The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
Time For A Miracle

learned anything at all. The man
animal lacks the capacity of under
standing the law of cause and effect
After a moment he continued, in his
patient parent addressing backward
child manner; Look how your newly
educated electorate reacted to being
told they had lost personal freedom to
government They voted out the New
Deal Now they are swallowing little
something known as government by
injunction as if it were the eleventh
commandment"
But" 1 protested words are con-
fusing and to most people government
by injunction is just words
"You prove my point, he said, man
fearing loss of freedom to government
votes for the complete subjugation of
man to government. Ergo-man is
not, and never will be intelligent"
He settled back in his chair prepar-
ed to pontificate. l, for lack of ammu-
milton, prepared to listen.
Inconsistency
IF man." he began, "had been in
telligent enough to grasp the meaning
of Christianity and to have lived 1t
he would have survived. God despair
ing of man, sent His Son as redeemer
The Son humbled himself in many
ways but perhaps no more profoundly
than when He described Himself as
the Son of Man. The Son preached
the gospel of love. His philosophy
was a gentle one intended to sprout in
the hearts of men to spread without
violence. This gospel received the
idea to which he has been |
exposed. 1t was completely misunder-
stood Man, clasping what he called |
to his breast, promptly |
upon the holy wars and en-
to spread Christianity by
orce Could anything be a more COM
)lete negation of the gospel of love
hen the Crusades?
"Now man, having failed to grasp
he meaning of democracy, is about to
n
vars, to force democracy down the
hroats of the infidels at the point of
he sword.
"And what happens to great teach
RS? What happens to those foolhardy
nough to try to teach man to think,
o search out the truth? They be-
ONE the victims of legal murder.
AXE Sophocles, take Christ, take even
he little anarchist Parsons. Society
ermits teachers to teach the lie and
hey may even survive teaching peo-
lie to think so long as their audience
) small But let the Hooper rating
o up and the axe will come down. |
hink your Mr. Wallace is in mortal
anger He refused the muzzle and
hat is the ultimate sin, a crime
gainst society calling for capital pun
;hment"
My friend had now worked himself
round to his favorite sermon. Take
ny dumb beast in the world. That
east will at least have what man has ,
)st-the instinct for self-preservation.
he instinct which warns him of dang
r to his personal freedom, to his life. /
las man such an instinct? Absolute t
, not Man has, instead, an incred- |
lie capacity to blunder into traps, to 7
tie on the hook, to drink at poisoned I
ellis and he will go on doing so until
lie end which, figure will be pretty {
BON now.
"Our beasts" he continued, "have /
proper respect for truth They re- c
1ect the truth inherent in nature; I
ley don't try to pervert it to enslave I
leir neighbors. They have intelli- {
snce and they lack cupidity. Man, on q
le other hand, suspects the truth and f
)urishes himself on lies Practically i
~ old untruth can make feast for +
an. Take the Hitlerian legend of the v
lper-race. Do you think the German
eople have learned? Indigestion
ON swallowing a lie would teach >
Imb beast to forever refuse it. But =
1t man! The herronvolk lie nearly !
lied the German people, has reduced =
e English to impotency, but the G
merican people are now eating it .
ithout a qualm. =
"But man lacking intelligence does -
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