Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-04-17

Come, lot us reason together saith
the rEin Of the people, whom organic
cd superstition daily crucifies afresh.
DO mon gather grapes from thorns,
or figs from thistlcs? BY its fruits,
YOU may know State. Does society
the mother Of the State gather mil
lionaires and mendiicants from dc
mocraoy, or vice and crime from
Christianity? The stately Seeding
of democracy fortified by Il nations
blood and watercd by its tears, bears
no such homogeneous fruit unless a
scion from plutocraCys upas tree
has been grated into its splendid
foliage by Il CRATER pointed out by
i a yenal.
press, selected by Il primary of par
W hate, and elected by 80 per cent
OF tho State citiZenry fined n 81 so
q head for showing an interest in
the welfare of the commonw ealth
Fico and crime in Christian GOV
oTnment are rs incongruous as m Ice
berg in the South Pacific Ocean or q
SNOWFALL IN Hell. Tho cleaning
white rose trco OF Christianity con
lived in tho white soul of jesus,
born and brought forth in the agony
or plutocracy's cross bathcd and hap
tized in fathomless fountain of re
generating love. fortified by the
blood Of Il broken heart, and water
Cd by tears Of grief and pity, bears
no such scarlet blossoms as vice and
crime unless tho preachers for revo
nue., who have distorted every great
religion committed to their care,
turning their blessed preoepts into
blind superstition Of faith and fear,
buttressed by bigotry and bile aided
and allotted by the abortive bastard
OF plutocracy, born Of the adulter-
GUS and incostuous marriage OF
Church and State, baptized with tho
tears OF stunted children and sucked
at the withered breast of Virginia,
the once robust mother, from whose
bonny buNom bosom sturdy states
men sucked enough of virtue, wis
aom and courage to guide safely amid
the lnggei rocks Of war the new
Built ship Of State, have blown across
its pure foliage Il lambent flame OF
unnatural taxation from hell-hot
ialf acre, scOrching its immaculate
whitcness into the blood red rose OF
lust and war.
a QUERY FOR PREACHERS.
Why do the preachers, who stand
IN the front rank OF responsibility and
clean living, sanction a scheme OF
taxation whose stupendous power de
bases and cnslaves when this same
force could be safely and scicntifi
eally directed into channels which
cause while applying the simple rul-
es OF science sense to manners and
measures in tho narrow circlo OF
homo and church, they fail to apply
these same sane and safe rules in the
wider circle Of State and nation. And
thus they crawl amid the murky mead
ows Of dead past, trailing the ban
ner Of justice and Jesus in the cloa.
CO Of a tax schome, the medicines OF
which offend tho dignity of the soul,
and reduce to subscryicncy the prin
@ples right and justice embodied In
every declaration Of independence,
every bill Of rights Of man, and crush
"a to the miro Of noXiohs desuetude
the spirit Of liberty, courage and
cope, which sleep in all Of the great
Charters wrcatcd from tyranny since
government began.
Is RINGING PHILLIPIC
Where there is no vision, the ma
ton must perish. Born OF the heat
and moisture of Gods body, we human
insects are perforcc divine, and the
golden glorics so far foretold lie
HOW, and ever and forever at our
fest But tho monstrous superstition
"f Faith and fear, lispcd by rosy lips
At mothers knee. brcedS and BLOW.