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THE TORCH OF REASON, KANSAS CITY, M ISSOURI, MARCH 19, E. M. 303 (1903.)
an equity tor riches, and that as tell you something more.
You
P O L IT IC A L P A R T IE S —
evolution as it has done in the past,
s< rial wealth; because wealth is know I am a great believer. There
it will do its liest to all eternity.
• \e r equitably and really s<x*ial in is no man in the world who be-
Our Ruin If Not Controlled.
I So I hope that more and more in ­
it> origin, use ami destiny. Its lieves more in human nature than
telligent and purer organizations
will manage human affairs.
final and right use then will be to I do. No man believes more in E ditor T orch of R eason :
lo u r s truly,
realize a Heaven on this Earth, in the nobility and splendor of hu-
I have l>een a party reform er for
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which every real human need will inanity than I do; no man feels over fifty years Ix?cause there seem­
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find Ixjth supply ami make pay- more grateful than I to the self- ed to be no other wav to obtain re-
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itself. All of the great poems and who have made this world fit for OIXanization. But I have come to
religions so teach.
ladies and gentlemen to live in. ^ ^ eve that parties alone are a
(F ro m D e n v er R e p u b lic a n , F e b . 9.)
While we all live in and on the But I believe that the human mind f'urse an(1 always have been. Vn-
I he members of the Pentecostal
PRESENTas usefully,equitably, lion- has reached its top in three de- <^e r o u r r i *Presentativeform ofgov- union,
or "jumpers, as they are
estly as we can, yet blessed be the partm ents. I don’t believe the hu- ernmerit the people have no voice called, were arrested while they
poets and seers who reveal, and man race, no m atter if it lives mil- in t,H‘ affairs of the government were parading the streets. T heir
conceal not, the conditions, which lions of years more upon this except to vote for party men to right to appear on the streets and
are the physical foundation of wheeling world, I don't beheve represent us, and they
u . e y do
oo invaria
tnvnria- carry
wi||', )e banners
,estw| in to attract crowds
EVERY H eaven that is to be.
the human race will ever produce 1 "““ -represent us. O ur legis- If fined they say they will carry
in the world anything greater. *a^ ve bodies have become rotten the case up to the higher oourts.
W a g n e r ’s M u s ic .
vilest of corruption. The
Banners like those used in polit­
sublimer, than the marbles of the with
Greeks. I do not believe it. I ,,lonopoly and wealth absorbing ical cam paigns were carried. There
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was also much yelling and jum p­
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believe they reach absolutely the (^emen^s
the country gather
ing. One man carried a base drum.
man has to 1 m * German to under- P(‘Hection of form and the expres- a bout <)Ur legislative halls like Hies W hen he was tired of beating it
stand Richard Wagner. In the 8*on
force and passion in stone. a^,out a 8aP trough, and if we send another man would relieve him.
heart of nearly every man is this ’ he Greeks made marble as sensi- men there who are as pure as the According to the members their
vEolian harp, and when the breath tive as flesh ami as passionate as sun *s " arf,1> this gang of greedy desire was to attract a large crowd,
of true genius touches the harp in | ¡)lood- 1 don’t believe that any vultures would corrupt them. Yes, and the policemen say 500 people
followed them. blocking the streets.
every.!,. .nmi. heart that has got a no
h ‘g ° f ,l"> '"""¡"K race, they would corrupt an angel. This 1 heir noise and dem onstrations
hearh’ every one that k n o w s^ h at j
h<“
getting worse
are also said to have frightened
III usic is or has the depth and niay rise and fall, or how many and worse, until today there is no horses and several runaways were
averted, the police say.
height of feeling necessary to ap-H ai,^ lia^ e8 he born and decay, I party that dare cross the path of
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jum
pers took their arrest
precíate it, appreciates Richard <lon 1 ,>eli^v\‘ a,W human being will this almighty corrupt power that
ever excel the dramas of Shakes- stands behind the political throne; quietly and made no resistance
\\ agner. How to understand that pears.
when placed in the patrol wagon.
therefore
a
government
by
party
Cries of “Glory to God,” “H alle­
music, to hear it as interpreted by
N either do I believe that the
lujah,” and “Praise the L ord”
or
party
representatives
is
and
this great leader, is an education time will ever come when any man
could be heard coming from the
It develops the brain, it gives to "dth such instrum ents of music as must be a failure.
I write to say that there is a wav "agon. At the jail the men and
the imagination wings; the little '¡ 'V d " *lrtve’ ail<^ haying nothing
women were separated and the
ai
i ‘,u‘- fhe common
earth
grows i larger; .he people
win ,.V(.r air that we now to clean out and purify our legis­ women placed in the women’s
grow im portant, and not only that, | pictures in sound, greater music la te e halls and make the people’s quarters, while the men were al­
it civilizes the heart; and the man than Wagner. N ever ! Never! voice their supreme power. Let lowed the freedom of the corridors.
who understands that music can And I don’t believe he will ever the people take unto themselves Solid iron doors were between
them, but they joined in a m eet­
love lietter and with greater inten­ have a better interpreter than A n­ their inalienable right to repre­ ing, all singing the same songs.
Seidl. Seidl is a poet in sound, sent themselves. This can be done
sity than he ever did before. The a ton sculptor
in sound. H e is what without any party if the people The men jum ped and yelled, and
the cries of the women could be
man who understands and appre- you might call an orchestral orator,
ciates that music becomes in the mid as such he expresses the deep’ would get all party candidates to heard from their interior depart­
ment.
highest sense spiritual—and I est feelings, the highest aspira­ pledge, if elected, to favor and vote
They are still jum ping, praise
don’t mean by spiritual, worship- tions and the intensest and truest for direct legislation through 'the the Lord! one of the men would
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«m en the
me brain
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love of which
and heart initiative and referendum ; and
ping si »me phantom,
or dwelling j of man are capable
say. as he m aintained a listening
when
the
majority
of
the
people
attitude, th e n all the men would
upon what is going to happen to
Now, I am glad. I am delightec
jum
p and yell.
some of us I mean spiritual in that the people here in this cit\ have the power to make laws or
Miss Huffman, who is in charge
the highest sense; when a perfume and in various other cities of our to veto bad laws, this gang of cor­
of the “outside m eeting,” as they
arises from the heart in gratitude, great country are becoming civil­ ruptionists would have but little call it, was reading her Bible with
ized enough to appreciate these business in our legislative halls,
and when you feel that you know harmonies;
glad they
arc and then the people would not the other women sitting on the
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Hoor around her when a caller was
what there is of beauty, ot sublim- civilized at last enough to know
ity, of heroism and honor and love that the home of music is tone, need to use their power very often ! adm itted
“O ur religion is the oldest re­
in the human heart. This is what not tune; that the home of music when the congressmen and legis­
ligion in the world,” she said, when
1 mean by being spiritual. 1 don’t is in harmonies where you braid lators knew that the people would asked why she was in jail. “They
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, them
mcni iikc
clad
like rainoows;
rainbows; I am glad
mean denying yourself here and ,„ey are great enough an.l civil- make good laws or veto had ones. brought us here for jum ping, and
living on a crust w ith the expecta- ‘ ized enough to appreciate the mu I hen the people of all parties could for no other reason,” she continued.
tion of eternal joy that is not «ic of Wagner, the greatest music vote together for good laws or to "But we cannot help jum ping, for
what I mean. By spiritual I mean 1,1 this "'orld. W agner sustains veto others. The question then God tells us to do it, and then we
a man that has an ideal , a great
relations to other com- amongst the voters would be is it jum p as high as we can and sing
his praise as loudly as possible.
i ideal,
i i and i who
i ts
• splendid
i i-i enough i posers
that Shakespeare
does to
(>ther dramatists,
and anv o t h 'i a good or a bad law, and not is it a That s a part of our religion. Some
to live to that ideal; that is what dramatist compared with Shakes­ Republican or Democratic party people th in k it is all done for effect,
I mean by spiritual. And the peare is like one tree compared. measure. Party would cut no fig­ hut I tell you when you have the
man who has heard the music of " lth an immeasurable forest, or ure, and the same with candidates spirit of God in your soul you just
Wagner, that music of love and ,a ti1Pr hke one leal‘ compared with for office. Good and trustw orthy can’t help hut jum p.”
"See t hat young lady over there,”
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'ft toresti find nil t lie oilier com- men could lie elected, as no man
death, the ®
greatest music, in , my
iM)Sers or
of the
tb*. world
w
i are embraced
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she said pointing to one of the
J i posers
would
tap
his
barrel
to
get
his
members who was softly patting
judgment, that ever issued from in the music of Wagner,
the human brain, the man who has
Nobody has w ritten anything jliant tool elected, when he knew her hands and tapping the Hoor
heard that and understands it has ,,u.)re tender than he, nobody any- here was another and greater with her foot. “Get up, sister, and
been civilized. . . .
| tiling suhlim er than he. W hether jower to deal with—even the su ­ show the gentleman how you can
jum p when the spirit of God tells
Whoever creates the perfect has w a iU 5 « "U n ited " b1rd,Pn o lJd y preme power of the people.
you to.”
Therefore let direct legislation
The “sister” referred to sprang
thought and labored and suffered; has excelled W agner; he has ex- je the war cry of the people until
to
her feet, while the others called
and no perfect thing has ever been pressed all that the human heart t!ie\ shall once more lx* free from
“H allelujah !” Then she com­
done except through suffering and
capable of appreciating. And the vile corruption of party rule.
menced to jum p and clap her hands
except through the highest and now’. gentlemen, having troubled
I am a straight out freethinker and yell “Glory to G o d !” She
and do not believe that my Ixxly kept it up “until the spirit left
or the energy that operates it will her. and then sat down again, while
class of men is \\ agner. Let me night.
ever leave this earth, but through another started the jum ping.
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