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THE DAMNED STUFF CALLEDALCOHOL

I believe that alcohol to a certainrr degree demoralizes those who make

it those who sell It and those whodrink It

I believe from the time It Issufrom the coiled and poisonous worof the distillery until It empties mittththe hell of crime death andIt demoralizes everybody that touchc-t

I do not believe that anybody cancontemplate the subject without bcoming prejudiced against this Ilqui

crimeAll you have to do Is to think of thedeathsof the suicides of the Insan-Ity of the poverty of the Ignorance ofasthe distress of the little children tugging at the faded dresses of weepingand despairing wives asking forbread of the men of genius it haswrecked of the millions who havestruggled with Imaginary serpentsproduced by this devilish thing

d And when you think of the jails ofccrthe almshousee of the prisons and ofthe scaffolds upon either bank I donot wonder that every thoughtful manIs prejudiced against the damned stuffcalled alcoholROBERT

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LASTOF THE GREAT THINKERS OF

THE VICTORIAN AGE

DEATH OF HERBERT SPENCER

At His Home In Brighton After Many

Months Illness fAuthor of the Phrase Survival pf the

Fittest So Often Attributed

to Darwin

LIFE ONE OF ARDUOUS TOIL

SpencerthehealthhadfewdayspainTheMrSpencerscribe as the last of tho great thinkera of the Victorian age

Born In 1820Derbythe son of tyllllam George SJencer aand private teacher unpartlonnded school at Hinton Charter

use Hath where ho was under thotutelage of an uncle the Rev Thom

academicdegrconferred upon him In later life havetiantecompetition between men who arerising and those who havo risen thetitles held by the latter class are ahandicap to those who are striving torisetotd ¬

aand for five years thereafter was a

lltn rrriJJ rhe turned to philosophical and liter ¬

ary workIn philosophy Mr Spencer has un

questionably reached the highest at¬

tainments of any English writer andstudent since Bacon His thoughthas been untrammeled either by pre ¬radlIbecome the apostle of Individualismand died an agnostic His works inthems lses constitute a library in thepre ration of which he devoted thelargest share of his life

Struggle Against AdversityandIsu tat times threatened to put an endto the completion of the great taskwhich ho had mapped out Embarrass ¬

theIIservo a notice of cessation upon subscribers Fortunately he fell heir toa bequest at this time and the warwas carried to a successful camel-Lion after an arduous toll extendingyearsm of

e author It was in n measure aSpencerpractically admits himself conqueredby the too difficult task of solvingmany of the problems of human nalAbode

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collected Is not of a sufficiently Irrefutable nature of satisfy his ownmind The struggle for recognition

a literary man and thinker wassevere and exacting The Principlesof Psychology Issued with a first ed-

ItIon of 7GO copies did not sellfor twelve years while Social Staics with an edition of the same num-ber required fourteen years to sellAt the end of fifteen years Mr Spen

had lost about 5000 on his publications having been compelled toprint them at his own expense as nopublisher would run tho risk of plac-Ing them on tho market It wasthe termination of this discouragingperiod that he contemplated giving upwriting The System of SyntheticPnilosophy

DEATH OF HERBERT SPENCER

Elsewhere in this Issue of theDlade there Is clipped headlines andall from tho CourierJournal thegreater part of tho Associated Pressdespatch giving the account of thodeath of Herbert Spencer the greatest Infidel In the world

It will be noticed that everythingBald about him Is of the most comp 11 ¬

mentary yea eulogistic kind notAIs

syllable of any kind derogatory to hcharacter though it says plainly thatho was an agnostic

This Is all as the news comes tous fresh now through means the accu ¬

racy of which no Intelligent persondoubts tho sumo means that latelytold us of Pope Leo XIII on its deathpointCy his

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thathothe same accounts stated that onecardinal was found dead with suspiclone that some of the other cardinal-

ndhi murdered him and also the slatmeat that some of the cardinals bar-red up certain rooms of the Vaticanwith furniture to keep other cardinalsPopeAllour minds and yet In as shorttime as practicable Christians will bfilling their pulpits and their paperswith lies that will describe tho beautlful grand philosophic death of LeoXIII and will tell of some horridthing connected with the death ofthe Infidel Herbert Spencer-

I know that there are many evenamong Infidels who will say I am exaggerating this case but I am not andthere is a chance that it will be evenworse than I soy

propagnndlshavethe clergy got their lies about thedeath of Paine noel other famous Inbefareaccurate accounts of such things aswe have at this day But you haveseen that the Reverend liar Stroughat Cincinnati has even this soon af-ter the death of Ingersoll started thoknYoubranded as a liar by all respectablenewspapers but Strough has noteven been reprimanded by his churchfor that He and the seed has beenplanted and in time Christian edit ¬

ors and priests and preachers will beteaching that Ingersoll suicided

In the same way they will get upsomethingthe devil only knows

miserableloathsayhothere Is no allusion to site regret ex-pressed him that his life had been deInfidelityHedoesl t happen that so many distinguished Infidels live to old agestrong in mind and body to the lastIf Infidels are the debauched liber

nes that Christians soy they areIts a common thing for Infidels toIwrite strong letters to this paper and

say they are 70 75 and 80 years oldand one old sister aged 86 years sentThfleaupon reading the paperICertainly when It is said of such atnan asS fncjjrtt at hg wa atitemharroast u uy was rupublication of his works a man likeI am ought not to bo discouragedWith my fate

It took Spencer twelve years to sellan edition of 750 copies of his Principles of Psychology when an sellflan of 1500 Dog Fennels sold out Ina little over three months while theIorders for them were coming as fastas they ever did and we had to give

hurry orders for another editionIt took Herbert Spencer fourteen

years to sell 750 copies of his SocialStatics I wrote The RationalView In 1890 printed an edition of1000 copies and sold It all out so Ionago that I could not tell by twothree when

Mr Spencer had to print his book-at his own expense because nolisher would run the risk ofthem on the market

With no publisher to boost mbooks and not a cent ever paid anbody for advertising them my prisonwritten book Behind the liars31498 Is still Belling really500efrom the time It was first issued

Spencers infidelity Is esoteric anmine Is as radical and plain amiIpronounced as I had languagemake IL-

What honest and Intelligent manwill say then in the light offacts that Infidelity Is not Rtridinahead In nhne league boots

DR DABNEYIHas Been Called to the Presidency of

University of Cincinnati

AccepttCincinnati 0 Dec 7Prof Cha

WmDabney president of the Univer ¬

slty of Tennessee has been asked tassume the presidency of the Unive-city of Cincinnati next July whe°President Howard Ayres the presetoilattho tructeosAyers retention longer than thenis understood that Prof Dabney hIndicated he will accept the position

Comment Dr Dabneys wife Is n

nieceHeIs a model husband father an

citizen and his record as an educatIs hardly second to that of anyicon

He is a man of Indomitable energyand of fine health

He Is a fine scholar but Is not brilliant On religion he is not an ad-

vanced thlnlrctPresbtcrlanSECOND EDITION DOG FENNEL

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PASSINGloeOF SECTARIANISM DISCUSSED BY

DR RAMSAY

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From CourierJournalThe Passing of Sectarianism wasWHto a large congregation In the ChurchIntetestlngtendency of modern times to do atvaparthealaptableof s

form with every ago and civilizationcenturywillbothdoctrinethonlythe ago This is preeminently thotIlpldlygrowlngImowledge

ll tithe up and assimilate the truthsveryrapldlchurcnes are adopting the truths n

higherspirituallargeuniverseer finds himself We are still In thetremblingthat It will he overthrown by sacrilenofearInjuryfromverse li doomed to die This Is tlcenturjj of historic criticism Th

andhlgherlwayInfallibility have given way to a more

theDlhlefnotwhwithinfilteringdowne problem of many ministers to ¬

Is to know how much to tell thepeople They want to be honest butmany of them are timid They do nnrqtb 0 I the co 1UXe toUe

harm to hock them liberalthinkers ore deserting the churchesThey conclude that the preachers are

waythoughtfulselves with churches In which theruling facts and truths which they ac-cept are denied or Ignored Dr Munger of New Haven has recently saidthat ministers come to the churcheswith esoteric notions Instead of burn-Ing convictions They try tomise between the old Ideas and thenew Our ono Is hungry for truth Itwants to know facts as they are I

credibly Informed that more thanghalf ofale Intelligent men of thiscity seldom enter a church Louisths °

We areshag 11

Religion cannot be destroyed butcosmosY toctor In mans life The Christianity ofng Il

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people or Is afraid to trust their htelligence will never succeed In thcountrythgmote of It Is much of the same tren

Further on he says The old heof Jonathan Edwards and the TrlnltOL Calvinism are no longer In contraversyHe

closes by sayings The creedthe new church will bo based upontho divinity and brotherhood of innand the humanity of God It wiliistitan pacegrowing moral Ideals of mankindlocirseeauprouit10

atstAmerican democracy

another of the 1001 evi

nbnndonitits tgofteaching Is p fd 01 tuP trreligionl

Truly The heresy of today is theilorthodoxy of tomorrow

opther l r

but Dr Ramsay as an exponent ofmodern uptodate Christianity says

Christianity will taw upnoel assimilate the truths of the new

scienceIn the new Christianity ishut another name for the old Intuitty He says Tho leading mindsthe churches are adopting the truthsof evolution and showing their higherspiritual meaning

Darwin tho archInfidel was thofather of the doctrine of evolutionnoel the salient feature of that doctrine that set tho whole educatedworld by the ears was that man haddeveloped front a monkey and thatInfidel statement was ridiculed to thoecho by Christian press pulpit and I

vostruu Now JJro Rauroy says tho

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leading minds of the church areadopting that Idea

Of course It Is true that they aro

81lowerBut If this is true what are wo gonIngersollstory and the apple story and what

about the fall In Adam And IfInAdamChrist and what Is to become of thepreachers JobThat higher spiritual meaninggoingtoesotericYers call talking through your hatproblem ¬

JeopleanllhasdevoJopodwould not do to just plainly and hon ¬

estly and bluntly to tell the peoplehisjobmonkey trick has a higher spiritualmeaning but what this higherthethingstho peoplehonest tuxPcastrandkeelalgOf course he Is helping Infidelitytinawell as I do that the criticism done

b5 scholars within the churches Isouteof the bayonetThe scholars within the churches

burned Bruno a hertic outside attheten the Bible said it was flatThe old hell of Jonathan Ed

wards which was the fire and brim

unmistakablytaughtthe trump card of the Christian cellwotitsPresbyterians

trhfE JU i qJpere1nalltfLJI1hell gnashing their toothless gumsrneternal lames until the heretics out ¬

side stirred up the mothers untilthey would not stand It any longerand there was a falling off of theshekels of the sanctuary from Calvanstthenwithin the churches conclude thatall babies except Presbyterian onesquDligent people were concluding thatpreachers were Ignorant or cowardly he would have expressed the ex-act sentiment of the Intelligent heretics outside If he hal said Ignorantor cowardly liars

The Reverend Doctor says minis-ters want to be honest I doe btAaryIf any of them do noel am certain thenotIt gwhoItthe Bible says and not what Darwinsays and If they are not going todo that they ought to announce themselves Infidels rend Dog Fennel and

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From Cincinnati Enquirerthcl1And Leeches Are Ministers DeclaresRev David Morgan I

BMinisteof rsn

and the church aro luxuries TeacheSchaoliThese are the principles laid downmlit sneSomeka tyut

schoOls said Morgan having hot nfounded before either existed

You are a parasite society hesain to Prof P W Cropper Professor

English Literature at llamllne Unargunlontue replied tho proicssor

I ncltnoweds ° It 1 am a parasiteon society All ministers are parasitesYour gospel leaves aft tho onreplied the professor

Society Is not made of SOUISIepUce Morgan The world can getalong without the church Religionis a luxury that people may have Ifthey wish to pay for It I do not be-

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