The evening world., 1919-10-31
SAME OLD BILL"
IS DIFFERENT NOW;
MAY Be ABAHAI
Sulzer Says He's Not, but He
Sure Can Talk the
Cults Lingo.
what is a Bahai7

Ex-Gov. William Suizcr says that
he Isn't one, and yes for an hour and
half ne entertained about 100 Ba-
haians last night In the Bahai L-
brary. ht No. AIS Madison Avenue,
telling chem what they were and what
they were not
You may he a Bahai and not know
1T. Aconr11ing 70 one Of the writing
lisciplcb OF Abdul Bahia, who is the
bigF I3ahai extant, Henry Ford Is
a Be aat and doesn't know H. The fact
that HShty pleaded that he was not
n learncd man proves that he Is n
Bahai. rot that Abdul BAHIA Ia not
learned man. but the fact that
Henry d not learned in the thoughts
of othefstr trives him n chance TO stand
alone. He wants peace and tries 10
stop a var. lie wants Bible 70 SIM
pie thai the whole world may read
and understand. that even he can un-
derstand
The writer wonders II Henry Ford
knows be is a Bahai.
Well, tBm Sulzer says he isn't one
ana he ltnows he isn't one. But he Is
a great friend OF Abdul, Baha. whom
he met when ne was Chairman OF the
Committee on Foreign Affairs in the
House IA 1914 That was before the
war and before Bll went 70 the Pee-
pul's Hbuse in Albany.
Il m&t, Abdul IIaha officially" said
the fortn6r Governor. "and met him
socially and . studied hims and lis
tened 70 fhm and 90 his message. II
was not new 20 me. but it left an i'm
preszion which has never been ef-
fared. putting me In touch with the
reality lof long ago. There are things
you don't understand but are with
you all the time and you absorb thom
unoonreiously.-
Maybe BIll Is q Bahai and doesn't
know Il after ALL There II n great
deal IN common between Bahalsm and
the public life OF tho FORMER Chief
Executive OF the Empire State. An
tho big Bahais wero mArtyrA And
wasn't Bial7
JUST EXACTLY WHAT BA-
- tiAlsM rs.
Bahaibm IL a development OF Ba-
baiism, which itself was developed
only In Is44 noAr Bagdad-too near. II
turned out The founder was q young
sayid, whatever that is. His name
was Mira All and he was n son OF
Mohammed. born at Shiraz In 1919.
He said no was the latest prophet OF
Cod and handed himself the title OF
Bab al-Dln.' His disciples called him
Bah for short. just like they call VIII
liam Hill His disciples were Babis.
They were warm babLs and Bah
told him that Bohammed. Christ and
Moses were mere prophets and hts
forerunnerB. He was one of tho lead
ing Prohibitionists OF his time and
had no uBe for Brigham Young-thai
IL. he was against polygamy. Ho waa
also one OF the irst Equal Suffrngist'
and finally got TO beltOvo that the
Doity was incarnhte in him. He
preached against the Persian hier-
arcy and got the Eoat OF tho mullahi
and an turn they got his head. Thoy
executed him JCdy Z. isb0. at Tabrin
In 1859 Mira Houssein Ali declared
himself a follower OF Babaiism and
they put him In jail and took AL hiI
property. He declared himself in 1856
the BAHIA Uilah che whom God shouiC
manifest), whose coming was prophe.
sled by Bah. They sent him int
exile Just hike TammAny sent Bil
Sulzer into exile half n century later
But the name stuck 90 him and hi
son came after him and was calleC
Abdul BAHIA and he was rescued from
exile in time to meet Congressman
Sulzer.
'An religions" said ex-Gov. Sui
GER" are founded on other religions
and the first that We know anything
about IL that OF Brahma- But the re