The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-01-11
THE WICKED" ADVANCE.


spectacle, and lie has not the courage
to express his own thoughts and to
stem the tide Of opposition which such
course would set in motion.
We have the courage to do 50, and to
take the consequences.
Let us analyZe what lie says:
!. ''Wllen you get onto your hobby"
etc. He knows that the ablest men IN
Europe and America are expressing
the same "bosh" and "idiocy' that We
are and much more. Zollner, Crook-s,
Wallace, Aksakuff, Buchanan, Kid,!le,
Crowell, Edmunds, Greedy. Watson.
Prebles, Wakefield, Palmer, IngersS)l,
and Il host of the ablest aud best men,
have all crowded just such ''concen-
trated idiocy" into type and paper. If
We can put ''more into the square inch"
than any man living, it is because we
have more power to speak plainly and
directly. 1t is high compliment
which lie pays us, and We are glad to
know that We can condeLse our
thoughts and make them felt.
g "Yau seem to have become mo-
nomaniac," etc. Undoubtedly. To
be called ''lunatic" or a "mononani-
ac' is the compliment which the world
always pays TO lis explorers, investiga-
tors, discoveries aud martyrs. Gallil-
60 and Bruno were called SO ly tie
church in tlitir day. Newton Was
called ''craZy when he announced his
discovery jn i;cht SwedrnborS WAS
generally cons dtrcd ''c,aZy" in lis
day. Morse was considered All entlu-
siaslic ''mono,naniac when he applied
to Congress for All appropriation to put
the first tex gr"pl, line bet wcen Wash
ington ana Baltimore. Paul was call
Cd mad wien lie preached that he
had encountered great light" Ola
the way to Damascus. Yes. we like
t,e compliment. For it ranges us on
tie SHE uf and in the same category
will, all the sanest, sweetest, truest,
justest. bruvest nAn 1rnM the martyr
jesus NO1 ~ ~ Vii & VII Cdy
3. "a church or Il preacher affects
you." etc. The ADVANCE has always
spoken in the highest terms Of Beecher,
Swing, Thomas, Col!yrr and all preach
ers of that class. No word can be
found in the ADVANCE condyn!Ning
them or their course. We lave only
denounced in severe ter,us the "church
bigot" and the ''hypocrit." And have
not used As severe terms rs Christ did
in deneunciug these SANE classes. The
ADVANCE stood up for Beecher when
the small fry clergy by the Thousand
were eloatirg over Ills "downfall'' and
declaring his guilt, and that sly old
hypOcrit, Dr. Leonard Bacon. was
hboring IT, bring on the scandal in
he was unworthy to unloese.
I. Made such wreck Of you," etc.
Yes, it's q complete ''wreck.' The
''old man" of which Paul spoke, has
passed away and the new man" has
taken his place. The old Orthodox
ship is u "wreck' and the old hulk has
been cast out, timber by timber, and the
new vessel is under full sail with flags
flying. The ''o.d man" putt in 20 Of tho
best years of his life trying to fill his
stomach with the husks Of Orthodoxy
and then lie arose and went to Ibis
father" And We weuld not give one
gear ef Spiritnalism and free thought
and that sort of "idiocy" for twenty or
even ndred years of the best that
the Orthodox churches eau give
No, sir. "Idiot," or ''lunatic," Or
''nenomaniac," or what not, we nail
to our masthead the motto: ''Truth
wears NO mask, bows at 10 shrine,
seeks neither place nor power, she only
asks hearing" And every man who
knows the ADVANCE knows that we
live by that motto. We ask neither
place nor power. not even the humblest
office in the gift Of the people; We bow
ut NO shrine, neither the church, noI
society, nor any political PARTY; We
wear 10 mask, for if We did we should
be doing as our friend Goes, and We
should rot then have received the
above ''rcbuke." We only ask 4 hear.
ing.
And that We shall have despite all
the ''rebukes," and all tic churches tx
tant.
Experience the hest tGuiie.-The rea.
son why wamen everywhere use Par.
ker's Ginger Tonic ia, because they
have learned iy expcrience-the best
Kuide-that tins excellent medicine
overc"n'es tspondency. peri,nlica
headache, indigestion, pain iN the back
and kidneys, and other troubles of tl,t
sex.-HOme journal.
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