Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03


down virtue and uplift sin, there cross
ed his countenance the faint glimmer
Iof a smile in a region where laughter
is unknown-the Satanic smile of sat
isfaction at how well his messengers
had learned their lessons and improved
On his teachings.
Presently, however, there came one
who, despite the effort to suppress
him, demanded full hearing.
This region" said he, has too long
been ruled by incompetence and medi-
Iocrity.
Through the ages we have been
taught that Satan held his position and
his power because in all the wide un-
iverse there had never been found a
demon who could match him in vile
ness or who could, sometimes in the
guise of a saint and sometimes in that
Of a fiend, work such indescribable hor
rors upon all of Gods creatures.
I'VE have been told that no other
demon in all the universe had the i'm
agination to plan or the power to
wreak upon the innocent such sorrow
and suffering as Satan.
I'VE have been told that for DEVILS
ingenuity in devising new sins and
new ways of destroying virtue, in
tearing down all that is good, and in
spreading broadcast through unnumb-
cred worlds amending sin and SUFFERING,
Satan had never been matched.
But though this may all have been
true in the past, it is no longer true
The right of rulership by reason Of
superiority in evil no longer belongs
to him who has dominated US
q have come from earth, where
nearly three years it has been my
mission to study the work of one
who has devised more evils and more
sin and more sorrow and suffering than
any of us have ever before known in
ali our wide travels from world to
world.
q have found one who outclasses
Satan.
81 have found one in comparison
with whom as a deviser of evil and
sin and the creator of sorrow Satan is
but cheap piker
81 have brought with me the one
who, by reason of his abilities to
murder innocent women and children
and to cause such outrages upon them
that murder itself seems angelic by
comparison, and with unmatched hy-
pocrisy claims that he is a copartner
with the Almighty in his devlish work,
is justly entitled to rule this region.
Since the beginning of time there
has never before been one who gloried
in such campaigns of murder and out
raging of women and children as he
has gloried over
"Other men have committed these
crimes, but in doing so they have
shrunk back ashamed before even the
devils themselves.
But l have found one who glories
in these achievements.
Il have found one who has rejoiced
in unspeakable outrages committed by
lis army upon innocent women; one
who has covered the world with voice
less woe; one who has made rape an
honor and murder a crown of glory.
Il have found one who has made the
name of his people, honored in the
past, now Kissing and and by
word, hated by all the world; despised
as have been no other people in all
human history; stencil in the nos
trils of all decent men and women;
one who turned his army and navy in
to cold-blooded murderers and ravish-
ers of women and children, and made
them glory in their deeds of evil.
81 have found one who, in times of
peace, covered all the world with his
spies; one who, under the guise of