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7 JVOLUME XV NUMBER 30LEXINGTON KY SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 1906 PUBLISHED WEEKLY 150 A YEAR IN ADVANCEf
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AND A FUTURE LIFE
Farm Basis of Symposium By Mem-
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t of the Materialists Assocla ¬TheytlFIRST OF A SERIES OF
I ARTICLES ON THE SUBJECT
By ELIZA MOWRY BLIVENSQuestion What are some of your
+ reasons for believing liuro Is no fulure life
Answers-I see nothing in mans nature to
Justify such a belief Then again Ihavo no satisfactory proof of returnafter death Mrs Clara M Blsber
MassachusettsOneall that is needed if
lived properlyH B Raleigh N HAll life sprung from one original
source or cell and every live thing Is
but a different manifestation of thatone original cause According to themakeup of the organism each creatureproduces brain The brain is tho organ thru which ability characteristicsand talents are developed Tho physisal organism varies and the amountcktbrains that makes the individualities When those organisms perishfntilvldualltles perish The force thatoperates through the brain Is one andiafirmal and the same now and forever Air is the primo essentialjSjitag to breathe It at birth there Isnfettfe Falling to breathe It anyIffi results in death Hence airae4ho only possible spirit andsir> ls a universal force 1M A-
SrighamrMainearfdraws the breath of life from
UjjIatMqfipnero at the bdginnlng of
nat the end of ifo his breath
liK to the atmosphere and soas7OdY knows that is the end-
p sdoing back to the earthelLln future life ietu
1 >r Council of LaTeraTiirnfl513 elected
that futur life ph rid be an arte cffaith Their cu ion does not niako
Jt so but thcjr touching In regari toff futury life bMuds the people whylo not think iur it estlgate for iwnselves and thus the fallacy Is kept
J aU QLi L Dawson FloridaThe main reason for disbelivlng In
e a future life is Its unreasonableness
hI we are Immortal so Is every otherliving creature on earth from the low-
estt to tho highest forms as according
rt to the evolutionary theory all are rewayt The preacherspoint upwards always but at twelvenoon and twelve at midnight theypoint Just tho opposite direction Theearth is revolving on Its axis at therate of 1000 miles per hour andsweeping around the sun at an enormous speed and the sun is goingaround a star at a greater speedMarshall Walker Pennsylvania
aI havo never seen any new life
other than maggot like or a fungoidvegetable mold resurrected from thedead Assisting at the exhumation ofa body which had been dead and bubetstill 3ead very deadin fact fully
as dead If not more so than upon thefirst day of Its death We reInterred-It and to the best of my knowledge
and belief It remains dead I ven ¬
ture the conclusion that this Is a-
typical specimen of all the unaccount-
able millions who have ever died I
have gone out of my way often to get
sight of a reputed ghost but neversaw one either holy or otherwisebut did upon one occasion see a white
f cow In a cemetery at night whichfrightened my companion very muchIrvIn H Ecker Wisconsin
i The mind as I understand constltutes the soul and as tho mind
JthetIt seems to me rather absurd to sup ¬
pose that the brain could produce orexert any Influence whatever afterdeath What reason has any sane person for believing that the brain conIt tlnues to produce thoughts after It is
lIfelessE J Buck TexasAll insects animals and mankind
are born feed grow and die similarly
All have Indulgence according to thej brcln they ron develop none show-
s any signs of Intelligence after theyare dead If mans Intelligent were
eternal he would know overythlns atbirth and never do wrong Insteadho Inherits some good and bat quail
ties from parents and developes morby food activities study and expert
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ences He loses part by folliesdrunkenness diseases decay anddeath destroys all abilities IntellI-gence has been acijtned throughcountless ages of developing the brainby using It and transmitting abilitiesfrom parent to child Eliza MowryBliven
ConnecticutAbout
All Materialists are Invited to become members of the Materialist Assoelation to increase our count c
Whether or not all Materialists areInvited to sand to tho secretary answers to our Symposium subjectsprinted September 29th Truth Seekerviz 1st xRerBbns for believing there Is
no future life 2nd Reasons for be¬
lieving them is no God 3rd How can
Materialism he made most beneficialInteresting and popular and worthtaking the place of all religious-
I want as great a variety of sensibleanswers as can be secured on each ofthose three subjects to keep up thethinking and investigating keep ourcolumn Interesting and Instructiveand keep mn mg Materialists therebyAlso please try the following for the4th Symposirm Subject Is prayingharmful Instekd of beneficial WhysWhat would better promote the objects for which praying Is recommend-ed f
Send not over 100 words In youranswer to each Symposium Subjectbut you mnfisend mere than oneanswer to etuh It you have first rateconvincing answers worth printingSecure answers from others It youcan Keep the pot boiling
Every kind of spiritismKeep cooking In symposium pies
Till proved they are humbuglanGreed srrlf jeit fool making lies
Addre is airtuie Symposium writingsto Eliza Mowrjf Bliven Secretary Ma
aerialist Association Box 7C BrooklynConn tdTOIBEJIVEN
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Oui fro ndCoplerAoYyrWpsoieOration Qve Captdi aGraveWilt be Printed and Given
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tho home paper The thing is to reachthe public
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Mr Griswold and many others conS
sider this funeral address as goodpropogandlc material People willread an Agnostic funeral addresswhen they wont read any other kindof Liberal literature I hope to seo
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COMSTOCKA
Professional Purest For Pelf Is BeatAt His Own Game By a New York
LawyerDriven From CourtRoom
TRAVELED ON A PASSAND CHARGED FOR MILEAGE
Having parted the River of Jordanwith his second hand mantle the waters fleeing affrighted from his fearfulpresence Anthony Comstock the pro-
fessional purist he to whom allthings are Impure that do not contrfJbuto to his game of graft has got hishalo badly bent and sitting at a rakishtilt over his left BurnsIde bush forbeing to vivacious in the play of pro-
fessional¬
prosecutor for mileage andwitness fees
It appears that whenever St Anthonys exchecker got Iqw he went aftersomebody to bunko Smelling a miceho laid a trap His play waS then toinstitute a prosecution make of him-
self the principal witness and did notmind lying for the glory of god andflafew of Uncle Sams mental anguishplasters When the case wasoeiAnthony would put In a claim forAwit
ness attendance and mileage from hishome at Summit N J when sl Jmatter of fact he had been In NewYork all the time At last the gpgernment got next to his game antiJig lsup l 8
Some few days ago the BladjiLcelvedya clipping freer Bomeunj3efriend The conawas postmarked Near Yorkthere was noletter within no signIndlcatieSfisHcMwho had sent lll
tdid not come from a frlqCComstookiand it Is also evidenttli qai Is from a Gotham
eadlly determined fromB used It tells the stpiescapade of Anthony t
id being war it
reading is reproduced as followsI charge this man Comstock with
being a fakir and gratter of the firstwater He never fights the big fel-lows but persecutes the little ones
Yesterday he did not tell youwhen ho contended that he thought he
Ihad a moral right to charge the gOY
ernment mileage that to get themoney he had to swear to an affidavitthat he had expended such sums in
Governments behalf But swearto It he did until Marshal Henkel re-
fused
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to pay him further witness feesand mileage And all that time howas riding to and from Summit N J-
on tho pass his commission as a posInspector entitled him toAnd you all heard him admit the
pass I shouted Lawyer Hugh GordonMiller yesterday to the Jury In the US Circuit Court where his client Ernrat Richards was Jointly on trial withJos J Koch on a charge of improperly using the malls
Mr Comstock listened a moment
and then consulted a notebook Thenhe suddenly remembered somethingA momnt later the door leading
the court room opened and closedsoftly and Mr Comstock was out In
the corridors away from the sound of
Millers voice For the first time Inhis career Comstock had to leave acourt room before his case had beenconcluded Business at his office he
said called him awayMr Miller told the Jury It was for
It to decide between the veracity of
his client and that of Comstock TheJury badheard him tell of selling brie
abrae to Jimmy Oliver lawyer for
Al Adams the Policy King andcould draw Its own Inference
Its for you to decide concludedMr Miller It Is not my client on
trial so much as Mr Comstocks veraclty After all you have heardwhich are you to believe
The attorney representing tho otherdefendant Koch also condemnd MrComstock In his final argumnt for hav ¬
ing tried to get his client to swear to
a complaint which was untrue Judge
Thomas made a fair charge review ¬
ing the evidence but making nO com ¬
ment The Jury deliberated after a
luncheon at the Astor House and
found a verdict Richards Lawyer
Millers client was found not guilty
but Koch was found guilty and re¬
mantled for sentence
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HINDOO
DELIVERS HOT ROAST
For Christian Missionary Work InIndia Finds More Caste Exclu ¬
sion In America Than In HisC Own Country
BETS BACK WITH BITTERAND STINGING WIT
It took the naked savages to literallye off broiled missionary but the
following from the Anaconda Montttfca Standard gives an account of a11g votive roast reported from Butte
sport which explains Itself IsasKollows
la unfit Dr N Krishna of Bombaygave a lecture at the court house lastev ping on the subject of political andso lal conditions In India Rev LewisDi acan introduced the gentleman fromfig ila as a citizen from a country thatw 3 the opposite of our own Insteadof aggressiveness and progress hestids for the pure in spirit and ananfcsted civilization a civilization-s+
t was of a high type when our forevftjpers were struggling and seeking
the civilization we now en
early the entire lecture of Drhna was devoted to a denuncia
of English rule and criticism ofAmerican missionaries in IndiaEnglish he called robbers and therican missionaries he termed any of rligious hoboes He was bitin his treatment of Englandgh he was excused because he is a
ion of an oppressed country speakagainst his oppressors He was as
In his blunt criticism of thingsrican as he was liberal with hisit on England He called the laUy Curzon the queen of American
women and said she was theft hated woman In India as here
rid was the worst robber Engeve eat too that country IIe-
d uaregiluere was morecastdfflSHnc rilon lathe Church of EnglandJaHd In
the social life of America thanlthere I t
in India and ho said he wasastonished at the amount of Ignorance rIs in America concerning thfngavfnIndia and the freedom with which Indlan conditions are discussed by thepeople
American Freedom11 have spoken to 200000 people
since I have been in this country said
hOtand In that number I found sevenpersons who could talk with authorityon things political and social in IndiaAmericans like to talk about things of
IIAmerlcnnand
experience he had a fewButt when he entered the IerchantsIcafo on West Broadway to get some ¬
thing to eat and was Informed by oneof the waitresses that they did nottserove his class of people here Hospoke of the efforts to make the English language universal and said that
1the more people learned to talk Engthe more they learned to drink
whiskey He spoke of the women
of England because he said are very
few ladies thereTh army of religious hoboes In In
din dare not tell the truth of the Engfish rule or they would no longer bepermitted to practice their graftology
It has been asserted that before theEnglish came Into India millions ofpeople died of starvation and hungeryet In 1895 the annual income of thepeople of India was 30 per capita To-
day their income Is less than 3 percapita Before the English came CO
per cent of the people of India hadtheir own ironies and the nation was thegreatest manufacturing nation In theIworld although in a primitive way
yet the people had enough for them-
selves
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and exported a great deal ofItheir manufactures to Egpt Persia
China Japan and other countries Atpresent in the native states there isvery little starvation The people aretaxed to tho extent of 45 to 05 pr cent
of tho total Income from their landThe Greatest Religion
Robberlsm said tho doctor Is
tho greatest religion in the world andIt is practiced in tho name of JesusChrist
The lato archbishop of Canterbury
blessed tho army as it was marching
to war and ho told tho boys to go
forth and kill for the glory of theircountry and the Lord Jesus And thatis Christianity If Christ should come-
back again as tho Christians say Ho
will Ho would bo ashamed of you
Christians who kill and rob In Hl
nameFIvethousand years ago the Aris-
totle of India said Deeds first Today wo are taught words first anddeeds afterI
Christ wouldnt know His ownchurch should He come among youyou have so many dlfteren + Isms Youhave tho Northern Methodists theSouthern Methodists and the AntiTrust Methodists and all in the nameof the Lord-
Krishna said that before the Eng-lish took India 80 per cent of the peoplo of that country could read andwrite while now only 10 per cent cando so In the old days taxes were usedto educate the people but now theyare used to support the English bish-ops and clergymen There Is but oneschool In about 15 miles
Under such conditions can ourcountry be prosperous or civilizedasked the doctor
Caste and HumanityThen gentleman from Bombay de
Glared that there Is no more easternIndia than there Is in America Thejfore said he 118000 ministers of thegospel in this country preach theteaching of love and charity taught byChrist yet not one of them is married In
to a negress but all of them denouncecast in India which prevent a member of one caste from marrying Intoanother In the Church of Englandthere are 14 castes from the lowest curate up to the archbishop Dr Krish-na
isaid that since he had been in
America 1C months Cl negroes havebeen lynched
Under no conditions could such a
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PRAISE FOR THE-
ROME BOOKw
Splendid Tribute To the Literary andEducational Value of the Work
From One Who Is Competently i> Turdbd ein 1 4-
ra iTitv7lrfYq
JJBOWLESPressure entiresummer has prevented me from readtag Dr Wilsons Trip to Rome untilirecently anti now that I have nlshelleiAI take the first opportunity to adivlseiall my Free Thought frIends In
the United States to buy a copy of It
and assist In every possible way Itscirculation among our religious andsuperstitious fellow citizens
Dr Wilsons descriptive powers arethe very highest order and begin-
ning his book with the magnificentfloating palace that carried him safe ¬
through wind and wave thegrand old ocean his descriptions are
vivid and beautiful throughout thebook that the reader feels that he hasvisited in person the great clEurope and gazed with his own eyes-
upon their temples cathedrals muse-
ums galleries monuments and seriesfamous and infamous in history f
His descriptions of peoples andplaces of lakes and mountains ofjrivers and valleys of sunrise and sun-
set are all so graphic that this phaseof the book alone will amply repaytho reader for the time spent In perus-
ing It but Dr Wilsons power of in-
terpreting tho facts of current his-
tory In Europe makes the book in
valuable to the students of social rscience politics and religion In theUnited States
In every lino and between the linesof this fascinating book we aretaught with absolute certainty that thehopes of tho human race for all timeto come depends upon tho growth ofFree Thought and Reason and thecomplete extirpation andoVerthrow ofthe altar and the throne
IIdrivenand the kings must be driven fromthe earth before liberty can make thecircuit of tho world anti bring Joypeace and happiness to the tollingsuffering millions
These vampires and vultures havolived upon the life blood of the humanrace through all the dreary centuriosand Dr Wilsons adroit exposure ofthese terrible and deadly remains ofthe peace and happiness of humanitymakes his book one of the most vain1able contributions to tho sacredof Rationalism that has been Issuedfrom the press for many years-
I am glad that I contributed to theyfund that made this book possible andI sincerely hope that It will passthrough many editions and find Itsway Into thousands of homes nowpoisoned with the deadly nuisance ofpriestly superstition-
s
GROSS J
iOF CHRISTIAN WOMEN
Is a Grievous Load To Carry But Is OfTheir Own MakingWomen AreiNot Altogether To Blame
For It
RACE IMPROVES AS WOMEN 1
ARE TREATED BETTER
FROM HIGHER SCIENCEWhen religious women awaken to
what the cross which they wear andshed crocodile tears over reallystands for it may aid the more Intelligent ones to see how they have beenrind are made the dupo3 and slaves ofpriests parsons and aristocracy whouse their powers as license to wrongsociety live as parasites by reason ofwomans sympathy Allow me to quotefrom Prof Edgar L LarkIn of our MtLowe Observatory as to what theHoly Cross really means
To one versed In religiousarchaeology the antics of the people
an orthodox church make a fruitfulfield for the study of anthropology laThey worship a cross but are totallyIgnorant of what It means They donot know that It is a phallus pure andsimple So well settled is this factthat trained scholars no longer com-
bat¬
tho Idea The cross lgrpiehiatoricWhen fitful gleams of historic light areseen flickering In the depth of ancleat night and barbarism they shineSon two pieces of wood in the shape of
cross They represent the malegenerative organs which were worship ¬
ed for many thousands of years andarey tfn some of the worldEvery antnropologist knows this to bealfirct I
Theref probably no person In theworld w Qjthas more contempt for fi-
rtvomenrallow thernselves bQ
d n and prlestcraft thanthejyare notjoiblamej
v nwhich have been used for centuries to 1
keep them in ignorance and tak ad ¬
vantage of their great mothersympa ¬
thy They are only to be pitied Letme appeal to every mother and to
woman who reads this to stopgive it one good had that Can you
not realize why religion makes male 3gods and saviors and devils andpriests and cresses for you to falldown before and worship And whyyou are cursed and must bear all theblame and shame of social wrongdo =>
ing while the men who are to blamego scott free It Is all as plain as the tnose on your face if you would onlydare to thinly Tho priest or parson 1tells you that you must not think andyou suppose you dare not You arecowards and tremble before these IIb
ertines who make slaves and vassalsof you and soldiers and prostitutes ofyour children Are not your childrenof more Importance to you than theselibertines Are not your children mini
their lives of more Importance to youthan even tho hereafter and can younot see that their only care Is forthemselves and for the present f I wishevery woman in America who has thenerve and intelligence to think hard on r ithis subject of the servitude of wom-
en and the shame and abuse of wom ¬
en and the Ignorance of women andare willing to think hard for one hourwould send me their names Certain-
ly
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you cannot he afraid any more thatyou will go to hell and burn foreverif you abandon your slavery and thinkwith mo for one short hour on thissubject What are you afraid ofThere Is no person in the world whohas more honest sympathy for wom-
en tharf I have and I have seen clearly
for years Just how you and your chlldren have been tied down and made tosuffer that these few privileged malesmight have license to wrong you Ihave also soon how you and your chit
are denlrd scientific teichinsc ofIItlren st t ao tx tit comblu il tofc
glO r aryl government which isaristocracy and thus kept In Isnoranco nnd slavery of fear and sttaneWhen one of jour number usnoincstoo intelligent site is Immediately os
traclsd by the rest of you who areguided by religion and arlaUoracy thepolitical powers that be and who hayIng no other means of support or buslness so Important to them as thislicense to live as parasites are al ¬
ways fady and on hand with theIrIwhips and baIts to herd you back Intolino When she is too Independentand great to submit to ostracism shgIs confined in a madhouse the con
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