Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-04-06
NO GOD NO ANYTHING.
The Doctrines Of the Nihilist-Nl
Hall Measures.

der which the Car was assassinated,
may be gathered from the follow
ing: "rhis gospel admits of no half
measures and hesitalions The old
world must be destroyed and replaced
by a new one. The lie must be stamp
ed out and give way to truth. 1t is
our mission to destroy the lie, and to
effect this we must begin at the very
commencement. Now the beginning
of all those lies which have. ground
down this poor world in slave is God.
Tear out of your hearts that belief in
the existence of God, for as long as atom
of that silly superstition remains in
your minds you will never know what
freedom is. When you have got rid of
the belief in this priest be-gotten God,
and when, moreover, you are convinced
that your existence and that of the sur
rounding world is due to the conglom-
Grafton of atoms in accordance with
the laws of gr~ vitv and attraction, then
and then only you will have accomplish
ed the first step toward liberty, and
you will experience less difficulty in
ridding your minds of that second lie
which tyrrany has invented. The first
lie is God, the second lie is Might.
Might invented the fiction of right in or
der to insure and strengthen her reign.
Might, my friends, forms the sole ground
work of society. Might makes and
unmakes laws, and that might should
be in the hands of the majority. Once
penetrated with clear conviction of
your own might you will be a lie to de-
stroy this mere notion of right. And
when you have freed your minds from
the fear of God, from that childish re-
spect for the fiction of right, then oil
the remaining chains which bind you
| and which are called science, civiliza-
| tion, property, marriage, mortality and
justice, will snap us under like threads.
Let your own happiness be your only
law. But in order to get this law re-
organized and to bring about the prop.
er relations which should exist between
the majority and minority of mankind,
you must destroy everything which ex.
lists in the shape of state or social or
ganization. Our first work must be
destruction and annihilaton of every.
thing as it now exists. You must &C.
custom yourselves to destroy every
thing-the good with the bad. For, il
an atom of this old world remains the
new will never be created. Take heed
that no ark be allowed to rescue any
atom of this old world, which we con-
secrate destruction.
Boys, TAKE HEED was sitting
in the office of merchant not long
since, when lad about I6 years enter
cd with cigar in his mouth. He said
TO the gentleman,
Il would like to get situatian in
your shop to learn trade, sir
Il might give you a place. but you
carry bad recommendation in your
mouth said the gentleman.
Il don't think it any harm to
smoke, sir, almost everybody smokes
now
4 am sorry to say, my young friend,
can't employ you. Ifyou have mon
ey enough to buy cigars. you will be
above working as an apprentice and If
you have not money en- ough, your love
for cigars might make you steal. No
boy who smokes cigars can get employ
ment in my shop
A word to the wise is sufficient.
How TO DRop MONEY Az CuUnoH.-
A facetious exchange gives the follow
ing rules for dropping money into the
cDntrbuton-box at church: First, il
you feel particularly mean and have
only penny to bestow, you must keep
it well covered in your hand, and when
the box is under your nose you must,
with "A quick nervous motion, let your
mite fall so that it shall escape obser-
vation second, il you have u quarter
or any other silver coin of n considera-
BILE size to give, you may hold 1T in
plain sight between yonr thumb and
foreGngcr, and when you deposit IL you
must let il drop from II comparatively
| lofty elevation, so that il may make a
musical jingle when it reaches its des-
tnation thirdly, if you contemplate Of
fering bill, you must not take the mon
ey out Of your vest pocket until the
happy time comes when your neighbors
can best see your unparalleled generos-
ity. The moment the collector appears
ut the pew door is the one when you
must tumble for your money, aud then
having mcthodically unfolded the bill
and put OH your eyeglasses to ascertain
its denomination, you may slowly put
it on the top Of the box. These three
rules, we believe, will be sufficient for
all ordinary purposes. n. b "A but
ton should always be placed in blank
envelope.