The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

racUorles Dy the score have been started--in air.
The character OF the Sunday evening entertain
ments and the Sunday instruction school can be
understood from one fact: The speakers, and
some or them ladies, too, are accustomed to
speak OF the Deity as old God There is not
prooaoiy town of the same size in the land
wnere there are as few books, especially those or
good character. There is none where there
are so few papers taken, especially good papers.
The reading matter, the schools, the general
reading and the local paper are far below the
average.
There has been a reason for this miserable
fiasco In this infidel attempt to start an inid1s
paradise. With great seeming liberaai,ity Walser
told parties purchasing lots that he did not want
them to pay for them when they purchased
them He would give them a written contract
ten years The purchaser could then
use all his money in erecting buildings
and starting his business. All except the few
sensible ones, who insisted on paying for lots and
Waisers object More buildings, and better
ones, have been erected on Walsers lots than
could have been erected had the lots been paid
for Lots and buildings are really Walsers prop
erty, and the dupes who erected them are his
serfs. They cannot sell, for they can give no
deed, and cannot rent to anyone, except with
Wasers consent. A more abiect set of serfs
cannot be found than most OF the people in Lib
eral. Malser has been able to crafty his intol-
erance by persistent efforts to keep all believers
In Christianity out of Liberal He organized
secret society like the Mormon Danites, which he
calls the Sacred Brotherhood. From among
these q committee of three was selected to inter
view ell strangers as they got off the trains. If
they learned that stranger was prospecting,
and concluded that he was not an infdel, Walser
and his infdel Danites went to work to drive
him off. 'Bulldozing lie him, anything to
get rid of him. were Walser's orders to his ennis
saries. When persons who would not submit
to such dictation started new addition
to the town, on land that did not be-
long to Walser, the iufdels actually began
to put a wire fence around the town to prevent
Christians passing through it on their way to
the depot Waser's wife and other infdel fe-
males immortalized themselves by ostentatious
displays of infdel bigotry in driving posts for
the wires The railroad company threatened to
remove the station and infdel intolerance was
checked in its folly
"The liberals of this infdel town have always
taken special delight in surrounding Christians
who come into the town on business and assail-
ing Christianity in the most abusive manner.
| They will 60 into the business houses, and even
the residences of Christians, to do such work.
Not even guests are spared such treatment. The
worst of social ostracism has been practiced, and
special pains taken to throw out insulting re-
marks when passing believers in Christianity,
in their houses business places or on the streets
Deliberate persistent attempts have been re-
peatedly made to ruin Christians in
character and business, and drive them off.
For some time after the town started, no place
meetings. The first meeting was held in
finished elevator, when a small meeting house
was erected. The infdels would flock into the
meetings and break them up, interrupting the
exercises with infidel abuse. They went into
the Sunday school, and tried, by force of num-
bers to vote out all religious literature and sub
stitute their infidel literature for it. 1t was
their openly avowed purpose to break up and
drive out of the town all religious meetings
Such has been the boast of liberaity of this in
fidel paradise called Liberal.
1.-THE boast about the sobriety of the town is
false. But few of the infdels are total abstain
ers. Liquor can be obtained at three different
places in this town of three hundred inhabitants
More drunken nfidels can be seen in year in
Liberal than drunken Christians among one
hundred times as many church members during
the same time Swearing is the common form
of speech In Liberal, and nearly every inhabit-
ant, old and young, swears habitualy. Girls
and boys swear on the Streets playground and
at home. Fully half of the females will swear,
and large number swear habit
ually. In no place in the country are
public meetings so noisy. Lack Of reverence
for parents and of obedience to them is the rule
There are more grass widows, grass widowers
and people living together, who have former
companions living, than in any other town of
ten times the population. One often Sees in
evf cities, the sign 'misft carpets There
might be hung over the town of Liberal the sign
'misft couples and husbands and wives. A
good portion OF the few books that are read are
key. Young females have been known to read,
on the streets, and to loan to young males sci
entifc' works on the science of prevention.
This, we suppose, is scientific morality. Since
Liberal was started there has not been an aver
age OF one birth per year of inidel parents.
Feticide is universal. The physicians of the
place say that large portion of their practice
has been trying to save females from the conse-
quences of feticide. In no town is SANDER more
prevalent, or the charges more vile. If one were
to accept what the inhabitants say of each other,
he would conclude that there Is a hell includ-
ing all Liberal, and that its inhabitants are the
devils.
''The liberality of infdels in support of schools
and infidel meetings can be seen in their work
in Liberal After nearly five years existence
they have no school house, and only one place of
meeting which can be erected for 5000. AS there
are several who can gable infdelity for them,
they do not have to pay for preaching. The in
fidel league rented hall for some of their meet
ings. They were to pay $100 per year They
got in arrears 5000. and were turned out of the
hall. The infidels of Liberal do not raise $3.50
per year for their infideity. There are but few
Christian communities of the same means which
do not raise from So, 600 to $1,000 These inf
dels, however, can spend for dances and shows
ten times as much as they spend for their liber-
alism. These dances are cor-upting the youth
of the surrounding country with infidelity and
immortality There is no lack of loose women at
these places. Sundays are turned into dancing
and fishing picnics, interspersed with braying
brass bands and blasphemous harangues, called
literary exercises
"Such are the facts concerning this infidel
paradise. They should be generally known, that
persons may not be deceived by such false an
nouncements as we place at the head of this
article. Hundreds have been deceived, and in
jured and ruined financially. The puff we quoted
above is false in nearly every statement Every
one who has visited Liberal and knows the facts,
knows that such is the case.
"About one year ago the decent skeptics and the
Christians of Liberal, feeling that they could
endure the intolerance of infdelity no longer,
moved into town plot west of Liberal and
started the town of Denison. 1t was their
intention to have truly liberal town, where
all decent people could live and entertain
any opinions they pleased without social
ostracism, persecution or ruin of their
business The town is handsomely laid out
Liberal is absurdly planned town. The main