it is ne- j
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