The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-10-27

can truly be classed as one OF the
highest aims of which the human mind
and heart are capable. We do not
simply strike death to our prosecutors
to settle an account, but to establish
a right, and to efface a wrong; to build
up a new life and a new creed for
millions. Our Order comprehends in
its vast teachings rule that is golden.
a principle that appeals to the lover
of justice and liberty. We do not only
punish our merciless prosecutors, but
we save posterity from what we have
suffered. We deplore Nihilism, for it's
end is nothingness. We advocate that
which is diametrically opposed to it
everything. Our creed is humauita-
rian, because it embraces the liberty,
the advancement, and the rights OF
suffering and oppressed mankind. 1t
establishes the inherent right OF man
to regain that liberty which has been
wrested from him by the greed of ty-
rants. We lift them from a bondage
worse than slavery, and give them lib.
erty of thought and action, which in.
sures knowledge and enlightenment,
that will place Russia among the civ
iized nations of the earth
"One-fourth of the exiles in Siberia
are men who are educated, men who
read, who write, and who think, all OF
which qualities are forbidden the
masses. for to think is to criticize to
criticize is to condemn. When tho
light of intelligence once falls upon
the rotten throne of Russia, it will
tremble, it will fall, as did that Of
Louis of France.
Then it is your aim to destroy the
Russian dynasty, and build a repcblic
in its stead?'
1T may be described as republic
because it embraces the liberty and
rights of mankind. 1t makes every
man, from the humblest peasant to the
highest official, equal in suffrage, in
religion, and in law. We wish to raise
from the mire of odious credulity the
minds of man before We can bring him
into the light OF scientific being. and
direct him. in his new life, to the only
shrine worthy of his alteration, the
true abacus of his moral and physical
alculations-Nature.'
But there will always be divisions,
separated by hostile opinions. Ma
ture will only be worshipped by the
two extremes. the savages and the
ultra scientists of this new school"
There can never be a universal
creed" he replied, for the light does
not shine upon all at the same time,
nor with the same intensity; the small
est brain weighs thirty-nine ounces,
while the greatest may weigh FIVE
pounds. There can never be uni"er-
sal harmony while there is absence OF
universal faculty. There can be no
universal belief until there is universal
comprehension. Science cannot make
a unit of the worlds faith. but it can
shed light upon the almost complete
obfuscation of the human mind, and
in time dominate the mind and acton
of man. Religion and revolution will
fight Revolution Will win. Then
when oppressed humanity is once free
from the blind credulty of its relig-
ion, reason will prevail; logic will take
the place of credulity, and liberty OF
thought will open the way for our
creed. The Icon will be torn from the
wall. The school teacher will walk in
the steps of the priest. The Third
Section will be transformed from an
inouisition to a court of justice, and
a Statue of Liberty will be reared on
the Palace of the Gar. immigration
will people the land with men from
every nation. New ideas and new
methods will be promulgated, and in
few years the great cities of Russia
will be as cosmopolitan and as en-
lightened as New York, London. or
Paris"