The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-15
QUEER CHICAGO PEOPLE

QUEER CHICAGO PEOPLE
SUNDAY SCHOOLS PR0MULGATlNG An
ARCHY, ATHEISM AND FREE LOVE.
A Foreign City in Our Midst-Sociahsts
Unite with Anarchists in Criticising
the American Constitution-Lucy Par
sons Defends It.
CHICAGO, May 9.-There are many
queer people IN Chicago, and il IS posi-
BIZ Ttrev attract more attention than
thev otherwise would because they are
not restrained in anyway. Everything
gees in this city, where the <ldea Of
american liberty is illustrated n its
fullest sense. Chicago is third among
the cities of the United States IN the
matter of churches, and yet she has a
larger number OF free thinkers than any
other American city except New ork.
Chicago is not, strictly speaking, IN
American city. though American thrift
and enterprise have built her up. Fifty
tive spere cent Of her population is
sfofsisa, and in some sections of the
town one never hears the English Ian
gHage spoken.
Sunday is the day of days here.
Following the European example every
pfaee of. amusement is open; and the
sssetsdewatown are, thronged with
Sleasuresssekers L Many theatre mana
GERS Yeeson on Sunday night zas the
Ssst ID fheweek;E which is&Inore than
car be 1saiesS ofathe%elergvmen, more
than one of whom has given up his
Sunday night sermons because no one
will come out to hear them.
Free thinkers are strong IN Chicago,
their societies being numerous | at
tended meeting of the Bohemian Free
Thinking Society at Thalia Hall last
Sunday. As rule, Chicago,s foreign
population is free and easy in matters
of religion. Before the time for the
soclety. gathering the male members
occupied their time in frent of the bar
discussing the questions Of the. day.
within the han dozen children waited
for the Sunday afternoon lessons to
begin They grew restless: Their
mothers apron, strings no longer held
them. While their teachers were de.
layed by the tightening gives of
the saloon they found amusement for
themselves.
LOUIS LINGG as A GOD.
A Gmld Of EIGHT years. Nith yellow
curls falngS over the skerehief which
spreaFaa!aef Shoulders, skipped over
the Chair seats to the left side of the
nall and raised her eyes towards bust
IN a glass case midway between the floor
and ceiling.
s:There is my great god,' she cried in
a, pretty voice to her playful conpan'
isS7 gsss}tsols iate sbaalsa laughter
The mothers nodded at one another
and laughed They called the little girl
to them, smiled approvingly at her and
patted her curls. Each mother seemed
TO wish her own child had said so pre-
The bastaas thas of Louis Engg, the
most ferocious and malignant Of the an
archistic martyrs"
This same sunday there was also
meeting of the 'EArbeiter Bildungs We
rein der Nordwest Seite" at the same
place, or rather in another hall in the
ffhalia building. The object of the
meeting was to discuss the marriage
question. A lecture on rs Marriage 8
Failure?' was delivered by the secretary
of the Arbeiter Bund, that famous so
ciety the police tried to suppress, but
which the courts protected
The teN-wss to the effect that mar
,S;age was a failure, and the lecturer:
hearers agreed with him. Marriage un
der the present system was certainly
failure, 1t was agreed, and the only
remedy was its total abolition. The
race was dying out. His remarks re-
ceived hearty applause from bis audi
ence, of which women-forme6 the major
part.s ssSasss
ATHEIsTIC SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
There is throughout the city number
of so-called Sunday Schools" the doc,
trine taught in which is that all religion
is either superstition or fauaticism, and
should be abolished. These should not
be eonfounded with the anarchist Sun.
dav schools. The scholars in these
schools range in age between and 16
years. and the first thing impressed
upon their Hindsiszthat there is no such
thing as divine irspirationpr q code ot
morals founded on religious beliefs; tha;
churches are vile fraud, perpetrated by
ecclesiasticisu, and are simply agents OF
The governing class,-ss.--.----.--------
Riidicpie eisathe potent Weapon used,
and tBenamesof the DatySs spoken as
IghaEandsasFrippinglg upop shefeng1s
as thai Of The most public Of characters.