The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-06
THE kNOCKER


Ont IF Gnyernnr Mickey
AS The Independent has remarked
before, Ebert Hubbard has much to
answer for because he started freak"
magazine fad. There /. Ernest CrOs-
Ly's "Whim," Johflss B. Howarths
whats The USER, Frank Vierths
"Why?", and others "too numerous to
mention" "a classic expression culled
from the public "vendue' bills of the
18th century,. Even Nebraska, poor
old petit bourgeois Nebraska, is not
immune. The bacillus Hubbardosa
found breeding ground at Blair
THE Knocker, Journal for Cranks"
is the result
The Knocker, however, is distinct
advance over Its fOrbears Whereas
most Of them are printed on straw
paper flched from one Of Cudahy's To-
cal distributing depots, The Knocker
uses an excellent quality of book pa
ler for the magazine itself and uses
the butchers paper for mailing wrap
pers. The one just at hand contains
this startling announcement:
1.-THE Knocker for August. Con-
tanning Mention of JOHN H. MICK
Ely, Methodist, and a few other
things"
The mention is rather too good
to be buried away with our files of
crank magazines, and we herewith
reproduce it:
"a CALL TO ARMS"
There may not be a real redhor
oil for Cinn0rc hrJt th0rn
will always be lot of disagreeable
things here on earth for the hypoerite.
Last fall the republicans of Nebraska
fell over themselves in their scram
BILE to elect a Methodist governor, in
the hopes of having a clean admins
tration, and one that would reflect
credit On the republican party until
the old earth flies from it's orbit and
runs lawless through the skies. But
it is the same old story. A man who
will lay SO much stress on his relig
ion, who parades his gifts to auto
matte producing universities,
and believes that there is very little
difference between himself and Jesus
Christ, ought not only to be ignored
as mind in the state, but he should
lie positively avoided. He is a pud
ding-mill, bicephalous weakling, suf-
fering only from the form of bug
house malformation known to the
world at all times as Hypocrisy
"Such man is John H. Mickey
| the Methodist mountebank of NebraS-
ka. In whisper be it spoken.
Several of the recent acts of this
erring brother of j. c.. show the real
stage of the moral non compes mentls
which has brought down upon him
such a host of red-hot rays that he
knows how man feels when recov-
ering from a spree on gin fizz fury.
Among the blasting rays of public
scorn is one from Edgar Howard. of
the Columbus (Neb.) Telegram, pa
per of no mean standing. Mr. Howard
is a Christian gentleman (and good
poker player.-Ed. Ind). But Mr..
Howard is vastly different from st.
Mick. He does not carry the banner
Of ]. G. of Nazareth over his head,
nor parade his morals (for very ex-
Cellent private reasons.-Ed. Ind :,
lut deply enshrined in his heart are
| C!IS ulOIINCo, Ihc pi luCiplco, Iuc HWsi
csty and the proper relations with his
Maker, which make the Christian man
of today"
And here follows one of Howard s
masterpieces of scathing denunciation.
It is grand. One can't help thinking
Of all those old saws about diamond
cut diamond, dog ca; dog" "the
cevil rebuking SIM" ct cetera, und SO
weiter. ''Set a thief to catch a thief, -
must have been The Knockers object
in using Hypocrite Howard to expose
Hypocrite Mickey.