The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-06

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! speech Senator Nelson says that 'mon
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have to be cursed or present condition
will lead to revolution. 1t will b.
worse than that, for it takes men
to carry on successful revolution
Dreadful as civil war and revolution
| is. there is q present tendency towards
something more dreadful still, and ina
is national decadcnce.'' A person
must be willfulIy blind who cannot
sec that we. are approaching the con
dition described by Goldsmith, "wlicr,
wealth accumulatcs and men decay.
The statistics i give in last letter o
crime and insanity in this state ar,
only the outward signs of inward rot
tenness. Every kind of a scheme
goes for material Improvement, so
called, from antispitting to herdinl
children in ''homes what a CHASTITY
misuse of that good word, and The
sick in the hospitals, thus allowing
unnatural parents TO throw their bur
dens on to the public.
"Cults" and Things.
I'm belief and cults" the minds of on
people are poisoned with them. and
the more fantastic and unrea sonabIe
they are, the more grecdily they are
swallowed" Annie Besant, with hen
thcOsophy is at the head of the pre-,
tentious crowd and the 'hoIy rollers
at the tail. The only difference be
tween the two extremes is that The
Besant crowd covertly advocate free
love-. and the tail end covertIy prac-
tee it. The plain, practical, common
sense. teachings OF Christ no longer
appeal 10 orr people, because they call
for work, by the "Goldcn Rule
while the religious fads call only for
cabalistic words, words, words without
any practical meaning. have been
thrown among the self styled Chris.
tan Scientists this last winter, and
been reading their literature In talk
ing to the advocates of this Cult
some of them physical detectives, pity,
contempt and laughter has struggled
for the mastery as | have listened to
them eXponnding their views on 'thc
unrcality of pain and the nOneXistencc
of matter. The reason | ''ring in" this
subject of fads is bccasc they are the
nd nf
Peters, Bellotas and the shabby farm
homes. The capacity of the human
mind is limited and those who follow
fads neglect the more important duties
of life, their duty to their country
and to their fellow citizens. Henry
Ward Beecher said that, mo one could
be a good American citizen unless they
were good politicians.
Scores the Faddists.
Faddists, as a rule are lopsided, I'M
balanced and one idea cranks. hence
they fiddle away on their zone stringcd
fiddle while Rome is burning, and
the consequence is Ballineer is secre-
tary of the interior, the foul -mouthed
Joe Cannon is speaker of congress
and "allied'' scoundrels have the people
by the throat. The prohibition crank
has a plausible excuse for his fad
still he does more harm then GOOD
by allowing machine politicians to
use him as third party man and
thus divide the reform forces.
The Great Menare
The greatest menace to free nstitll-
tons and good government is not the
ignorant, drunken sots, but the smooth
clear Drained, intellectually rotten
schemcrs, whose only motto is "aftel
us. the deluge.' This class, who arc
the millionaires and millionaire max
ers, will have to be shorn of THEN
power, and a more equitable distribil
ton of the proceeds of labor obtained
or Amercanism with every good thing
that name implies, will end in ma
tional degradation rs low as that oi
Russia, the Balkan provinces of Tur.
key and other military governed com
tries where the producer is little bet
ter lHdu SUI. All IncSc DOllllca
and social evils have been clearly APP
parent to thoughtful people since soor
after the close of the Civil war, fol
"thc shot that was fired and heart
around the world" seems to have
aroused all the evil propensitics OF
poor human nature, ard ever since
then conditions have been going from
bad to worse The reasons these evils
stand out more glarin9ly in Californi;
than elsewhere is because the "brae'
about the state would naturally lead
one to expect that she was an sim
mlne." With every advantage of eli
mate, soil and mineral wealth Ont
would think there was enough and t.
spare for everybody, hence the as
constituent at finding that organized
greed has a stronger grip on th
state and that "the standard of life
has been reduced as low or lower thar
in the older and more densely settle,
eastern states.