Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-02

not believe and would not she'll ont ac.
cording to programme should be perpet.
ually cremsted in fiery furnace, where
there should be whipping and whaling
ana gnashing OF teeth. But as this class
was large, a way was devised 10 LET IN ON
mem In case they changed their minds
and determined TO believe and nav. This
consisted of sort of half way house
where such souls were to be Confined To
last in fires till the foul crimes done in
any day Of nature are burnt and pureed
away"
And so the followers OF this
SYSTEM OF sUBDuING THE PEoPIE
waxed NUMEROUS and believed all that
was told to them and paid all that was
asked OF them, sometimes being inclined
to give all to this purpose and nothing 10
the King. Many qnarrels hence arose
between the two classes Of governors, and
big wars were the consequence; millions
OF subjects were slain. Sometimes one
side WAS ahead and sometimes the other,
oul III general the two trained together
rather peaceably, each vouching for the
genuineness OF the other, being satisfied
that between them they could manage to
goeble all the surplus of the people, and
| could build courts and palaces, cathedrsls
and churches, monkeries and nunneries,
ana the Lord knows what else, and could
live on the Fat OF the land So these twin
relics went on for centuries, lording it
over the people, not emitting to collect
the taxes, so that between the tax for pro
tecting the body in lie and the soul after
life, the stomschs of the people were often
hungry and cried out for square meal
which came not But they managed TO-
exist along, generation after generation
and to increase and multiply, and be hap.
py in their Ignorance.
THE CIVIL GOVERNORS
| performed their part alter a sorry fashion,
| but whether the priests did theirs, nobody
has ever returned from the happy hunting
! grounds TO tell us. Any government be.
ing better than none, it is likely that
these two classes OF nabobs handled and
ruled their stupid subjects, through their
hopes and fears, as eiIectually as any one
| else could have done, and with as little
oppression. And 30 the impositons have
! nd N No
same two humbugs, in modified form,
| subsist and flourish An instance will
suffice. There is u church not far from
| here said to have been Dedicated by Jesus
himself in spiritual person. In It are the
swaddling clothes Of the infant Jesus and
lots OF other holy trumpery. The church
is on a mountain some three thousand
feet high, assembled by q steep road. An
inclined plane railroad is provided for
those who wish to use It; but the faithful
go on foot. Every now aud then "big
doings" are held at that church. A few
days ago, some
| EIGHTEEN HUNDRED PILGRIMS,
men ard women, with hard peas in their
| shoes, assembled that mountain, crawled
up the steps on their knees, and Frustrated
| themselves before the altar. Here won.
derful cures are wrought upon the faithful
and their prayers always answered. If a
man has the rheumatism, he buys little
toy wax leg at the church, has 1t sprinkled
with holy water, hangs II on the altar, and
woman desires child, she crawls up
here, buys a wax baby, has a little holy
water jerked on TO It, hangs 1t on the
altar, and IN due time the offspring is
| forthcoming. II believer has q little
stock in a corporation, and is afraid he
will be frozen out by the majority, up he
sscends with peas In his boots, buys a wax
share, applies the holy sprinkling pot and
waters his stock 80 as TO give him the
majority and thereby the control, and so
a thousand other miraculous things are
done here. There Is no usb in denying It,
for here are the mult,tudes trying, and
here are the pictures hanging about the
walls, giving names, day and date of
more wonderful things that have been
done, than any have mentioned. AS
usual, woman does all the work. The
! Virgin Mary is her name, and she must
! have her hands full.
Ia general, however, | believe the
governors" are lstterly incliniDg to
EASE UP ON THE PEOPLE