Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
PROF. BELLS LECTURES.

Prof. Bell, lifelong student of re.
ligiouS and economic questions and
their application to every day life, will
hold series of popular lectures and
class teaching in this city next Satur,
day evening, Nov q, at 730 and con
tinuing for five days.
He advocates the Affirmative instead
of the Negative in all things.
He advocates the prevention of vice
and crime by Education and Training,
religious and moral, in the home, the
school, and the church. rather than
punishment, as the best means of Re.
form
He advocates placing stress upon rem
edies rather than upon fanatical OPP
position to evils themselves-as cure.
He advocates love and forbeaTdnce
as the best means OF retaining and
saving men; while the police power Of
the state is necessary to repress ano
prevent the outbreak of vice and crime
He stands Tor temperance 10 I'll
things but does not advocate PRO
hibition," 'anti-saloon," and other neg
alive measures as remedy or cure
for Intemperance; believing that at
lacking an evil, not only fails to Grad
icate the evil, but distracts attention
from the affirmative work of reform.
He advocates the divine right of every
citizen to an equal approximately
equaD portion of the land of his country
and holds it to be among the first dutie:
of government to put him in possession
of his birthright in the land as an own
er in fee.
He advocates the idea that land mon
opoly is the fundamental, political anC
annnhn1iO OWL md fhat IN q "a QH 4
is to limit the amount of land any Cit
zeG can own; and Ito prohibit alier
ownership of land.
He takes up the battle cry of thu
| people before the civic war: "Uncl,
| Sam is rich enough 10 give us all ;
| farm" and advocates a homestead TO
| every man and woman.
| He advocates tax reform-the assess
ment of all property, real and persona
| at its full value; with homestead lane
| exempt from taxcs-the consequent re
| duction of taxes to the farmer anC
| other home owners, the payment o
| their Just share of taxes by all who nov
evade or escape them-and a,.resultint
| lower rate for all.
| He would lessen the negative attack
made by sensationalists in the name o
religion, good morals, and reform
| against whatever they consider wrong
or evil; because such an attitude i
futile and produces results worse,
! anything, than the evils they attack.
| He advocates the removal of all lega
restrictions against the equal right o
woman to all privileges under the con
stitution aud laws, municipal, stat
and national
He denies no creed Of any religious
faith, opposes no affirmative reform i
church or state, aud attacks no evil
public or private as means OF curatlv
reform; believing that direct attac
| upon evil can at most only repress tn
external form of its manifestation, with
out curing the disease itself, while rea
remedies are ignored.
These and other principles he ein
bodies in complete system of practice
| philosophy based upon what he calls tn
doctrine of affirmation upon which h
prepares to found an organization
called the Affirmative Society or tn
New Church Society of affirmative re
ligion, embracing the religious attitud
of the church with the Brotherhood c
Fraternalism and the business primo
pies of every day affairs, stating in dc
tail his reasons for proposing "A Me-
Theology or New Church." He a
tacks no one and his lectures are th
result of years of study. He is maste
of his subject and speaks with author
l tn