Paine he did believe in some sort of
cr.n testify to, all of it seems to be
God, buj not In the chief dogmas of
an a>t*ful reality, ail one needs to do
the Christian religion. 1 have not
is scare th; press. Then such arc the
space
to
go
into
the
proofs
of
the
sta
­
effects
of a ausc; that cause lies in
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By Olin J. R om .
Editad by J. E. Blaser
tus of each of these men, nor of some
the private ownership of the meaca of
A» to the men of straw which he other phases of Mr. Phelp’s reply.
life and the tyrannical management
»aye 1 hit at, they are hie own men
“CHRISTMAS EVE“
Columbus, Ohio, December 3rd.
of same.
not mine. To keep him from evasion,
Before Christmas can mean much
Once again comes that much cel­
I quoted whut 1 was hitting at. lie
to
the toiling masiKS, we must abolish
REPLY BY ELIZA MOWRY HUVEN ebrated day — of good cheer? Once
might us well say that he did not nay
again, this day is looked upon “by the present system of Capitalism,
that he did.
Guy Phelps demands that we Mat­ millions” as mere hypocrisy, that which is competition in the means of
He ependa the lurger part of nearly
erialists evolve an eye, hair, brain means nothing tr the hungry, home­ life and -ub-titute therefore "Co-
three folumna in uno for.n or an lher
cril, etc., »rd transform a horse Into a less hosts, who wander aimlessly operatio.i,” the brotherhood cf man,
in challenging the Malerialiata to pro­
cow. We cannot do either, because it through a world filled with greed on the emancipation of a world of work­
duce an eye, u tip of u iiair or trans­
took thousands or millions of years of one side, ignorance and indifference ers. You say how can this be brought
form a horse into a cow, etc. We'l,
aoout? 1 say by the organization cf
the strivings of some live creature and on the other.
man by using artificial means has
tne woikers of toe world, and no
its dependents for food, protecti n or
Was there ever a time when this
changed the seeded into seedless apt le
l>'easure, to develop a special organ or day meant less for the many than it other oigamzation of man or women
und orange, the long horned cattle into
set of organs; then the use of the docs at the present time? What can w 11 ever bring emancipation; it must
short horned, the wild horse into the
■imn foods and habits through many Christmas mean to the man out of ue by the workers’ own efforts und
pacer, trotter and heavy roadster.
generations established the species. employment, who hua a family to sup­ not by any outside force. 1 agree
Many of tho changes in unimal organ­
The weaker with defective organa per. port, little ones at home crying for a with President Wilson when he said
isms and natures have come about in
ished, while the stronger survived anti mere crust of bread, grocery bills long in part: 1 challenge tne world to
only u few years. How long it would
multiplied.
Yet some great cata- past due, house rent months behind show me one insta-xe in all .ustory,
take to make an eye, a tip of pair, or
stroi he could destroy many species in and oasibly a sick wiio whom one day where freedom or liberty was lia.uied
change u horse into u cow, no man
a year or a day.
he promised to provide — until death down from above.
knows, but we do know that chunges
But if each species and every organ did part them. 1 say again, what can of “peats on earth” — in a world of
have taken place in the eye, the hair
were created by his God, by instanta­ tie the thoughts of this man as he war •' d Svriife? “Good will to men,”
and the ehupe of animals in the lust
neous miracle, and Guy Fitch Phelps passes the windows, the gay theaters when us a matter of fact wc p/actice
fifty years. This being true, it would
is a chosen son of God to teach the and those large buildings called only competition, which is “every
certainly be absurd to say thut great-
people, since his God in the Bible Churches of God (wherein on this man’s hand against every other
L*r changes did not tuke place in the
promise to answer the believers’ eve much is said of the brotherhood man’s,” or social and industrial strife?
^course of millions of ycuis.
Prayers then Rev. Phelps can by fuith of man and the fatherhood of God, Do away with “private ownership in
When he triumphantly asks mo to
and prayers receive power to create who’s doors are closed so far as this the means of life” and you will have
make an eye, a tip of a hair or change
by m racle any quantity of new spe­ man and his family are concerned) made Cl r.slmas a reality and not a
tho form of an unimal, he might as
cies: Eyes, hair, toes, also new organs, and finally reaching his place of pov­ dream, ycu will have a world where
well triumphantly ask me to muke a
a <1 he can change a horse into a cow. erty and misery, he calls home, he is sorrow and suffering is no more, war
lump of coul, a strata of rock with
Thus he will convince all of us infidel« confronted by those little ones crying and strife ’s not known, poverty ard
its fossils, or produce u diamond. He
crime a re’iic of the dark ages, Vhen
that there is a God and he created for smething to eat and wear?
m'ght as well say, since coal is inude
people were not civilized. A word of
, everything and answers prayers. I
1 ask you, dear reader, in ti*s face of
out of wood, and there is plenty of
demand that G y Fitch Phelps furn­ these facts of which you know to ex­ advise: If ycu would have Christmas
wood, if you cannot make coal it
a day of joy, aon’t be content with
ishes us with just that kind of proof,
ist (it is needless to plead ignorance),
proves that coal was mude on the
that there is a God, and all species what can Christmas mean to this man anything loss. Ever search for the
spot at one ami the same time by
light cf true working class solidarit.
were crested instead of evolved.
and his family? It makes no differ­ understand what that means fcr th
special creation, just as these animuls
ence whether this man has ignored workers and their families. It means
wore made. My answer as to why I
opportunities or no: “There is no just That masters ar.d idlers will have t<
cannot make a lump of coal or a stra­
reason why he should suffer” in a na­ go; that never more will this earth be
ta of rock, is much after tho answer 1
tion ana world filled to overflowing, of cursed by slavery, oppression, war and
would make as to not Ix-ing able to
which large daily papers boast of strife; tha, child slavery, an institu­
rmnkn an eye, tip of a hair, or a horse
continually and Fourth of July orators tion of the past which kills the life
or cow. It took nature, with a shift­
tell you, “You are living in the most of the boy or girl, >« needless even in
ing environment, milictMi of years to
make a lump of coal, and it undoubt­
prosperous nation on earth,” such we an uncivilised state of society and
MIND
know to be the truth; but I say right
edly took her millions of years to
Strength of mind is exercise, not here that this wealth and prosperity shall no more be tolerated. Christmas
produce a i eye, a hair, an animal
may mean something to the masses
rest. — Pope.
is not enjoyed by those who have pro­ (some day), but i, will not be till the
form.
As
the
soil,
how
rich
it
may
ba,
can.
duced it, but by those who deal in the many learn rganization for the in­
It either took an immense interval
of time, with muny shifting environ­ not be produ tive without culture, so blood and bones of labor (be that in terests of the many as against the
ments for nature to muke a bone, a the mind without cultivation can nev­ the mine, mill, farm or factor}), who few; you will first learn cf Co-opera-
prolong their rsign by working upon
hr ir, an eye, a cow, a horse, a man er produce go d fruit. — Seneca.
Mind unemployed is mind unen­ the urej< d ces of the producing class, tio i in organization for your emanci­
or it was all done on the spot and in
pation, before Christmas will mean
buy the press, the pulpit and the anything to you and yours. You can
a few days as the Bible says, und as joyed. — Bovee.
The
inind
i
H
its
own
place,
and
in
pi: ces of learning to fasten this hold hasten that day or delay it, just as
^1r. Phelps says, too. As to man,
there are many evidences that we itself can make a heaven of hell a upon the backs of the toiling mass.-s; you will, but it lies in your power and
came from the lower order of animals, hell of heaven. — Milton.
yco, the salt of the earth.
in yours alone, “the secret of free­
Sublime is the dominion of the mind
a shifting environment making it nec­
The abeve picture which I have dom.”
over
the
body,
thut
for
a
time
can
essary to develop some particular fac­
pail ted is not an isolated case, but
Read carefully the following poem
ulty. or power in order to preserve make flesh and nerve impregnable, t. ere ire 1 undreds of thousands in clipped from “The National Rip-Saw:”
life, until at last his mental status and and string tho sinews like stool, so tills our land of the ri h rnd the home
physical form were changed. The hu­ that the weak become so mighty. — cf the slave. And what is the out- 0 Merry, Merry Christmas, Some Day!
man body shows, as 1 recall the num­ Mrs. Stowe.
lock for thise who are in such straits?
By Henry M. Tichenor, the Rip-
ber, some two ’ undred rudimentary
Does it look ><t all premising? Can
KINDNESS
Say Poet.
organs, muscles, etc., — tl.at is, or­
one begin at any time and climb to
So good services; sweet remem­
gans and muscles that were necessary
t"«- top of the ladder? What is a man There’s going to be a Christmas, some
in some remote manner of life, but brances will grow from thorn.—Mme. going to do who wanti work ard can-
dr.y,
which by a change of environment be­ de Staei.
no, find it ? Now as a matter of fact
In honor of Jesus’ birth,
To
cultivate
kindneM
is
a
valuable
came useless, and therefore shriveled
don’t you think that such conditions When devils won’t be running things
Pup. The body was originally covered part of the business of life. — John­ make for crime, robbery and. ever
their way,
with longer hair than now. That he son.
growing disregard for law ? Don’t you
With hell turned loose on earth!
1
had
rather
never
receive
kindness,
walked on four feet, is shown in part
think this is the leaven for a mighty There’s going to be a Christmas, some
by the fact that babies do not walk than never bestow one. — Not to re­ rev •’ jt’on ? Cr.n it go on and on like
day
on two feet until trained to do so, and turn a benefit is the greater sin, but this forever without comi g to the
When the masters are no more—
not
to
confer
it,
is
the
earlier.
—
by the further fact that when on four
breaking poiit? We are told by sci­ Tke devils shall not be here alway,
feet, that is on hands and feet, every Seneca.
entific me- that insanity and crime
To curse mankind with war!
hair of the body points downward, the A word of kindness is seldom sp ken are increasing four times faster than
purpose of nature, or rather the ne­ in vain, while witty sayings are as the population; that 83 1-3 per cent of There’s going to be a Christmas, some
day,
cessities of nature, being to form a easily lost as the pearls slipping from the people do not ow? a home; that
When the Comrades all shall sing
watershed for the rain. I remember a broken string. — G. D. Prentice.
two million child slaves are employed
Ask thyeslf, daily, to how many ill-
getting a book out of the Ifbrary, when
in the W. S. A.; that on an average A joyous loving roundelay,
Of a world without a king!
a boy, where there were some stories minded pex cons thou hast b I i ran a kind thiee million men are jobless fcr the
told, said to be fact, where children disposition. — Marcus Antonius.
last thrse winleis; that those who do 0 do your veiy best, my brother,
Kindness is the golden chain by
Do a’l you can I pray,
who had been raised by wild animals,
nothing have veryt ing; that it is a
ran on four feet, instead of on two. which society is bound together. — crime fcr a workingman to use bis For t’e love of one another,
To hasten this Christmas day!
But, whether these stories were true Goethe.
own b loins in the intcrestr cf his
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or not, it is a fact that the natural
class, the workers; that if a man tells
PATIENCE
mode of locomotion for humun beings
the truth he is sent to jail, when h? O Merry. Meny Christmas, sime day!
How poor are they who have not
is on all fours, as shown by creeping
In honor of Jesus’ birth,
becomes a pre Sessional liar he is given
babies. It is very doubtful whether yationce! What wound did ever heal some office of public trust, and forth­ When devils won’t be running things
the child ever would walk on two feet but by degrees. — Shakespeare.
their way
with becomes a highly respectable
Patience is not passive: on the con­ citizeo. Now then, much of this we
to thia day were they not so taught
With hell turned loose on earth!
trary it is active; it is concentrated
by paren's, or by observation.
strength.
— Bulwer.
On the other hand, what is the evi­
Patience is the art of hoping. —
dence of special creations by a sup­
The greatest truths are the sim­
Three may keep a secret, if two of
posed Supreme Intelligence called Vauvenargues.
plest; and so are the gratest men. —
them ari dead. — Franklin.
He that can have patience, can have
God, except what we get out of old,
To keep your secret is wisdom; but Hare.
mouldy legends, which were written what he will. — Franklin.
to
expct others to keep it is folly. — Simplicity, of all things, is tho hard­
Patience is so like fortitude that she
by a cla-B of men wh<> did not know
0. W. Holmes.
est to be c pied. — Steele.
seems
either
her
sister
or
her
daugh
­
how a c’oud was made, a rainbow ap­
Where secrecy and mystery begins,
ter.
—
Aristotle.
peared or a dewdrop was formed. To
A patient, humble temper gathers vice Or roguery is not far off. — John­
put up what these men wrote in the
blessings
that are marred by the pee­ son.
A BIG BARGAIN in a business
remote past as against the discoveries
vish
and
overlooked
by the aspiring.—
building and a small lot with go d
of modern science is to believe the
SILENCE
building a1 ready for business can be
astrologist as against the superintend­ E. H. Chapin.
The temple of our purest thoughts had by applying at the offi’ce of the
Patience is power; with time and
ent of the Lick Observatory and yet
Cascade Real Estate Company. Price
the church, as it were, teaches people patience the mulberry leaf becomes is silence. — Mrs. S. J. Hale.
Silence is the understanding of only |500. The location is on a prin­
to take the word of the astrologist as silk. — Chinese Proverb.
fcols, and one of the virtues of the cipal street and the terms are easy—
against that of the astronomer.
JOY
just like paying rent.
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wise. — Boileau.
He who can conceal his joys is
Mr. Phelps claims that Washington
Speech is gr at, but silence is great,
and Lincoln vere good, believing greater than he who can hide his er. — Carlyle.
Christians. Well, Ward H. Lamon in griefs. — Lavater.
This is such a serious world that we o • • • « • • • • • • •
A man would have no pleasure in should never speak at all unless we •
his life of .Lincoln tells about Lincoln,
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infidel book, along the lines of the verse, even in heaven itBelf unless he
Fellows who have no tongues are
Age of Reason by Paine, and that one had a partner to whom he might com­ often all eyes and ears. — Halibuiton. •
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Joys are our wingsT sorrows our
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True joy is only hope put out of
olay and Hay, his biographers, tell
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SIMPLICITY
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Nothing
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more
simple
than
great
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brighter
his
candle
burn-i,
the
toric Americans," Paine, Franklin, Jef­
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inet, his own wife, his Executor David selves. — Rochefoucauld.
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Davis, his Biographers, aforesaid and
other eminent men of that day. Like privy councellor to himself. — Fird. vanarguos.
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