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GARDEN ISLAND BRANCH
Of LOCAL OLNESS
Socialist Party
will hold their regular meeting
every Saturday, at 7 P. M., at
Emil Pozza’s Cabin, Garden Island
untill furthe arrangements are made
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Mc’CABE WILL PROBABLY BE
CANDIDATE OE SOCIALISTS OF
ALASKA FOR DELEGATE
TO CONGRESS.
Olness, Feb. 27, 1914.
Alaska Socialist, Fairbanks:
We met
McCabe aud had him sign the petition
of acceptance. I will bring in the docu
ment with me. I have to wait tor train
aud it is storming on the summitt.
Respectfully,
John Conna.
SCigar Store 1
9LNESS I
:s FIRST CLASS
Cigars, Tobaccos 1
IRRY, CANDIES
D FRUITS.
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NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS
WARM BARNS AND DOG HOUSES
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
I Miners’ Home
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Opposite Tanana Valley R. R. Depot
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Hot Bread For Dinner
Second Avenue Next Orpheum Theater Phone 186
A LESSON IN TRUTH
By VERISSIMUS
(Continued from page 1)
of their work direct from him, our come
pale, our minds recoil in horror, and we
are ready to exclaim—surely these
things cannot be truth; surely the im
pulse that led to such deeds must have
come from the Prince of Devils rather
than a loving and beueficient God.
It is a great comfort to those who love
Truth more than earthly creed to ob
serve unmistakable evidence that the
“earth does move”, that higher Christ
ian thought is now about ready to ac
knowledge and respond to God’s beauti
ful and immtuable law of evolution.
Prof. Dr. Clias. Henderson while
chaplain of the Chicago University ex
pressed his utter contempt for certain
parts of the bible. He avers that “John
the Baptist’s God was no better than
our Devil”, “that the things which
made David and Solomon saints in their
day would laud them in the penitentiary
in our day”. He points to the fact that
tlie bible speaks of David as "a man af
ter God’s own heart” then he almost
takes our breath away by assuring us
that it is easily susceptible of proof, that
David whs really a criminal, or rather a
rank type; that it really woul'd have been
more truthful to stamp him as an emiss
ary of Satin, or in plain terms a man
after the Devil’s own heart.
Now this surely is a most damaging
admission tor a u y clergyman t o make
and the Rationalist whose heart is en
listed in the cause of truth feels inclined
to ask why any book that would make so
fatal a mistake as to clothe a coward and
a scoundrel with the character of a saint
why should it be called the best of
books ? and why should twenty million
copies of such a book be spread broad
cast over the world each year ?
It is perfectly safe to assume that w e
must judge every book, not by its best
but by its worst parts.
This you may say seems paradoxical.
But let us see if it is not true. Any book
may contain page after page of whole
some thought, of lofty council, but let
it display one page of questionable or
immoral teaching and it becomes our
duty to denounce such a book as unsafe.
We might, for instance, write magnif
iciently of liberty and the rights of man
but if anywhere in our manuscript, we
should dare to advocate assassination as
a proper or permissible political weapon
even if there be only one paragraph of
such council—our work would deserve
unqualified condemnation. It is not con
tended that books containing some im
morality, or some false system of phil
osophy should never be read; they should
perhaps a t times be read b y those wh®
are capable of discrimination, but it is
when you throw about such a volume
the mantle of divine authority-when you
give it unqualified endorsement, that
you soil the mind with slaver}-—when
you call such a book sacred and holy
writ—you not only blaspheme a great
and splendid God—but it would seem
that you had unlisted under the banner
of Satin himself.
We very often hear the orthodox
Christian, and also many who - are not
very orthodox, assert that Skeptics and
Rationalists select a few defects, a few
imperfections that may be found in the
bible, and upon these they train all
their artillery of criticism, overlooking
in their zeal the great bulk of the work
that is good and beautiful.
Now as a Rationalist and a Skeptic
who loves fair play, after careful exam
ination of the subject, I find such an
assertation cannot be sustained by facts
unfortunately the great bulk of biblical
literature is not only, neither good nor
beautiful but most of its moral philos
ophy will not bear critical analysis. The
great foundation stone upon which
Christianity rests to day “the doctrine
of vicarious atonement” is rotten to the
core, and even the most accomplished
logician-fails to make it harmonize with
a lolty concept of virtue or justice.
To make the innocent suffer for the
guilty is absolutely and inherently wrong
and even the fiat of a God could not
make it right.
It might be well for us to remember
that the soundness of this last statement
has been indorsed by the ablest minds
in the world, both men and women who
were brave enough and wise enough to
champion the cause of truth even when
the apostles of bigotry and superstition
could persecute with a free hand. It fills
our hearts with pride to recall the names
of Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton,
John Adams, Stephen Girard, Abraham
Lincoln, Helen Gardner and Matilda
Joslyn Gage, and opr admiration is
augmented when we learn that each of
these beloved disciples of real religion
who occupy an honored place in the
Pantheon of our country—not only “re
garded with scorn the doctrine of vicar
ious atonement, but felt the most infin
ite pity for those who were so mentally
and morally blind as to subscribe to such
a faith.
The Rationalists and advanced think
ers in the scientific world to-dav say to
the churches :
“If you would save your book or pre
serve even a vestige of its sacred char
acter, then separate the good from the
bad. Expunge the false from the true
If you have not the courage to call any
part of this work false or bad then w e
shall perform this service for you, be
lieving such action will best prouiote
tlie vvellfare of humanity.
Member of the Down
and out Gub Instructs
Socialists on the benefits
to bb deriveb from the
Currency Bill.
It is reported that a member of the
down and out Club who is said to re
semble Martin Harrais somewhat was
seen lecturing to a bnnch of Socialists
From Olness. The subject under dis
cussion is supposed to have been the
Currency Bill. No great interest was
manifested until the lecturer ordered re
freshments which seemed to stimulate
interest in the lecturer.
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With or without Board, by day,
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Baths in connection
freighting
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Wood Hauling
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Golden’3 store^
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Your Good looks while the railroad
comes in. Bring your clothes to
MARKS
THE TAILOR
to fix them.
First Avenue Oppst. Norbale.