The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-22
81 Nathan Sees the Lloht.
Editor of The Chieftain;

Editor of The Chieftain
| am pleased to note that Ell MA
THAN, alias Rev. Rastus Bonehead,
alias Elder Crapsey, has in maze Of
words finally virtually acknowledged
that the great truths taught by Dar-
win are correct.
In justice to this remarkably well
educated man, this Redeemed"
preacher who stoops to the ordinary
billingsgate, | note that he has i'm
proved on Darwin and thinks the the
ory of Evolution Evolves" more
quickly than Darwin thought, and he
goes back to the famous refuge of the
Educated CD the best educated
scientists of this Country are coming
to this conclusion. This safe prop
osition-"The Best SCIENTISTS" but
we insist that this disciple of Super
stition NAMES these prominent
Scientists-those who have rejected
the teachings of Darwin | will ven
ture the assertion, that outside per-
haps, of some little theological school,
q should say cemetery, he will be
unable to name The eminent scientists
call upon him now to name any one
connected with any of the great State
Universities, and | will allow him to
even refer to Standard Oil Company
Jno. d. Rockefeller's Baptist Univer-
sity of Chicago, who deny Darwinism.
In passing, might note that this mill
tant defender of the murder of babes
and the career of his patron saint
David, whose life was patterned "after
Gods own Peart," and compared with
whom, Captain Kidd and Jesse James
become aureoled Saints, admits that
he is very well educated and has on
his shelves the last word on all the
subjects which these discussions have
touched. This modest little admission
on the part of Brother Nathan leads
me to ask him how sacred book has
to be to justify the crime of murder.
It also leads me to ask him if it is not
a fact that the first murder committed
was on account of religion.
Ell. NATHAN, come up to the rack
and acknowledge to your readers that
the first murder-the murder of Abel
by his brother Cain, was on account
OF religious persecution. Abel's sacri-
flee, according to the account, was
more pleasing to the Lord, as it was
the firstlings of his fiocks and Gains
sacrifices of ruit were not acceptable,
as the Lord, it seems has always pre-
ferred sacrifices of animals. The spill
ing of blood and odor of roasted meat
being very gratifying to him, and the
meat being good to keep the priests
from starvation.
The two children of our first par
ents, trying to propitiate their Deity
performing the first religious rites
mentioned in the Bible, introduced the
crimes of murder and religious perse-
cution and they have kept hand in
hand until very recent date. A brief
period of a hundred years in our coun-
try would produce examples, and one
year would show very prominent in
stance in Spain, in the murder of
Francis Ferrer by the Catholic church.
Ell Nathan digresses about 400 WORDS
in his article of yesterday in order to
insert little. Bon Mot originated (?)
in his fertile G.? brain in which he
likens us to a Wild ASS and he then
apologies after he has igtroduced
this unanswerable argument
If El Nathan wants to dr1g all his
relatives into this discussion, it is no
affair of mine, and whatever JUNCTION
he can take to his soul in using such
stuff as alleged argument in proving