The Butler weekly times., 1897-04-22
Admission, One Dollar.

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head to be enlightened have receiv-
ed about as much satisfaction as
hungry man who goes into restau
rant expecting to get square meal
for his money and is forced to fill up
on Charlotte Russo aud floating
island"
The wordy pagan really obtained
their money under false pretenses.
The lecture he advertised as new is
only rehash Of number OF bis old
ones. Those who listened to HIM
at the Coates Tuesday evening who
have heard him in previous lectures
must have been sold. Not only did
they recognize the thoughts and
arguments he presented "a Old and
familiar acquaintances, but they no.
ticed the verbal clothing il which
the peripatect aguestic arrayaa them
was the same that has been doing
services in cogging coin into the cot-
fers of the apostle of irreligiol for
the past twenty years.
1t has bsen long apparent to those
who have observed Ingersoll's ca
reer for some years past that his in
llect some time ago reached the
p-riod where memory takes the
place of origination. in fact there
are numbers of critical minds, even
outside the clerical profession. who
are not willing to accord to Inger-
soil originality in any thought he
has uttered.
No one can successfully deny him
the possession of eloquence, imagi-
nation, an apt facility in word pant
ing and keen senss OF humor. But
this Expresses the limit Of conces
sion. No argument he has ever al
vanced g ainst Christianity or against
religion in general but can be found
perhaps more strongly and logically
if not more catchingly, presented by
infidels who have written books and
had them printed during the pas
one hundred years.
Nothing Ingersoll has ever said o.
can say against the doctrines o
. Christ OF the teachers OF them cal
3 approach the biting sarcasm, tn
r ribald ridicule aud the wealth of in
}. vective exercised by the diabolic in
o tellect of that brilliant infidel, Vol
t taire.
o Jean Jacques Rousseau has array
ed the artillery for his attacks upo
the duties and responsibilities c
s man to his Creator behind as lovel
U ra,nbows OF sentiment, as mello'
t. hues of human affection-lovs {
y home, family, friends and fatheIlan
% AS ever Colonel Ingesoll did.
"a Tom Paine coupled his assault
u against Deity behind even mol
: laudatory tributes to liberty and p'
20 triotism than the ex Peorian, in 6
- his delirium of rhetorical expressic
q, ever uttered. So traces of the Inge
" sollian form of argument, idea az
- even language may be found in 9th
= writ 4rs who strove to tear veneratio
~ of God out of the human heart AZ
replace it with chaos and soul-hu
- ger. He has said nothing new tn
% thew have not said, nor does he su
~ port what he says with the show
logic aud the array OF facts whl'
IF thew have marshaled in a losi
w cause.
oi In the revamped lecture which
delivered in Kansas City, Color
ed Ingersoll made statments which
tai futed himself at nearly every tu
w of his discourse. After laying do
.n e., the premise that the religion
~ based on ignorant superstition, be
he of fear aud WAS planted in the br'
of the savage cons of centuries 81
is, he proceeds to declare that Shak
'eu peare WAS the greatest man that e
s1v a. lived in the splendor and magn
ne. cencs of his intellectual gifts.
,ck Shakespeare, that wondrous oc
be- of genius to whom the thoughts
lesser minds, like so many rivers,h
~ and the iuundations from whose