, 1883-10-25
Sunday Law Repeal Bill.

CoEtmlinlca atedi
1t is gratifying to note. the latrlable
efforts of our member, Mr.. Kuhn, to re-
move the eXcresences of prejudIced
past, and to demand for all classes of
American citizens liberation and free
dom consistent with common-sen and
their declaration of first principles OF in
dependence. To satisfy hypocrisy, and
suit the wishes OF a minority, practices
having no virtues are enforced on the
majority, and Ga; set apatt by guess
work, in order to maintain their obstrv-
ances, and to still further show the in
cOnsistencies of bigotry-the Salvation
army can make the most hideouS noises
while the beautiful rendering of some
sweet operate air would be suppressed
on the so-called Lords Day. All nature
pays its tribute of praise to the Great
First Cause which is infiuite in its be-
ginning and end. Birds sing their sweet
carols and hop from tree to tree in JOY
GUS mirth. Flowers open their beautiful
petals at the approach of the ife-giving
sun. Streams PURSUE their murmur-
ing course to the vast ocean, whose
testless tide rolls. in ceaselesS imitation
of its Author. Birds of the air as well
us animals of the forest pursue their even
way of spoliation. One living upon
the other that the fittest and the
strongest shall survive and by such
means fill the world with the most vigor-
GUS elements of life. Man enveloped in
mystery and overwhelmed with invisible
awe, fashions a God according to his
weak or strong imagination, and in ratio
with his own intelligence and magnetic
influence enforces his views on the weak
er until in creed form it becomes venera-
bic with age, or woishipped because of
the ignorance of its first formation. II
man Is free In q material way-which is
so well understood and defined by social
and political economy. Why should
the spirit Soul, mind or whatever it is
called, be cnslaved III the face Of utter
ignorance as to its fret origin or ulti-
mate existence? All beliefs founded
on invisible theories arise from our ig-
norance OF not knowing from whence we
came, whittier we go. in fact for being
born IN Ignorance and being damned for
1t. The result of natures handiwork is
known to the humblest, whilst the causes
OF each result remain in impenetrable
gloom; each life or atom having its spec
lal functions to perform according to It's
usefulness and needs of its surroundings.
Good or Evil or God or Devil are sy-
TiGuynous One the Developed, and
the other tie ttndevslOped, for ever active
upon mind and matter IN pursuance of
Law which is recreative and external,
and it is pitiable in the extreme to re-
view the finite intelligences who create
systems of morality yelled in allegory,
and fed by the worst passions of the hu-
man breast. Attributing to the very God,
men are compelled by State Laws to
worship all the vicious and lowest attri-
butes of the human face. The various
religions of the world were founded at
periods of its history when the siipersti-
tlous ignorance of the masses prepared
them for their inception; and the more
advanced thinkers of those periods saw
in such beliefs, power, place and wealth,
and have managed the matter so adroit-
ly that their followers would rather give
them an hypocritical support than run
the risk OF eternal damnation. The time
has, however, arrived when weil-known
hypocrisy, is more despised than candor
and consistency. When the teachings
of morals can be separated from supersti-
tious doctrines, the profession of
religion as it now exists can be dis
pensed with for a more healthy mode of
reasoning. 1t is revolving to think that
lnorder to secure SUBSCRIPTIONS on the
Sabbath TO pay the salaries of individ-
ualS Wuo are 1BnO rant or what they
teach. The State should not be party to a
fraud so palpable and repugnant to Or
dInary common sense.
Ii the religions of the world cannot
subsist on voluntary support, and with
out armed assistance, the professed love
for God is a sham, and His so-called dis
ciples impostors of the worst possible
kind. In this free and elightened Re
public We demand that liberty, mental
and physical shall obtain. That all men
according to their sincerity or their weak
ness shall worship what God they please
and when they please, and instead
of setting one day aside for hypocriti-
cal, God observances, it shall be declared
a day OF rest, necessary to the sanitary
and physical condition OF the human race.
That the worship OF God or first cause,
or Nature. or whatever it may be called.
shall be left as an inviolable right of the
individual, uninterrupted by any other
individual, or by any Laws of man;
whether in majority or minority.
Liberty of the individual, as we'll as
liberty of the conscience shall he q fact.
and not sham-a white washed, hy-
pocritical and superstitious humbug
Americans of all classes, are indebted