New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-10-04
COL, INGERs0LL'S LATEST.
lie Thinks tile Parliament Ct Religions will
Remove Prejudice and Egotism.
A Characteristic Reply by the Great Ora
tor to the Questions of an Interviewer.

| Although he was not invited to take
part in its deliberations, there is probab-
ly no man in this country who is watch
ing more closely the proceedings OF the
parliament Of religions in Chicago than
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the leading
American agnostic, Says q New Yo:,,
dispatch. The following conversation
| Was held with him recently:
''What effect is the parliament of re
| ligions likely to have on the future Of
| creeds?"
1T was good thing to get the repre-
scntatives of all creetls to meet and tell
| their brliefs. The tendency, I think, is
to do away with prejudice, with provln-
cialism, with egotism. We know the
difference between the great religions, SO
far as belief is concerned, amounts to but
little. Their GODS have different names
but in other respects they differ but lit
tie. They are all cruel and ignorant"
"Do you think it likely that the time
is coming when all the religions in the
world will be treated with the liberulitv
| that is now characterizing the attitude
of one sect to another in christcndom!
"Yes, because think that all religions
will be found to be of equal authority
and because believe that the supernat-
ural Will be discarded and that man will
give up his vain and useless efforts to get
back Of nature-to answer the questions
of whence and whittier. AS matter of
fact. the various sects do not love one
another. The kecnest hatred is religious
hatred. The. malicious most malice is
found in the hearts of those who love
their enemies"
"Bishop Newman in replying to a
learned Buddhist at the parliament of re-
ligions, said that Buddhism had given to
the world no helpful literature, no soci-
al system, and no heroic virtues. Is this
true?'
"Bishop Newman is a very prejudiced
man. Probably he got his information
from the missionaries. Buddha was un-
doubtedly a great teacher. Long before
Christ lived Buddha taught the brother
hood of man. He said that intelligence
was the only lever capable of raising
mankind. His followers, to say the least
of them, are as good as the followers of
Christ. Bishop Neuman is Methodist
| "a follower of John Wesley-and he
has the prejudices of the sect to which
he belongs. We must remember that all
| prejudices are honest.''
"How can society be reconstructed
| tnat all this horrible suffering resultant
from poverty and its natural associate,
crime, be abolished, or at least reduced
to a minimum?" was asked.
''1n the first place,we should stop sup
porting the useless. The burdens of su-
perstition should be taken from the
shoulders of industry. In the next place
men should stop bowing to wealth IN
stead of worth. Men should be Judged
by what they are, instead Of the property
they have. Only those able to raise and
educate children should have them Child
! ren shouid be better born, better educa-
| ted. The process Of regeneration will be
slow, but it will be sure. The religion
! of our day is supported by the worst, by
the most dangerous people in society. l
| do not allude to murderers or burglars
| or even to the little thieves. I mean
| those who debauch courts and legisla-
| lures and elections those who make
millions by legal fraud" -.
s'Is it possible for men to be good and
honest without the help of Christianity?'
"Chris tianity is not a help was the
colonel's reply. 'sChristianity offers to
sell crime credit. It says to the
bank cashier: BE honest, don't you steal
a cent, but if you do steal the entire
bank God will forgive you in Canada
just as quickly as in the United States.
Christianity does not make men good.
Good men have given Christianity the
good reputation it has,
Lafayette.
w. WellneT left yesterday for st. Paul
to attend a Business College.
Albert Lange had three Of the fingers
of his left hand smashed in thrashng